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http://www.globalgreen.org/awards/ Global Green USA hosts two award ceremonies every year recognizing environmental vision and leadership in business, government, media and other fields. The Millennium Awards in Los Angeles and the Sustainable Design Awards in New York shine the light on some of today's visionary leaders. Global Green USA's Sustainable Design Awards were established in 1999 to recognize specific advancements in industry, building, media, organizations, and public policy. Whether they are helping to protect our air and water, eliminating weapons of mass destruction, stemming climate change, or raising the consciousness of millions, the 'designs' of these leaders -- who were courageous enough to undertake these commitment. The 13th Annual Sustainable Design Awards were presented on Monday, December 3, 2012 in New York, NY.

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http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/biofuel/4213775

Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's New Energy

Just three years ago, Colorado-based inventor Jim Sears shuttered himself in his garage and began tinkering with a design to mass-produce biofuel. His reactor (plastic bags) and his feedstock (algae) may have struck soybean farmers as a laughable gamble. But the experiment worked, and today, Sears' company, Solix Biofuels in Fort Collins, is among several startups betting their futures on the photosynthetic powers of unicellular green goo.
Page Content Life on Earth faces a crisis of historical and planetary proportions. Unsustainable consumption in many northern countries and crushing poverty in the tropics are destroying wild nature. Biodiversity is besieged. Extinction is the gravest aspect of the biodiversity crisis: it is irreversible. http://www.conservation.org/where/priority_areas/hotspots/Pages/hotspots_main.aspx

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The Habitable Planet Unit 12 - Earth's Changing Climate // Online Textbook

In its 2007 assessment report the IPCC projected that global average surface temperatures for the years 2090 to 2099 will rise by 1.1 to 6.4°C over values in 2001 to 2010. The greatest temperature increases will occur over land and at high northern latitudes, with less warming over the southern oceans and the North Atlantic (footnote 16) . This rate of warming, driven primarily by fossil fuel consumption, would be much higher than the changes that were observed in the 20th century and probably unprecedented over at least the past 10,000 years. Based on projections like this, along with field studies of current impacts, scientists forecast many significant effects from global climate change in the next several decades, although much uncertainty remains about where these impacts will be felt worldwide and how severe they will be.