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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. - Thomas Edison, in conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, 1931

Concentrating solar power (CSP) systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. The concentrated light is then used as a heat source for a conventional power plant or is concentrated onto photovoltaic surfaces.

allAfrica.com: "Water and Irrigation Minister Charity Ngilu said the government will drill 250 water boreholes across the country, 50 of which will be in Nairobi, to address the acute water shortage. Already 15 boreholes have been drilled in the capital where water vendors are doing roaring business. The remaining 35 boreholes will be completed by the end of August. Agriculture Minister William Ruto outlined the measures his ministry is taking to bridge the grain shortfall in the country occasioned by insufficient rains in the main grain producing areas."

Yle. Uraanikaivokset jakavat kunnallisvaaliehdokkaiden mielipiteet kahtia. Lapin Radion vaalikoneeseen vastanneista ehdokkaista lähes puolet kannattaa uraanikaivosta, jos se tuo kuntaan lisää työpaikkoja. Hieman yli puolet puolestaan vastustaa uraanikaivoksia mahdollisista työpaikoista huolimatta.

Duff i FT , 30 jan. 2008: "MEPs stress the need for good collaboration between themselves and national parliamentarians in the scrutiny of EU foreign, security and defence policy. Indeed, the Lisbon treaty expressly requires there to be a special interparliamentary conference between European and national foreign affairs and defence committees. On these matters, the House of Commons remains completely silent. The European Parliament also suggests that on the coming into force of the new treaty the Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) should be closed down."

T:\siirto\tep\vipu1-00\antero\teoleko.prn.pdf - Från Google Dokument -- "Teknisten tieteiden sisällä on viime vuosikymmeninä tapahtunut voimakas arvomurros. Sen on ennen kaikkea aiheuttanut ympäristökeskustelu. Tieto maailmanlaajuista ympäristöongelmista on pahasti järkyttänyt uskoamme tekniikan kykyyn hyvinvoinnin luojana. " (VIPU 2000/1)

An article from January 2006: "Civic action with local currencies, barter, community credit and the more dubious rash of digital cybermoney all reveal the politics of money. Economics is now widely seen as the faulty sourcecode deep in societies’ hard drives….replicating unsustainability: booms, busts, bubbles, recessions, poverty, trade wars, pollution, disruption of communities, loss of cultural and biodiversity. Citizens all over the world are rejecting this malfunctioning economic sourcecode and its operating systems: the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and imperious central banks."

What are GPGs? Report. Definition: "The International Task Force on Global Public Goods has defined global public goods as "issues that are broadly conceived as important to the international community, that for the most part cannot or will not be adequately addressed by individual countries acting alone and that are defined through a broad international consensus or a legitimate process of decision-making." (p. 13 of their Final Report)."

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) -- At a public seminar in Washington, DC, hosted by CNS on July 17, 2009, German Federal Foreign Office Minister of State, Gernot Erler reviewed Germany's disarmament and nonproliferation policies and introduced a major study by CNS entitled Four Emerging Issues in Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation: Opportunities for German Leadership.

"The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye to the country's nuclear weapons, is fatally at odds with U.S. policy and concerns about Pakistan. By enabling an India-Pakistan arms race, rather than focusing on resolving the conflict and helping them make peace, the United States is driving Pakistan toward the very collapse it fears." -- Zia Mian is a physicist with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.

FOCUS ON TRADE: Number 146, July 2009 Print E-mail IN THIS ISSUE SAVING CHINA’S ECONOMY AND THE CLIMATE: CAN THE TWAIN MEET? Dorothy Grace Guerrero CLOSER TIES, LARGER MARKETS: EXAMINING THE ASEAN FTAS Joseph Purugganan ROBERT MCNAMARA’S SECOND VIETNAM Walden Bello A MAN FOR THIS SEASON? KEYNES

"I do believe that international public opinion, when it becomes powerful enough, will become the most effective restraint to the excesses and follies of particular governments. "

Tietokirjailija Erja Tamminen : "Suomi pitää tiukasti kiinni ICNIRP:stä: Säteilyturvakeskuksen toinen tutkimusprofessori on vuodesta 1994 ollut ICNIRP:n komitean (SCIII) jäsen. Komitea osallistuu keskeisesti sähkömagneettisia kenttiä koskevien ohjearvojen määrittelyyn. ICNIRP:iin kohdistuu tiedemiespiireissä arvostelua, koska sen turvanormit huomioivat vain säteilyn kudosta lämmittävän ominaisuuden. Tämä on nykytieteen vastaista ajattelua. Biologiset vaikutukset, säteilyn kumuloituminen ja lasten suurempi herkkyys jäävät huomiotta. Väljistä ohjearvoista on taloudellista etua teollisuudelle. ICNIRP:llä onkin teollisuuden tuki ja järjestö lobbaa voimakkaasti muun muassa EU:ssa ja Maailman terveysjärjestö WHO:ssa yhdessä elektroniikkateollisuuden kanssa."