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Obama Outlines Energy Policy

Protecting the Environment on the Lunch Menu

Bush Signed Energy Security Pack

Is the global carbon market working?

Conclusion: WEC Sydney '04

E.U. Helps Cut CO2 with unique trading scheme

A Quarter Of Life On Land May Die by 2005

Global Warming Data Supports Climate Models

Nation's Leading Global Warming Experts Unveil New Findings on Climate Change

Waging war on energy poverty

Political Declaration for Renewable Energy '04

Obama Outline

Energy Policy

America is heading into a new energy regime. It plans to cut carbon emission from cars by 10% by 2020. Coal-fired plant is set to penalized with higher environmental taxes. Click here to find our more about this new energy environment.

CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) makes use of free market mechanism to combat carbon emission especially in under-developed countries. But is it working after 10 years in operation?

PA Consulting Group (PA) has prepared this analysis of the Bush administration’s US National Energy Policy (NEP), released May 17, 2001. PA's initial conclusions are: Bush's National Energy Policy is a balanced supply-demand analysis that focuses
heavily on infrastructure and new technologies. It includes a much stronger focus on conservation and efficiency than expected and recommends continuation of most low-income, efficiency and conservation funding and tax incentives. There is also reference to energy security, especially regarding the increase in oil imports.
The NEP elevates energy issues back into national debate and may produce positive outcomes for the utility industry. It makes a positive and substantial contribution to the US national energy debate, and should raise energy issues to the same level currently held by environmental concerns. Detailed report at www.paconsulting.com

Power crises, rolling brownouts, and scheduled blackouts are a growing part of the IT availability equation. The $2-3 trillion global IT industry would not exist without reliable energy. The increasing speed and storage densities demanded by the industry also increase power densities. For example data centers often use more than 100 watts per square foot, more than 10 times the density of the average office, driving the cost of energy up as much as 25% annually and making it a growing consideration in TCO (total cost of ownership) for computing equipment.Storage devices occupy as much as 75% of the floor space in these computer centers, making storage the biggest single load in the center.

Only a few new technologies have been identified to address the energy consumption problem. But solving the issue will encourage more aggressive use of environmentally conservative storage solutions, such as removable media.

And, because much stored data are infrequently used, storage solutions that consume less energy than continuously spinning disk drives will become increasingly important in data centers and workstation/PC applications..... posted 11 Jan-2005

Portland’s Green Investment Fund (GIF), will now be supported by three city bureaus and the Energy Trust of Oregon, Inc. Portland claims to be the only U.S. city to offer financial incentives for development that employs cutting-edge techniques for reducing resource and energy use in construction and renovation projects.

Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman created the GIF as a competitive grants program designed to spur innovation in green building technologies and practices. The Energy Trust announced that it will provide $750,000 to the Fund. Combined with $1.75 million from the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services, Water Bureau and Office of Sustainable Development, this commitment will enable the Fund to provide a total of $2.5 million in grants over the next five years.

The GIF was first established in 2001 with a one-time $800,000 grant program to support a wide range of commercial and residential green building projects. To date the City has funded 74 projects totaling more than 1.7 million square feet, ranging from large commercial and mixed use projects to single family residences and affordable housing..... posted 11 Jan 2005

New political declaration was made in the recently cooncluded convention on renewable energy.... read more here ...8

Google finally set its IPO price at $108 to $135 per share for 24.64 million shares according to document filed Monday. The Internet search engine also disclosed in a filing with Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to trade its shares on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "GOOG" on August 9.

Under the present scenario, the Mountain View, CA company would have a market value of $36 billion not far off Yahoo!

Morgan Stanley and CS First Boston are lead underwriters on the Google deal....to know more about Google IPO, click here .8

Armstrong is pleased to announce the introduction of its Local CRM technology. The program is to be aided with complete solutions to make EcoSynergy a pleasurable experience.

Top of the line is the unmatched GLOBAL PERFECT JV STORE, an ecological and humanitarian effort to synergize the haves and have-nots. The demarcation of global CRM into smaller manageable area (local) brings EcoSynergy closer to every one and with it a greater possibilities of total embodiment and awareness towards ecological impact within our daily living patterns.

Armstrong will work with MasterCard International and VISA international to make our Corporate Mission real for everyone. Now, your purchasing power can truly make a different to the world... (WATCH OUT THIS COLUME FOR FUTURE UPDATE)

Armstrong Global EcoSynergy Network is now abbreviated as AGENe with the last "e" added to sound as A-Gini. This is to ease pronunciation for the abbreviation.

While CRM is key to customer loyalty, one needs to have good web position with popular search engines in order to attract sufficient traffic to the site. Check out the latect hot tips from generous Internet Marketing Gurus ....8

The pin configuration for Australia is now available for Power Freeze TX5000 series. The product is currently carried in the on-line store. Technical specifications and pin configuration for other countries may be viewed in this extension: ..\Commercial.htm.

Update from Houston, TX warehouse

The popular BMW promotion is back again, this time in Indonesia. Drive away a BMW 3.18i this year with Armstrong Infinity Program 2004. It is easy, it is exciting and rewarding. Make sure you are in it for a drive!

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