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Energy
OBAMA: 'BACK RENEWABLE ENERGY' US president Barack Obama singles out the clean energy sector, pressing Americans to “accelerate the transition away from old, dirtier energy sources"...MORE ALBERTA GOING TO MARKET FOR RE Canadian province to issue its first competition for renewable electricity projects as it tries to curb carbon emissions…MORE HOPING FOR A SECOND WIND Canadian industry poised for the next chapter...MORE AS GUERILLAS TAP A GUSHER... OIL COMPANIES GO ON THE DEFENSIVE Soldiers from two rebel armies in Colombia have turned kidnapping and extortion into a highly lucrative business...MORE PRIME TIME IN CANADA The wind power industry is set for another record-breaker this year but construction is set to drop off sharply…MORE |
Cleantech & Innovation
THESE BATTERIES ARE MADE FOR WALKIN' Scientists make new strides in energy conversion...MORE A GREEN MEAN COMMUTING MACHINE Introducing the Zero X electric motorcycle...MORE AN ASTEROID COP GETS READY TO PATROL Canadian satellite looks for near-Earth asteroids that could pose a threat to the planet...MORE WHALES INSPIRE BETTER BLADE DESIGNS The bumps on a humpback's fins inspire a new line of green-tech blades for turbines, fans, and maybe the home...MORE reCaptcha: HOW TO TURN BLATHER INTO BOOKS Ten seconds of work has digitized libraries, whether the amateur translators know it or not... MORE A BETTER WORLD THROUGH GAMES Using the Internet to harness free labor and the power of the human mind... MORE |
Business
THE OTHER MEDELLIN CARTEL Although it left behind a legacy of violence, the Medellin drug cartel is defunct. But the city's less-known corporate cartel, the formidable Sindicato Antioqueno, grows and prospers...MORE CARSA: SELLING TO THE POOREST OF THE POOR ... must open the company to be able to grow.'' That could ensure many more happy customers like Peru's Iris Mendoza...MORE |
Trade & Investment
PERU-ECUADOR CONFLICT SLOWS ANDEAN PACT TRADE REFORMS Armed conflict has shut down cross-border trade and brought the battle into the region's boardrooms, dealing a blow to key trade reforms among the Andean countries...MORE BANANA WORKERS RETURN TO JOBS AFTER MASSACRE About 90 percent of the banana workers in Colombia's Uraba region were back at work Monday, following a two-day stoppage last week after a massacre by left-wing guerrillas...MORE COLOMBIA PLUGS ITS HUGE PHONE MARKET International telephone companies are coming to call, as one of the last big phone markets in South America prepares to allow foreign competition...MORE |
Features & Profiles
CELLAR ENVY 'Secret wine cave' provides Fort Knox security for precious bottles...MORE ICE MAIDENS CROSS THE RED LINE There were a few crashes but in a single astonishing evening, we turned into hockey players…MORE HELPING THE SANDWICH GENERATION CARE FOR AGING PARENTS Many boomers find themselves stretching their workday to include driving their mother to the doctor, caring for ill parents or checking out retirement homes for their father-in-law...MORE STRATEGIC WORKPLACE DESIGN CAN BOOST THE BOTTOM LINE Bill Bishop strides through the offices of his recently redesigned Toronto marketing company and points out the changes that have reinvigorated his employees and his bottom line...MORE COLOMBIA'S CHIEF UPS ANTE Pressure by the United States to make Colombia crack down on drug trafficking is beginning to pay off...MORE |