Positive News Update 11-9-05
ABC launches new "Quit to Live"
anti-smoking ad campaign
ABC News is being enlisted in the battle against
smoking and lung cancer in the Quit to Live series,
which began airing this month on "World News Tonight."
The anti-smoking public-service campaign that includes
information on how to stop smoking and the treatment
and prevention of lung cancer, as well as its toll on the
public health system.
"World News Tonight" launched "Quit to Live" in part as a
response to the death of longtime anchor Peter Jennings,
who succumbed to lung cancer in August.
From the Surgeon General Website
Disease Prevention is the number 1 priority
for the Office of the Surgeon General
Seven of 10 Americans who die each year die of a
preventable chronic disease such as heart disease,
diabetes and many forms of cancer.
Tobacco-related illnesses are the leading cause of death
and kill 435,000 people each year.
How can we solve/address these priorities?
-Eat healthy foods
-Be physically active
-Don't smoke
-Limit alcohol and avoid drugs
It's about time after all we have spent billions of dollars
trying to "cure" these diseases, when all along most of
them are PREVENTABLE by changing your lifestyle.
Second Chances
Kate Moss Gets A New Modeling Job
Kate Moss took her first modeling job since checking out
of drug rehabilitation with a photo shoot for designer
Roberto Cavalli on the Spanish island of Ibiza.
Moss modeled the Italian designer's spring and summer
collection for photos to appear next year in magazines,
including Vogue and W, the statement said.
Kate our very best wishes to you on your path to
sobriety, the world loves a good comeback story.
Cleaner, Abundant Fuels
Attracting Record Investment
Report Abid Aslam,
OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov 7 (OneWorld) - Renewable
energy captured from the wind, sun, Earth's heat, tides,
and from small dams is drawing record levels of investment
as poor villagers and entire nations alike seek clean,
abundant ways to fuel economic growth.
Global investment in renewable energy set a new record
of $30 billion in 2004, according to a new report from the
Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21).
Technologies such as wind, solar, biomass, geothermal,
and small hydro now provide 160 gigawatts of electricity
generating capacity--about four percent of the world total--
the report said.
They are growing at rates of around 20-30 percent per year,
however, compared to two or three percent for oil and gas.
''Renewable energy has become big business,'' said Eric Martinot,
lead author of the study, "Renewables 2005: Global Status Report."
Martinot, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based think
tank Worldwatch Institute and a lecturer at Tsinghua University
in Beijing, said renewable energy has attracted some of the
world's largest companies, including General Electric, Siemens,
Sharp, and Royal Dutch Shell.
The report estimated that nearly 40 million households worldwide
heat their water with solar collectors, most of them installed in the
last five years. Altogether, renewable energy industries provide
1.7 million jobs, most of them skilled and well paid.
Positive News sees this trend as proof that we are headed
toward a cleaner, less poluted world and higher oil prices
are actually speeding up these developments which are
very positive for all of us.
China to spend 180 billion dollars to
boost renewable energy use
BEIJING (AFP) - China said it would spend about 180
billion dollars over the next 15 years to increase its use
of renewable energy to 15 percent of the total generated,
from the current seven percent.
Zhang Guobao, vice minister of the National Development
and Reform Commission (NDRC), revealed the plan at an
international conference on renewable energy in Beijing,
the state news agency reported.
"Renewable energy, including solar, wind power and
hydropower, will contribute to better energy security
in China," said Zhang.
"It also delivers substantial economic and environmental
results, alleviating poverty."
In the coming 15 years China will develop biomass energy,
which stems from plant and animal matter, and hopes to
replace ten million tons (tonnes) of petroleum with
renewable energy annually, Zhang said.
China also plans to expand the heat collection area of solar
heaters to 300 million cubic meters (390 million cubic yards)
by 2020, replacing the use of about 40 million tons of
standard coal each year.
In a speech at the conference, Chinese President Hu Jintao
called on the international community to improve cooperation
in research and development, transfer of technology and
funding to promote the use of renewable resources,
Xinhua news agency said.
"China attaches great importance to the utilization of
renewable resources, making it one of the important
moves to promote economic and social development," Hu said.
Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan told the conference
China will make better use of its water resources, build
wind power plants capable of generating a million kilowatts
each and use more solar energy and methane in rural areas.
Zeng called on developed countries and international
organizations to honor their commitments made in
2004 in Bonn, Germany, to offer assistance to developing
countries for the use of renewable energy, including funding,
technology, expertise and management.
China aims to provide electricity to many homes still living
without it by developing renewable energies, especially
solar energy, Zhang said.
China has spent some 600 million dollars in the past few years
on installing solar batteries in 700 small towns far from the
country's power grid. It planned to provide the batteries to
more towns in coming years.
More positive proof that the world is waking up to the potential
of renewable resources. This solution also provides benefits to
human health because renwable energy sources produce less
pollution.
anti-smoking ad campaign
ABC News is being enlisted in the battle against
smoking and lung cancer in the Quit to Live series,
which began airing this month on "World News Tonight."
The anti-smoking public-service campaign that includes
information on how to stop smoking and the treatment
and prevention of lung cancer, as well as its toll on the
public health system.
"World News Tonight" launched "Quit to Live" in part as a
response to the death of longtime anchor Peter Jennings,
who succumbed to lung cancer in August.
From the Surgeon General Website
Disease Prevention is the number 1 priority
for the Office of the Surgeon General
Seven of 10 Americans who die each year die of a
preventable chronic disease such as heart disease,
diabetes and many forms of cancer.
Tobacco-related illnesses are the leading cause of death
and kill 435,000 people each year.
How can we solve/address these priorities?
-Eat healthy foods
-Be physically active
-Don't smoke
-Limit alcohol and avoid drugs
It's about time after all we have spent billions of dollars
trying to "cure" these diseases, when all along most of
them are PREVENTABLE by changing your lifestyle.
Second Chances
Kate Moss Gets A New Modeling Job
Kate Moss took her first modeling job since checking out
of drug rehabilitation with a photo shoot for designer
Roberto Cavalli on the Spanish island of Ibiza.
Moss modeled the Italian designer's spring and summer
collection for photos to appear next year in magazines,
including Vogue and W, the statement said.
Kate our very best wishes to you on your path to
sobriety, the world loves a good comeback story.
Cleaner, Abundant Fuels
Attracting Record Investment
Report Abid Aslam,
OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov 7 (OneWorld) - Renewable
energy captured from the wind, sun, Earth's heat, tides,
and from small dams is drawing record levels of investment
as poor villagers and entire nations alike seek clean,
abundant ways to fuel economic growth.
Global investment in renewable energy set a new record
of $30 billion in 2004, according to a new report from the
Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21).
Technologies such as wind, solar, biomass, geothermal,
and small hydro now provide 160 gigawatts of electricity
generating capacity--about four percent of the world total--
the report said.
They are growing at rates of around 20-30 percent per year,
however, compared to two or three percent for oil and gas.
''Renewable energy has become big business,'' said Eric Martinot,
lead author of the study, "Renewables 2005: Global Status Report."
Martinot, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based think
tank Worldwatch Institute and a lecturer at Tsinghua University
in Beijing, said renewable energy has attracted some of the
world's largest companies, including General Electric, Siemens,
Sharp, and Royal Dutch Shell.
The report estimated that nearly 40 million households worldwide
heat their water with solar collectors, most of them installed in the
last five years. Altogether, renewable energy industries provide
1.7 million jobs, most of them skilled and well paid.
Positive News sees this trend as proof that we are headed
toward a cleaner, less poluted world and higher oil prices
are actually speeding up these developments which are
very positive for all of us.
China to spend 180 billion dollars to
boost renewable energy use
BEIJING (AFP) - China said it would spend about 180
billion dollars over the next 15 years to increase its use
of renewable energy to 15 percent of the total generated,
from the current seven percent.
Zhang Guobao, vice minister of the National Development
and Reform Commission (NDRC), revealed the plan at an
international conference on renewable energy in Beijing,
the state news agency reported.
"Renewable energy, including solar, wind power and
hydropower, will contribute to better energy security
in China," said Zhang.
"It also delivers substantial economic and environmental
results, alleviating poverty."
In the coming 15 years China will develop biomass energy,
which stems from plant and animal matter, and hopes to
replace ten million tons (tonnes) of petroleum with
renewable energy annually, Zhang said.
China also plans to expand the heat collection area of solar
heaters to 300 million cubic meters (390 million cubic yards)
by 2020, replacing the use of about 40 million tons of
standard coal each year.
In a speech at the conference, Chinese President Hu Jintao
called on the international community to improve cooperation
in research and development, transfer of technology and
funding to promote the use of renewable resources,
Xinhua news agency said.
"China attaches great importance to the utilization of
renewable resources, making it one of the important
moves to promote economic and social development," Hu said.
Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan told the conference
China will make better use of its water resources, build
wind power plants capable of generating a million kilowatts
each and use more solar energy and methane in rural areas.
Zeng called on developed countries and international
organizations to honor their commitments made in
2004 in Bonn, Germany, to offer assistance to developing
countries for the use of renewable energy, including funding,
technology, expertise and management.
China aims to provide electricity to many homes still living
without it by developing renewable energies, especially
solar energy, Zhang said.
China has spent some 600 million dollars in the past few years
on installing solar batteries in 700 small towns far from the
country's power grid. It planned to provide the batteries to
more towns in coming years.
More positive proof that the world is waking up to the potential
of renewable resources. This solution also provides benefits to
human health because renwable energy sources produce less
pollution.
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