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Voters favor clean energy and climate legislation
… that would require utilities to generate more electricity from renewable sources, such as solar and wind, together with tougher energy efficiency standards. …
Scientists estimate tens of billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy
… simple premise that the number of small but detectable exoplanets - planets outside Earth's solar system - is substantially larger than the number of big exoplanets in distant solar systems. In a paper released Oct. 28 by the journal Science, the two report that based on …
LA archdiocese launches Creation Sustainability Ministry
… we live in." At a practical level, Posada said, hanging energy efficient bulbs or installing solar panels help change the environment, but the ministry's perspective goes further, reminding …
Catholic-Orthodox seek common Easter date
… vernal equinox according to the Hebrew lunar calendar. The Julian, and later the Gregorian, solar calendars have come to be widely accepted globally as civilian solar calendars. Since the late 16th century, the difference between the longer Julian calendar – … observance and Jesus' last supper, death and resurrection; hence any attempt to set a fixed solar-year date for Easter, such as the second Sunday of April, ignores the Passover connection …
Emotions run high
… is having what could be a long-term impact on Bucks County by helping to make it a center for solar energy; for example, a brownfield is being converted into a solar power plant with help from stimulus funds. In another case, a $40 million tax credit is … helping establish AE Polysilicon Corporation, a four-year-old company that makes silicon for solar energy panels at an industrial park in Fairless Hills. It’s interesting to see the response …
The universe's communion of subjects
… Radio telescopes have revealed a powerful source of radio energy there; smaller even than our solar system. Astronomers suspect the existence of a massive black hole. In the headlines, …
Preaching care of the Earth with poetry
… in our institutions that will reflect it. In one century Fossil fuels will have given Way to solar might Ordained in 1967, Hummert worked in Hong Kong from 1970 to 1982, working closely with …
Getting to know the neighborhood with Cameron
… hidden in the cloud. There is enough matter in this wisp of celestial smoke to form a thousand solar systems such as our own. The Wild Duck Cluster is another object everyone was looking at. … radio energy at the very heart of the Galaxy. The source appears to be smaller even than our solar system. Some astronomers suspect the existence of a massive black hole. So that evening …
NCR contributor on five years since Katrina
… recovery amid a ghost town of empty houses. The brightest spot is a cluster of pastel homes, solar powered and of cutting-edge architectural design, sponsored by Brad Pitt's Make It Right …
Dan Dick and me
… efforts became popular. Daniel was a practical idealist who attended with care to his various solar powered systems, his several wood stoves, the raveling and unraveling of his unusual, … would have the children know that crickets, too, sing psalms and give God praise and that the solar electricity meters spin in holy song too. One wonders at such a one who threaded the gift …