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News from CUNY BACCALAUREATE FOR UNIQUE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES October 28, 2009 — Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Coastlines, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Water Systems, Sustainable Tourism, Sustainable Art, Sustainable Transportation…these are areas of academic interest for some particularly enterprising students enrolled in CUNY’s University-wide degree, CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies, which has just launched a special website for CUNY students st

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y.- 22nd Century Limited, LLC (”22nd Century”) is pleased to announce that it is continuing development of a very low nicotine cigarette for use in smoking cessation. Clinical trial results demonstrate that these cigarettes, also referred to as `nicotine-free` and `denicotinized,` may be more effective for quitting than FDA-approved therapies. 22nd Century`s vice-president of research and development, Michael R. Moynihan, Ph.D. recently presented an overview of clinical inve

Kathryn Seagle is immediate past president of the University of Florida Medical Guild, Inc. and the current president of the Gift Stop board. As the University of Florida Medical Guild celebrates its 50th anniversary, its foundation strengthens for the next 50 years of friendship and service. We serve by awarding scholarships, grants and special project funding to health-related projects. To help support these projects, the guild now partners with The Gift Stop, including the new shop in the S

Global warming will leave the Arctic Ocean ice-free during the summer within 20 years, raising sea levels and harming wildlife such as seals and polar bears, a leading British polar scientist Professor Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge said on Thursday.  Much of the melting will take place within a decade, although the winter ice will stay for hundreds of years. The changes will mean the top of the Earth will appear blue rather than white when photographed from space and ships will

Yesterday was a busy one for me as I came in extra early for work for a talk that me and Albert Lozada, our Philippine Solar Generation coordinator was scheduled to give at the University of the Philippines’ organized Conference on Global Climate Change which was attended by folks that mainly come from the academe, government agencies, the Philippine Network on Climate Change and even those from the petroleum industry! Of which Shell was one of the major sponsors of the event to our surpri

Grace Chua, Straits Times 24 Oct 09; MORE than 300 people will dress in blue today at the Lasalle College of the Arts to form a human tidal wave, while trees are planted in Kenya and demonstrations are held in India. In all, activists from more than 170 countries will take part in public activities to mark International Day of Climate Action. The aim is to bring down atmospheric carbon dioxide from its current 390 parts per million to 350, the highest possible concentration of carbon dioxide

Looking at the future of the energy-efficient home at the 2009 Solar Decathlon Mother Nature didn’t make it easy for the teams that took part in 2009 Solar Decathlon, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The homes designed and built by 20 college and university teams were put through the weather wringer during the final days of the event last weekend, with cold, rainy, overcast weather prevailing—not exactly ideal conditions for solar-

What happens when a dependable source of clean, renewable energy becomes unreliable? Hydroelectric executives and hydrologists are assessing hydropower’s long-term feasibility in Europe, according to a Reuters report . Generating potential is expected to fall, especially in the Mediterranean, due to increased variability in glacial runoff, the report states. Europe currently gets 20 percent of its electricity from hydropower. The Swiss Alps, like the Himalayas, are continental water towe

We told you already about wind, solar and tidal-energy technologies, so now its time to go down and get dirty. Biowaz from Norway offers a biogas plant, and their target customers are farms and agricultural businesses. That might seem awfully far away from being Cleantech, though if you know that over 49% of European Union subsidies go into the agricultural sector – that were close to EUR 50 billion in 2006 – you might realize that there is a huge market. The concept is as easy as it is beau