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NewsWatch: Montgomery, Hopkins sign science, jobs agreement
After five months of negotiations, officials from Johns Hopkins University and Montgomery County signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday that spells out their vision for decades to come, particularly at the school’s two properties between Rockville and Gaithersburg, a linchpin in the county’s broader economic strategy.
Renewable energy firm wants small solar PV systems

The Effectiveness of Policy Instruments for Energy-Efficiency Improvement in Firms: The Dutch Experience (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science) $123.28 How can governments stimulate energy-efficiency improvement? This book analyzes environmental policy in the Netherlands to present a wealth of empirical results on the successes and failures of governmental initiatives in environmental policy. Discussion extends to such topics as free-rider effects of subsidies, the credibility of voluntary agreements, the art of regulation and the fate of researc…

The Next Great Thing: The Sun, the Stirling Engine, and the Drive to Change the World $25.00 Global warming, Arctic oil drilling, and the vanishing ozone layer are all enormous environmental problems with no clear solutions – or so conventional wisdom goes. But in the tiny town of Appalachian, Ohio, a small group of engineers under the guidance of a visionary eccentric named William Beale is challenging that conventional wisdom in an audacious attempt to transform the way the world makes …

Wind Energy in Colombia: A Framework for Market Entry (World Bank Studies) $16.50 The wind regime in Colombia has been rated among the best in South America. However, under the current circumstances, and on its own, the interconnected system would not likely promote wind power. This report is targeted to analysts, planners, operators, generators and decision makers in Colombia and other countries in the region and provides a set of policy options to promote the use of wind powe…