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Published: 01 March 2016
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2007
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World Policy Journal (2010) 27 (4): 11–13.
Published: 01 December 2010
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (3): 75–82.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... Thus, it was he who persuaded Carter that it was possible to bring peace to the Middle East and to expend an immense amount of energy in successfully reconciling Israel and Egypt. He saw more clearly than most the importance of the United Nations and encouraged Andrew Young in his remarkably creative...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 9–13.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Lester R. Brown © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute The worldwide transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 53–61.
Published: 01 June 2015
... renewable energy sources. But only when appropriate and viable solutions for electricity transmission and storage can be implemented will renewable energy be positioned for a substantial impact on worldwide energy production. Implementing these solutions will take dozens of years. Society...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 100–112.
Published: 01 June 2014
.... The same could be said for its future. • Japan could develop greater energy coalitions with other major energy importers. It could work with the United States to import shale gas in the form of LNG—provided Western Europe doesn’t get first call on these reserves to ease politico-economic pressure from...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 69–75.
Published: 01 September 2017
... economic development over environmental protection, undercuts Kenya’s global leadership in renewable energy. Today, up to 70 percent of the nation’s power comes from renewable sources, such as a massive geothermal power plant in the Rift Valley. But the company building this new plant in Lamu insists...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 82–90.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., it is not alone in having increasing difficulty balancing its growing need for energy with maintaining safe air. Since 2008, and for the first time in human history, we now live in a world where over half of the population resides in urban areas. The urbanization rate is highest in developing nations, where more...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 3–7.
Published: 01 March 2011
... is an all-too-human reluctance to change. Spending less on energy is a source of savings for consumers and a boost to the economy. Discretionary spending on goods and services has a job-creation impact 50 times greater than money otherwise spent on fossil-based energy. Reduced energy use also improves...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 23–36.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Asia’s en mental reasons, the addition of Russian nat
ergy market has been an American preoccu ural gas to their energy mix is particularly
pation almost from the time Secretary of attractive as a way to cut down on an ap
State John Hay proclaimed the Open Door palling level...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 63–67.
Published: 01 June 2015
... in terms of conservation and our energy needs? AMANO: In the case of our blue LEDs it took about 30 years from the start of our studies to then contribute to the energy savings. A long time is necessary to realize the idea. WPJ: How long do you think before your new devices will be ready...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 40–44.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 1:. PILOT FUSION REACTOR. / Views of a pilot nuclear fusion reactor project from a multi-national consortium, ITER. Here is a cutaway of the body of the device including the core where the plasma reaction will take place. For years, the concept of obtaining energy from the fusion of light...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 51–58.
Published: 01 June 2005
... of the independent regulatory ment of the regulatory model in the United
agency—an innovation that Americans States were economic and philosophical. The
take for granted—in such sectors as energy, growth during the nineteenth century of
water, and communications.1 The model population, industry...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 55–62.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy, and the former Socialist Party candidate for president of France, the first woman to be nominated by a major party, has devoted her life to conservation of the environment and improving people’s overall quality of life. Born on a French military base in Dakar...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 9–15.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., world travelers and teachers, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer, decided to turn their energies and talents to farming. Their acres of intensive polyculture fields, two greenhouses, two mandala gardens for growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers coexist with orchard-based agroforestry providing berries...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 1–6.
Published: 01 December 2006
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now threaten the country’s political develop in the jockeying for position between Rus
ment, investment climate, and economic sia’s energy “state champions,” Gazprom
growth, and the Russian president seems and Rosneft. Technocrats, like Dmitri Med
unable to do much about it. Putin...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 3–7.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Dhabi. Its core is a planned city relying entirely on solar and other renewable energy sources. Despite its small size (2.3 square miles) and expected population (40,000), it aims to set a precedent for future carbon neutral settlements, delivering high quality living with the lowest possible ecological...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 90–99.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., and barricaded access routes with torched cars in a scene Pan American Energy’s chief executive Oscar Prieto compared to battle-scarred Baghdad. The disarray forced Pan American—majority-owned by oil giant BP, with China’s CNOOC holding a 20 percent share—to halt production in the field for the first time in its...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 51–59.
Published: 01 March 2002
...— helped fuel war and destruction.
lar descent into chaos and self-destructive In the mid to late 1990s, Moscow and
nationalism. Ten years into their second Washington polarized Caucasian politics by
round of independence, it frequently felt as their competition for energy resources and
though I...
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