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Sep-7-2006
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In the village of Chapaldi in Andhra Pradesh, India, women make fuel from pongamia seeds and use it to power the village's electricity micro-grid and irrigation pumps. Every family pays the women's association with 7 kilograms of seeds per week for electricity, while local farmers pay an additional fee to run their pumps. In 2003, the women leveraged their seeds even further when their association sold 900 tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions reductions to Germany for $4,164 - the equivalent of a year's income for the...
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In 2004, the average atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO
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concentration has increased more than 19 percent since measurements began at Mauna Lao Observatory in Hawaii in 1959 - and has gone up 35 percent since the dawn of the industrial age. Average annual rates of increase have more than doubled since 1960.
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