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<div>Washington Post:<font face="Georgia Bold"> D.C. couple on a tight
budget tries for 'net-zero' power on fixer-upper
home</font>. <font face="Arial"> Their do-it-yourself approach
shows you don't have to be rich to harness the benefits of renewable
energy.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Christine MacDonald
5:00 AM ET</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva">"Instead of replacing big-ticket items
such as the aging furnace and boiler (both of which still have a few
years of service left in them), they slashed their energy usage in
half with less than $500 in insulation, new lighting and other
equipment available at the average hardware store or
online.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva">"Updates alone made it possible to run
their entire 952-square-foot, two-bedroom home for several months of
the year without exceeding the amount of energy produced by the solar
array they had installed on their rooftop. Their utility bills have
plummeted."</font></div>
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"Conservationists must therefore assess both current and future
distributions of species."<br>
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"One critical question is whether models Š can Š provide robust
predictions of future distributions under climate change."<br>
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Miguel B. Araújo and Carsten Rahbek.<br>
"How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity?"<br>
<i>Science</i>, Vol. 313, September 8, 2006</font></div>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">"A surprising
result is the high proportion of species responding to recent,
relatively mild climate change (global average warming of 0.6
C)."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">Camille Parmesan.
"Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate
Change."<i> Annual Review of Ecol. Evol. & Systematics </i>
2006. 37:637-69</font></div>
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" Š analysis suggests that despite high-level
statements to the contrary, there is now little to no chance of
maintaining the global mean surface temperature at or below 2C.
Moreover, the impacts associated with 2C have been revised upwards,
sufficiently so that 2C now more appropriately represents the
threshold between 'dangerous' and 'extremely dangerous' climate
change."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">Kevin Anderson and
Alice Bows. Beyond 'dangerous' climate change: emission scenarios for
a new world.<i> Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
A</i>:<i> Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences</i> (2011)
369, 20-44 doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0290</font><font face="Geneva"
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