un Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:05:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 “Unusual Optimism” at Lima COP20 Climate Change Talks https://www.greenoptimistic.com/unusual-optimism-lima-cop20-climate-change-talks-20141202/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/unusual-optimism-lima-cop20-climate-change-talks-20141202/#respond Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:05:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50432 Nearly 200 countries are being represented at the COP20 climate change talks, taking place over the next couple of weeks, in Lima, the capital of Peru. Even though climate change is no longer recognized as a “possibility,” but as “current events,” there seems to be an unusual amount of optimism in the air at the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/unusual-optimism-lima-cop20-climate-change-talks-20141202/feed/ 0 50432 U.N. Urges That Electronic Devices be Made of Recyclable Metals https://www.greenoptimistic.com/united-nations-recyclable-electronics-20130426/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/united-nations-recyclable-electronics-20130426/#respond Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:17:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=36651 Two United Nations reports urge companies to produce devices that are easy to break down and recycle once their lifetime is over. The two studies suggest that technologies such as mobile phones and electric car batteries should be made of copper or gold, so that they can be easily broken up. Recycling policies should not […]

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