Meanwhile it is, as my colleague Jonathan Watts puts it, on course to become "both a green superpower and a black superpower" - simultaneously the world's green energy giant and its carbon villain.

正如我的同事乔纳森·沃茨所说，它同时走在成为“绿色超级大国和黑色超级大国”的路上——同时成为世界绿色能源巨人和世界碳排放恶人。

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Another 'green' use of bamboo is as a building material for alternative energy installations.

将竹子作为替代能源装置的材料是另一种“环保”用法。

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Time Magazine has released a list of this year's top 50 inventions. The breakthroughs fall into 10 categories, such as technology, transportation, health and medicine, bioengineering and green energy.

美国《时代》杂志近日评出年度50大发明，榜单被分为“科技产品”、“交通工具”、“健康医药用品”、“生物工程”、“绿色能源”等10个类别。

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And I was just talking to President Love about the focus of Savannah Tech on clean energy, the idea that this can be a real model for green energy as a way of linking students to the enormous job opportunities and business opportunities that exist in the future.

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In the end, three of the ideas were chosen for implementation, and work is already underway on one of them: To position Iceland as a global hub for green energy investment.

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The list of failed firms who received a Department of Energy green-energy subsidy got a bit longer as lithium ion battery maker A123 filed for bankruptcy Tuesday.

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