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Home on the Carbon-Offsetting Range: Rangeland sequestration projects, which involve paying landowners to trap carbon dioxide underground by keeping grass unmowed, are on the cusp of a major boom. — Scientific American

DOE Unveils Marine Energy Database: The U.S. Department of Energy released a new searchable database today that includes information about the technology stage and permitting of wave, current, and ocean thermal energy conversion projects. — DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Word Watchdog: Be Gone, Green: “Going green” and “green” in environmental contexts received the most nominations in Lake Superior State University’s 34th annual survey of words that should be banished “from the Queen’s English” for misuse, overuse, and general uselessness. — NYT’s Green Inc.

Elizabeth Kolbert on a Green Collar Economy: Van Jones argues that the best way to fight both global warming and urban poverty is by creating millions of “green jobs.” But could an environmentally oriented public-works program be just a giant green boondoggle? — The New Yorker

M2E Power Gets a New CEO: Eric Apfelbach, former president and CEO of biofuel company Virent Energy Systems has joined Boise-based kinetic energy startup M2E as president and chief executive. — Press Release

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