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...Japan, for instance, operate with an efficiency of 40% or better, while Chinese plants are generally much lower. Closing that gap could make a difference - but again, the sheer scale of that growth requires far more. "We need to develop that leapfrog attitude for developing countries," said Jose Goldemberg, the panel's co-chair and a professor at the Institute of Electrotechnics and Energy at the University of Sao Paulo...
Such examples show that the future "is more a matter of choice than destiny," as Brazilian physicist Jose Goldemberg, the chairman of a recent United Nations energy study, put it. On the windy border of Washington and Oregon, citizen groups are already making a choice. They have pressured utilities to invest in green energy, and a federal tax credit has made it more profitable. "It's the right thing to do," says Vito Giarrusso, manager of the Stateline wind farm, "to help our little piece of the earth." --With reporting by Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
...former Environment Secretary goes right to the core of the Rio summit agenda. Lutzenberger refused to endorse Collor's version of "sustainable development" -- the notion that preservation of Brazil's rain forests and other natural resources is compatible with economic growth. The interim Secretary, a nuclear physicist named Jose Goldemberg, is a strong advocate of this vision of controlled development...
...beaten her repeatedly over more than a decade. As he lay sleeping in a drunken stupor, she poured gasoline around his bed, lit a match, packed the children into the car, and drove off as the house went up in flames. The TV movie, written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg from a book by Faith McNulty, tells the story of Francine's marriage, mostly in flashback, as she relates it to the attorney appointed to defend her on a murder charge...
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