Bloomberg: For decades, the Austrian town of Gussing was a forgotten outpost, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the rusting barbed-wire border of the Iron Curtain. Now it’s at the edge of a greener frontier: alternative energy. Gussing is the first community in the European Union to cut carbon emissions by more than 90 percent, helping [...]

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Times (UK): In the valley around the south Indian village of Gudihalli, farmers have cultivated sunflowers, coconut trees and the medicinal plant salpani for generations. Now, on the surrounding hills, windmills 56 metres (184ft) high loom over the traditional industries of Chitradurga, a region in the state of Karnataka best known for its ancient fort. [...]

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