Nov 13, 2009 -
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4929
EPA: Capping Dissent?
November 10, 2009
By Brita Belli
Under cap-and-trade legislation, coal plants could continue polluting and simply purchase offsets.
Two U.S.
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Oct 30, 2009 -
This goes along with the story that I posted in 4.0 about Meatless Mondays in Baltimore schools
Jon Stewart ended an interview with climate-change contrarian and Super Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt on Monday night by noting, "I've apparently frightened our audience by suggesting that conservation isn't the only way out of any of the problems of the world. I sincerely apologize."
He added, "And I do also believe that we should just eat vegetables."
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Oct 15, 2009 -
A house capable of floating atop rising floodwaters made its debut Tuesday in New Orleans alongside more than a dozen other homes built through actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation. Called the FLOAT House, the unique home aims to answer the challenge posed by the Big Easy’s flood risk, starkly illustrated by the rising waters of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
“I wanted to float it down the Mississippi River to New Orleans,” architect Thom Mayne says with a chuckle while in New Orleans for Tuesday’s event.
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Oct 10, 2009 -
The New Progressive CEOs
In a recession there are few global-warming-denying libertarians in the boardroom.
By Daniel Gross
http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2231925
Andrew Taylor, the CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, in many ways epitomizes the business establishment. His family is No.
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Apr 26, 2009 -
There's Plenty of Energy at the Bottom
By William Tucker
On December 29, 1959, on the threshold of the 1960s, Richard Feynman, "the best mind since Einstein" and interpreter of quantum mechanics, gave a lecture at the California Institute of Technology that is generally regarded to be the opening bell of the Information Age. It was titled, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."
"There is a device on the market, they tell me, that can write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin," Feynman began.
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Jun 07, 2009 -
No Energy from this Executive
Watch what Obama does, not what he says.
by Fred Barnes
"As I've often said, in the short term, as we transition to renewable energy," President Obama stated in April, "we can and should increase our domestic production of oil and natural gas. . . .
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Jun 17, 2008 -
NJ weighs bill to encourage alternative energy on farms
By TOM HESTER Jr.
Published: Sunday, June 15, 2008, the Press of Atlantic City
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/190/story/183230.html
For centuries, farming has involved plowing the fields and tending to livestock.
Soon, farmers in New Jersey may also be tending to solar panels and windmills.
New Jersey is contemplating defining solar and wind energy generation as agricultural activity.
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Oct 02, 2007 -
There's a lot of information out there on going green in terms of electricity, hydro, wind-power etc. and it can be hard to sift through it all to find what works for you. Here is a really helpful "top 10 list" from Yahoo Green via Treehugger:
Top 10 Tips
Here are 10 highly effective ways to go greener.
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Jul 15, 2009 -
Ever since a mass transit friendly President hit the stage the argument has been but cost cost cost Mr. President. We can't afford it. Well there's something screwy going on and I don't like it.
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May 06, 2009 -
Is Obama Delaying Economic Recovery?
By Peter Ferrara
By now, the current recession is officially the longest since World War II. The National Bureau of Economic Research dates the recession as starting some time during December, 2007.
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