Tracking Plan B - Lester Brown's
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:32 PM PDT
Rep. Joe Walsh Applauds Ending Oil ...
ThinkProgress - 4 hours ago
“Get rid of subsidies for the big oil companies if you want. Do it,”
Walsh declared to loud applause, calling the move “important”: WALSH:
You can do anything you want to.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:28 PM PDT
New battery technology means more power for electric cars
Herald Sun - 8 hours ago
A SMALL battery company backed by General Motors is working on
breakthrough technology that could power an electric car more than 300km
on a single charge in the next two-to-four years, GM's CEO says.
GM may have breakthrough in electric battery technologyBend Bulletin
GM's Akerson promises 200
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:18 PM PDT
US should change biofuel policy to avoid food crisis: UN
Reuters - 6 hours ago
ROME (Reuters) - The U.N.'s food agency stepped up the pressure on the
United States on Friday to change its biofuel policies because of the
danger of a world food crisis, arguing the importance of growing crops
for food over their use for fuel.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:13 PM PDT
Greentech Media (blog)
Report: German Utilities Don't Want to Spend on Smart Grid
Greentech Media (blog) - 9 hours ago
Consulting firm Steria Mummert polled 100 German utility executives and
found that only half of them wanted to spend money on smart grid between
now and 2014. That's compared to three-quarters who planned to spend on
renewable energy, and 30 ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:10 PM PDT
USDA Backs Smart Grid Efforts In Rural America
Renew Grid - 6 hours ago
To further improvements to electric lines and transmission and reduce
peak electric loads by deploying smart gridtechnologies, the U.S.
USDA provides funds for electric projects in Iowa, 17 other
statesDesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
US Agriculture Department to fund rural smart grid projectsEcoSeed
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:06 PM PDT
Environment News Service
Largest UK Firms Must Disclose CO2 Emissions
Environment News Service - 2 hours ago
LONDON, UK, August 10, 2012 (ENS) - More than 1100 public companies
listed on the London Stock Exchange will have to report their greenhouse
gas emissions from next April under plans announced at the Rio+20
Summit that are now moving forward.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:04 PM PDT
Toronto Star
Way more pros than cons to energy efficiency
Toronto Star - 6 hours ago
But there are some who question whether energy efficiency is everything
it's touted to be. Specifically, they point to the idea that there is a
large rebound effect to increased energy efficiency. The concept here is
that when we use products that ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT
Extinction of U.S. fish species examined
UPI.com - 39 minutes ago
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- North American freshwater fishes are going
extinct at an alarming rate compared with other species, a U.S.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT
Pipeline protests spur companies to consider shipping oilsands crude by
rail
Montreal Gazette - 3 hours ago
OTTAWA - As battles rage over the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL
pipelines, governments and energy companies are eyeing other options for
transporting oilsands crude to foreign markets, including by rail, a
pipeline through the Northwest Territories ...
Alberta premier
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:38 PM PDT
http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/scottish-headlines/100-renewable-energy-attainable-1-2461485
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:31 PM PDT
if you have a natural-gas engine, methane is going to be a major part of that tailpipe
http://eponline.com/articles/2012/08/10/cheaper-and-cleaner-catalyst-for-burning-methane.aspx
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:17 PM PDT
http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2012/08/10/natural-gas-a-briefing-paper-for-candidates/
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:08 PM PDT
Ice sheets took 'thousands of years to grow'
Independent Online - 14 hours ago
The report, examining the Earth's orbit around the sun in a 100000-year
cycle of cold and warmth, showed that ice sheets took thousands of years
to grow at the start of Ice Ages and surprisingly lagged a quicker
cooling of the oceans. That delay, and ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:26 PM PDT
Drought Cited as US Predicts Corn Yield at 17-Year Low
New York Times - 2 minutes ago
WASHINGTON
- With the worst drought in a half century decimating crops in the
United States, the government on Friday slashed its estimate of the
annual corn yield by about 17 percent in the last month to the lowest
level since 1995.
US drought threatens food price surgeFinancial Times
Corn
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:19 PM PDT
World's Largest Butterfly Threatened by Shrinking Habitat and
Deforestation
Scientific American (blog) - 6 hours ago
But the Queen Alexandra's butterfly, named after the wife of King Edward
VII of England, faces an ever-shrinking habitat due to deforestation in
its only home, the rainforests of PNG, and conservationists fear that
the species may soon run out of room ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:16 PM PDT
Telegraph.co.uk
Child hunger: the biggest obstacle to global development
Telegraph.co.uk - 2 hours ago
As a global
leader on the issue, Unicef has long since recognised the huge barrier
child undernutrition represents to international development.
Hunger: Irish and experts focus on children, research and small farmersWorld and Media
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT
Where the world's running out of water, in one map
Washington Post (blog) - 3 hours ago
And with the global population
soaring past 7 billion, this is one of the biggest questions the world
is now facing. Can better conservation practices and new technology
enable farmers to keep feeding the planet without depleting its most
important ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT
Proposal For Floating Offshore Wind ...
North American Windpower - 4 hours ago
The U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM) has taken the next step in the assessment of a
proposed project to demonstrate floating offshore wind technology on the
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the coast of ...
Feds seek competitors to Statoil for Maine
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT
Rotating Solar Thermal Collector Targets Cheap Renewable Energy
Revmodo - 1 hour ago
Rather
than a futuristic gun designed to destroy the moon, the structure is
actually a solar thermal collector–a 10 foot by 10 foot device designed
to follow the sun across the sky–and could put us on the fast track to
cheaper solar energy. Unbeknownst ...
New Solar Power Design Inspired by
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:49 AM PDT
A Handy Guide to Global Warming Diseases
The Atlantic Cities (blog) - 3 hours ago
Increased rainfall, warmer
temperatures, dying reefs and hotter oceans are handing diseases that
afflict humans - algal, fungal, mosquito-borne, tick-borne - a chance to
spread, meaning diseases previously unheard in the U.S.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:47 AM PDT
Experts link climate change to animal products consumption
Inquirer.net - 5 hours ago
Better
believe it, environment experts claim the weather we have today is
partly the result of our appetites. Although the causes of climate
change is no doubt multifaceted, livestock propagation to meet the
world's incessant appetite for animal ...
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:45 AM PDT
On Floods, China Blames Climate Change
Forbes - 4 hours ago
A recent bout with rain induced flooding from two typhoons has the
Chinese government warning that climate change will undoubtedly bring
more natural disasters.
Climate change will bring more heavy rains in ChinaJakarta Post
As Severe Storms Overwhelm China's Infrastructure, Experts Warn That
Climate ...ThinkProgress
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 10:04 AM PDT
Day
2 and I feel like day 60. Wow. Day 2 has never felt like this.
Is it the blood tests that say anemia, the diagnosis, or is it the
diagnosis, the anemia hitting me. My backpack that was 35-45 libs now
feels 80. My 2lb each Secret Service boots now feel 8lb each.
There is likely hospital time ahead for the Death Fast and this month
was the month I had to renew my Medicade so today has
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