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3.09.2012

Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces tpg org

Al Gore: How to modify capitalism so it takes a greener long viewThe Guardian

Piedmont group on hunger strike to support undocumented immigrant

Piedmont group on hunger strike to support undocumented immigrant

My Fox 8 -
Members from the group El Cambio, which translates to The Change, have been on a hunger strike since Monday night. “I feel so weak.

San Leandro students start hunger strike to protest school budget cuts Inside Bay Area

San Leandro students start hunger strike to protest school budget cuts

Inside Bay Area -
By Jason Sweeney Three San Leandro High School students announced Tuesday night that they are holding a hunger strike to protest the fifth year of budget cuts in the school district.

Two-month hunger strike leaves Iranian blogger weak Storyful

Two-month hunger strike leaves Iranian blogger weak

Storyful -
The Iranian blogger and government critic Mehdi Khazali entered his 61st day of hunger strike inside the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Friday.

United Nations Hunger Strike By Tibetan Monks Enters 17th Day Village Voice

United Nations Hunger Strike By Tibetan Monks Enters 17th Day

Village Voice (blog) -
9 2012 at 6:00 AM ​Today marks the start of the 17th day of a hunger strike outside the United Nations building in midtown for three Tibetan monks who are protesting China's repression of Tibet, and demanding that the UN recognize their homeland as an ...

Hunger-Striking Students Finally See Some Progress for University of Virginia ... AlterNet

Hunger-Striking Students Finally See Some Progress for University of Virginia ...

AlterNet -
But they said they found strength and warmth in the growing support for the cause that had led them to launch a hunger strike. "It's hard not to eat," said Marguerite Beattie, a fourth-year psychology major, "but imagining what the workers are going ...

Israel must not bind itself to Netanyahu's vulgar rhetoric on Iran Haaretz

Israel must not bind itself to Netanyahu's vulgar rhetoric on Iran

Haaretz -
Anyone who cares about Israel's future could not help but feel a chill upon hearing Benjamin Netanyahu's recent speech at the AIPAC conference - if not because of the gravity of the existential threat it described, then because of its sheer vulgarity ...

Gestapo Terrorize Ghetto: Israeli settlers uproot & take 100 Olive trees owned by Palestinian ... The Muslim News

Palestine: Israeli settlers uproot & take 100 Olive trees owned by Palestinian ...

The Muslim News -
Palestinian farmers, from the southern West Bank villages of Al Khadier and Beit Iskaria, announced that a group of [Israeli] settlers invaded on Thursday morning their lands and uprooted 100 young olive trees and took them away.

Another month of strong hiring expected to be reported for February as job ...Washington Post

Israel's ex-spy chief says more efforts needed before considering attack on Iran Washington Post

Israel's ex-spy chief says more efforts needed before considering attack on Iran

Washington Post -
JERUSALEM - The recently retired head of the Mossad intelligence agency has said Israel must consider alternatives to a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, but another expert said Friday an Israeli attack could come within months.
High noon in Washington

GM gifts to antiwarming group Heartland Institute anger car buyersSan Francisco Chronicle

Global warming has chilling effect on forest budgets Real Aspen

Global warming has chilling effect on forest budgets

Real Aspen -
By Troy Hooper The warming climate is breeding more beetle-ravaged forest and prolonged fire seasons, US Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he fielded questions about the White House's proposed agency ...

Michelle Obama's star turn Boston.com

Boston.com -
By Tracy Jan WASHINGTON - It is difficult to imagine now that Michelle Obama was once hesitant to uproot her family to Washington, wary of living out her life in a political fishbowl teeming with piranhas.

'Christlikeness: Totally opposite mode of Being, Psychologically, Inverted, from Head/Flesh Universe.' sLoving (no details)


3.08.2012

Dr. Jim Hansen, NASA, Comes of Age. Grows Up. GOD BLESS YOUR HEART, JIM.

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/

James Hansen's Must-See TED Talk: Starting To Reduce CO2 In 10 Years Is Too Late

ThinkProgress -
By Climate Guest Blogger on Mar 8, 2012 at 9:52 am “It would be immoral to leave these young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.” by Dan Miller NASA climate scientist James Hansen gave a talk at the TED conference in Long Beach, ...
What drives James Hansen on climate change
A Fundamental Understanding of Climate Issues & Solutions is Essential

US energy subsidies to favour fossil fuels over renewables Environmental Finance

US energy subsidies to favour fossil fuels over renewables

Environmental Finance - 
The renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors received most of the US federal government's $24 billion in energy subsidies last year, but fossil fuels will win out this year as several key tax breaks for renewables have expired.

Global Alternative Energy Industry Sacramento Bee

Global Alternative Energy Industry

Sacramento Bee - 
By Reportlinker The global outlook series on Alternative Energy provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings.

Native Americans Arrested Blockading Keystone XL Pipeline Trucks Environment News Service

Native Americans Arrested Blockading Keystone XL Pipeline Trucks

Environment News Service - 
RAPID CITY, South Dakota, March 7, 2012 (ENS) - Several dozen Native Americans critical of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline Monday blockaded two large trucks in a six-hour standoff at Wanblee, South Dakota.

Texans Fight to Protect Their Land From the Keystone XL Pipeline Huffington Post

Texans Fight to Protect Their Land From the Keystone XL Pipeline

Huffington Post - 
That's an expression Washington politicians and their Keystone XL tar sands pipeline allies should take to heart. Texas landowners say they are fed up with the exaggerated claims and false arguments that Big Oil boosters are making about pipeline plans ...

States Can Cut Youth Tobacco Use in Half in Six Years Sacramento Bee

Floating Wind Turbines May Be Coming Soon to a Beach Near You cleantechnica

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PST
Offshore wind turbines are placed to take advantage of strong, steady coastal winds. Their placement is in one way ideal – dependable energy, and lots of it – but it’s also not exactly easy to build a turbine tower in several feet of moving water. Related posts:
  1. How Wind Turbines Work
  2. Wind Turbines based on Jet Engines 3-4 Times More Efficient & Coming to Market? [VIDEO]
  3. New Floating Wind Turbines to Make Wind Energy Cheaper, More Reliable?

2011 Natural Disasters Cost World More than Ever Before planetsave

DOE Cutting battery costs from about $1,000 per kWh in 2009 to $300 by 2015 and to $100 by 2030 tpg org


How The Recovery Act Will Make EVs Affordable For The 99%

The Department of Energy said it was aiming to cut battery costs from about $1,000 per kWh in 2009 to $300 by 2015 and to $100 by 2030. At the time it announced that goal, the only U.S. automaker shipping an electric car was a California startup, Tesla, and its battery cost $36,000 and weighed a whopping 992 pounds. Now, Envia, one of the companies funded, has just cut costs in half of future electric vehicle batteries.

Brutal Droughts, Worsened By Global Warming, Threaten Food Production Around The World

Bright Is The New Black: New York Roofs Go Cool tpg org

U.S. Meat Consumption [and energy wastage] Falling earthpolicy org

Teen tobacco 'epidemic' shocks surgeon generalUSA TODAY

Teen smoking an 'epidemic,' new report finds

msnbc.com -
CHICAGO - Smoking among America's youth has reached epidemic proportions, starting them on the path to a lifetime of addiction, the US surgeon general's office said in its first report on youth smoking since 1994.
UPDATE 1-US surgeon general declares youth smoking an "epidemic"
Surgeon General: Teen Smoking an 'Epidemic'

Offshore Wind: the 21st Century FrontierCleanTechnica

Coastal wind conference draws 300

Charlotte Observer -
By Bruce Henderson One of North Carolina's most powerful energy resources, its offshore wind power, drew about 300 participants to a conference that began today at the Charlotte Convention Center.

Off-Shore AC Wind Farm May Blow $1 Billion & 30000 NJ Jobs NJ TODAY

Off-Shore AC Wind Farm May Blow $1 Billion & 30000 NJ Jobs

NJ TODAY -
by Scott St. Clair from New Jersey Watchdog TRENTON - Based on cost per kilowatt, the proposed Fishermen's Atlantic City Windfarm could become the world's most expensive offshore wind energy projects, warned a study released by the state's chief ...