GOPigs believe that what you don’t know can’t hurt them. NYT Krugman

Ignorance Is Strength

New York Times - ‎15 hours ago‎

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

Waldrop: The spiritual 'tipping point' in global warning newsvirginian

Waldrop: The spiritual 'tipping point' in global warning

Germany to Install Record Solar Panels This Year, DIHK Says Bloomberg

Germany to Install Record Solar Panels This Year, DIHK Says

Bloomberg - ‎4 hours ago‎

Germany will probably install a record amount of solar panels this year even as the world's biggest market for the industry plans to cut subsidies, according to the DIHK national industry and trade chambers.

Solar energy-harvesting “nanotrees” could produce hydrogen fuel on a mass scale Gizmag

Solar energy-harvesting “nanotrees” could produce hydrogen fuel on a mass scale

Gizmag - ‎8 hours ago‎

Like forests, this structure maximizes the amount of solar energy that can be captured, with the vertical structures trapping and absorbing the light, while the flat surfaces reflect it.

Nanotrees harvest solar energy to turn water into hydrogen fuelNewstrack India

Nanowire Structure Optimizes Hydrogen Production by Capturing More Solar EnergyAZoCleantech

Global installed wind capacity has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 27% over the last 10 years sacramento bee

Up to 18% Growth Projected for Lubricants in the Wind Turbines Market ...

Sacramento Bee - ‎18 hours ago‎

By Kline & Company PARSIPPANY, NJ, March 8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Global installed wind capacity has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 27% over the last 10 years, according to the recently published report Lubricants for Wind Turbines 2011: ...

Wind Energy Industry Boosted by Booming Repowering Market REVE

Wind Energy Industry Boosted by Booming Repowering Market

REVE - ‎5 hours ago‎

Installed wind farm capacity is set to increase as wind power markets are expected to witness massive growth in multiple regions, following a temporary decline caused by the global recession.

Privately generated wind energy picking up RenewablesBiz

Privately generated wind energy picking up

RenewablesBiz - ‎14 hours ago‎

Anchored into the ground by concrete footings and supported by steel cables on a 70-foot tower is the retired Newton public works employee's private source of wind power. "We're green, and we eventually want to get off the grid," Swank said about his ...

'Strong Women, Strong World:' Working to End the Cycle of Poverty and ... Christian Post

'Strong Women, Strong World:' Working to End the Cycle of Poverty and ...

Christian Post - ‎Mar 8, 2012‎

WOV is a volunteer ministry of the well-known 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization World Vision. World Vision serves as a Christian humanitarian organization to tackle the challenges of global poverty and injustice in over 100 countries around the world.

It Takes Women to End Global Poverty Women's eNews

It Takes Women to End Global Poverty

Women's eNews - ‎10 hours ago‎

By Cassandra Q. Butts Women produce half of the world's food, earn 10 percent of the world's income and own less than 1 percent of the world's property. The US Government's Millennium Challenge Corporation says its anti-poverty efforts aim to change ...

UN chief says anti-poverty goals can be metWNCT

UN's Ban cites gains in fighting world poverty

Al-Arabiya - ‎3 hours ago‎

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said there has been “broad progress” in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in reducing poverty, but some regions like sub-Saharan Africa are not seeing progress yet. (Reuters) By Reuters The world has been able ...

Concerted global efforts have led to great strides against extreme poverty – BanUN News Centre

UN chief says anti-poverty goals can be metWNCT

Closer Look: Deep Poverty in Retreat, Even Through the Great Recession New York Times

Closer Look: Deep Poverty in Retreat, Even Through the Great Recession

New York Times (blog) - ‎20 hours ago‎

By ANDREW C. REVKIN The good news that (happily) violated that norm and rippled in headlines this week came in a World Bank report showing a broad reduction in deep poverty and concluding that the great global recession did not increase poverty in the ...

The rise of the $1-a-day statisticBBC News

Global poverty in decline, says World Bank reportGlobalPost

Highly Cited:The Contradictions in Global Poverty NumbersBrookings Institution

MUST READ: Climate Change Economics tpg org

Climate Change Economics

Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces tpg org

Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces

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

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 - ‎14 hours ago‎

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 - ‎Mar 7, 2012‎

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.

Students Threaten Hunger Strike over School Budget Cuts, LayoffsKGO-AM

Two-month hunger strike leaves Iranian blogger weak Storyful

Two-month hunger strike leaves Iranian blogger weak

Storyful - ‎2 hours ago‎

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) - ‎2 hours ago‎

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 ...

Tibetan Hunger Strike Reaches Day 15The Epoch Times

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

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

AlterNet - ‎5 hours ago‎

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 - ‎4 hours ago‎

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 - ‎5 hours ago‎

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

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 - ‎1 hour ago‎

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 WashingtonHaaretz

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

GM gifts to antiwarming group 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 - ‎Mar 8, 2012‎

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

• Michelle Obama's star turn

Boston.com - ‎2 hours ago‎ 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)

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 - ‎9 hours ago‎

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 changeEnergy Collective

A Fundamental Understanding of Climate Issues & Solutions is EssentialGreen Building Elements

US energy subsidies to favour fossil fuels over renewables Environmental Finance

US energy subsidies to favour fossil fuels over renewables

Environmental Finance - ‎7 hours ago‎

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.

Energy subsidies total $24 billion, most to renewablesCNNMoney

Alexander calls for ending wind-energy subsidiesThe Tennessean

Global Alternative Energy Industry Sacramento Bee

Global Alternative Energy Industry

Sacramento Bee - ‎8 hours ago‎

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