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- "A Sea in Flames": Ecologist Carl Safina on First Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Blowout
- Voices from the Gulf: "One Year Later, We’re in the Same Situation as Last Year"
- Deepwater Drilling Resumes Despite Unclear Impact of BP Spill: "It is All about Hiding the Oil, Not Cleaning It Up"
- Death Toll from BP Spill Still Rising as Residents Die from Spill-Related Illnesses
- Father of Deepwater Horizon Victim: The Blowout Was “Inevitable” Due to BP’s Lack of Safety Precautions
Toronto man towing solar car in stunt to legalize it
CARS/CANADA - Toronto man Marcelo da Luz has towed his solar car 160 km from Niagara Falls to Toronto, using a harness strapped to his chest, because the Ontario government won't let him drive the solar car legally on Ontario roads.
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So many electric vehicle start-ups - which will survive?
http://green.autoblog.com/2011/04/18/so-many-electric-vehicle-start-ups-which-will-survive
I See You - Avatar
http://www.openhandweb.org/i_see_you_avatar_0
Lisa Margonelli writes about a program at a suburban California office park that has had huge success in encouraging workers to leave the car at home
http://www.grist.org/transportation/2011-04-15-thinking-like-an-avon-lady-to-get-suburban-workers-on-transit
Ask Umbra on energy-efficient stoves
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Major fracking spill happening now in Pennsylvania
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USDA moves to let Monsanto perform its own environmental impact studies on GMOs
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When you’re in love with a broken city -
Visiting a house in Germany that generates more energy than it uses
The house has been the subject of several news stories (here's one in English). The first thing that struck me is that it looks like a house -- sleek and modern, but nothing particularly wacky or unusual. I only note that because energy-wise it's extraordinary: It gathers ambient energy and feeds it into the grid. That is to say, it's an energy generator, not an energy consumer.
It will take Jirka about a decade to pay off the solar panels on the roof, but from that point on, his energy bills will be ... well, not bills. They'll be payments, an income stream rather than the income sink familiar to most of us homeowners.
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10 reasons to still be pissed off about the BP disasterStories
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Germans happily pay more for clean energy. Why don’t Americans?
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Germans pay extra for clean energy—is it worth it?
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Underground environmentalism in communist East Germany
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Sci-fi skycrapers of the future
The carbon tax that ate Australia
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http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/113676.html
$599 million will be given to the IPCC under Australia’s combating AGW obligations. This $599 million is on top of the commitment made by Australia at Cancun to give 10% of revenue raised from a carbon tax to the IPCC. Then there will be the bureaucratic expansion to run the tax, checking compliance and eligibility criteria; these administration costs apparently run at 50% for the Australian government.
Apart from a Treasury release saying that a $30 per tonne carbon tax will add $860 per household there have been no economic modelling to support its cheery predictions about a carbon tax. Proof that a carbon tax represents a massive shift towards big government lies in the already available details in the government’s National Greenhouse Emissions Reporting website [NGER].
two crucial and proven consequences of the carbon tax. The first is GDP shrinkage estimated to be $50 billion per year; that will cost the average household 3 times what the direct effect of the carbon tax will, adding another $3,870 to the average household. With the $1,290 added on that now comes to $5,160. If the government gives all the collected revenue to the bottom 2 million households that will be $7,500 per household so those households will be better off. The other 5.5 million households will of course be out of pocket by $5,160.
The second problem goes beyond compensation however. Part of the GDP shrinkage will be relocating and closing business; part of that closing business will be energy providers. The Australian Energy Market Operator, the peak body for appraisal of all Australian energy providers, has already predicted energy shortages and black-outs within 2 years.
It doesn’t much matter how much compensation you are given if there is nothing to spend it on and you can’t count it in the dark. Of course with a failing economy the compensation will only last a year because after that time there will no “polluters” to collect it from.
Animal Emotions
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/
Wolves, political stupidity, and fear-mongering: Wolves are a clear and present danger
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201104/wolves-political-stupidity-and-fear-mongering-wolves-are-clear-and-prese
- Once again wolves are the target of irrational political and media sensationalism
There haven't been any wolf attacks on humans since they were reintroduced to Idaho in 1995
Oregon House votes to overturn voters and allow cougar hunting with dogs - Israel: desperate for favorable propaganda
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/04/israel-desperate-for-favorable.html - When men in the military rape other men in the ranks, no one wants to talk about it. Why the sexual assault of males in the service is finally being confronted.
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/04/03/the-military-s-secret-shame.html - From Waco to Libya: 18 Years of Humanitarian Mass Murder
http://www.infowars.com/from-waco-to-libya-18-years-of-humanitarian-mass-murder - U.S.: 2011 Foreign Aid Cuts Not as Great as Feared
- BAHRAIN: U.S. Keeps Quiet over Repression
- Antarctic Penguin Population Declines with Krill
- U.S. Reports Decry Curbs on NGOs, Internet, Minorities
- COLOMBIA: Court Documents Reveal Chiquita Paid for Security
- U.S.: Libya Splitting Republicans in 1990s Redux
- Rights Groups Deplore Order to Try 9/11 Suspects at Guantanamo
- COTE D'IVOIRE: U.S., U.N. Press Gbagbo to Yield
- U.S.-SYRIA: Neo-Cons Target Assad Regime
- LIBYA-U.S.: Obama Speech Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
U.S. Risks Creating Uneducated 'Underclass'
http://news.discovery.com/human/us-risk-undereducated-underclass-110420.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
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