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We Hope the Russians Love Their Tube Worms Too
Russians plan to drill into untouched Antarctic lake The world’s seventh-largest freshwater lake is locked under a giant Antarctic ice sheet and has never been exposed to human contact — but Russian scientists have drilled within 425 feet of it, and, despite pleas from scientists and environmentalists, intend to drill in all the way over […]
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Road trip, dudes!
The Kick the Oil Habit road trip is underway -- it was introduced today by Sen. Barack Obama.
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Amanda on Marketplace
Following up on Amanda's post below -- check out her appearance on public radio's Marketplace, where she discusses Gore's appearance at Wal-Mart's meeting.
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The Jinglehorse EcoSystem
The CEO of Jinglehorse, a Georgia-based computer company, wrote to let us know that his outfit has created the EcoSystem, an energy-efficient, eco-friendly PC.According to Jinglehorse, the system uses 75% less energy than normal PCs and is fully RoHS compliant. Plus it's tucked into a small form factor (SFF), which I'm a big fan of. I haven't used the system myself, so caveat emptor, but it looks killer. I expect we'll be seeing more of these in coming years.
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Take a Road Off, Arnie
Schwarzenegger asks feds to protect roadless national forests in California California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) today asked the feds to keep all 4.4 million roadless acres of national forest in his state off-limits to logging, road-building, and other development. President Bush in 2004 canceled President Clinton’s rule protecting roadless national-forest areas; now it’s up to […]
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Population pixels
Lisa mentioned that yesterday was World Population Day. The huge numbers that get tossed around in these discussions are difficult to grasp, so if you'd like a handy way to visualize world population, check this out.
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Dioxin Another Day
EPA should reassess dioxin risk, science panel says The U.S. EPA may be overestimating the cancer-causing risk of the chemical dioxin at very low doses, and should crunch the numbers in new ways before setting a cleanup standard, says a research council from the National Academy of Sciences. The EPA published a draft report on […]
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What’s Up, Dock?
San Francisco aims to provide plug-in power to docked cruise ships As San Francisco completes a new cruise-ship terminal, it plans also to build a facility to provide electric power to docked ships. Shoreside power — in effect, extension cords that plug idling ships into hydro- and solar-generated electricity — could reduce harmful emissions from […]
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The Gospel According to Nuke
Britain’s new energy policy calls for more nukes as well as renewables Surprising no one, the British government yesterday unveiled a pro-nuclear energy policy. Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling defensively told Parliament that the challenges of global warming and energy self-sufficiency “are so great that we cannot afford to rule out any low-carbon energy […]
