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Water power
Anybody know what's up with this? Seems too good to be true, and you know what they say about stuff like that.
(hat tip: reader Laurence)
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Craig Sams interview
Check out Treehugger's interview with Craig Sams, founder of Green & Black chocolates. I particularly like this bit:
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Yawn
Shorter Debra Saunders: I'm still able to dig up a few skeptics.
(hat tip: Katharine Mieszkowski)
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Asia is effed
SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- Rapid global warming poses a variety of security threats to the Asia Pacific region that have been "seriously underestimated," a new study says.
The report, released Tuesday by a Sydney-based think tank, paints a grim scenario of disease, food and water shortages, natural disasters, territorial tensions and mass population movements threatening political stability in the region. -
Chinese coal growth
NYT ran the latest in their "energy challenge" series on Sunday: "The Cost of Coal" looks at China's coal use and resulting pollution problems.
It starts off with a bleak portrait ...
One of China's lesser-known exports is a dangerous brew of soot, toxic chemicals and climate-changing gases from the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants
... and moves on down from there.
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South Central Community Farm protestors evicted
It's official: the protestors at the South Central Community Farm have been evicted:
LOS ANGELES - Sheriff's deputies evicted people from an urban community garden to make room for a warehouse Tuesday, touching off a furious protest in which actress Daryl Hannah and others climbed into a walnut tree or chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels. At least 39 people were arrested.
Authorities cut away branches and used a fire truck lift to bring down the "Splash" actress and another tree-sitter, who raised their fists as they were removed. It was not immediately clear whether Hannah was under arrest.
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At daybreak Tuesday, 120 deputies, some with batons and riot helmets, showed up to serve an eviction order that a judge signed last month. Deputies used saws to cut down the chain-link fence around the site.And get this:
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Jetting off to global warming
This week's The Economist (paygate, although you may be able to get a "day pass") carries a special report on aviation's contribution to carbon emissions:
... flying a fully laden A380 [super-jumbo jet] is, in terms of energy, like a 14km (nine-mile) queue of traffic on the road below ... Aviation is a relatively small source of the emissions blamed for global warming, but its share is growing the fastest. The evidence is strong that emissions from jet engines, including the streaks of cloud (called contrails) they leave behind in the sky, could be especially damaging ... You can buy a hybrid car, switch to low-energy light bulbs in your house and eat locally grown organic food. But the dozen daily decisions on which you base your husbandry are trivial compared with the handful of yearly choices about that holiday or this business trip.
Even worse, air travel demand has grown by 75% since 1980 (my brief lifetime) and shows no sign of abating: Airbus projects that in 2020, just the increase in miles flown will equal all air travel worldwide in 1969.
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Grist’s Webby acceptance speech
The Webby Awards ceremony took place last night, but since Grist "only" won a People's Choice award, we were not invited.
One amusing feature of the ceremony is that winners are allowed only five words for their acceptance speech. Arianna Huffington said, "Make blogs, not war." Prince, who won a lifetime achievement award, said, "Everything you think is true." Woah.
What should Grist's five words be?
Update [2006-6-13 12:37:51 by David Roberts]: Ah. I'm told we were invited to the ceremony, and just chose not to go. Maybe we couldn't think of a good acceptance speech!
