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California delta tapped for too much water, in ecological crisis The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in California is in ecological freefall. The 738,000-acre area supplies drinking water to millions and irrigation water for major agricultural producers. The delta smelt, a fish that’s an indicator species for the region’s overall health, is fast sliding toward extinction, […]
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James Woolsey on clean tech
Clean Edge has an interview with James Woolsey (who Grist has also interviewed), past director of the CIA and now co-chairman of the Committee on Present Danger, about how Osama really does love your SUV.
Bob Baer's book Sleeping With the Devil discusses how terrorists taking out the sulfur-cleaning towers in northeastern Saudi Arabia could take six million barrels per day off the market for up to a year, which would wreak economic devastation on our country. The United States borrows about $2 billion per day to finance our consumption. One billion of that is money for oil, and the Mid East is home for two-thirds of that oil. We are living on top of a volcano as long as we are that dependent on foreign oil.
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Is not!
Jonathan Adler defends Samuel Alito against the attacks of environmental groups.
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Who put the bunk in debunk-a-bunk-bunk?
The latest global warming debunkery, debunked, as always by the tireless Tim Lambert.
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‘What are we supposed to do, walk?’
Thanks to Kit Stolz for pointing me to an Onion item I missed:
"Public Outraged As Price Of Fast-Depleting, Non-Renewable Resource Skyrockets"
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Eco-friendly building materials: The new black
The New York Times discovers that the market for green building supplies (flooring, paint, etc.) is booming. As usual with puffy trend pieces like this, there is frustratingly little actual information, just a series of mini-profiles. One thing the piece does make clear is that this market is still the province of wealthy suburbanites. But, you know, the promise of economies of scale, blah blah ...
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2006 predictions
Stuart Staniford over at Oil Drum offers some predictions for 2006 that are worth reading. I think he really lost his nerve here, though:
Civilization Collapse, Rapture, Alien invasion, etc.
I estimate the probability of any of these events in 2006 as being negligibly small.Aw, c'mon!
More willing to predict The End, as always, is the indefatigable Jim Kunstler, who thinks 2006 ...
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Which words defined 2005?
Check out Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year for 2005 -- the words most often looked up online. Can this be real?
- integrity
- refugee
- contempt
- filibuster
- insipid
- tsunami
- pandemic
- conclave
- levee
- inept
- integrity
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Going to Sundance?
Formerly known as EV Confidential, Who Killed the Electric Car?, currently in post-production, will be playing during the 2006 Sundance Film Festival (Jan. 19 - 29, Park City, Utah).A synopsis:
Fashioned like a tongue-in-cheek murder mystery, Who Killed the Electric Car? sets out to uncover just who is responsible for the demise of this ill-fated vehicle. The spirited film runs through the prime suspects, including car companies, oil companies, the government, and consumers. Beginning in the early nineties, under pressure from the California Air Resource Board, car manufacturers were forced to develop nonpolluting vehicles. GM made the first car, the EV-1, available for lease in the midnineties. After less than 10 years, citing lack of interest by the public, the automaker took the vehicle off the market and officially discontinued the project. Government policy was rescinded, and currently, GM and other automakers are crushing all remaining electric vehicles. Filmmaker Chris Paine follows electric car activists who are desperately trying to save the few remaining cars from being destroyed and hoping to change policy. A very timely subject, Who Killed the Electric Car? serves as a potent reminder that the powers that be will stop at nothing to maintain their position in the world. The film is an informative and thoroughly entertaining journey into the world of environmentally conscious technology and the cars that may one day be here...again. -- Lisa Viola
I'd say "see ya there," but, alas, I'm not going.
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Look, honey! It’s a disaster!
New bus tours of Katrina's aftermath: creepy or clever?
One thing's for sure: they're popular.
