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Bush admin to make mountaintop-removal mining easier, and more
Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: No Peaking Lower the Pollution and Back Away Slowly We Put the Unclear in Nuclear Refine! Be That Way! All Pact and Ready to Go The Invisible Hand Drops Its Harpoon Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Looking for a Miracle […]
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U.N.-initiated climate-change meeting kicks off
Some one thousand representatives of government, industry, and research institutions from more than 150 countries came together in Vienna today to kick off a United Nations-initiated week-long hobnob on WTF Should We Do About Climate Change. We’re betting relatively little of substance will come out of it, but check in for updates as the week […]
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The Invisible Hand Drops Its Harpoon
Iceland halts whale hunt due to low demand After resuming commercial whaling just under a year ago, Iceland’s fisheries minister said recently that his country will not issue new whale-hunting quotas until there’s more demand for whale-derived products and until Iceland gets an export license to send whale meat to Japan. “There is no reason […]
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Strung Out
Clotheslines growing more popular in U.S. The clothesline, nemesis of backyard cyclists everywhere, is making a comeback thanks to green awareness and energy costs. Many communities and homeowner’s associations have banned the misunderstood expanse of rope, assuming that neighbors aren’t interested in each other’s dirty — or clean — laundry. But as a burgeoning “right […]
