Monthly Archives: January 2011

Wall street Journal – California’s utilities are spending $548 million over seven years to subsidize consumer purchases of compact fluorescent lamps.  But the benefits are turning out to be less than expected … as the bulbs are burning out faster than expected… When PG&E began its 2006-2008 program, it figured the useful life of...
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Canadian wire-service article claims that modern composite materials used in house construction drastically accelerates the pace of house-fires when compared with traditional solid wood and other materials. What that means for firefighters is the amount of time they can safely be inside a house on fire has dropped from about 17 minutes to three...
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David Schaller – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to end the use of sulfuryl fluoride, an insecticide and food fumigant manufactured by Dow AgroSciences. The product, approved by EPA as an alternative to methyl bromide, is used on hundreds of food commodities. Citing concerns about children’s health and noting their current overexposure...
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A brave new world of fossil fuels on demand or just another “hydrogen cold fusion hoax”? In September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically engineered cyanobacterium that produces liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough...
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Here we go again…   just after Van Jones resigns White House position (GRIST) Politico -  White House aides Monday were mum about what would happen to the Office of Energy and Climate Change, except to say that Browner, a former Senate staffer to Al Gore, believed energy issues would remain front and center for...
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NationalReview - Two years ago, the National Assembly adopted one of those solar “feed-in tariffs” — a cute misnomer for a mandate that forces utilities to buy expensive renewable electricity at ridiculously high prices. Flush with visions for the solar future, the legislature set the price at 546 euros per megawatt-hour, almost ten times...
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Congressman Rand Paul of Tennessee has proposed a list of budget cuts that will total $500 Billion dollars in savings. According to the Congressional Budget Office, this will be the third year in a row in which the U.S. Government runs a budget deficit near – or greater-than $1 trillion (with 2011 Budget deficit...
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Latest Recycling Results: WasteCap Resource Solutions and its clients have diverted 445,574 tons of construction and demolition waste from landfills. That’s 158 pounds per person in Wisconsin! The equivalent of  138,693 trees has been saved by recycling wood and cardboard. Currently, WasteCap’s construction and demolition projects are achieving a 79.4%  average recycling rate.   Upcoming...
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Wall Street Journal – The global economy is getting back on its feet, but so too is an old enemy: food inflation. The United Nations benchmark index hit a record high last month, raising fears of shortages and higher prices that will hit poor countries hardest. So why is the United States, one of...
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JetsonGreens The world of tiny living. How do you seal leaky ductwork? The balance for affordability and sustainability. LEED Platinum-seeking home sold for $11.5 m. The rise and fall of global eco-cities. Location matters in building green. Innovation for better white LEDs.
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How does this “innovative” bladeless wind technology beat  2,000 year old WindCatcher tech??? “bladeless concepts could be a game changer in the next few years.”  “Turbine-free wind power” was placed on the NY Times Magazine’s annual Year in Ideas list with this video explaining the idea of a panel with several foam pads and...
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A generous donation from the family of the late Matthew R. Simmons, the founder and chairman of the Ocean Energy Institute, along with all the gifts from friends and colleagues given to OEI in his memory, will create opportunities for the University of Maine to further the OEI objectives rooted in his visionary perspectives...
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Is CFX (now, Contour Energy Systems) more of the same? In 2008, Yazami and Grubbs raised funds to commercialize the carbon-fluoride battery technology from venture capital firms, including CMEA Capital and Harris & Harris. They founded CFX Battery, a start-up company based in Azsua, Calif. Only a few months after being founded, Frost &...
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HDM – The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced the newly elected officers and new directors to its 2011 Board of Directors. USGBC’s membership elected the following individuals to serve as directors:  Elizabeth J. Heider, Skanska, filling the Constructor of Buildings seat  Kirsten Ritchie, Gensler, filling the Green Building Educator seat  Walter Cuculic,...
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The topic of the discussion is green use of brownfields. Redeveloping a brownfield – a property that has contamination or is thought to be contaminated – can revitalize a neighborhood. Whether used for greenspace, housing, or retail development, a redeveloped property can provide new social and economic opportunities for a community. More and more,...
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The Rise and Rise of the Cognitive Elite… the number of people who get rich by singing or kicking a ball is tiny compared with the number who become wealthy or influential through brainpower. “As technology advances, the rewards to cleverness increase…,raising the demand for those sharp enough to make sense of it. In...
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“Volkswagen just unveiled a new car at the Qatar Motor Show that gets an astounding 100km for less than a liter of diesel fuel – that’s the equivalent of 313 miles per gallon! The XL1 concept car is an upgraded version of the VW L1 vehicle, and it features an ultra-efficient diesel engine in...
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New Rules  (via TPR) – For the fourth year in a row, a national survey of independent businesses has found that those in communities with an active “buy local” campaign have experienced markedly stronger revenue growth compared to those located in areas without such a campaign. The survey  found that those in places with...
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“Today’s sale of 2.74 million tons of U.S. soybeans to China is the single largest daily soybean sale since USDA began issuing daily sales reports in 1977″ – Grainnet
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Those cuts amount to around $30-50 million??? California is about $19 billion in the red and issuing IOUs for only the second time since the Great Depression. Sacramento Bee After spending a century building the nation’s largest and most majestic state park system, Californians are poised to do something unprecedented: Retreat from that legacy...
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“…that means making sure that all of our kids are getting the best education possible -– not only because we need to give every child a chance to fulfill her God-given potential, but because we need to make sure American workers can go to head-to-head with workers in any country on Earth.  We’ve got...
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The Milwaukee Urban Ecology Center in Need of Receptionist Volunteers for three shifts: Tuesday afternoons, 1-4 PM Thursday afternoons, 1-4 PM Friday afternoons, 1-5 PM Contact Mike if interested at:Michael Larson Visitor Services CoordinatorUrban Ecology Center 1500 E. Park Place Milwaukee , WI 53211 mlarson (at) urbanecologycenter.org
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Connect with America’s Brightest Innovators Februay 28 – March 2, 2011, Washington, D.C. Join more than 1,800 energy leaders to explore how global energy challenges are directing research and investment priorities and driving American innovation. Space is filling up fast—register and book your room now! Catalyzing Energy Breakthroughs for a Secure American Future Just...
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About $500 million in investment in renewable energy over the next two years could be at risk if lawmakers approve Gov. Scott Walker’s wind turbine siting bill. The bill, praised by some as a strong defense of property rights, would erect the biggest hurdle to wind farm development in the nation, industry leaders said...
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Bowing to pressure from various environmental groups, California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) will rewrite the green chemistry regulations that were supposed to go into effect Jan. 1, 2011. DTSC has intentionally missed that deadline and will soon begin another round of drafting. As reported in early December, in the third draft (November...
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PPG Industries has published EcoLogical Solutions(SM), a brochure highlighting the company’s architectural glass, coatings and paint products for the green building industry. The company says that the latest edition of the brochure, which was last published in 2006, features innovative and new products. James Bogdan, PPG manager for sustainability marketing initiatives, said the brochure...
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The bill is the first piece of legislation to pass both houses in Governor Walker’s Special Session focusing on jobs, and at this writing, was awaiting the Governor’s signature. The legislative package signals the following reforms: Product Liability – Provisions of this bill will assist small and large businesses by requiring proof of a...
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Jan. 12 announced that it will establish its first office outside the United States in China, in a bid to reduce the amount of dangerous products reaching the American market. More
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Twitter and Facebook don’t connect people – they isolate them from reality… Guardian The way in which people frantically communicate online via Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern madness, according to a leading American sociologist. “A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that...
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Aldo Leopold is considered by many to be the father of wildlife ecology. Now, thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Wisconsin nature center that bears his name will be at the forefront in demonstrating the latest energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to thousands of visitors every year. The Aldo...
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What does family mean to you? Paul Ehrlich made his mark as a world famous environmentalist with the publication of The Population Bomb in 1968. Ehrlich now believes that our very survival may depend on expanding our capacity for empathy and our understanding of the human family. Listen to NPR Guest today from “Here...
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Collectively, state and local government purchase more than $35 billion worth of technology equipment annually*, and has the opportunity to provide leadership in the environmentally sound and cost effective management of electronic assets. About The State Electronics Challenge (SEC)The SEC is now open to government entities around the country!  Thanks to the support of...
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The State of Green Business Forum rallies the world’s foremost innovators, thought leaders, and executives across all industries to discuss sustainability opportunities realized and challenges met in 2010. Together, they provide insight into how to leverage that knowledge to increase profitability, efficiency and generate real value in 2011. The forum brings the year to...
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The Biomass Program will host the proceedings of the IBR review u
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Italian scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna announced that they developed a cold fusion device capable of producing 12,400 W of heat power with an input of just 400 W….when the atomic nuclei of nickel and hydrogen are fused in their reactor, the reaction produces copper and a large...
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“Chrysler announced Wednesday that it would partner with the US Environmental Protection Agency to build and test prototypes of a different kind of hybrid vehicle, one that accumulates energy not in a battery pack but by compressing a gas hydraulically. The system in question, originally developed at the EPA labs, uses engine overrun torque...
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The Educational Program for the 2011 National Brownfields Conference is now available. Click here to view over 100 panel sessions, roundtables, town hall meetings and training workshops that will be offer at the conference this year! Brownfields 2011 will take place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on April 3-5 Brownfields 2011 is...
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General Motors has joined General Electric as a major foreign corporation, having sold more cars and trucks last year in China than in the U.S. Some of these cars and trucks were made in China. GM also has a factory in India. From TPR General Motors last year sold more cars and trucks in...
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What would it look like if Transition Milwaukee made it a practice of protesting renewable energy? And, most of all, we really do need wind turbines and solar panels in our community. – Erik Lindberg, … passionately opposed to a new experimental wind project being proposed in Milwaukee and will at some point need...
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Lets point out first that this is a good thing with a few bad... While the U.S.-Russia 123 Agreement handles a variety of civilian nuclear projects, the most interesting aspect of the treaty is the new markets opened up to American energy firms. The provisions of the agreement ease the barriers for both technical...
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The Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D., noted Wednesday: In a … study by the United States Geological Survey that tested for 95 contaminants in water supplies nationwide, 80 percent of the samples from 139 streams in 30 states had at least one of the substances being tested...
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Boston Globe One of the great public health mysteries is why asthma has become more common among children, even as air pollution has decreased and fewer parents are smoking. One possibility is that antibiotics have kept infants’ immune systems from developing properly, making them vulnerable to asthma and allergies later on. The Yale study,...
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Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable. The Washington Post The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the...
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This year, 480,000 U.S. Facebook users will die, and 1.78 million of them internationally, which works out to about three every minute. This data comes from Entrustet, a so-called digital asset planning company, which analyzed data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control along with information served by Facebook’s advertising platform. The digital asset...
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Many of the most advanced battery concepts being studied today are are, in fact, still based on lithium-they just operate differently than the particular type of rechargeable lithium battery that we call “lithium-ion.” For instance, lithium-air batteries could theoretically match the effective energy density of gasoline…. PopSci As always, context is important Last week,...
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A battalion of Marines in Afghanistan is going green, using solar panels to reduce their energy consumption and thereby reduce the things they carry – and even save lives. The Marines and sailors of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment arrived last October at Forward Operating Base Jackson, outside Sangin, Afghanistan, with an array of...
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Rossi and Focardi’s Cold Fusion Device The future of energy involves tin foil and Dell laptops. Good science is always rooted in good data, but the most entertaining science is the stuff that transcends the need for data by rooting itself fantastical claims and a rejection of the idea that data is even necessary....
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The current economic distress has invigorated the discussion about jobs creation as a way to incubate new growth. Alternative energy advocates who previously have been singing for more government support for environmental reasons have added verses which claim that green investments will be a stimulus as opposed to a drag on the economy. In...
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Peak oil: Ecologists and geologists have warned about oil depletion for decades. Geophysicist M. King Hubbert described the phenomenon in 1956. He was largely ignored. Global peak oil per capita occurred in 1979 and we have now arrived at the absolute peak – just as predicted. Net Energy: Oil depletion and society’s oil addiction...
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The federal policy of trying to reduce energy dependence through the use of ethanol runs counter to free-market economics. Increasing the use of ethanol will not reduce dependence upon foreign energy sources, according to a research paper published by the National Academy of Science, which concluded this about ethanol: “Neither can replace much...
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By mass, 99.9% of the Earth is hotter than 100C. That means that not far below our feet is the power to boil unlimited water and generate clean, renewable energy. Is the UK throwing all it can at this extraordinary opportunity? Of course not, who do you think we are? Germans?I’ll declare an interest:...
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NewYorker This excellent article was originally written to describe “declining results” in scientific studies and offer a possible explanation or two. Especially notice it is applicable to virtually all scientific disciplines. What it should do is make everyone far more skeptical of studies that rely on statistics. As Nobel-laureate Richard Feynman said: “Statistics are...
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….a few years ago some other researchers put together an entire book exploring the “Methanol Economy.” Methanol was first explored as a viable alternative after the ’73 Oil Crisis, but it never really caught on. Methanol is the simplest form of alcohol, and while it can be found in coal, the air, and even...
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“The European Commission (EC) suspended trading in carbon credits on Wednesday after unknown hackers compromised the accounts of Czech traders and siphoned off around $38 million, Threatpost reports. EU countries including Estonia, Austria, The Czech Republic, Poland and France began closing their carbon trading registries yesterday after learning that carbon allowances had been siphoned...
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“The French state-owned DCNS (French military shipyard) announced today a concept study for an underwater nuclear reactor dedicated to power coastal communities in remote places. It is derived from nuclear submarine power plants, and its generator would be able to produce between 50 MWe and 250MWe. Such a plant would be fabricated and maintained...
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The Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University are investigating the yellowing of upward of 40,000 acres of wheat in Umatilla and Morrow counties. So far, the cause is a mystery, and researchers do not know if the problems in the two counties are related. “There’s probably more than one thing going on...
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O.K. I will not pretend to even understand what Bernanke is thinking, as it goes against everything learned in recent and longterm studies on sustainable economies. But, I thought I was doing the right thing in 2008 by moving my 401K from market volatility and investing in the solvency of America by moving to...
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George Lucas Believes in 2012, For Real, Says Concerned Citizen Seth Rogen | Movieline Creator George, the 66-year-old filmmaker revealed his apocalypse theory to Seth Rogen during a meeting. Rogen is quoted by the Toronto Sun newspaper as saying: “George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how...
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Off-grid.net China is now the world’s largest generator of wind energy and nearly half of the power produced by wind turbines inside China is not connected to the Grid. If that works for the world’s fastest growing economy, then why not in the West as well? China’s installed wind-generation capacity reached 41.8 GigaWatts (GW)...
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EERE New investment in global clean energy reached $243 billion in 2010, driven by China’s clean eneearch company noted on January 11 that this annual total is up 30% from a revised figure of $186.5 billion in 2009, making 2010 the strongest year so far for investment in clean energy. The 2010 total is...
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The Guardian  … a desperate effort to contain a new disease which poses a threat to British forests on a scale not seen since Dutch elm disease wiped out millions of trees, changing the landscape of the country for ever. Already 3,000 hectares of larch forest – one hectare is about the size of...
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Xinhuanet – Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in spent fuel reprocessing technology that could potentially solve China’s uranium supply problem, Chinese television reported on Monday. The technology, developed and tested at the No.404 Factory of China National Nuclear Corp in the Gobi desert in remote Gansu province, enables the re-use of irradiated fuel...
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Some UK researchers have studied the question on everyone’s minds and found that it’s true: Your iPad is killing you. People who use iPads for 4+ hours a day have a greater chance of dying than people who use them less than 2 hours a day. The good news, such as it is, is...
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DocUticker - National Institutes of Health Based on growth and aging of the U.S. population, medical expenditures for cancer in the year 2020 are projected to reach at least $158 billion (in 2010 dollars) — an increase of 27 percent over 2010, according to a National Institutes of Health analysis. If newly developed tools...
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NextBigFuture Molten carbonate fuel cells demand very high operating temperatures (600°C and above) and most applications for this kind of cell are limited to large, stationary power plants. The envisaged initial application is associated with waste heat, industrial processing, and in steam turbines to generate more electricity. The MC WAP project has developed a...
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For every one billion people added to the world’s population, 100 million tons of rice (paddy) need to be produced more annually –- with less land, less water, and less labor, in more efficient, environmentally-friendly production systems that are more resilient to climate change and also contribute less to greenhouse gas emissions. Green Super...
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Carbon sequestration might will not work The Alberta government has committed $2 billion to similar pilot projects. The United States has committed $3.4 billion for carbon capture and storage. A Saskatchewan farm couple whose land lies over the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project says greenhouse gases seeping from the soil are killing...
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Does overly complicated = “unreliable”? The Chevy Volt will be the first car of its type: not because it is a hybrid electric/petrol vehicle, but because GM plans to give each one the company sells its own IP address. The Volt will have no less than 100 microcontrollers running its systems from some 10...
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“Not only is power consumption halved to less than two Watts and price of the motherboard reduced, the performance of the next generation OLPC Laptop is actually better for running full Fedora Linux compared to x86. Here’s a video interviewing OLPC’s CTO, Edward J. McNierney, where he explains how and why OLPC’s world class...
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EERE - Start off 2011 by joining Wind Powering America this Wednesday, January 19, at 1:00 p.m. MST (3:00 p.m. EST) to kick-off its 2011 monthly Webinar series. Wind Powering America will host a discussion about new and exciting wind workforce development initiatives.  The Webinar is free; no registration is required. Login information is...
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Observed on the third Monday of January each year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks the anniversary of the birth of civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr..   In 1994, the Congress initiated the...
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“Due to the recession there are now 15,000 less lawyers. Nobody ever talks about the good things that happen because of the recession.” –Jay Leno   NaturalNews – The povertization of America is a real problem, and it is one that has been slowly escalating for quite a while. But more government intervention in the...
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An investigation is under way after 200 dead cows were found in a field in the Town of Stockton. The Portage County sheriff’s office says the owner of the cattle has been working with a local veterinarian and it’s believed the animals died from the IBR/BVD virus. The virus can cause respiratory and reproductive...
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New York Times: Aided by at least $43 million in assistance from the government of Massachusetts and an innovative solar energy technology, Evergreen Solar emerged in the last three years as the third-largest maker of solar panels in the United States. But now the company is closing its main American factory, laying off the...
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Is Mc Donalds a bad choice to eat as a treat? Nope. Is it a bad choice to eat everyday? Yep. No one likes simple math… instead we feel the need to blame someone else for our lack of parenting and self control. San Francisco’s Happy Meal Ban www.thedailyshow.com In this classic “Stewart”, the...
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“Wired has a story up on the lethality of airborne prions. It should be noted that prions (which cause ‘mad cow disease’ and similar disorders) are not normally airborne, and take a long time to kill the infected animal, but so far are 100% lethal if something else doesn’t kill the animal first. So,...
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The Daily Mail UK reports on the unexpected consequences of the colder than normal British winter:     The failure of Britain’s wind farms to produce electricity in the extreme cold will cost billions of pounds, create an economic crisis and lead to blackouts, leading industrialists have warned.     To cover up the ineffectiveness of...
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What is Wisconsin’s state of the art, one of the most efficient energy plants in the country, powered by you ask?Old King COAL - FAIL After five years, six months and two weeks, the We Energies Oak Creek power plant project is finished. The second of two coal-fired power plants was completed Wednesday, the...
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Most Americans wouldn’t know it, but the Cash for Clunkers model originated in Europe in the mid-1980s. The idea was two-fold:   (1) get high-polluting and fuel-guzzling “clunkers” off the road and (2) stimulate new car sales. It was called “Prime à la Casse.” Over the years, European governments with large national production (Germany, Italy,...
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Shortly after midnight on January 1st, thousands of red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas. Some were outright dead, others mortally wounded, all were found to have suffered severe injury through blunt-force trauma. While there has been speculation around a number of hypotheses including a climate change-driven weather phenomenon and even a...
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When Jonathan Watts was a child, he was warned: “If everyone in China jumps at exactly the same time, it will shake the earth off its axis and kill us all.” Three decades later, he stood in the gray sickly smog of Beijing, wheezing and hacking uncontrollably after a short run, and thought: The...
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Dan Rather - “Crisis” is not too strong a word for describing what has happened to antibiotics. As our use of the drugs rises every year in the United States, bacterial resistance has risen right alongside it: there isn’t a single known antibiotic to which bacteria have not become resistant. Every year, more than...
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The following is an update from EPA’s Superfund, TRI, EPCRA, RMP & Oil Information Center: On December 16, 2010, EPA released the 2009 TRI National Analysis, an annual report that displays EPA’s analysis of the most recent TRI data.  It includes a variety of documents and Web sites that outline national and local trends...
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TPR – Stimulus outsourcing: Foreign countries eye big bucks in high speed rail The Chinese want in on the state’s fledgling high-speed rail project. They’re eager to help bankroll and build the system and, eventually, provide the trains to operate on the tracks. China’s not alone. Eight nations have agreements with the California High-Speed...
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physorg a finding that gives new meaning to the adage, “waste not, want not,” scientists are reporting that household sewage has far more potential as an alternative energy source than previously thought. They say the discovery, which increases the estimated potential energy in wastewater by almost 20 percent, could spur efforts to extract methane,...
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An Atlanta-area man is facing fines of up to $5000 for growing too many vegetables on his land. Steve Miller (not Steve Miller of classic rock fame), has had an organic vegetable garden on his property for years. He grows food for himself and has even sold some of his bounty at local farmers...
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Hansen (In a Al Gore Style)  Tax on carbon is the “The only way to save our planet” - Independent The tax does not have to start out large, though it should be substantial…It should not be a cap-and-trade that allows some carbon to escape and makes Wall Street millionaires on the backs of...
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AP Yahoo News, “The decision is a victory for the drilling companies, which in the past had routinely won broad waivers from rules requiring detailed environmental studies. After the BP disaster, the Obama administration pledged it would require companies to complete environmental reviews before being allowed to drill for oil.” The AP reports that...
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I think I reported the cause back in May 2008? “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.” - Albert Einstein Reuters / ABC – Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United States, researchers reported on...
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The Obama Administration announced plans to develop an internet identity ecosystem that officials claim will reduce fraud and identity theft while streamlining online transactions. Locke was joined by Howard Schmidt, the White House Cybersecurity coordinator, at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University, where they outlined the framework for an “identity...
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Bloomberg: The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 43.2 million in October as the jobless rate stayed near a 27-year high… subsidies for food purchases jumped 15 percent from a year earlier, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a statement on its website. Participation has set records for...
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Physorg -  An innovative Oxford company has developed new solar cell technology that is manufactured from cheap, abundant, non-toxic and non-corrosive materials and can be scaled to any volume.  Harnessing the Sun’s energy, the solar cells are printed onto glass or other surfaces, are available in a range of colours and could be ideal...
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CNN  the government is proposing that the recommended amount of fluoride in drinking water be set at 0.7 milligrams per liter of water. The recommended range has been 0.7 to 1.2 milligrams per liter since 1962. The EPA will determine whether the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in water will also be lowered. Fluoride...
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Ryo Chijiiwa was kind enough to share his experience with LED and CFL bulbs.Even better, he provided my favorite things… how it applies to what is available, cost and global and local benefits. He started it, so I thought I would add my personal experience with them as well.My comment and some more from...
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Please note that experts at have reported that Mass Bird, Fish Deaths Occur RegularlyFirst, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year’s Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in...
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OK, This project is dangerous and a little complicated to be reliable… but awesome compared to a $40,000 VOLT. Really portrays how innovative concepts can be applied to the fleet of older models that will be here for decades to come. turned his electric Geo Metro into a plug-in hybrid. But wait,...
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