United States: Water storage heats up
Seattle Times: "Years of drought and predictions of climate uncertainty" set the backdrop for important water-storage studies under way in Eastern Washington. The words describing the conditions that inspire the hunt for more storage belong to Jay Manning, director of the state Department of Ecology. Last year, the Legislature committed $216 million to wiser use of the Columbia River's precious resource. Twenty-five people from diverse professional, political and environmental backgrounds ...
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United States: Bush expected to sign bill to protect 273,000 acres of wilderness
San Francisco Chronicle: Congress gave final approval Friday for the biggest new wilderness designation in California in more than a decade when the Senate passed a bill setting aside 273,000 acres of scenic lands from Napa to the Oregon border. The measure had been approved by the House in July and is expected to be signed by President Bush. The bill, sponsored by California's two Democratic senators and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, affects existing Forest Service lands in five Northern ...
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Perpetual greenwashing machine
Green energy experts are warning that some customers may be conned in the push for us to adopt alternative energy sources. There are people hoping to make a lot of money out of roof-mounted wind generators, he says. I dont think they are coming at it simply to rip people off, but thats whats going to happen. I dont think a credible roof-mounted generator will come on the market.
For a more serious free-standing wind generator, you should expect to pay anything from $1o,000 to nearly double that in installation charges. They are only really economic or practical for people in rural areas, particularly those not connected to the electricity grid. Even then, and taking account of electricity fed back into the grid, you should expect them to take at least 15 years to pay for themselves.
It does not take a genius to see that it would take more than 15 years to justify a photovoltaic installation on financial grounds.
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The Terminator To Stop Chemical Absorption
Reuters: California will become the first U.S. state to try to measure how its residents are absorbing chemicals from common products under a "bio-monitoring" bill signed on Friday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. State health officers will use blood, urine, tissue, hair and breast milk samples collected voluntarily from a cross-section of California, taking into account ethnic, age, income and geographic differences, to gauge levels of exposure. "There are literally ...
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Wisconsin town looking forward to PHEV on the streets
 Energy representatives from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, have joined other utility officials from the state to support Plug-In Partners, a national campaign to convince auto manufacturers to build plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV).
A recent meeting of the Wisconsin Public Power Inc. included an exhibition of the Columbia ParCar and a Toyota Prius converted to a PHEV. Officials were briefed on the effectiveness of neighborhood electric vehicles (NEV), learning that one municipality uses a NEV to read meters. Many Wisconsin communities have passed measures to allow NEVs on public streets. Officials also got test drives in a NEV and PHEV.
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Washington State Bans Detergents
Via Thanks Laura B! (wmrc.uiuc.edu)
We recently learned about this news from the state of Washington and were sorry to say that it seems that its a few months old. However, it is still good news! According to a state legislative bill, the state will now extend the limitation on the phosphorus in laundry detergent (already in place) to include automatic dish detergent.
Phosphates enter water bodies and stimulates excessive algae growth, which ultimately robs the water of oxygen and makes it unsuitable for recreation. Finally, a state that knows there are better solutions! Now how do we get the others on board? Via Health Magazine
US on track with greenhouse goals
Reuters: Washington is sticking to goals for curbing greenhouse gases under a yardstick shunned by most of its allies as too easy. President George W. Bush said he has no plans to toughen the targets -- trimming the amount of heat-trapping gas emitted per dollar of economic output -- despite speculation that he was considering a revision because of worries about global warming. "We're meeting those targets," he said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on ...
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Plug-in hybrids v. conventional hybrids: New study shows losses
This
article in the Christian Science Monitor reports on a recent study conducted by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) which examines the environmental benefits and costs of a plug-in hybrid when compared to a conventional hybrid. According to their figures, the results aren't as plainly evident as you may have thought.
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$1,000,000,000,000: the cost of capping greenhouse gas emissions
Independent (UK): The cost of curbing the soaring emissions of harmful gases that are blamed for causing global warming has been estimated at $1 trillion by a major study of the cost of climate change. The volume of emissions of the gases that cause global warming will double by 2050 unless rich countries agree to take significant policy steps to cut energy use, it shows. The report, byPricewaterhouseCoopers, lays bare the potential damage to the environment of the industrial revolution in ... via: EcologicalInternet.org
October, and this year's theme is: "Promoting Healthy School Environments."
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 9/28/06.
Children's Health Month is every October, and this year's theme is: "Promoting Healthy School Environments." EPA programs for schools can help improve the health, productivity and performance of 53 million children and 6 million staff in the nation's 120,000 public and private schools, as well as save energy and money. In celebration of Children's Health Month, EPA is offering webcasts throughout October to raise awareness about protecting children from environmental risks, such as indoor air pollution, while they are in school. Beginning Oct. 5, the webcasts will be available for parents, educators, facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers, school nurses, teachers, staff and healthcare practitioners.
Via: glrppr.org
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Today is Museum Day, meaning that for today only you can get into museums all over the country for free.
Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute, Museum Day is a chance for you and a guest (or any other of your friends savvy enough to print off the free admission card) to visit the museums you always tell yourself you're going to visit but never do. Check out the participating venues in your area and take in a little bit of culture for once. Thanks Camilo and William! Adam Pash
Canadian Conservatives Ponder Huge Gas Pipeline Investment
The Conservative government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
can't find $50 milion to maintain spending on greenhouse gas reduction, but it's
contemplating a gas-pipeline investment of $1 billion or more - an effective subsidy of ExxonMobile and its partners.
Never mind the eco-actives: every libertarian think-tanker in the business should be spitting mad at the very notion of this level of government intervention in the most profitable business in the world.
DYK - Last week you lost another constitutional right?
The nation was distracted this week: the House
to quietly pass H.R. 2679, the "Public Expressions of Religion
Protection Act of 2006," with scarcely a mention in the media.
The bill would prevent plaintiffs from recovering legal costs in
any lawsuit based on the "establishment clause" of the First
Amendment, which of course only happens when the court finds
the plaintiff's Constitutional rights have been denied. The
Senate is expected to pass a companion bill, S. 3696.
China first of Free, clean, energy - China Fusion Reactor Test a Success
BEIJING (AP) -- China claimed to have carried out a successful first test Thursday on its experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor....
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How 'Manic' Thinking Makes Us Happy, Energized And Self-confident
Fast thinking, or "racing thoughts," is most commonly known as a symptom of the clinical psychiatric disorder of mania (and of the manic part of bipolar disorder or "manic-depression"). But, according to
Princeton University psychologist Emily Pronin, most healthy people also have experienced racing thoughts at some point in time -- perhaps when they are excited about a new idea they have just learned, or when they are brainstorming with a group of people, or even when they lie in bed unable to fall asleep.
Solvent Exposure Linked To Birth Defects In Babies Of Male Painters
This has been know for decades, how is this NEW news? (paint.org)
Men who paint for a living may be placing their unborn children at increased risk of birth defects and low birth weight.
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Huge = dumber (surprised?)
Elevated Testosterone Kills Nerve Cells A Yale School of Medicine study shows for the first time that a high level of testosterone, such as that caused by the use of steroids to increase muscle mass or for replacement therapy, can lead to a catastrophic loss of brain cells.
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Hope for Colon Cancer Inheritable Genetic Defects
A new prediction model for genetic defects known as Lynch syndrome, which predisposes families to develop colorectal cancer, was created by researchers from the Johns Hopkins University and other institutions. The model, called MMRpro, is based on an individual's detailed family history of colorectal and endometrial cancer, as well as knowledge of how genetic mutations manifest themselves -- in the form of tumors.
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Scientists Explain Why Atmospheric Levels Of Greenhouse Gas Have Stabilized
Scientists have explained why atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas methane have stabilized in recent years, but warn that increases could resume in the near future. In research published in Nature this week, an international team of scientists -- including CSIRO researchers -- has shown that it was a decline in emissions of methane from human activities in the 1990s that resulted in the recent slower growth of methane in the global atmosphere.
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Scientists and Engineers for America - fight for science!
I have recently been involved with the creation of a new political group designed to allow scientists and concerned citizens to fight back against the ideologically driven health and science policies of the Bush Administration and their cronies in Congress. Today we launched Scientists and Engineers for America.
Concerned about the ideological and partisan manipulation of science, compromising of scientific integrity and harassment of scientists by the Bush Administration and Congress, leaders in the scientific and engineering communities announced the launch of a new organization on Wednesday, September 27th. The group, called Scientists and Engineers for America, is a 527 political organization that will focus on the need to address the current state of science policy by electing new political leadership...
Competent government depends on getting best science and technology advice. Scientists and Engineers for America will use web-based tools (www.sefora.org) and lectures around the country to explain why independent scientific advice is essential for national security, energy, the environment, health care, education, and Americas competitiveness. The group proposes a basic Bill of Rights to prevent the politicization of science.
The group will discuss the impact the Bush Administrations science and technology policies have had in their fields and the need for voters to consider the science and technology policies by candidates in this years mid-term elections. The group will also provide details of their activities including launching a speaking tour focusing on a number of this falls highly contested campaigns in key states. (via hugg.com) Link
Serious off grid tech... free conf.
The Southern California Wireless Users Group (
SOCALWUG) meets every month here in Los Angeles, and I'll be joining them this evening to share video, photos, and audio from
a recent trip to Northern India and Tibet -- where I learned about some amazing guerilla wireless projects. We're also going to try to do a live Skype call with Yahel Ben-David, founder of the
Tibetan Technology Center in Dharamshala, India. They're hosting
a big community wireless summit there in October. Tonight's nerd hang should be fun, please come join us if you're in town.
Link to details.
China Says Illegal Logging Brought Under Control
Reuters: Illegal logging in China has been bought under control, though there are still parts of the country where the situation is serious, a police official said on Thursday. In recent years China has suffered severe flooding that has in part been blamed on excessive logging driven by the country's breakneck economic growth. In 2002, China banned all logging along the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers in an effort to control the problem. "We can see from the present situation that after ...
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SImple Coffee by duncan
It's interesting how coffee is becoming so a battleground for Fair Trade, ethical production and green credentials. Simple Coffee have established a scheme called 'Better Trade' to work with farmers to create the Simple Coffee product. TreeHugger, as ever,
has more details.
Is The Truth Behind the Spinach Scare: Cheap Beef?
When in Mexico, the saying goes, don't drink the water. You shouldn't eat the spinach either because it could be contaminated with the E. coli strain that has sickened close to 200 people in the United States and killed at least one, likely more. The problem is our food production system is so complex that most of us cannot be certain where our food comes from. Even the U.S. government, after two weeks on the case of the spinach E. coli outbreak, has narrowed the source to, oh, somewhere in central California. Gee, you think? California produces about three-fourths of the nation's fresh spinach, and Salinas Valley accounts for about three-fourths of that. These guys are sharp. But they aren't looking closely enough. »
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Ex Greenpeace Pres Spews Spin Over Science
Prior to becoming a professional spin doctor, salmon farmer, and apologist for unsustainable forestry, Patrick Moore was the cofounder of Greenpeace and served as that organization's president from 1977 to 1986. Proving that a man's beliefs follow his income, he has now become the latest "skeptic" in the lucrative business of misrepresenting the legitimate scientific evidence of global warming. In a laughable effort, Moore attempts to paint the Royal Society, the world's oldest national scientific society, as inquisitors bent on stiffling science because they had the audacity criticize exxon's funding of anti-global warming orgs. »
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Latest E. Coli Outbreak Should Prompt Rethink of Industrial Agriculture
The recent tragic outbreak of E. coli contamination in spinach that has killed one person and poisoned at least 146 others, is being mistakenly blamed, by some in the media, on organic farming practices--specifically the use of animal manure in making fertilizer compost on organic farms. While no conclusive source of the current E.coli outbreak has yet been determined, mountains of E.coli-tainted manure on conventional factory farm feedlots and rainfall-induced agricultural runoff are the likely culprits. Despite this fact, a number of apologists for industrial agriculture continue to attack organic food in the press as "unsafe." Help spread the truth! »
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The Eco-Idea House
The "Idea House," is a collaboration between Popular Science and Businessweek. It's "chock full of sustainable materials" and they have made houses built around and zero-energy. "A home generator produces electricity from natural gas at a 95% efficiency rate. Rooftop solar panels generate most or all of the home's electricity." " The home also comes with a FuelMaker Phill Home Refueling Station for refueling a natural gas-burning car. Its presence is a blatant plug to buy the
Honda Civic GX, but the home pump deserves all of the press that it gets if it lives up to its promise: to bring fuel costs down to roughly the equivalent of $1.20 per gallon. Its natural gas is a domestic product, so no dependence on foreign oil. And natural gas-powered vehicles are the cleanest-burning internal combustion engines in the world with virtually no emissions. "This car makes the Prius look like a diesel semi."" There is a gallery with the article. »
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Pure water is more precious than gold
"Protect Special Places from Mining -- Support HR3968 National Parks, Wildernesses, sacred sites, precious water sources -- polluted by mining? That's what the federal government's interpretation of the current mining law allows. The 133 year old General Mining Law of 1872 prioritizes mining as the "highest and best use" of public lands -- lands owned by all Americans. It allows mining even when it would threaten drinking water -- mining even when it could undermine a Wilderness. -- mining even when it would destroy a sacred area continuously inhabited for 20,000 years. There is a reasonable, common sense solution to this problem. Nick Rahall (D-WV), Chris Shays (R-CT), and Jay Inslee (D-WA) have introduced into Congress HR3968, the Federal Mineral Development and Land Protection Equity Act of 2005. This new bill moves mining law out of the 19th century and into the 21st. It would protect special places and important water sources by creating sensible rules that would encourage responsible mining, while simultaneously prohibiting mines that would threaten places that we hold dear.(...)" »
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DIY 1000 watt wind turbine
Build your own 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It's a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase ac, rectified to dc, and fed to a charge controller. The magnets spin with the wind, the coils are fixed, so no brushes or slip rings necessary. »
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NYC plans ban on trans fats in eateries
"The city health department unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would bar cooks at any of the city's 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain" "artificial trans fatty acids." "Among the fast foods that would need to get an overhaul or face a ban: McDonald's french fries, Kentucky Fried Chicken and several varieties of Dunkin' Donuts." "Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden acknowledged that the ban would be a challenge for restaurants, but he said trans fats can easily be replaced with substitute oils that taste the same or better and are far less unhealthy. "It is a dangerous and unnecessary ingredient," Frieden said. "No one will miss it when it's gone."" "A similar ban on trans fats in restaurant food has been proposed in Chicago and is still under consideration." »
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Take action Ban illegal timber
You can help by sending a letter to Mr Mauri Pekkarinen, Finland's Minister of Trade and Industry, asking for laws to stop illegal timber being imported and sold in Europe.Wood that's been illegally logged in Russia and imported into Finland. »
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Take action Reach for a toxic free future
In the next few months MEPs will cast their second and final vote on whether to allow the chemicals industry to continue producing and using harmful chemicals even when safer alternatives are available. Some of these chemicals end up in products we use every day. These chemicals may cause cancer, birth defects, reproductive illnesses and disrupt our fragile hormonal balance, leading to infertility and other health problems. Make your vote count! »
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Globe warms: rainforests burn
In what is becoming an annual event, increasingly frequent and more intense fires are sweeping through the tropical rainforests of Indonesia and Brazil. The burning of the rainforests not only threaten biodiversity in the affected areas but, by contributing towards climate change, they also put the entire planet at risk. In tropical latitudes, months pass without any rain and in the dry season forests become susceptible to fire. These can occur naturally and would normally not pose a serious problem, but clearing land as a result of logging or to make way for plantations is exacerbating the problem and every year the fires spread faster and further. »
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42% Think Gas Prices were Manipulated Down
Using market media for voter gain.... how is this NEW news or a "conspiracy theory"
the real a conspiracy theory is the ignorance of the general public not listening to common sense or learning from history.
"A Gallup poll showed 42 percent of Americans believed the price of gas was manipulated so that it would decrease before the November 7 midterm vote." The video is Colbert explaining the economics of oil and why no one has a clue how the pricing works. A lot of new technologies like coal and ethanol can compete with oil at about the current price. I posted some say it could drop to $1.15 this Winter. They are not that crazy. Oil, gas pricing is nuts. »
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Schwarzenegger to sign bill against coal-fired power Wednesday
MarketWatch: On Wednesday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill prohibiting the state's electric utilities from signing long-term contracts with coal-fired power plants, or investing in such plants, at least until equipment to control carbon dioxide is deployed. Schwarzenegger signed the bill as part of ceremonies in San Francisco and Malibu to enact a landmark bill to cut the state's greenhouse gas emissions, Assembly Bill 32, the governor's office said ...
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Wisconsin group says global warming is cause for concern
Fond du Lac Reporter: Temperatures throughout the state are on the rise and global warming is to blame, according to a report released by a Wisconsin advocacy group. A five-degree jump in average temperatures in the past five years throughout the state should be a matter of concern, said Bruce Speight, president of Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group. The group measured temperature patterns at 255 major weather stations throughout the United States from 2000 to 2005 and during the first six ...
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Methane emissions soar as China booms
The explosive growth of the Chinese economy over the past seven years has been linked with a rise in emissions of man-made methane, a study has found. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas and, molecule for molecule, it is about 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide in its ability to exacerbate global warming. Levels of methane in the atmosphere have risen since the Industrial Revolution but in recent years they appeared to have stabilised, leading scientists to ...
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Seattle plans to reduce greenhouse emissions
Associated Press: Mayor Greg Nickels, who has enlisted 307 U.S. mayors in an effort to meet the international Kyoto Protocols for reducing greenhouse gases, on Wednesday announced his plan for city residents to lead the way. "Climate change is the biggest threat facing our planet," Nickels said. "With the release of the Seattle Climate Action Plan, we start down a hopeful - but challenging - road toward a solution." The plan has a $37 million tab for two years, most of it ...
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When Renewable Energy Is Bad For The Environment
The German parliament on Thursday started a debate over a quota law requiring biofuels -- organic, renewable sources of energy -- to make up a small percentage of the nation's energy supply. Current targets call for them to comprise at least 4.4 percent of the market by 2007. Biofuels burn cleaner than petroleum, and many are derived from crops which can be grown again and again -- guaranteeing business for local farmers. The biofuel industry is responsible for an estimated 86,000 ...
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Coal top enemy in fighting global warming
Reuters: Cheap coal will be the main enemy in a fight against global warming in the 21st century because high oil prices are likely to encourage a shift to coal before wind or solar power, a top economist said on Thursday. Coal emits far more greenhouse gases, blamed by most scientists for a rise in world temperatures, per unit of energy when burned in power plants or factories than oil or natural gas. "The most important environmental problem in the 21st century is coal, or you ...
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Yikes - OSHA "Quote of the Week"
"Our mission isn't to find a cause for an accident, our mission is to find if there were any violations of safety and health standards."
Safety "Quote of the Week" went to OSHA Philadelphia spokesperson Kate Dugan....
WI: Governor Doyle announces four UW campuses to be energy independent by 2012
Governor Jim Doyle announced Wednesday that the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, UW-Oshkosh, UW-River Falls and UW-Stevens Point will take part in a pilot program to make their campuses completely energy independent within the next five years. Upon completion, the schools will be the first state-owned facilities capable of acquiring or producing renewable energy equivalent to their consumption. The campuses will work with the Department of Administration's Division of State Facilities to identify and implement technologies capable of replacing external power supplies currently serving their locations. Possible replacements include the use of solar or wind power, fuel cells, a greater emphasis on renewable fuels, and a switch to biomass. The project will also emphasize energy conservation strategies to curtail overall energy demand.
Source: Wisconsin Office of the Governor, 9/27/06.Labels: WI - Evniro
68% O.K. with goin NUKE
OK, we have to keep a healthy skepticism about this opinion poll, as it was conducted for the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). But, given the findings and the way that nuclear energy will effect the future of the automobile in America, it's important to look at what the NEI found: 68 percent of Americans support building a new reactor at the existing nuclear power plant closest to where they live. This is slightly different than the "Nearly 7 of 10 Americans Favor Nuclear Energy" the NEI used as the headline of its press release, but it does show that Americans are not afraid of nuclear power.
Nuclear power will obviously play a role in powering electric vehicles and may also someday be a source of hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles. Today, about 20 percent of U.S. homes and businesses use nuclear-generated electricity, and new plants are in the works. Thirty new reactors could come online in the next few decades, according to the NEI.
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ExxonMobil has only adds hot air in response to Guardian
Guardian's report on a letter that the Royal Society wrote to ExxonMobil demanding that the oil company stop funding organizations that undermine the theory of global warming. I quite wasn't sure just how Exxon would parry the blow, but now that we have
the response I'm not entirely surprised. It essentially lacks any sort of substance.
They said that both the letter and the Society's public statements "inaccurately and unfairly" describe the company as a sceptic to climate change. They go on to say, "We know that carbon emissions are one of the factors that contribute to climate change - we don't debate or dispute this."
ExxonMobil says they are taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operations, yet defend an apprehensive course of action by saying, "We support approaches to reduce emissions more broadly in ways that are cost effective for society and that consider the uncertainties that remain."
Apparently, the Guardian isn't flawless in their reporting. The article says that ExxonMobil allegedly distributed $2.9 billion to organizations that misrepresented the science of global warming. The Royal Society's letter instead states $2.9 million.
Schwarzenegger signs major warming law
Californias landmark effort to cap greenhouse gas emissions is just one step in a long-term strategy to combat global climate change, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said ahead of Wednesday's signing of the bill. In Old MSNBC News
WP: Wildlife waste is major polluter
Scientists have run high-tech tests on harmful bacteria in Washington, D.C.-area rivers and streams and found that many of the germs -- and in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, a majority of them-- come from wildlife dung. In MSN News
500 Miles on a 5 Minute Charge
Texas start-up EEStor, has capacitors that can store huge amounts of charge, and release it in a relatively controlled fashion, have already started showing up in hybrid cars, but EEStor seems to have taken this further. They claim to have an ultracapacitor that can store enough power to drive a car 500 miles. Not only are ultracapacitors entirely free of toxic substances, they can be charged extremely quickly and never lose capacity. EEStor is already licensing the technology to Toronto based Feel Good Cars (
http://www.feelgoodcars.com/) and they should be on the road by 2008. Soon after, we could see them in larger vehicles, as well as portable electronic devices. (via:
http://www.ecogeek.org)
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Seven main concerns about buying a hybrid vehicle is worth checking out.
I've listed the concerns below, but you'll need to click through to read the responses! 
- Hybrids have complicated technology that is difficult or expensive to fix
- Hybrids have limited battery pack life
- Hybrids have technical problems like stalling and sputtering
- Hybrids do not pay for themselves to justify their premium cost
- Hybrids do not offer the driving performance needed
- Hybrids will not hold resale value
- Hybrids do not get the level of mileage promised
As it turns out, only three of the above concerns are deemed truly "legitimate" most notably the fact that currently, a normal user can't really save enough on gas to justify the high price of a hybrid. (There are of course other, more altruistic, reasons to invest in a hybrid.)
If you've ever toyed with the idea of buying one, this informative article about seven main concerns about buying a hybrid vehicle is worth checking out. (Via http://www.desmogblog.com)
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Thanks M. Simon - I got your comments & emails!
Self medication appears to be a very large part of our "addiction" problem. In fact we may not even have an addiction problem. What we may have is seriously undertreated population with various mental problems caused by imbalances in the brain. What is needed is more research. The only way we will get that any time soon is to pressure the government. Obviously the drug companies have no interest in finding out what addiction is because it will impact their bottom line if people take drugs for Problem Solving. In fact there are a lot of actors in this farce who would stand to lose big if such a study showed what I expect it might. The only folks to be benefited would be "addicts". And they don't have much of a lobby in Washington.
(c) M. Simon - All rights reserved.
M. Simon is an industrial controls engineer for Space-Time Productions and a Free Market Green. http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com
A Natural History of Four Meals" provides few soundbites — but much to chew on
"Do Americans really want to know what we're eating? That's the central gamble of Pollan's book. Are we disturbed enough by mad-cow disease, E. coli outbreaks, mercury levels, and reports like last week's New York Times story on arsenic levels in chicken to look, as the old saying goes, at how the sausage is made?"
'You hear plenty of explanations for humanity's expanding waistline, all of them plausible. … But it pays to go a little further, to search for the cause behind the causes.
Which, very simply, is this: When food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more of it and get fat.' -Michael Pollan, writing in "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
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Locally grown may be replacing organic as the new buzzword for consumers,
Another sign "natural" buzz is shifting... back to "MAD IN THE U.S.A"!
Many are increasingly willing to pay a premium for local milk, meat and produce.
Next Tuesday night, October 3, I'm hosting a free talk by 