OpenPaths is a mobile application that allows you to log your location in a way that minimally impacts your phone’s battery life, and keeps that information secure (supposedly out of reach of law enforcement w/ zero knowledge encryption) while still allowing you to do interesting things with it, via an OAuth API.
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- Zane Selvans on Think Again: Drugs
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- Coal Finance for Climate Activists | Amateur Earthling on Boulder’s Energy Future Is Bright
- Hanna on Straight Talk on Climate Progress in California
- Coal Exports a Bigger Threat Than Tar Sands | Amateur Earthling on Obama Delays Keystone XL Pipeline
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- The Corporate Surveillance State
A completely creeptastic article from the NY Times on how Target can figure out that your 16 year old daughter is pregnant before she's willing to talk to you about it, based on what she's buying and when. Big Brother isn't a mustachioed Stalinist, he's a mild-mannered statistician attending corporate board meetings and sending out personalized coupon books that purposefully camouflage just how much his computers know about you and your so-called "private life". - Sequencing Risks
A reporter from Bloomberg joins the PGP, only to discover that he carries a rare and potentially pathogenic acquired mutation, found in people with blood disorders. He doesn't know how to deal with it, and neither do the doctors, really. Which is half of what this study is all about. What do we need to learn as a society to deal with knowing our sequences? A lot, I'm guessing. - Picturing Coal
A great series of photos looking at the coal industry worldwide from The Big Picture. Even ignoring coal's irreversible long term damage to the atmosphere and climate, it's a pretty desperate business for a lot of people, who are still scratching it out of the earth deep underground, by hand. Popular with the kids too -- they can really get into those hard-to-reach places. - PACE Lives!
The Federal Housing Finance Administration is taking public comments on Property Assessed Clean Energy financing programs, at the insistence of California's 9th Circuit court of appeals. Here's what I told them: Property Assessed Clean Energy financing programs, as have been initiated by many states and local governments, are a potentially transformative financing mechanism, enabling property owners to make good long term investments in energy efficiency and behind-the-meter renewable energy production. They address a market failure, in that buyers often do not appropriately integrate a property's energy costs into their price assessment. So long as the state and local PACE programs are - Climate Denial Instruction In Schools
Corporate interests are pushing a model bill in many states that would require schools to teach climate change denial. It sounds creepily reminiscent of the creationism/evolution mess from a few years ago. Except with the fossil fuel industry instead of the religious right behind it. Gah.
- The Corporate Surveillance State
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- The tar sands have to stay in the ground. Stop the pipeline… again. And again. And again, if necessary. http://t.co/LqbL0F1x 1 week ago
- Roughly 2/3 of all the humans who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today. 1 month ago
- What I learned about coal industry finances this week: http://t.co/UN1lXxRm 1 month ago
- In a room full of suits at NYU law. Everyone here wants to end the Reign of Old King Coal. Strangulation by purse strings. 1 month ago
- More thoughts on the dangers of giving in to a defeatist climate apocalypse narrative: http://t.co/Bwq276vQ from @AlexSteffen 2 months ago
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