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- Clean energy will unfortunately be political
Conservative thinktanks step up attacks against Obama's clean energy strategy, as revealed by ALEC bills and other PR documents. This morning at the World Renewable Energy Forum, in response to a (long winded) question about how we might re-frame the energy discussion in light of the unfortunate hay which was made from Solyndra's failure, US Energy Secretary Stephen Chu re-iterated that clean energy should not be a political issue -- that it's just common sense. That may be true, but it doesn't mean it will remain apolitical. As Pericles once said... "Just because you do not take an interest in - The Dangerous World of Underground Chemistry
A look at the increasingly outsourced world of underground pharma. Domestic black-market chemists handle R&D and distribution, and the actual manufacturing is done in China. Seems that way with everything. - Google Street View for building energy efficiency
Essess is doing drive-by thermal imaging in high density urban areas across the US, hoping to target possible building energy efficiency opportunities. Another company is using urban satellite imagery to choose the best rooftops for solar energy siting. Big Brother may be watching you... but at least occasionally he's got the right idea. - The Neapolitan Mob’s Most Dangerous Family
A character sketch of Paolo di Lauro, one of the Neapolitan Camorra's former leaders. Southern Italy it seems, like some parts of Mexico, operates with more than one quasi-state organization governing in parallel. A tacit negotiation between the official and unofficial systems, which sometimes erupts into violence -- ironically, at those times when the so-called "criminal" organizations have become weak. - Underneath Paris
There's a secret society underneath Paris. Two thousand years worth of tunnels and passageways ready to explore.
- Clean energy will unfortunately be political
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- At a great talk about individual cities as the right scale for renewable energy systems innovation at #wref2012 2 days ago
- Heard rural Wyoming folk talking local Chinese coal/gas investments, hacking of their SCADA water system. I live in a @GreatDismal future. 3 days ago
- The tar sands have to stay in the ground. Stop the pipeline… again. And again. And again, if necessary. act.350.org/sign/kxl/ 3 months ago
- Roughly 2/3 of all the humans who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today. 3 months ago
- What I learned about coal industry finances this week: amateurearthling.org/2012/01/13/coa… 4 months ago
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Links for the week of September 11th, 2009
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Tagged accident, animation, architecture, art, banks, bicycle, biology, bonds, burningman, calendar, california, camouflage, carhartt, cars, corset, craig, crisis, dam, darwin, drugs, economics, edge, electricity, energy, evolution, fashion, finance, future, gardening, genetics, glasses, globalization, health, history, hydroelectric, information, insurance, investing, japan, law, losangeles, money, photos, policy, politics, propaganda, renewable, RPS, russia, safety, schedule, science, shopping, siberia, solar, sustainability, synthetic, terrorism, time, tokyo, transportation, venter, video, vintage, visualization, war
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Links for the week of Aug 14th
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Tagged advocacy, architecture, beach, beer, bicycle, boulder, budget, buildings, business, cai, california, cars, china, cities, colorado, crisis, culture, design, directaction, diy, dume, education, funny, gardening, girls, government, graywater, gregmortenson, infrastructure, islam, law, moral, newbelgium, pakistan, parking, pasadena, pedestrian, planning, point, policy, politics, school, sex, suburbia, sustainability, taliban, technology, traffic, transportation, urban, waste, water, women
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Links for the week of Jul 30th
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Tagged airport, architecture, broadway, cellphones, cities, cycling, design, economics, energy, infrastructure, iraq, monopoly, nyc, policy, propaganda, renewable, sustainability, technology, telcos, transportation, video, war
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Shared Links for Jun 26th – Jul 7th
You can also search or subscribe to my linkstream over at Delicious. Christian high school discussion of climate change – Kurt Klein's AP Environmental Science class is reading Richard B. Alley's Two Mile Time Machine, about paleoclimate, ice cores, and … Continue reading
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Tagged afghanistan, agriculture, architecture, art, backpacking, bailout, bicycle, boat, bonds, caltech, capitalism, cities, climate, colorado, compost, conference, cooking, csa, data, debt, democracy, demographics, design, economics, economy, education, efficiency, election, electricity, energy, environment, finance, fish, food, fraud, future, gdp, goldmansachs, government, green, greenland, history, homemade, ice, infrastructure, internet, investing, iran, islam, law, longnow, maps, math, netherlands, non-linear, ocean, oecd, pasadena, passivhaus, performance, photos, policy, politics, poverty, privacy, rain, recipe, religion, research, sailing, science, sierras, society, solar, statistics, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, technologie, technology, towatch, traderjoes, transparency, transportation, twitter, video, visualization, war, water, web2.0, wikipedia, wilderness, women, yhike, yogurt
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Shared Links for Jun 25th – Jun 26th
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Tagged architecture, censorship, china, cities, climate, coal, cohousing, design, energy, fish, google, green, life, nytimes, ocean, police, politics, privacy, propaganda, protest, science, society, sustainability
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Shared Links for Jun 25th
The ones that got away: science through cross-disciplinary eyes – The difference between what we consider "normal", and what was once the norm can be large. In this case, our societal amnesia is revealed in historical (and pre-historical) records of … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, authority, boulder, cities, cohousing, colorado, design, efficiency, energy, fish, green, history, housing, law, nyc, passivhaus, police, privacy, school, science, scotus, security, society, solar, sustainability, transparency
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Shared Links for Jun 15th
Being “Used To” Our Lifestyle Makes Change Seem Difficult – The range of lifestyles which people have been able to become accustomed to and enjoy throughout history and spread out over the globe, is immense. Some of them are sustainable; … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, architecture, bicycle, cities, climate, design, energy, festival, film, garden, geoengineering, green, landscape, money, nyc, oregon, parks, portland, stuff, sustainability, technology, transportation
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Shared Links for Jun 7th
Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand – It's like his photography, but moving. Visually stunning. About 2/3 of the film is great, especially the almost mythologized story of our creation. Poetic, without being flowery or playing too fast and loose with the … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, architecture, art, bicycle, cities, climate, cooperation, design, earth, efficiency, energy, film, freeway, google, green, homeless, losangeles, maps, planning, police, society, sustainability, technology, transportation, tv, volunteer
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Shared Links for May 29th
Post-Scarcity Prophet: Economist Paul Romer on growth, technological change, and an unlimited human future. – Reason Magazine – An excellent interview with Paul Romer from Stanford, who has apparently been thinking along the same lines as I have about the … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, bicycle, capitalism, cities, copyright, corporations, design, economics, economy, google, green, growth, history, internet, interview, lessig, maps, non-linear, planning, policy, politics, science, socialism, sustainability, technology, transportation, wiki, wto
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Shared Links for May 26th
The Story of Stuff – A 20 minute video on where "stuff" comes from, and where it goes, and a little bit on why, and how we might do it differently. Yeah, it's sustainability propaganda, but sometimes that's okay. (tagged: … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, architecture, cars, cities, climate, design, economics, energy, environment, europe, food, garden, green, passivhaus, policy, politics, recycling, russia, science, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, transportation
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