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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 December 18th, 2009
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Tagged biology, engineering, genetics, podcast, science, synthetic
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Links for the week of December 4th, 2009
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Tagged biology, engineering, fama, funds, genetics, igem, investing, mit, money, mutual, science, statistics, synthetic, vanguard
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Links for the week of November 28th, 2009
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Tagged atheism, beard, bicycle, biology, cars, change, climate, craig, creativecommons, dna, download, dye, economics, education, electronic, genetics, government, hair, health, henna, highways, music, ocean, online, policy, recipe, religion, sailing, science, stanford, subsidy, taxes, transportation, venter
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Links for the week of November 20th, 2009
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Tagged anasazi, art, backpacking, biology, blm, canyon, career, cedarmesa, change, children, climate, coffee, cop15, copenhagen, design, drugs, education, fractal, gradschool, grandgulch, law, mandelbrot, marijuana, math, philosophy, portland, school, science, technology, tools, twitter, ucsc, utah, visualization, web2.0, wilderness
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Links for the week of November 15th, 2009
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Tagged architecture, biology, change, climate, design, dna, economics, energy, evolution, genetics, genome, green, harvard, health, iea, neanderthal, oil, peakoil, politics, privacy, research, science, sustainability, transparency
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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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Shared Links for May 24th
Math and the City – The same scaling laws seem to apply to both cities and organisms: infrastructure requirements per capita (or per unit body mass) go down as population (size) go up. Not so surprising, since both cities and … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, agriculture, art, bicycle, biology, china, cities, design, economics, food, gardening, infrastructure, nasa, policy, politics, space, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, trade, transportation
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Genes are sentences and genomes books
It’s really a pleasure to talk to smart people who don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. I think it forces you to come up with the best analogies and metaphors. The most essential explanations. It turned out that … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, engineering, genetics, non-linear, personal, public, science
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Shared Links for May 11th
Where can you get Cheap Natural Fertilizers and Soil Amendments? – A nice concise list of natural sources for garden nutrients, when your compost pile just isn't quite enough. (tagged: gardening food organic fertlizer compost biology ) Pinko bastion spawns … Continue reading
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How inevitable is synthetic biology?
I love watching talks and seminars online. It is in so many ways superior to watching them in person. You can pause the talk to discuss it with your friends out loud, or to look something up online. You can … Continue reading