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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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Energy Efficiency and Economics at Walnut Mews
Our condo HOA had a meeting last fall, and somebody brought up selling the flat plate collectors on the roof that are part of our defunct solar thermal hot water system. The 750 gallon cylindrical storage tank rusted out in … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, boiler, boulder, building, colorado, efficiency, energy, finance, heater, insulation, PACE, public, solar
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Boulder’s Passive Aggressive Building Standards
Usually when people say that “better is the enemy of good enough”, they’re pointing out that striving for perfection can be a distraction from just getting the job at hand done. There are other dynamics that involve these concepts too. … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, boulder, climate, colorado, design, economics, efficiency, energy, passivhaus, policy, public
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Links for the week of November 26th, 2010
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Tagged australia, bicycle, boulder, cars, china, cities, climate, coal, economics, electricity, energy, infrastructure, netherlands, planning, policy, politics, safety, sharing, suburbia, sustainability, technology, trade, transportation, urban, wto, zipcar
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A Thousand Splendid Power Plants
Xcel Energy’s Valmont East Terraforming Station in Boulder, CO. As a side effect, it powers all the lights you see in the background. James Watt’s industrial revolution was fired by coal, is fired by coal, and shall be fired by … Continue reading
Links for the week of August 2nd, 2010
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Tagged boulder, climate, coal, colorado, energy, fire, government, photos, russia, sustainability
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Links for the week of July 23rd, 2010
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Tagged bicycle, boulder, colorado, culture, data, government, love, policy, polyamory, relationships, sex, society, transparency, transportation
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Links for the week of July 18th, 2010
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Tagged bicycle, boulder, ciclovia, cities, colorado, transportation
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Links for the week of June 17th, 2010
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Tagged architecture, bicycle, boulder, bush, cars, climate, clinton, colorado, design, energy, ford, gardening, government, greenhouse, jonstewart, maps, nixon, obama, oil, president, reagan, recycling, satire, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, transportation, waste, xcel
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Links for the week of June 4th, 2010
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Tagged activism, africa, architecture, art, bicycle, biology, biotech, books, boulder, bp, business, caltech, capitalism, cities, colorado, computational, cu, culture, delta, documentary, drugs, eaglerock, electricity, environment, film, folk, glasses, government, iran, jobs, journalism, kickstarter, law, local, losangeles, marijuana, media, niger, nigeria, non-linear, nonprofit, oil, policy, politics, pollution, posters, research, review, satire, science, sharing, shell, shopping, society, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, technology, tools, vonnegut, waste, wind, yesmen
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Links for the week of May 29th, 2010
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Tagged africa, agriculture, art, bicycle, bioinformatics, biology, biotech, boulder, california, colorado, drugs, economics, economy, energy, ethanol, genetics, golden, green, humboldt, jobs, kickstarter, law, marijuana, philosophy, photos, science, southafrica, sustainability, synthetic, venter
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