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Former Xcel CEO Dick Kelly would be fine with no more coal

Former Xcel CEO Dick Kelly would be fine with no more coal.  Unfortunately, the regulatory environment that his former employer works within in Colorado, and the company’s need to protect a couple of billion dollars worth of undepreciated coal assets … Continue reading

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California Dreaming

An hour long interview based documentary by some Dutch filmmakers about the changing social and economic realities of southern California, in the wake of the financial crisis, and America’s general malaise. It’s dangerous to cling to an identity which is … Continue reading

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Is the Anthropocene here?

Anthropocene — the Age of Man.  First coined in irony, the International Commission on Stratigraphy is now debating whether to officially end the Holocene geological epoch.  We humans are leaving home, in time if not in space.

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A dispatch from the future

A firsthand account of the floods in Queensland.  Australia has been living in the (climatic) future for some time, facing the prospect of desalinization plants and admitting that most of their agriculture is not viable, given soil both saline and … Continue reading

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The Yeti Homeland Project

I’m not sure what to make of our willingness to participate in the terraforming of the Earth.  To explore it, I’ll consider an alternative history in which Antarctica was marginally habitable, and colonized a million years ago by woolly hominids … Continue reading

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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

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Links for the week of October 26th, 2010

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Links for the week of September 28th, 2010

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Links for the week of April 26th, 2010

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Links for the week of February 26th, 2010

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