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- Canadian Oil Sands Flyover
An aerial/telephoto exploration of the Canadian Oil Sands operations. Two trillion barrels of oil in the ground. Pyramids of sulfur and coke. Lakes of oil stretching to the horizon. At $200k/yr, it's easy to understand how one might get roped in, gold rush style. - 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.
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- Incredible photo essay on the Athabasca Tar Sands operations: businessinsider.com/canadian-oil-s… 4 days ago
- At a great talk about individual cities as the right scale for renewable energy systems innovation at #wref2012 1 week ago
- Heard rural Wyoming folk talking local Chinese coal/gas investments, hacking of their SCADA water system. I live in a @GreatDismal future. 1 week 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. 4 months ago
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Lowercase theories, uppercase Theories, and the myth of global cooling
Lowercase theories, uppercase Theories, and the myth of global cooling, a good look at how the processes of science get misconstrued to the public at large, and why it’s not really a good idea for science journalism to focus on … Continue reading
Climate of Denial
Understanding American climate change politics by analogy with the World Wrestling Federation. The Carbon Lobby is the “evil” wrestler, scientists the “good” one, and the media plays referee. The kind of referee that’s always preoccupied with something outside the ring … Continue reading
Links for the week of December 9th, 2010
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Tagged architecture, cars, china, climate, coal, design, economics, energy, gm, government, history, india, internet, journalism, law, media, newspapers, nytimes, passivhaus, policy, politics, search, streetcars, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, technology, transparency, transportation, usa, wikileaks
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Links for the week of October 19th, 2010
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Tagged airport, bicycle, cambridge, cars, children, family, law, media, oil, pollution, portland, privacy, propaganda, security, surveillance, terrorism, transportation, travel, yesmen
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Links for the week of June 11th, 2010
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Tagged aspergers, autism, bp, children, corporations, culture, deepwaterhorizon, drugs, gender, government, gulf, hacker, law, media, oil, policy, propaganda, society, spill, sweden
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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 September 17th, 2009
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Tagged architecture, cities, creativecommons, design, domestic, flickr, freeway, health, infrastructure, insurance, law, media, parks, public, sharing, space, sustainability, technology, urban, violence, wikipedia, women, zipcar
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Shared Links for Jun 16th
Is There a Better Word for Doom? – Six disparate views on the value and ethics of actively re-framing the public discussion surrounding climate change. (tagged: politics policy environment communication propaganda climate change science ) Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, … Continue reading
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Tagged change, climate, communication, design, economics, election, environment, internet, iran, lessig, longnow, maker, media, photos, police, policy, politics, propaganda, protest, science, social, socialism, technology, transparency, twitter, web2.0
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Shared Links for Apr 10th
Losing $63 Billion to Gray Market – P&G sells the same bleach and diapers to distributors in the US and Honduras, at wildly different prices. Enterprising Central American businessmen then re-ship goods to US making a tidy profit. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged bailout, banking, economics, finance, internet, media, moyers, police, policy, politics, probability, regulation, security, surveillance, taleb, technology, terrorism, trade, transparency
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Shared Links for Feb 23rd
Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers – I just don't buy the lament of the newspapermen. If the papers were subsidizing the collection of "real" news with ads, how sure are we that people ever wanted news? Why exactly should … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, atheism, bailout, banks, bernanke, cosmos, crisis, democracy, economics, economy, fed, finance, financial, geithner, government, media, mortgage, naturalism, religion, sagan, science, spirituality, stimulus, subprime, technology, transparency, zombie
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