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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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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 September 4th, 2009
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Tagged 9/11, agriculture, ashcroft, banks, beckysweet, bicycle, cars, consumption, corporations, dating, depression, development, economics, economy, education, friedman, gay, happiness, health, history, information, internet, keynes, krugman, law, love, nature, oregon, osx, photos, policy, politics, relationships, safety, science, scotus, sex, society, software, statistics, sustainability, swimming, technology, terrorism, timelapse, tools, traffic, transportation, turing, video, vineyard, wilderness, willamette, wine
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Links for the week of August 20th, 2009
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Tagged advocacy, agriculture, apple, astroturf, backup, backups, bicycle, cars, cities, climate, criticalmass, design, economics, energy, flickr, food, framing, freegan, gardening, green, hiphop, information, infrastructure, internet, law, mac, oil, organic, osx, parking, pasadena, petroleum, philosophy, photos, planning, policy, portland, propaganda, publishing, python, research, science, society, sustainability, technology, timemachine, tools, transportation, travel, urban, volunteer, waste, wwoof, youtube
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For Love of Information
I’m a little bit of an information pack rat. I started blogging before there were blogs, from UGCS. It seemed mildly neurotic and self involved and exhibitionist at the time. I mostly did it for my mom as a way … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, history, information, intelligence, personal, photos, technology, time
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Links for the week of Aug 5th
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Tagged activism, adobe, anarchism, art, blog, catholicism, design, dumpster, economics, flickr, food, freegan, geocoding, gps, homeless, lightroom, losangeles, photos, politics, programming, python, religion, software, technology, tools
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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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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 Sat, Feb 7th, 2009 through Tue, Feb 10th, 2009
These are my links for Sat, Feb 7th, 2009 through Tue, Feb 10th, 2009:
- Thefts puncture Paris bike scheme – More of Paris' Velib bicycles are being stolen or vandalized than expected. Not sure what their expectations were, but it is pretty annoying for basically every bike in the network to have been either stolen or damaged in only 18 months. The vandalism is probably impossible to stop (since it can be carried out while the bikes are locked in their stands) but the theft should be preventable with secure stands, and aggressive enforcement of responsibility for a bike while you've got it checked out (i.e. if the bike doesn't come back, your credit card is immediately charged for the total value of the bike, or possibly even more). I also can't help but wonder if the same functionality could be implemented with much, much cheaper bikes, especially in a city as flat as Paris. Singlespeeds with fenders and a basket, maybe 100 Euros each? With an RFID tag embedded – and put all the smarts in the racks. (tagged: bicycle bike cycling transportation paris velib )
- Google Power to the People – Google developing tools to allow you to disentangle your own energy use, when the datastreams from smart meters come on line. Making this information easy to comprehend, pricing electricity to displace demand from the peak times, and allowing the largest energy users to schedule their use in an automated way could (without even changing anything physically) have a large impact on the amount of power generating capacity we (don't) need. (tagged: energy google sustainability green open data transparency )
- WattzOn and Wesabe Join Forces – This is the post that made me wish the Elevations Credit Union was more internet savvy. I want to be able to apply all these big-brotherly tools to myself! (tagged: open data transparency energy wesabe wattzon money finance )
- Numbrary – A library for numbers – mass quantities of publicly available data, mostly (entirely?) from the US Government. In a hopefully usable and searchable form. Many automatically generated charts and tables. (tagged: data transparency government statistics open )
- Mayapedal – People building useful human-powered bicimaquinas, in Guatemala, where human labor is still a common prime mover: washing machines, coffee de-pulpers, corn de-grainers, grain mills, blenders, concrete microvibrators, etc. One kind of appropriate technology. There's also some YouTube videos on them, e.g.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrqbtUKpSjo (tagged: bicycle guatemala appropriate technology human power energy )
- Humanity In Motion – An incredible montage of what bicycles can be: safe, enjoyable, cheap, convenient, everyday transportation for young people and for old, for families, in a city largely unpolluted by the exhaust and noise of cars. (tagged: bicycle transportation amsterdam netherlands photos )
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