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- PACE Lives!
The Federal Housing Finance Administration is taking public comments on Property Assessed Clean Energy financing programs, at the insistence of California's 9th Circuit court of appeals. Here's what I told them: Property Assessed Clean Energy financing programs, as have been initiated by many states and local governments, are a potentially transformative financing mechanism, enabling property owners to make good long term investments in energy efficiency and behind-the-meter renewable energy production. They address a market failure, in that buyers often do not appropriately integrate a property's energy costs into their price assessment. So long as the state and local PACE programs are - Climate Denial Instruction In Schools
Corporate interests are pushing a model bill in many states that would require schools to teach climate change denial. It sounds creepily reminiscent of the creationism/evolution mess from a few years ago. Except with the fossil fuel industry instead of the religious right behind it. Gah. - Vision Prize
Vision Prize is an expert poll on the nature of the climate risks we face, meant to demonstrate the degree of consensus (or the lack thereof) amongst those able to judge the evidence. It's put together by Carnegie Mellon University. Will be interesting to see what the results look like... - Open Climate Science Course
The University of Chicago has created an Open Courseware style Climate Science 101, with videos of the lectures and self-assessment materials online. It's aimed at non-science undergraduates. If you, or someone you know, want to get a little more in depth knowledge about climate science on their own time, it's a great resource. - Think Again: Drugs
A great roundup of the myths surrounding the Drug War, and the cogent arguments against continuing our ridiculous, harmful, and expensive policy of ideological prohibition.
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- Roughly 2/3 of all the humans who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today. 1 week ago
- What I learned about coal industry finances this week: http://t.co/UN1lXxRm 3 weeks ago
- In a room full of suits at NYU law. Everyone here wants to end the Reign of Old King Coal. Strangulation by purse strings. 3 weeks ago
- More thoughts on the dangers of giving in to a defeatist climate apocalypse narrative: http://t.co/Bwq276vQ from @AlexSteffen 1 month ago
- Authorizing US military to indefinitely detain citizens w/o trial would be unconstitutional, right? http://t.co/cRKXkpfb #tellmeimdreaming 2 months ago
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Tag Archives: police
Get My FBI File
Ever wonder if you’ve been watched by government spooks? You can use the tools at Get My FBI File to find out. Of course, that FOIA request will also probably get put in your file. Whoa… beware police state bureaucratic … Continue reading
The Militarization Of Campus Police
An essay about the militarization of campus police, in response to the pepper-spraying of peaceful protesters at UC Davis this week. William Gibson (@GreatDismal) reminisces: Glad I had opportunity to visit overtly fascist nations as a young man. Good to … Continue reading
Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision by Adam Harvey
Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision. As facial recognition becomes more popular as a means for police state identification, innovative makeup and hairstyle fashions can be deployed to foil the Orwellian algorithms. Talk about weird. Now we’re going to be dressing … Continue reading
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Multi-agency armed raid takes down raw milk and cheese producer
Apparently the agricultural industrial complex is willing to take down its competition with a hail of lead if necessary. A multi-agency SWAT team descended upon a raw milk and cheese buying club in SoCal, and is holding the proprietor without … Continue reading
Undercover anti-protest cop in UK goes native?
The Guardian is reporting that an undercover police officer who infiltrated the group of protesters that conspired to shut down the Ratcliffe on Soar coal fired power plant may have “gone native” after seven years with the group, taking part … Continue reading
Shared Links for Jun 25th – Jun 26th
You can also search or subscribe to my linkstream over at Delicious. James Hansen Arrested in Coal Country – And then there are those admirably pursuing the softer side of direct action. I have to imagine that Thoreau would also … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, censorship, china, cities, climate, coal, cohousing, design, energy, fish, google, green, life, nytimes, ocean, police, politics, privacy, propaganda, protest, science, society, sustainability
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Shared Links for Jun 25th
The ones that got away: science through cross-disciplinary eyes – The difference between what we consider "normal", and what was once the norm can be large. In this case, our societal amnesia is revealed in historical (and pre-historical) records of … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, authority, boulder, cities, cohousing, colorado, design, efficiency, energy, fish, green, history, housing, law, nyc, passivhaus, police, privacy, school, science, scotus, security, society, solar, sustainability, transparency
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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 Jun 7th
Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand – It's like his photography, but moving. Visually stunning. About 2/3 of the film is great, especially the almost mythologized story of our creation. Poetic, without being flowery or playing too fast and loose with the … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, architecture, art, bicycle, cities, climate, cooperation, design, earth, efficiency, energy, film, freeway, google, green, homeless, losangeles, maps, planning, police, society, sustainability, technology, transportation, tv, volunteer
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Shared Links for Apr 30th
Transparency means nothing without justice – Government transparency is necessary, but not sufficient. If police violence is recorded and publicized, and nobody cares, it doesn't matter. This is in come sense emblematic of the coup in western propaganda. You don't … Continue reading
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Tagged aids, biology, electricity, energy, engineering, fulbright, genetic, green, hiv, internet, israel, law, medicine, palestine, peace, plos, police, politics, propaganda, research, science, solar, statistics, sustainability, technology, transparency, twitter, war, water
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