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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.
- Canadian Oil Sands Flyover
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- Incredible photo essay on the Athabasca Tar Sands operations: businessinsider.com/canadian-oil-s… 5 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 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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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David Montgomery
David Montgomery‘s Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations reminded me a lot of When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce, except that instead of looking at how we have allocated our water resources globally, it focuses on the way humanity … Continue reading
Links for the week of March 4th, 2010
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Tagged afghanistan, biology, cities, earthship, ethics, evolution, genetics, genome, grand, internet, investing, jury, law, money, neanderthal, planning, propaganda, sandiego, science, society, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, technology, urban, water
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Links for the week of February 5th, 2010
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Tagged business, california, cars, china, cities, design, economics, energy, free, gender, green, law, parking, passivhaus, photos, planning, sb518, society, sustainability, transportation, vancouver, women, work
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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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Does this look Freegan to you?
Why are labels so attractive? One word shortcuts for frugal thinkers. Am I a freegan? What would that mean exactly? Who curates the definitions of our cultural -isms? Reading through the Wikipedia article on Freeganism (which is as close to … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, dumpster diving, economics, food, freegan, garbage, information, landfill, material, money, personal, public, society, sustainability, trash, waste
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A Dumpster Diving Tally
We went dumpster diving by bicycle again and came home with $200 worth of Trader Joe’s fare. I’ve itemized the food we got, with actual or estimated costs below.
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Tagged agriculture, consumerism, food, freegan, public, society, sustainability, trader joe's, waste
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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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