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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. 2 weeks 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. 4 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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Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?
In Genoa, Italy a radioactive cargo container appeared. Nobody knew where it had come from, or where it was going, or what was in it. It took a year to get rid of it. It’s as if a pixel got … Continue reading
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Tagged cargo, container, nuclear, radiation, shipping, technology, terrorism
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Hackable Cars
A study of the security (or lack thereof) inherent in today’s highly computerized vehicles. Not much better than voting machines overall. We’re connecting dangerous things to our networks much faster than we’re learning how to keep them from blowing up. … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, hacking, sabotage, security, technology, terrorism, transportation
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Links for the week of December 3rd, 2010
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Tagged activism, apocalypse, architecture, assange, assassination, carbon, cars, climate, coal, design, energy, government, greenpeace, internet, iran, israel, law, lifecycle, nuclear, passivhaus, politics, privacy, rail, research, science, stuxnet, sustainability, technology, terrorism, transparency, transportation, travel, 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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Nils Gilman and Deviant Globalization: The Graying of the Markets
We watched a Long Now talk last night by Nils Gilman, entitled Deviant Globalization. I first ran across Gilman in a shorter talk from a couple of years ago about the global illicit economy — black markets. He describes deviant … Continue reading
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Tagged corporations, economics, finance, globalization, market, money, politics, public, reviews, stuff, talks, terrorism
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Links for the week of February 21st, 2010
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Tagged bank, bernanke, billgates, breeder, climate, corporations, debt, directaction, economics, economy, energy, espionage, law, microsoft, money, nuclear, oil, politics, reactor, realestate, satire, school, science, sex, surveillance, sustainability, technology, terrorism, waste
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Links for the week of November 6th, 2009
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Tagged afghanistan, art, bicycle, boulder, canyon, cars, christianity, drugs, economics, education, government, halloween, hirise, internet, islam, law, losangeles, mandeville, mars, mro, nasa, naturalism, nudity, pakistan, photos, policy, politics, religion, sanfrancisco, science, sex, space, technology, telcos, terrorism, torture, transportation, uk, usa, veritas, war, women
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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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Shared Links for Jun 12th
Your Backyard Farmer – A couple of women in Portland who will do your organic vegetable gardening for you! They visit dozens of personal gardens all over Portland every day to tend their micro-fields, and can help teach you how … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, business, china, cities, climate, dictionary, education, energy, food, gardening, gaza, green, israel, language, obama, palestine, policy, politics, sustainability, technology, terrorism, transportation, war, web2.0, westbank
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