Coal
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World Bank Gives South Africa Lumps of Coal
Peak Oil News (3) &bull Yesterday
In case you didn't catch it, the World Bank's top official for Africa just thumbed her nose at the dozens of renewable energy companies lining up to build clean energy in Africa's dirtiest economy. Maybe Ms. Ezekwesili missed the news… Full Story »
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National Call-In Day to Stop Mountaintop Removal
WattHead &bull Mar 9, 2010
I've been familiar with mountaintop removal (the practice of blasting the tops off mountains and dumping them in streams to get at coal seams maybe a foot thick) for years now. But this week it became personal. This may be… Full Story »
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Dimensions of Sustainability: Architecture, Form, Technology, Environment and Culture
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The Real Climategate
Climate Change News Digest &bull Mar 8, 2010Why did America's leading environmental groups jet to Copenhagen and lobby for policies that will lead to the faster death of the rainforests--and runaway global warming? Why are their lobbyists on Capitol Hill dismissing the only real solutions to climate… Full Story »
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The Newest Hybrid Model
Peak Oil News (3) &bull Mar 8, 2010
But that is not its real novelty. The solar array is being grafted onto the back of the nations largest fossil-fuel power plant, fired by natural gas. It is an experiment in whether conventional power generation can be married with… Full Story »
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Disposal of spilled coal ash a long, winding trip
Peak Oil News (3) &bull Mar 6, 2010
More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in U.S. history, the problem is seeping into several other states. It began Dec. 22, 2008, when a retaining pond… Full Story »
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Daniel R. Headrick - Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present
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Mounting Damages from Coal Ash Waste
After Gutenberg &bull Mar 5, 2010
Gosh, but our Congress critters have been busy of late, what with resolutions of disapproval that the EPA would consider CO2 a pollutant. And, last month "six members of the Illinois Congressional delegation, led by Democrat Jerry Costello and Republican… Full Story »
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EPA Drastically Underestimates Coal Waste Pollution's Threat to Human and Environmental Health
Climate Change News Digest &bull Mar 5, 2010The EPA's tally of coal ash contamination locations last year did not include an additional 31 sites that should have been included in the totals, a new study contends. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has severely underreported the severity of… Full Story »
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100 Percent of Fish in U.S. Streams Found Contaminated with Mercury
Organic Consumers Association &bull Mar 4, 2010
In a new study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), every single fish tested from 291 freshwater streams across the United States was found to be contaminated with mercury. It is especially damaging to the developing nervous systems of… Full Story »
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Green Campus Initiative at the University of Chicago: When Lester ...
Green Campus Initiative at the University of Chicago &bull Feb 20, 2010Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute came to our school on November 17th and gave us a lecture/talk/presentation (what exactly do you call these events?). The room was fairly packed. Somebody said that this was going to be on C-SPAN or something. There were several large, professional looking video cameras and operators. Thanks to the Program on the Global Environment for putting on the event! And… Full Story »
BRADEN ALLENBY - Reconstructing Earth: Technology And Environment In The Age Of Humans
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The difference between on-grid wind farms and off-grid wind farms ...
My Efficient Planet &bull Feb 20, 2010With the growing need to discover and explore renewable and environmentally-friendly sources of energy, wind farms are an option many are opting for. With the many problems surrounding energy prices and usage of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, wind farms are now being developed in various parts of the world. With wind being a clean and inexhaustible… Full Story »
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Aloha Analytics: A New Electric Utility Paradigm
Aloha Analytics &bull Feb 20, 2010Focus on realistic energy and resource issues, local to global. Have an eye in this area for spotting trends and zeroing in on controlling, good information. Electric utilities operate now much as they did a century agobut the environment in which they operate is changing dramatically. Now more than ever before, utilities whose regulators reward them in the traditional way for selling more electricity risk losing revenue as customers use their electricity more efficiently. Climate change and energy security concerns, coupled with advances in disruptive technologies, may make conventional power-generating assets uncompetitive to build or even to run. Potential competitors… Full Story »
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Aerosol Cans = Eco Friendly? Yes CLEAN+GREEN
CLEAN+GREEN &bull Feb 20, 2010For some reason, people think that aerosol cans are bad for the environment. Simon and I have been asked if aerosol cans are safe for the environment a thousand times so I thought it was about time that we just sat down and wrote… Full Story »
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Renewable Energy - Lesson 2
Global Energy Wars &bull Feb 20, 2010People have been aware that the suns energy can be harnessed to power various devices and machines for years, but it is not until recently that the technology and the motivation has pushed people to seriously consider solar energy as a viable power source. With the current state of the economy and with the growing move toward a more environmentally responsible lifestyle, many people… Full Story »
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Reforestation in Brazil's Atlantic Forest Could Help Biodiversity ...
GREENDUMP &bull Feb 20, 2010A lush valley in the Atlantic Forest. Photo by de Paula FJ vie Flickr. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section. Tags: animals, biodiversity, Birds, brazil, carbon sequestration, deforestation, ecology, endangered species,… Full Story »
Scott Drake - The Third Skin: Architecture, Technology & Environment
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Red-Green alliance?
Chris White Online &bull Feb 20, 2010Chris is a labour law researcher, specialising in China and the right to strike. He spent 27 years in the SA union movement. Chris now lives in Canberra. Red, Green and In-between: Reviewing Labour and the Environment in Historical Context?. Organised by the Brisbane Labour History conference, with The Centre for Work, Organisation and Well-being and The Department of Employment Relations, Griffith University. This one-day dialogue raised the challenges on alliance building with union activists, environmentalists and left political lobbying and action groups, a good mix of socialist left and green activists. This was about Red Green alliance-building post-Copenhagen, against… Full Story »
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Kentucky environmental attorney Sanders says DuPont has string of ...
Kentucky Environmental Matters &bull Feb 20, 2010Kentucky environmental attorney Sanders says DuPont has string of unexplained air releases of toxic chemicals at Belle, West Virginia chemical manufacturing complex, including one fatality. Kentucky environmental attorney Sanders says DuPont has string of unexplained air releases of toxic chemicals… Full Story »
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US House committee probes natgas drilling practice
Ayesha Rascoe &bull Feb 20, 2010WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) U.S. lawmakers on Thursday announced an investigation of a drilling method that has allowed companies to tap abundant supplies of natural gas in shale beds but has also generated complaints about polluted drinking water. The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee said it was investigating the impact of the… Full Story »
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From the Terrace Streaming
reese4802119 &bull Feb 20, 2010A understanding FROM THE TERRACE is what Paul Newmans character David Alfred Eaton has of his future wife Mary (JoAnne Woodward) . The cover play was based on a best-selling current of the same name by John OHara. Given it was released in the 1950s when sex on the hide was verboten and not grand more explicit in novels (ban a book in Boston), one must devour the work it took for Newman and Woodward to give these performances. Like many other teenagers of my generation, I was in… Full Story »
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From the Terrace Movie Streaming
nataly2078761 &bull Feb 20, 2010A opinion FROM THE TERRACE is what Paul Newmans character David Alfred Eaton has of his future wife Mary (JoAnne Woodward) . The conceal play was based on a best-selling new of the same name by John OHara. Given it was released in the 1950s when sex on the hide was verboten and not powerful more explicit in novels (ban a book in Boston), one must savor the work it took for Newman and Woodward to give these performances. Like many other teenagers of my generation, I… Full Story »
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White House Calls for Emissions Studies for Federally Approved ...
Environmental Leader &bull Feb 20, 2010The emissions study would not necessarily affect the fate of the project, reports the Los Angeles Times, but officials could decide to call for emissions mitigation efforts at the project. For instance, the government may require more upfront costs, such… Full Story »
