1 days ago
Rod Begbie : Dumb eco-questions you were afraid to ask - "Can I put window envelopes in the paper recycling?", "If I'm stuck in a stop-start traffic jam, do I use more petrol turning my car on and off repeatedly or leaving it running?" and other questions I've often pondered. [via] #
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Linkorama : The Decline and Fall of Western Oil Production - Without extra investment to raise production, the natural annual rate of output decline is 9.1 per cent…The agency says even with investment, the annual rate of output decline is 6.4 per cent.
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : NYT's roundup of home electricity monitoring tech - isn't it against the utilities' best interest to provide tools to monitor and reduce usage?
veen : Prototype - Finding and Fixing a Home’s Power Hogs - NYTimes.com - “We have all the technology we want in our cellphones and plasma TVs and cars, but in electricity we’re still like our grandparents were."
joshua : Prototype - Finding and Fixing a Home’s Power Hogs - NYTimes.com
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deusx : Be Patient This Gets Amazing - EPA E-Mail | The Daily Show | Comedy Central - "The Bush administration gets the EPA to rewrite their policy on greenhouse gases by not opening the e-mail."
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Finally, a car that runs on water! - "Energy made from water," as Hirasawa says, "is not a dream story anymore We hope many people will join us in our challenge to promote the use of our WES, for the better future of the earth," he added in a statement.
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6 month ago
Rod Begbie : The Question of Global Warming - Outstanding and thoughtful article by Freeman Dyson. [via] #
philgyford : The Question of Global Warming - The New York Review of Books - I found this Freeman Dyson article interesting because it isn't written from one of the two usual polar extremes of the global warming arguments.
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6 month ago
veen : Discovery News: Powrtalk: Google Vision - A post on one of the Discover Channel blogs used my photo. Cool!
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : Calculate the carbon impact of your travels with Dopplr - Lovely bit of green-design from Dopplr, giving you glanceable insight into your travel's impact on the environment. #
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : We Can Solve It | Unlikely Alliance - I have to admit, this commercial made my jaw drop a little. Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson side by side, in a spot for climate change prevention. #
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8 month ago
adamrg : The Rise of Big Water - I can live without oil, but Big Water scares the crap out of me.
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8 month ago
jcgregorio : The Accidental Environmentalists - "over that time 92 percent of the organization’s costs goes to employees, 6 percent go to maintenance and operation, and a mere 2 percent are represented by the initial construction investment." Many of my previous employers never got thi
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philgyford : GeeKyoto2008 - 17 May 2008 - Just booked my ticket. Clever people getting together at the Conway Hall "to discuss the future and how we'll live in it."
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9 month ago
gleuschk : A Primeval Tide of Toxins - Los Angeles Times - the rise of slime
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10 month ago
gleuschk : Damn Interesting » The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth - this is my new very-favorite blog. an astounding story, still relevant, about power and corruption and lack of foresight.
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10 month ago
nelson : Fine Arrington rant - He'd be an awesome Andy Rooney
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12 month ago
WillPate : Nanosolar’s Breakthrough - Solar Now Cheaper than Coal
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12 month ago
jcgregorio : BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10 - BBC report with responses to the top 10 "climate skeptics" criticisms.
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13 month ago
jcgregorio : From Bagels to Coal Fires: An Unorthodox Economist Keeps Pushing for Change - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
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14 month ago
Linkorama : Wal-Mart: Measuring Just How Green - The retailing giant launched a potentially groundbreaking initiative to measure suppliers' energy use. How hard will it push for change?
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14 month ago
factoryjoe : The Green Grid: Home - The Green Grid is a consortium of information technology companies and professionals seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers around the globe. The organization is chartered to develop meaningful, platform-neutra
Linkorama : The Green Grid - The Green Grid is a consortium of information technology companies and professionals seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers around the globe. The organization is chartered to develop meaningful, platform-neutral standards, measu
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14 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Mammoth dung melting - Mammoth dung melting: no shit?
deusx : globeandmail.com: Mammoth dung melting - "When the organic matter left behind by mammoths and other wildlife is exposed to the air by the thawing permafrost, his theory runs, microbes that have been dormant for thousands of years spring back into action."
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14 month ago
jcgregorio : BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Bush aide says warming man-made - In related news, Bush administration admits water is wet.
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15 month ago
Richard Rutter : What On Earth Are We Doing? - Fantastic, angry, Ladybird book in Things magazine.
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