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8.12.2012

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    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:32 PM PDT
    Rep. Joe Walsh Applauds Ending Oil ... ThinkProgress - ‎4 hours ago‎ “Get rid of subsidies for the big oil companies if you want. Do it,” Walsh declared to loud applause, calling the move “important”: WALSH: You can do anything you want to.
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:28 PM PDT
    New battery technology means more power for electric cars Herald Sun - ‎8 hours ago‎ A SMALL battery company backed by General Motors is working on breakthrough technology that could power an electric car more than 300km on a single charge in the next two-to-four years, GM's CEO says. GM may have breakthrough in electric battery technologyBend Bulletin GM's Akerson promises 200
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:18 PM PDT
    US should change biofuel policy to avoid food crisis: UN Reuters - ‎6 hours ago‎ ROME (Reuters) - The U.N.'s food agency stepped up the pressure on the United States on Friday to change its biofuel policies because of the danger of a world food crisis, arguing the importance of growing crops for food over their use for fuel.
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:13 PM PDT
    Greentech Media (blog) Report: German Utilities Don't Want to Spend on Smart Grid Greentech Media (blog) - ‎9 hours ago‎ Consulting firm Steria Mummert polled 100 German utility executives and found that only half of them wanted to spend money on smart grid between now and 2014. That's compared to three-quarters who planned to spend on renewable energy, and 30 ...
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:10 PM PDT
    USDA Backs Smart Grid Efforts In Rural America Renew Grid - ‎6 hours ago‎ To further improvements to electric lines and transmission and reduce peak electric loads by deploying smart gridtechnologies, the U.S. USDA provides funds for electric projects in Iowa, 17 other statesDesMoinesRegister.com (blog) US Agriculture Department to fund rural smart grid projectsEcoSeed
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:06 PM PDT
    Environment News Service Largest UK Firms Must Disclose CO2 Emissions Environment News Service - ‎2 hours ago‎ LONDON, UK, August 10, 2012 (ENS) - More than 1100 public companies listed on the London Stock Exchange will have to report their greenhouse gas emissions from next April under plans announced at the Rio+20 Summit that are now moving forward.
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 04:04 PM PDT
    Toronto Star Way more pros than cons to energy efficiency Toronto Star - ‎6 hours ago‎ But there are some who question whether energy efficiency is everything it's touted to be. Specifically, they point to the idea that there is a large rebound effect to increased energy efficiency. The concept here is that when we use products that ...
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT
    Extinction of U.S. fish species examined UPI.com - ‎39 minutes ago‎ WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- North American freshwater fishes are going extinct at an alarming rate compared with other species, a U.S.
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT
    Pipeline protests spur companies to consider shipping oilsands crude by rail Montreal Gazette - ‎3 hours ago‎ OTTAWA - As battles rage over the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines, governments and energy companies are eyeing other options for transporting oilsands crude to foreign markets, including by rail, a pipeline through the Northwest Territories ... Alberta premier
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:38 PM PDT
    http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/scottish-headlines/100-renewable-energy-attainable-1-2461485
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:31 PM PDT
    if you have a natural-gas engine, methane is going to be a major part of that tailpipe http://eponline.com/articles/2012/08/10/cheaper-and-cleaner-catalyst-for-burning-methane.aspx
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:17 PM PDT
    http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2012/08/10/natural-gas-a-briefing-paper-for-candidates/
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:08 PM PDT
    Ice sheets took 'thousands of years to grow' Independent Online - ‎14 hours ago‎ The report, examining the Earth's orbit around the sun in a 100000-year cycle of cold and warmth, showed that ice sheets took thousands of years to grow at the start of Ice Ages and surprisingly lagged a quicker cooling of the oceans. That delay, and ...
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:26 PM PDT
    Drought Cited as US Predicts Corn Yield at 17-Year Low New York Times - ‎2 minutes ago‎ WASHINGTON - With the worst drought in a half century decimating crops in the United States, the government on Friday slashed its estimate of the annual corn yield by about 17 percent in the last month to the lowest level since 1995. US drought threatens food price surgeFinancial Times Corn
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:19 PM PDT
    World's Largest Butterfly Threatened by Shrinking Habitat and Deforestation Scientific American (blog) - ‎6 hours ago‎ But the Queen Alexandra's butterfly, named after the wife of King Edward VII of England, faces an ever-shrinking habitat due to deforestation in its only home, the rainforests of PNG, and conservationists fear that the species may soon run out of room ...
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:16 PM PDT
    Telegraph.co.uk Child hunger: the biggest obstacle to global development Telegraph.co.uk - ‎2 hours ago‎ As a global leader on the issue, Unicef has long since recognised the huge barrier child undernutrition represents to international development. Hunger: Irish and experts focus on children, research and small farmersWorld and Media See realtime coverage »
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT
    Where the world's running out of water, in one map Washington Post (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎ And with the global population soaring past 7 billion, this is one of the biggest questions the world is now facing. Can better conservation practices and new technology enable farmers to keep feeding the planet without depleting its most important ...
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT
    Proposal For Floating Offshore Wind ... North American Windpower - ‎4 hours ago‎ The U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has taken the next step in the assessment of a proposed project to demonstrate floating offshore wind technology on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the coast of ... Feds seek competitors to Statoil for Maine
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT
    Rotating Solar Thermal Collector Targets Cheap Renewable Energy Revmodo - ‎1 hour ago‎ Rather than a futuristic gun designed to destroy the moon, the structure is actually a solar thermal collector–a 10 foot by 10 foot device designed to follow the sun across the sky–and could put us on the fast track to cheaper solar energy. Unbeknownst ... New Solar Power Design Inspired by
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:49 AM PDT
    A Handy Guide to Global Warming Diseases The Atlantic Cities (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎ Increased rainfall, warmer temperatures, dying reefs and hotter oceans are handing diseases that afflict humans - algal, fungal, mosquito-borne, tick-borne - a chance to spread, meaning diseases previously unheard in the U.S.
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:47 AM PDT
    Experts link climate change to animal products consumption Inquirer.net - ‎5 hours ago‎ Better believe it, environment experts claim the weather we have today is partly the result of our appetites. Although the causes of climate change is no doubt multifaceted, livestock propagation to meet the world's incessant appetite for animal ...
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:45 AM PDT
    On Floods, China Blames Climate Change Forbes - ‎4 hours ago‎ A recent bout with rain induced flooding from two typhoons has the Chinese government warning that climate change will undoubtedly bring more natural disasters. Climate change will bring more heavy rains in ChinaJakarta Post As Severe Storms Overwhelm China's Infrastructure, Experts Warn That Climate ...ThinkProgress
    Posted: 10 Aug 2012 10:04 AM PDT
    Day 2 and I feel like day 60.  Wow.  Day 2 has never felt like this. Is it the blood tests that say anemia, the diagnosis, or is it the diagnosis, the anemia hitting me.  My backpack that was 35-45 libs now feels 80.  My 2lb each Secret Service boots now feel 8lb each. There is likely hospital time ahead for the Death Fast and this month was the month I had to renew my Medicade so today has

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