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Samer al-Barq is on his 116th day of renewed hunger strike, Hassan Safadi has been on renewed hunger strike for 86 days and Ayman Sharawna has refused food for 76 days.
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Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM |
Posted: 13 Sep 2012 06:40 PM PDT
U.S. Energy Agency Projects A 2.8 Percent Increase In 2013
Carbon Emissions ...
ThinkProgress - 9 hours ago
According to the agency's latest short-term outlook, CO2 emissions in
the power sector are set to rise by 2.8 percent in 2013 after declining
by 2.3 percent in 2011 and 2.4 percent in 2012.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2012 05:57 PM PDT
Deep-Sea Methane, Wind that Could Power World?
National Geographic - 5 hours ago
Deep-Sea Methane,
Wind that Could Power World? Posted by Tim Profeta of Nicholas
Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University on
September 13, 2012.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:59 PM PDT
Northeast, two other US fishing areas declared disasters
Chicago Tribune - 1 hour ago
BOSTON
(Reuters) - The US Commerce Department on Thursday declared a national
fishery disaster for the northeast United States as a result of severely
low stocks of key groundfish species such as cod and flounder.
Feds declare fishery disaster in New EnglandKSRO
Federal Government Issues
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Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:39 PM PDT
$3.5B Okla. wind energy power line wins approval
KFOX El Paso - 1 hour ago
A project that would develop wind
farms and build a $3.5 billion transmission line from far western
Oklahoma into Tennessee has cleared a regulatory hurdle that allows a
company to being lining up customers.
Federal energy panel OKs wind power line project in OklahomaTulsa World
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Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:17 PM PDT
Make installing solar panels cheap, win millions
NBCNews.com
(blog) - 25 minutes ago
The U.S. Department of Energy has put $10 million up for grabs for
businesses that can lower the costs of installing solar panels on a
roof. The prize money is part of the agency's SunShot Initiative which
aims to make solar energy competitive with ...
DOE launches SunShot solar energy development
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:02 PM PDT
Typical Wind Farm Supports Nearly 1100 Jobs; Adds Millions ...Sacramento Bee
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:01 PM PDT
Academy Finds Mixed Climate Impacts on Himalayan Glaciers, Water Supplies
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/academy-finds-mixed-climate-impacts-on-himalayan-glaciers-water-supplies/
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:47 AM PDT
Bayer, Nestle Lead Carbon Effort as Climate Risk Grows
Businessweek - 2 hours ago
... states in the northeast U.S.. “It is vital that we internalize the
costs of future environmental damage into today's decisions by putting
an effective price on carbon,” Carbon Disclosure Project Chief Executive
Officer Paul Simpson said in the ...
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 07:18 AM PDT
The changing climate and a much-needed carbon tax
Globe and Mail - 18 hours ago
“With the carbon tax there are virtually no serious trade-offs. Our
analysis shows the overall economy improves, taxes are lower and
pollution emissions are reduced,” said John M. Reilly, co-director of
MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of ...
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 07:13 AM PDT
Permafrost thaw will speed up global warming, study says
CBC.ca - 20 hours ago
Permafrost soils in Canada's Arctic are melting at a rate that will
significantly speed up global warming, according to new research from
the University of Victoria.
University of Victoria study says melting permafrost may speed up global
warmingVictoria Times Colonist
Repub. Meteorologist to Romney
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:51 AM PDT
Forget Installing Solar Panels, Make Roofs Out Of Solar Panels Instead
Co.Exist - 22 minutes ago
Forget Installing Solar Panels, Make Roofs Out Of Solar Panels
Instead. Solar shingles--roofing material that also generates
power--could provide a huge amount of electricity if installed widely,
and just got a lot easier to make.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:45 AM PDT
Chain Stores Said to Lead Firms in Use of Sun Power
New York Times - 9 hours ago
Large chain stores, more than any other type of business, rely on
rooftop solar power to help meet their energy needs, according to a
report to be released Wednesday by the Solar Energy Industries
Association and the Vote Solar Initiative, an advocacy ...
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:41 AM PDT
Wind energy could surpass global power demand – with huge hurdles
Installing enough wind turbines to power the world may not be practical or even feasible, says author of new report
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/sep/12/wind-energy-power-demand
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:24 AM PDT
Study: Food crisis imminent within next decade if no change to climate
policy
Phys.Org - 46 minutes ago
The study was based on climate change projections from 12 leading
climate modelling centres around the world and finds clear signals of
climate change emerging within the next 10 years. Commenting on the
results of the analysis Dr Lawrence Jackson, .
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:01 PM PDT
Climate group sees progress in US board rooms
Chicago Tribune - 39 minutes ago
The
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) said its 2012 survey showed a growing
number of top-tier executives and company boards of the 500 top publicly
traded U.S.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:42 AM PDT
GOP would end subsidies for Amtrak
Philadelphia Inquirer - 8 hours ago
The platform Republicans adopted at their convention included a call for
full privatization and an end to subsidies for the nation's passenger
rail operator, which gobbled up almost $1.5 billion in federal funds
last year.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:34 AM PDT
New “Frankenstein” Switchgrass is Good News for the Navy, Too
CleanTechnica - 5 hours ago
Despite aggressive pushback from anti-biofuel leadership in Congress, it
looks like the U.S. Navy is well on the way to getting
its biofuel after all. A new biofuel research project pairing the U.S.
Department of Agriculture with the University of ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:29 AM PDT
Agriculture.com
See realtime coverage
EU to limit use of crop-based biofuels - draft law
Reuters - 22 hours ago
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will impose a limit on the use
of crop-based biofuelsover fears they are less climate-friendly than
initially thought and compete with food production, draft EU legislation
seen by Reuters showed.
EU food crop-based
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:06 AM PDT
Report names the world's 100 most endangered species
CNN - 9 hours ago
"This has made it increasingly difficult for conservationists to protect
the most threatened species on the planet. We have a important moral
and ethical decision to make: Do these species have a right to survive
or do we have a right to drive them to ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:58 AM PDT
Too Pessimistic about Renewable Energy
Energy Collective - 52 minutes ago
Recently, Michael Noble of Fresh Energy offered a terrific post out
about how renewable energy growth has far outpaced what everyone thought
possible over the past decade or so.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:54 AM PDT
What's Behind the US Solar Boom?
Technology Review (blog) - 52 minutes ago
The Solar Energy Industry Association yesterday reported that 742
megawatts of solar power were installed last quarter and that 3,200
megawatts of solar are expected to be installed this year.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:46 AM PDT
ThinkProgress
As Glaciers Melt In The European Alps, A Famed Austrian Peak Is Nearly
Ice-Free
ThinkProgress - 19 hours ago
In yet another sign of how quickly global warming is eating away at
glaciers in the European Alps, the Austrian Alpine Club is reporting
that the summit cross high on the 3,660-meter Grossvenediger in Austria
came close to toppling off its podium this
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:45 AM PDT
A bleak future for the world's glaciers
Deutsche Welle - 1 hour ago
Swiss glaciologist Samuel Nussbaumer from the World Glacier Monitoring
Service (WGMS) in Zurich analyzes the development of glaciers around the
world. Nussbaumer told Deutsche Welle the future of glaciers is
seriously under threat. DW: Mr Nussbaumer ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:38 AM PDT
President of Royal Dutch Shell Canadian division urges carbon price
Globe and Mail - 40 minutes ago
A senior oil executive is urging federal and provincial governments to
put a significant price on carbon dioxide to encourage the industry to
reduce emissions even as it increases production and accesses new and
growing markets.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:47 AM PDT
Energy Saving Nano-Carbon Light Bulbs Could Outshine CFLs and LEDs
Inventorspot - 10 hours ago
A Taiwan university research team has been awarded a patent on energy
efficient nano-carbon light bulbs. Unlike popular CFL bulbs and LED
lights, the new nano-carbon light bulbs and tubes use a mercury-free
manufacturing process and can be easily
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:30 AM PDT
Melting permafrost may speed up warming: study
Victoria Times Colonist - 4 hours ago
MacDougall
said the UVic analysis, which used a sophisticated computerized Earth
System Climate Model, showed the international aim of limiting global
warming to less than two degrees - confirmed in the 2009 Copenhagen
Accord - is becoming less and ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:09 AM PDT
Arizona PV Power Plant Now World's Biggest
EarthTechling - 1 hour ago
This announcement yesterday came just as the Solar Energy
Industries Association was putting out word that utility-scale PV
development had boomed in the second quarter, accounting for a record
447 MW of the 742 MW of PV installed nationwide in the ...
First Solar power plant hits 250 megawatt milestoneLos
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:03 AM PDT
Waxman, Rush Call For Hearing on Climate Change and Energy Production
KCET (blog) - 11 hours ago
In response to a troubling Washington Post article on how climate change
might impede our ability to generate electrical power, Los Angeles
Representative Henry Waxman and Representative Bobby Rush of Illinois
are calling for Congressional hearings on ...
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Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT
"Unprecedented Territory": 2012 the Hottest Year Recorded in the US So Far
Treehugger - 14 hours ago
Mild winter, hot spring, devastating summer; this is climate change
in Uncle Samland. The US National Climatic Data Center has published
its new data, and it shows that the first eight months of the year have
been hotter than any other recorded across ...
In US, 2012 So Far Is
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:39 PM PDT
Sea Shepherd Partners with Nation...
Beach Caro...
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:28 AM PDT
Climate Scientists Face Organized Harassment in U.S.
Bloomberg - 46 minutes ago
While outspoken scientists of human-caused climate change
in the United States endure torrents of freedom of information
requests, hate mail and even death threats from skeptics, their
counterparts abroad have been free to do their work without fear.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:18 AM PDT
Green jobs: Turns out red and swing states are showing the most growth
Written by
Katie Fehrenbacher
in 812 Google+ circles
GigaOM - 1 hour ago
While negativity about green jobs, and the zombie that is Solyndra, are
being used as political fodder for the election year, it turns out that
traditionally Republican and swing states are actually showing some of
the most growth
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:08 AM PDT
China to subsidize energy-saving desktops, air conditioners
Global Times - 10 hours ago
The country will earmark 14 billion yuan (2.22 billion US dollars)
in subsidies to encourage the purchases of six types of energy-saving
products, including desktop computers, air-conditioners, fans, water
pumps, compressors and transformers.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:05 AM PDT
ARPA-E and the Future of Power
The Atlantic - 26 minutes ago
ARPA-E is financing projects to test better and cheaper batteries, more
efficient air conditioners, new carbon capture and
sequestration technologies, alternatives to rare-earth materials, and so
on. Maybe electrofuels that bypass photosynthesis will ...
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:07 AM PDT
Environmental Leader
E2 Report: Biofuel Industry Will Produce up to 2.6bn Gallons by 2015
Environmental Leader - 1 hour ago
Biofuel production capacity has increased from 437 million gallons in
2011 to more than 685 million gallons in 2012, according to a new report
from Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2).
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:02 AM PDT
The race to make an electric car that charges as quickly as a petrol one
The Guardian - 1 hour ago
When it comes to electric vehicles, topping up the "tank" does indeed
take a long time, one of the primary barriers to more widespread
adoption of EVs
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:55 AM PDT
The race to make an electric car that charges as quickly as a petrol one
The Guardian - 1 hour ago
When it comes to electric vehicles, topping up the "tank" does indeed
take a long time, one of the primary barriers to more widespread
adoption of EVs.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:29 AM PDT
New research shows Endangered Species Act is failing
Examiner.com - 1 hour ago
Goble contends that while “The ESA was intended to interact with state
and local regulations to prevent extinction” the reality is that “these
regulations are often insufficient to maintain a species' population,
and the ESA itself may hinder the ...
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:31 AM PDT
Sudan Inflation Accelerated to 42.1% in August on Food Cost
Businessweek - 3 hours ago
Prices of food and drinks, the biggest component in the consumer price
index, rose 3.9 percent in the month as the cost of meat, beans and
vegetables increased as much as 11.8 percent, the Khartoum-based agency
said today in an e-mailed statement.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:22 AM PDT
Global Carbon Trading Takes a Big Step Forward
Triple Pundit - 4 hours ago
It
has often been pointed out that our modern world could quickly become
cleaner, safer, and more sustainable if only externalities, such as air
pollution or carbon emissions, were internalized, so that they could be
captured and factored into the ...
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:04 AM PDT
LEDs Surging Ahead in Energy Efficiency
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT
Enough wind to power global energy demand
ScienceBlog.com (blog) - 13 minutes ago
New
research from Carnegie's Ken Caldeira examines the limits of the amount
of power that could be harvested from winds, as well as the effects
high-altitude wind power could have on the climate as a whole. Their work is published September 9 by Nature ...
Wind power can meet global energy
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:50 AM PDT
China pushes wind power, but no quick payoff for producers
Reuters - 4 hours ago
HONG
KONG (Reuters) - China will order its dominant electricity distributors
to source up to 15 percent of their power from renewable energy
including wind, but slow compliance means it may be years before the
country's struggling wind power developers ...
Chinese utilities ordered to buy up to
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:38 AM PDT
German solar panels reaching grid parity
Energy Live News
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New York Daily News (blog) - 2 hours ago |
1 | No Neocon War advisers (Romney's got em all) |
2 | Pr. Obama on our side |
3 | Inclusiveness |
4 | Inclusive of more than the 1% |
5 | Party of all races, religions, socio-economics |
6 | Hand-up party |
7 | Education |
8 | Party of "And" not "Or" |
9 | Foreign policy of Diplomacy and Military |
10 | War budget cuts |
11 | Green energy |
12 | EPA / Regulation |
13 | Ending Oil Subsidies |
14 | Experience domestic and foreign |
15 | Compassion for immigrants |
16 | Reducing war engagements |
17 | Health care |
18 | Medicare |
19 | Women's issues, rights |
20 | Pr. Stands for something - not flip flops |
21 | Support of our military |
22 | Michelle |
23 | Not Gordon Gecko |
24 | Not beholden to Tea Party |
25 | Committed to compromise |
26 | More policy options than tax cuts and war |
27 | Democratic Team |
28 | Better off than 4 years ago |
29 | Dems 2x better at jobs creation |
30 | International Relations |
31 | National Security |
32 | Believes in Science |
33 | Believes in Education |
34 | Likelihood of expanding middle class jobs |
35 | Competence of execution - in all areas |
36 | Leadership of empowerment |
37 | Belief in the American People |
38 | Leadership vs Domineering |
39 | Against Citizens United |
40 | Financial regulation |
41 | Opposed by Wall Street, Chamber of Commerce (corps, oil, Kochs) |
42 | Ryan's Randian Zealotry (Ayn) |
43 | Romney's zeal to drill baby drill |
44 | Romney's zeal to reduce EPA |
45 | Pr. Obama's Christ-likeness |
46 | Negotiations with Iran |
47 | Social Security |
48 | LGBGT Rights |
49 | Findin a way despite total citizenship failure - Renewable Energy Inv… |
50 | Demand for Citizenship by all |
Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:01 PM PDT
"'Close' counts only in horseshoes and hand-grenades." Anonymous
Our next 200 billion kids don't get another chance at life.
Cap
and Trade, too little, too late, will be the final nail in their
coffin. NOTHING LESS than $240/ton by 2022, announced 2012, will save
them, using the George Schultz / Inglis revenue neutral tax shifting
from income to carbon, or the right / left sanctioned Fee
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Posted: 08 Sep 2012 04:42 PM PDT
Entrepreneur Offers Alternatives to the High Cost of Solar Energy
Entrepreneur - 29 minutes ago
While few homeowners would object to lower utility bills, many have
eschewed residential solar power systems because of the upfront
costs--which can be equal to the price of a new car.
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Posted: 08 Sep 2012 04:38 PM PDT
In swing states climate change considered critical election issue
Alaska Dispatch - 1 hour ago
Climate change,
a signature issue for President Obama, has thus far been absent on the
campaign trail. Here's why you can expect it to soon dominate the
debate.
Climate change: why it could be a hot topic on the campaign trailChristian Science Monitor
Obama Counterpunches on Climate
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