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Canada’s Oil Sands Conundrum

There is a new not totally unbiased review of the impact of the Athabasca Oil Sands on climate and Alberta’s economy. You can download it here. We all know that the technology is polluting and wastes too much natural gas but what bothers me is as stated in the report. As a consequence, the governments [...]

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Water

From Seed Magazine, In a small village in the center of Gujarat, India, a society grows from clean water and satellite maps. They have used technology to save and take good advantage of the monsoon rains. For more on water and nature, click here and then go to the third slide. Turn on your speakers [...]

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Pond scum the next fuel

Embedded video from CNN Video There was also a feature on this in Quirks and Quarks.

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Surprising, what a coral reef is really like without man’s influence

An Uneasy Eden—Photo Gallery—National Geographic Magazine

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Rethink What It Means to Be Green

They also don’t agree with carbon trading which I’ve always thought was stupid. Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green

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Asbestos warning on nanotubes

I figured something like this would come up. Carbon nanotubes, the poster child of the burgeoning nanotechnology industry, could trigger diseases similar to those caused by asbestos, a study suggests. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | ‘Asbestos warning’ on nanotubes

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Collection of posts

From boingboing: Flinstones car victory in court. True and hilarious. And on a less shallow note. The next world crisis will be water. Can aviation go green with algae-based biofuels? Also from boingboing. I’ve been thinking of this lately. It is the short term solution. Using arable land is stupid and is causing the ridiculous [...]

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Green Housing

Green housing! bookofjoe: Michael Reynolds is the ‘Garbage Warrior’

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AK-47s, Arab Jails and Animal Smugglers: Interview with Conflict Photographer Alex Smailes – Part I at CameraPorn

An amazing interview with a photographer. You will read it all, very interesting. AK-47s, Arab Jails and Animal Smugglers: Interview with Conflict Photographer Alex Smailes – Part I at CameraPorn

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More on what a farce carbon offsets are

There are a couple of posts on the Becker Posner site about what nonsense carbon offsets are. I’ve blogged about this previously. Carbon Offsets–Posner On Carbon Offsets-Becker Click here to see my previous posts!

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