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Canada’s Oil Sands Conundrum

By on September 15, 2009 in economy, Environment

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

By on April 26, 2009 in energy, Environment, science

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

By on November 22, 2008 in energy, Environment

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

By on June 30, 2008 in Environment

An Uneasy Eden—Photo Gallery—National Geographic Magazine

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Rethink What It Means to Be Green

By on May 27, 2008 in Environment

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

By on May 20, 2008 in Environment, Health, science

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

By on April 8, 2008 in Environment

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

By on March 25, 2008 in conservation, Environment

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

By on December 28, 2007 in Environment

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

By on December 3, 2007 in Environment

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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