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Green crush: Love for LES Girls Club
Author and food activist Anna Lappe shows her appreciation for the Lower East Side Girls Club with an acrostic.
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Critical List: DeChristopher gets two years; cities are screwed by climate change
A Utah judge sentenced climate activist Tim DeChristopher to two years in prison. A few people were a bit pissed off by this, and 26 protesters were arrested.
A new NRDC report concludes that cities are going to be screwed by climate change.
The Department of Energy is funding a $85 million project to study carbon sequestration in an underground rock formation called Kevin's Dome. Injecting CO2 into the porous rock could be a way to store it harmlessly. -
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More links and thoughts on the medium chill
David Roberts has gotten all kinds of great feedback on his "medium chill" post. Here's a round up of links and stray thoughts.
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Tim DeChristopher sentenced to 2 years in prison, taken immediately into custody
(Cross-posted from peacefuluprising.org) Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison today at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. He was taken immediately into custody, being denied the typical […]
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Nissan Leaf Orphan Finds New Home
You can read my earlier Leaf posts here, here, here, and here. The Leaf I ordered is not due to arrive for another two months. Another engineer that I work […]
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Universal health care and the medium chill
Is U.S. economic policy currently biased against medium chillers? Or is it biased against killers? Or both? The big problem is health care.
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Cooperative South Dakota wind farm nets 600 local owners
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. With the right renewable energy policy, hundreds of individuals can have a […]
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Germany passes new renewable energy law for 2012, raises targets and payments
Despite widespread rumors in North America that Germany was abandoning its system of Advanced Renewable Tariffs, the country's upper chamber of parliament, the Bundesrat, approved the latest revision of its pioneering Renewable Energy Sources Act on July 8, 2011.
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Friday music blogging: The Avett Brothers' new songs
I wrote a cover story on The Avett Brothers for glossy guitar mag Fretboard Journal. It's finally online. While you're at it, check out a few videos of new songs they've been playing.
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Growing Midwest and Appalachian efficiency markets
Like boiling frogs, it’s the rate of change that matters when it comes to energy efficiency investments. Consumers who have grown accustomed to $4 gasoline are much less likely to […]
