POSTED BY ROGER VALDEZ | Sightline Daily – SPECIAL SERIES: GAME CHANGERS #07 | April 05, 2010 Solving big problems might mean giving up some cherished myths. Now that the health care proposal has been approved by Congress and signed into law, some people are feeling pretty happy I suppose. Much of the angst and [...]
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Building a Green Economy
By PAUL KRUGMAN | The New York Times Magazine | April 05, 2010 If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as [...]
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Aral Sea Almost DRIED UP: UN Chief Calls It ‘Shocking Disaster’
The Huffington Post | First Posted: 04-4-10 01:00 PM | Updated: 04-5-10 03:10 PM NUKUS, Uzbekistan — The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet’s most shocking disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday, as he urged Central Asian leaders to step up efforts to solve the problem. Once the world’s [...]
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How Green Is My iPad?
By DANIEL GOLEMAN and GREGORY NORRIS | Opinion – The New York Times | April 04, 2010 With e-readers like Apple’s new iPad and Amazon’s Kindle touting their vast libraries of digital titles, some bookworms are bound to wonder if tomes-on-paper will one day become quaint relics. But the question also arises, which is more [...]
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New way of fish farming could help fix environment
Biologists study whether sea creatures could be used to counteract damage to ecosystems By Randy Shore | Vancouver Sun | March 24, 2010 New designs for fish farms could keep them in the ocean and help restore damaged marine environments at the same time, says a biologist working on a five-year nationwide aquaculture project. Marine [...]
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THE NANOTECH GAMBLE: Bold Science. Big Money. Growing Risks.
Regulated or Not, Nano-Foods Coming to a Store Near You Second in a Three-Part Series By Andrew Schneider | AOL Special Report | March 24, 2010 (March 24) — For centuries, it was the cook and the heat of the fire that cajoled taste, texture, flavor and aroma from the pot. Today, that culinary voodoo [...]
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THE PARABLE OF THE ELECTRIC BIKE
Series By Alan During | Sightline Daily | March 15-19, 2010 Imagine an electric bike. Zipping through the city. Surging up hills without gasping for breath. Riding in business dress and arriving fresh and dry. Healthy, moderate exercise. No traffic jams. Free parking. Huge load-hauling potential. Near-free fueling. Zero emissions. Breeze in your face. Appealing! [...]
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Smarten Up or Die
‘Ecological Intelligence’: Do humans have what it takes to survive? By Daniel Goleman | TheTyee.ca | March 11, 2010 [Editor's note: The following is excerpted from the new book Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, published by Broadway Business, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Copyright [...]
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Fears of Undersea Methane Leaks Already Coming True
By Sid Perkins, Science News | Reported in WIRED | March 4, 2010 Prodigious plumes of planet-warming methane are bubbling from sediments across a broad region of Arctic seafloor previously thought to be sealed by permafrost, new analyses indicate. The resulting increase of methane gas in the atmosphere may accelerate climate warming, scientists say. Read [...]
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Credible information sources: One man’s guide
Struggling print and online media often skip the substance. That leaves information consumers struggling to assemble our own sources of reliable reporting and analysis. By Ted Van Dyk | Crosscut.com | March 03, 2010 President Obama is disclosing his end-game strategy for his health-care legislative proposals. Like so many political events, his announcement is provoking [...]