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Obama on Cities: The Solution, not the Problem

	  
	  
	  
	  
      

   
      

     
      
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	        
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
With all the talk about ethanol, drilling and batteries, other issues like infrastructure, cities and transit tend to get buried. It’s nice to see they are on Obama’s radar: “Yes we need to fight poverty; yes, we need to fight crime,” Mr. Obama, of Illinois, said in a midday address to the United States Conference of Mayors. “Yes, we need to strengthen our cities. But we also need to stop seeing our cities as the problem and start seeing them as the solution. Because strong cit…





 





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While Apple is greening up its laptops, it isn’t spitting out solar products yet. So, taking up the call, QuickerTek has put out an awesome new product specifically for Macophiliacs. Fitting the MacBook, a foldable sheet of thin-film solar cells can charge up your laptop for free – well, after you shell out the big bucks for the product.


Depending on how fast you want your battery recharged (and how much you have to spend), you can get an 18 watt panel that takes 14 hours to charge up your MacBook, a 27 watt panel that takes 8 hours, or a 55 watt panel that can get you juiced up in as few as 5 hours.


Now, the sheets range from $500 to $1,000, so I’m not quite sure what the incentive is to use this rather than WAY cheaper plug-in, unless you have a massively guilt-ridden eco-conscience or you’re rarely near an outlet, which, let’s face it, is unlikely to be the case if you own a MacBook.


I think the demand for realistically priced (and sized) ways to charge laptops with solar is increasing, so hopefully soon we’ll see more options attached lower price tags.


Via GoodCleanTech




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MacBook Drinks Solar with Apple Juicz home design 
  

					 		 
	  


		      
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
Filed under: News, Polit-eco, Climate Change


NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen, who was one of the first people to put the concept “global warming” into the public record when he testified in front of the Senate about it twenty years ago, has written an (inflammatory or courageous, depending on your POV) op-ed in which he calls for the heads of major fossil-fuel companies to be put on trial for lying to the public about the effects of their products. 


Hansen spoke in front of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington on Monday, arguing that special interests (oil companies) have blocked movement into renewable energy production by publicizing doubts about climate change and its effects, funding research which obfuscates the problem, and even lobbying to expunge parts of children’s textbooks which address the issue. 


Hansen’s op-ed, which is mainly terrifying to read, holds out hope that if the new President charts a definitive course in his first year of office, he could just barely hold the climate from reaching a disastrous tipping point. So vote carefully.


Via the Huffington Post

 


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NASA climatologist wants to put CEOs on trial for lies home design 
  

					 		 
	  


		      
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
Filed under: Polit-eco


Yesterday, the New York Times reported that some of Obama’s main advisers have close ties to the nascent ethanol industry. One of those advisers, former Senator Tom Daschle (remember him? from South Dakota?), serves on the board of three (count ‘em) three ethanol companies. Obama has also at various times in the past flown for cheap on corporate jets owned by Archer Daniels Midland, the giant agribusiness with a big stake in ethanol. 


Should this news make enviros worried about the expansion of agribusiness think twice about supporting Obama? John McCain is way more negative about governmental subsidies for corn-based ethanol, but that doesn’t make him an enviroprince - he wants to eliminate tariffs on more efficient sugar cane-based ethanol, which is produced in places like Brazil, not noted for their environmental agricultural practices. And as Obama points out, switching to sugar-cane ethanol will not solve the problem of dependency on foreign energy producers.

 


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Obama & Ethanol, sittin’ in a tree home design 
  

					 		 
	  


		      
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
Filed under: Celebrities, Food


Sir Paul is one of the most famous vegetarians of all time. In fact, he’s probably one of the most famous human beings of all time. So, when he lays down a challenge to all of Britannia, you have to imagine that at least some people will listen. 


In a recent interview, Paul urged his countrymen to give up meat on Mondays, as a way to cut back on their carbon emissions. Apparently, the idea is already catching on in Australia — where Earth Hour also started — and the ex-Beatle thinks it’s time for the UK to follow suit. McCartney’s been a longtime vegetarian activist and recently modeled for PETA’s Eat No Animal campaign. According to Paul:


“One of the most significant conclusions of the recent report on climate change was that we should eat less meat. This is not the Vegetarian Society that said that. It’s the UN.”


 [via Ecorazzi]

 


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  Finanse Toruń The figures of the
celestial signs being on the lip of the larger drum, and this drum being
motionless, let the sign Cancer be drawn at the top, with Capricornus
perpendicular to it at the bottom, Libra at the spectator's right, Aries
at his left, and let the other signs be given places between them as
they are seen in the heavens.

13 In the following book I shall
treat of the kinds of polished finish employed to make them elegant, and
durable without defects to a great age.




BOOK VII




INTRODUCTION


1 wczasy samorząd lokalny This is because
one part of the earth is directly under the sun's course, another is far
away from it, while another lies midway between these two The quarter toward which temples of the immortal gods ought to face
is to be determined on the principle that, if there is no reason to
hinder and the choice is free, the temple and the statue placed in the
cella should face the western quarter of the sky If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the
outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.
One style of house seems appropriate to build in Egypt, another in
Spain, a different kind in Pontus, one still different in Rome, and so
on with lands and countries of other characteristics The outer strip has the same
breadth and thickness (as the inner), but the length is given by the
obtuse angle of the design and the breadth of the sidepost at its
curvature Thus, as it withdraws from the centre, a
small and comparatively light counterpoise, slowly turning the scale,
makes a greater amount of weight rise gently upwards from below.

5 all inclusive egipt wnętrza wrocław kredyt hipoteczny części motocyklowe wnętrza wrocław In the
interior of this tympanum there are eight crosspieces set at intervals,
extending from the axle to the circumference of the tympanum, and
dividing the space in the tympanum into equal compartments.

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