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Mar 17, 2011

America and Nuclear: Obama’s Forgotten Track Record

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Russ Baker As the New York Times reported the other day, Mr. Obama is seeking tens of billions of dollars in government insurance for ne...

Steepest Rise in Food Prices in 36 Years

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Meanwhile in the world... WASHINGTON ( AP ) -- Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy co...

Nuclear math Wikipedia

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These numbers, from Wikipedia, may help: There are 442 nuclear plant units around the world. There are 139 in the U.S. There have been 99 ...
Mar 13, 2011

Viable solar without the 'need for government subsidization'

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"A University of Arizona engineering team led by Roger Angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of ...

Health warning on Daylight Savings

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HTML clipboard "According to experts on circadian rhythms, the hour shift in sleep schedule from Daylight Saving Time can have serious ...

"If There Were a Reactor Meltdown or Major Leak at Fukushima, the Radioactive Cloud Would Likely be Blown Out ... Towards the US West Coast"

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California is closely monitoring efforts to contain leaks from a quake-damaged Japanese nuclear plant, a spokesman said Saturday, as experts...

FDA Takesover Tylenol Manufacturing

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CNN Money - The government takeover of Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol-making factories is a serious step that could further hurt sales ...

TSA failed to take action when machines had missing or disabled safety features

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HTML clipboard Some Airport X-Ray Body Scanners Radiation Levels Are 10 Times Higher Than Expected   "It is totally unacceptable to be...

Afghanistan...our tolerance has run out.

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An emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday told international troops to "stop their operations in our land", his stro...
Mar 12, 2011

Pray for Japan - Gary Varvel

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Eco-Farming Could Double crop yields in three to 10 years

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Reuters UN Report cites insect-trapping plants in Kenya and Bangladesh's use of ducks in paddy fie...

HighSpeed Rail... the Rich folks' railroads

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The HS2 rail project is expensive, environmentally damaging, and badly thought through   Caroline Lucas, Guardian, UK - The governmen...

Cancer survival rate improves

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HTML clipboard New York Times - About one in every 20 adults in the United States has survived cancer , including nearly one-fifth of all pe...
Mar 11, 2011

Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages

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HTML clipboard Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages a...

Gasoline Cost to Jump $700 for Average Household

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U.S. drivers will pay another 10 cents a gallon for gasoline before the latest jump in wholesale costs is fully passed on at the pump, and ...

Politcs in one graph

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smbc-comics.com
Mar 10, 2011

Geothermal Capacity Could More than Double by 2020: Pike Research

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EERE News - Increasing global investment in geothermal power could result in a 134% increase in total geothermal capacity between 2010 and...

Global Clean Energy Up 30% in 2010 from 2009: Bloomberg Report

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C lean energy investment worldwide during 2010 totaled $243 billion, a rise of 30% from 2009 and surpassed all previous levels since record...

DOE, to Boost Clean Energy and Energy Security

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EERE News - Building on their previous cooperation, DOE and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced on March 2 new steps between the...
Mar 9, 2011

Fix a Leak Week a good time to save money, water

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WDNR--   Every Drop Counts  Did you know that an American home can waste, on average, more than 10,000 gallons of water e...
Mar 7, 2011

U.S. Farmers Fear the Return of the Dust Bowl

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For years the Ogallala Aquifer, the world's largest underground body of fresh water, has irrigated thousands of square miles of American...

An answer to Wisconsin budget that doesn't need to involve sacrificing workers' rights.

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How Wisconsin Could Turn Austerity into Prosperity: Own a Bank   HTML clipboard After three weeks of demonstrations in Wisconsin, protest...

For a healthy few, it's getting better all the time.

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See them all at MJ
Mar 6, 2011

Gov. Walker: Obama Should Fix His Own Budget Crisis

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Newsmax An TV exclusive interview, deter HTML clipboard HTML clipboard mined Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Friday began the legal notifi...

The short history of e15 ethanol Gasoline: 10 Years - FAIL

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HTML clipboard The E15 debate... Tens years ago (some links may not work so "google it ;-) HTML clipboard Regardless of the "...

"The Green Thing", It skips a generation

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Dan Sorkin ...at the store, the cashier told the older woman that plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized to...

Queen of The Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?

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organism “directed” to secrete ethanol and diesel wherever it finds CO2 and water

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GAS3.0 - Joule Unlimited , has developed a genetically-modified organism (GMO) that can be "directed" to secrete usable forms o...
Mar 5, 2011

Scientists call for closer look at health impacts of chemicals

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Washington Post - Groups representing 40,000 researchers and clinicians are urging federal agencies responsible for the safety of chemicals...

Matt Damon on Obama no longer 'hope for audacity'.

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I agree with Mr. Damon on many fronts... just wish we could have talked before he endorsed Obama (Rally with Matt Damon in Miami Beach) Mat...

Florida: Rejection of High-speed Money Stands

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NY Times - Florida Governor rejects $2.4 billion in federal money to build a high-speed rail link between Tampa and Orlando ... wants no par...

Climate change satellite second failure in a row drove losses to nearly $700 million.

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NASA's Glory atmospheric research mission HTML clipboard satellite crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean early today after a protecti...
Mar 4, 2011

Where America stands .... behind

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Only a few decades ago, the U.S. stood tall in such rankings. No more. There are some areas in which we are still clearly No. 1, but they...

U.S. Citizenship requires a few wrong answers

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Last month, I became an American citizen, a tremendous honor and no easy accomplishment, even for a Canadian...After years of steep filing...
Mar 2, 2011

RecycleMania - lifecycle assessmen value of utilizing recycled product.

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As part of RecycleMania, and our focused efforts in SARUP, Lindsay James, LEED AP of InterfaceFLOR will be presenting in the AUP Commons on ...