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Aug 18, 2013

Sustainable Energy Breakthrough: Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight - National Science Foundation.

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Sustainable Energy Breakthrough: Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight - Yahoo! News This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in ...

Oh crap, more than 4 cups of coffee per day greater risk of an early death.

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Those of us under 55 who drink a lot of coffee – more than four cups per day –  may be at greater risk of an early death . And not just deat...

Dishwasher-Size, 25kW Fuel Cell In Development

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Forbes has an article about  a new type of fuel cell that is 90% less costly than current cells at one tenth the size  (making it the size o...

Scientists 'Nature Is Better at Carbon Farming’ Jatropha trees can take 25 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air annually over 20 years

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Climate Central   – Large forests planted with a single species of tough small trees could capture enough carbon from the atmosphere to slow...
Aug 17, 2013

Sequester's troubling impacts on public health and NIH

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George Will, conservative columnist for Washington Post, wrote about the troubling impacts of the sequester on public health, and in particu...
Aug 16, 2013

ECOS/WWU Release Toxic Trends Application Webinar EPA Web Application using air data from the TRI database and risk values from EPA’s RSEI model.

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FYI – A new toxic trends web application released using air data from the TRI database and risk values from EPA's RSEI model. A webinar ...

"Can voluntary pollution prevention programs make an impact?"

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Read the August P2 Pathways article for GreenBiz:  http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/08/13/can-voluntary-pollution-prevention-programs-make-...

‘Safe’ levels of sugar harmful to mice : #health via @Nature

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Via Nature : Too much sugar is bad for you, but how much, exactly, is too much? A study in mice has found that the animals' health and a...
Aug 14, 2013

Beauty product distributor fined $213,000 for selling hair-styling products that violate VOC air quality regulations

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SACRAMENTO - Midway Importing Inc., a nationwide distributor and marketer of Hispanic health and beauty care brands, has paid a penalty of $...

USFDA Allows Chemicals in Food Despite Lack of Toxicity Testing via @JBSass

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Chemicals are added to food to preserve, flavor, thicken, or otherwise alter it in some desirable way. Used this way, the chemicals are ...

How a White or Green Roof Can Keep Your Building Up to 84% Cooler This Summer

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Inhabitat has a look at the effect habving a white or green roof can have on urban temperatures -  How a White or Green Roof Can Kee...

Timelapse Map Illustrates Rapid Growth of U.S. Wind Energy Sector [feedly]

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The U.S. installed more than 13 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity in 2012, nearly doubling the amount of wind power installations added ...

Corn prices are falling at a rapid rate, dropping 40 percent since last year

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"The boom in corn prices that helped propel the U.S. farm economy is fading amid expectations for a record-high harvest," Mark Pet...

S. 1363 “Energy Consumers Relief Act of 2013” to reduce energy-related rules that are adverse effects to the economy.

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S. 1363 :  To protect consumers by prohibiting the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from promulgating as final certain e...
Aug 13, 2013

Appeals court: Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been violating federal law by delaying a decision on a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada - Yahoo! News

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rebuke to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ...

This is bad...China about to become world’s largest oil importer | via @SmartPlanet

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SmartPlanet :  China is calling for the oil can. So much so that the Asian economic giant will surpass the U.S. as the world's largest o...
Aug 12, 2013

World changing technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air

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A major new technology has been developed by  The University of Nottingham , which enables all of the world's crops to take nitrogen fro...

Study: US debt six times greater than declared - $211 trillion

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... The real shocker in the report, however, came with the cost of Medicare and Social Security, which ran at $27.6 trillion and $26.5 trill...

Eating raw garlic just twice a week can almost halve the risk of lung cancer, new research shows.

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A study carried out in China found adults regularly consuming raw garlic as part of their diet were 44 per cent less likely to suffer the di...

The Battle for Water - #water = #life

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Brahma Chellaney:  The sharpening international geopolitical competition over natural resources has turned some strategic resources into eng...

Splenda goes from 'safe' to 'caution' after leukemia found in mice #Health

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Source:   MSN The Center for Science in the Public Interest is urging caution in the use of the artificial sweetener Splenda. A food safety ...

Dogs Trained To Sniff Out Ovarian Cancer

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Slashdot   Dogs have been trained to sniff out drugs, explosives, cadavers, mobile phones, firearms, and money but now AP reports that resea...

Hybrd wind-current turbine world's first capable of maximizing the harvesting of ocean energy from wind and current".

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Tree Hugger - Combining a three-bladed Darrieus turbine on top, a Savonius turbine underneath, and a generator in between, the SKWID power g...
Aug 11, 2013

Six Japanese nuclear reactors likely to resume operating by March next year and a total of 16 reactors by March 2015 [feedly]

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Six Japanese nuclear reactors likely to resume operating by March next year and a total of 16 reactors by March 2015 The Institute of En...

Taking pills for unhappiness reinforces the idea that being sad is not human

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The Raw Story .... The same thing has happened with depression and drugs like Prozac; though calling it depression is already to classify a ...

China faces its worst economic crisis: water - uses 4 to 10 times more water per unit of GDP than similar economies

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MarketWatch ...  According to China's own water-resources officials, more than 400 Chinese cities lacked enough water last year, with 11...

A Material That Could Make Solar Power “Dirt Cheap” | MIT Technology Review

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MIT Technology Review ... Researchers developing the technology say that it could lead to solar panels that cost just 10 to 20 cents per wat...
Aug 9, 2013

Sweden does not have enough garbage and imports it but fortunately they are paid to take garbage [feedly]

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Due to Sweden's innovative waste-to-energy program and highly efficient recycling habits, the Scandinavian nation faces an interesting d...

Healthier for people, more environmentally friendly and more efficient fish farming that is independent of any wild fish feedstocks

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Australian CSIRO scientists have perfected the Novacq™ prawn feed additive . Farmed prawns fed with Novacq grow on average 30 per cent faste...

China's Pollution Fighting Budget Will Have to Be Bigger than its Military Budget

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China will spend $275 billion over the next five years improving air quality—roughly the same as the GDP of Hong Kong, and twice the size o...

How unsustainable our techno future is...25 times more power efficiency is needed for exaflop supercomputers with reasonable energy needs

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How unsustainable our techno future is... An exascale system built with NVIDIA Kepler K20 co-processors would consume about 150 megawatts. ...

Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google

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In a new interview with  Bloomberg Businessweek , Bill Gates discussed his Foundation's work to eradicate polio and malaria, while sugge...

60% of Federal Student Loan Borrowers, or 17 million, don't pay the US government a single cent!

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...Said otherwise, of the 28 million Americans with federal student loans,  60%, or 17 million, don't pay the US government a single cen...

Why we can kiss the US economy goodbye

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By  Wayne Allyn Root ... The results are in. The picture is grim.  Here are some frightening economic numbers to think about the next time ....