February 2012
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“More than 22 percent of the water consumed worldwide is imported as virtual...”
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NYTimes Green Blog: “Tracking How the World Guzzles Water,” By Joanna M. Foster
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“Rather than continue to fight, we’d much prefer to work on a mutually beneficial...”
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An excerpt from a letter by Oregon Wild Conservation Director, Steve Pedery, sent to the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association with a proposal to bind the two loggerheads with a single common interest of wolf-friendly beef.
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“As part of the fiscal year 2013 budget [PDF] released on Feb. 13, President Obama proposed to eliminate $40 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas producers over the next 10 years. Yesterday, theYale Project on Climate Change reiterated its recent finding that Americans of all political stripes oppose subsidies for “coal, oil, and natural gas companies.” They oppose these subsidies by 70...
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“Ski resorts self-report substantially more natural snowfall on weekends. Resorts...”
– Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising (PDF), a paper by Dartmouth profs and the National Bureau of Economic Research, explains how the ski industry lies about snowfall on the weekends, to try and get more customers.
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“Collectively, women’s magazines—by which I mean the whole field, from fashion...”
– Rosner writes (award-winning stories) for us, too. She’s awesome!
Hillary Rosner, Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags.
Rosner, a freelance science writer and former Knight Fellow at MIT, shares (frustrating) anecdotes about trying to write serious science journalism...
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WatchWhat is the true cost of a gallon of gasoline? And why do prices vary from country to country? An interesting animation from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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January 2012
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December 2011
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USGS creates model predicting maximum size of...
Small earthquakes are a recognized risk of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, a procedure in which companies unlock energy reserves by pumping millions of litres of water underground to fracture shale rock and release the natural gas trapped inside. Researchers now say that they can calculate the highest magnitude earthquake that such an operation could induce — though it won’t...
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IT IS SO WINDY →
latimes:
Pasadena and Sierra Madre have declared a state of emergency, with power lines down, trees bouncing as they fall and transformers exploding. Stay safe!
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November 2011
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“Solyndra’s failure was actually caused by technological success: the price of...”
– Paul Krugman, writing on fracking, solar, and our nation’s energy future.
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Republicans in a House subcommittee will vote...
Earlier this year Republicans found what they saw as the the ideal talking point to illustrate a federal bureaucracy gone batty.
The Environmental Protection Agency, they warned, was trying to regulate something only God could control: the dust in the wind.
“Now, here comes my favorite of the crazy regulatory acts. The EPA is now proposing rules to regulate dust,” Rep. John Carter(R-Tex.) said...
October 2011
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WatchThe Condit dam done gits blown up, freeing the White Salmon river. From Oregon Public Broadcasting:
WHITE SALMON, Wash. - Southwest Washington’s White Salmon River is running free this morning for the first time in a century. Wednesday, demolition contractors executed their plan flawlessly to blast a hole in the base of an aging hydropower dam. Condit Dam is the third large Northwest dam to meet...