Participate in Earth Hour, Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 to 9:30 pm, your local time. Be a part of something BIG. Technorati Tags: earth hour, social action
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Participate in Earth Hour, Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 to 9:30 pm, your local time. Be a part of something BIG. Technorati Tags: earth hour, social action
A page at the Environmental Defense web site provides links to video segments from the Discovery Channel 1-hour special based on Fred Krupp’s outstanding book, Earth: The Sequel. Krupp does what is probably the best job to date in outlining how the alternative energy sector of the economy will very quickly become simply the energy [...]
Any American who has watched a few minutes of TV programming in the past couple of weeks has seen one of T. Boone Pickens’ time-for-big-change commercials. There are three TV spots out at this time. You can watch Pickens’ whiteboard presentation on his web site. I admit it. His direct speech and logic are appealing. [...]
An interesting article explains why oil exporting nations will reduce their exports to zero long before oil runs out. One more reason to be building alternative sources while simultaneously improving efficiency by magnitudes. Thanks to The Arlington Institute for publicizing this. (By the way, I don’t buy the conclusion that massive expansion of nuclear power [...]
Scientific American (www.SciAm.com) reports on a technology that can create cement from the carbon dioxide exhaust from power plants. It’s an intriguing idea. Each ton of cement created in this manner would sequester a half ton of CO2.
Project Better Place aims to see to it that the electric car operators’ network is put in place globally, one country at a time. Due to its size and technological readiness, Israel has agreed to be one of the first countries to establish an infrastructure to support plug-in electric vehicles.
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