Monday, October 17, 2011

Japanese companies turn bras into fuel | Grist
The whole "feminists burn their bras" thing is kind of a canard, but now you can do it for real and for an equally good cause. Japanese lingerie manufacturers are collecting bras and recycling them into solid fuel.
Is a centralized climate [hoax] solution still possible? And more from my chat with Andy Revkin | Grist
Early in the discussion, I say that it's hard to see a solution for climate change that doesn't involve the cooperation of virtually all the world's major economies via some sort of central authority. Later on, though, I talk up the benefits of distributed, networked innovation.
Tuvalu drought could be dry run for dealing with climate change | World news | The Guardian
In the memorable words of Saufatu Sapo'aga, a former Tuvaluan prime minister, climate change for this country is "no different to a slow and insidious form of terrorism".

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