Pleasant Pops Is Giving Away Popsicles This Week

The Pleasant Pops folks are taking a quick break from opening their first brick-and-mortar location in Adams Morgan to team up with the Climate Reality Project for a cooling popsicle giveaway at multiple DC locations this week.

Free flavors include peach-hibiscus, watermelon-mint, and strawberry-ginger lemonade. In order to get yours, tweet a message with your environmental woes using the hashtag #ImTooHot, or do the same thing with a Facebook post. A bonus for all you ER fans: Actress Gloria Reuben—fictional HIV-positive doctor Jeanie Boulet, real-life environmental activist—is on board the truck Thursday and Friday to raise awareness.

Twitter / richardabetts: Inaccurate information from ...

Inaccurate information from @BBCRadio4 . UKCP09 climate projections do NOT say UK climate will be like Madeira in 2060 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lsyrk …

Twitter / RichardTol: .@richardabetts but the ...

.@richardabetts but the journalist wanted to go to Madeira so badly -- surely that trumps accuracy @BBCRadio4

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Costing the Earth, Britain in 2060: The Land

According to the latest predictions on global warming, Britain in 2060 is going to look very much like Madeira. In the first of a two-part investigation into the impact of climate change Tom Heap visits the island 350 miles from the coast of Morocco to find out how we might be living in fifty years.

North American Windpower: Citing PTC Uncertainty, Vestas Lays Off Workers At Colorado Manufacturing Facility

Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has announced that due to uncertainty surrounding the extension of the wind energy production tax credit (PTC), it has laid off an undisclosed number of workers at its Pueblo, Colo., manufacturing facility.