Thursday, August 16, 2012

Step Right Up and Listen to My Lies! - Huntington, NY Patch
["Super" Mandia] Do not buy the snake oil. Listen to what the overwhelming majority of climate scientists, health experts, insurers, and the military are telling you. We need to take action now.
NSF Funds Md., Del. Climate Change Education - WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 -
The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it's giving $5.8 million to a partnership on climate change education led by the University of Maryland and the University of Delaware. The project is 1 of 6 such programs being funded by the foundation.
Wikileaks' climate change highlights | RTCC - Responding to Climate Change
French environment minister calls to drop legally binding commitment...
Maldives offers to host a landmark climate change speech by President Obama
The FINANCIAL - NASA Goes Green: NASA Selects Green Propellant Technology Demonstration Mission
"High performance green propellant has the potential to revolutionize how we travel to, from and in space," said Michael Gazarik, director of NASA's Space Technology Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "An effective green rocket fuel would dramatically reduce the cost and time for preparing and launching space missions while decreasing pollution and harm to our environment."
The FINANCIAL - Uruguay is Going Green, Diversifying its Energy Mix
The FINANCIAL -- Uruguay is quickly turning into a leader in Latin America in terms of using its wind resources to fuel the economy.
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And it is using the revenue stream from carbon credits to catalyze the investment, the World Bank announced today.
Former Twitter CEO’s dream home is SF neighborhood nightmare | Grist
obviously zero energy is something to strive for in building. But what if every rich dude in San Francisco decides he wants to tear down an existing property to make his killer environmentally awesome dream house? Will San Francisco lose its flavor? And how much energy will all that destruction and rebuilding use? It’s a debate that will surely go on for some time — and hopefully involve a lot of Twitter jokes.

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