Tag: alternative energy
member name: Sy g.
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December 12, 2007 03:17 PM EST --
Some people must think so. According to an article in Nature, venture capital investment in alternate energy has risen from about $30 billion in 2004 to almost $95 billion this year. Most of the investment . . .
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January 14, 2008 02:03 PM EST --
In the race to develop clean and efficient energy sources, one of the leaders has been grass, or more precisely switch grass.
A recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy . . .
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April 27, 2008 07:52 PM EDT --
Many of you know that I published a book a few months ago, that took a generally optimistic view of the state of the planet and human health and welfare ( http://www.wherewestand.net/ ). I stressed . . .
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July 18, 2007 07:52 AM EDT --
During the Civil Rights movement, white liberals were asked by their African American compatriots to search their souls and hearts for any trace of latent racism, or impure motives. I now ask those in . . .
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October 12, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
I believe he did. The prize was not for science, but for bringing the issue of climate change to the attention of the world. Vice President Gore did a marvelous job at that, and therefore fully deserves . . .
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December 13, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
Hooray for global warming!! I have always loved trains, and now thanks to the threat of global warming, trains might be making a comeback. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal
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May 13, 2008 11:54 AM EDT --
Because of my book, (Where We Stand: A Surprising Look at the Real State of Our Planet) and the piece I wrote in it on Climate Change, I have had to discuss this issue with many people, both . . .
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August 05, 2008 10:46 AM EDT --
There was a news item yesterday about the UN. The Secretary General decided to turn the air conditioning thermostat for the UN building up to an admittedly uncomfortable 77 degrees, in an effort . . .
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November 20, 2007 09:49 AM EST --
TRUE OR FALSE
Here is a quiz to test your knowledge about the environment. You can post your answers to some or all of the questions in comments, or just comment. I will give the . . .
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September 12, 2007 11:27 PM EDT --
Lomborg's new book is fun to read and makes some very strong points. As in his first book, the Skeptical Environmentalist, he uses his economic and statistical knowledge to counter a number of popular . . .
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October 29, 2007 02:53 PM EDT --
A company called Genecor has announced a possible breakthrough in the race to develop methods to extract ethanol from cellulose.
http://world-wire.com/news/0710220001.html
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November 06, 2007 02:38 PM EST --
Many of you are aware (or bored to tears) of the fact that I have recently published a controversial book about the environment. I have had some discussions with some folks here about the themes in the . . .
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October 11, 2007 11:14 AM EDT --
I have described myself at different times as a radical moderate, a liberal, a skeptical rationalist, but never as a conservative.
In my professional academic field of environmental health, and environmental . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:31 AM EDT --
We seem to have been going down the tubes for so long, they must be very long tubes. Actually, as I discovered when researching my book Where We Stand: A Surprising Look at the Real State of the Planet, . . .
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