Tag: environment
member name: Sam Carana
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June 26, 2007 02:43 AM EDT --
Global Warming - Tax or Standards?
As global warming becomes an increasingly urgent issue, there are many calls for action. Many call for standards to be set, to achieve a reduction in pollution. . . .
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September 13, 2007 12:35 AM EDT --
How much surface does it take to supply solar energy? The image accompanying this article shows how much surface needs to be covered in theory by solar power facilities to generate enough electricity . . .
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April 03, 2007 04:55 AM EDT --
What characterizes our Times? I recently asked friends to name things that were most characteristic of the times we live in now. Here's the top ten answers I got.
1. Global Warming
Global warming . . .
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April 06, 2007 04:05 AM EDT --
The US Supreme Court ruled on April 2nd that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must limit greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide.
Four Bills are now under discussion in the Senate that . . .
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June 15, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
The quickest and most effective way to deal with global warming is to tax greenhouse gas emissions and to spend the proceeds to encourage the use of renewable energy locally.
Tax puts a price on pollution . . .
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March 07, 2007 12:18 AM EST --
Let's have a look at the many concerns and dangers associated with global warming and the resulting changes in climate around the world. I've tentatively grouped them into ten points.
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March 08, 2007 01:37 AM EST --
What are the basics of Global Warming, specifically the impact of extra heat? What is extra heat? What is its impact on global warming? Feel free to make comments if you see things differently! . . .
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December 20, 2008 06:54 AM EST --
When it's hot, should you turn on the car's air-conditioner?
As many will have experienced, driving with the air-conditioner on can increase fuel consumption by 10% or more. Yet, especially . . .
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August 13, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Many politicians claim to act in the interest of the public, yet they act in the interest of a narrow group. The nature of the electoral system (one election every three or four years) makes that politicians . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:21 AM EDT --
What will power your next car? Will it be gasoline, diesel, perhaps mixed with biofuel? Or will it be electricity? In case electricity will power your next car, how will it be produced? From coal, natural . . .
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September 29, 2007 03:56 AM EDT --
Last Friday, President George W. Bush urged delegates of the world's 16 biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to agree on an approach to deal with global warming. "By next summer, we will . . .
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March 06, 2008 01:08 AM EST --
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) just released its latest report on climate change, called OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030
The report projects that world gross . . .
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September 05, 2008 11:05 PM EDT --
Electric and Hybrid Cars: A History
By Curtis D. Anderson, Judy Anderson
199 pages - published by McFarland & Company (November 1, 2004)
This book describes and illustrates . . .
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April 11, 2009 01:33 AM EDT --
The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute cinema-documentary about climate change, set in the future. It features an archivist living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from . . .
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June 02, 2009 11:02 AM EDT --
Earth 2100 will be broadcast by the ABC on June 2nd, 2009 from 9 to 11 pm Eastern time. Hosted by Bob Woodruff, it explores a future in which we don't take action on the problems we're facing.
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September 21, 2007 05:08 AM EDT --
There are many ethical objections one can have against slaughtering animals and eating them. Vegetarian lifestyles have been around for ages, just like animal rights activists have long and very publicly . . .
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October 01, 2007 06:18 AM EDT --
Globally, wind power generation more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2006. But while wind power is making steady progress in Europe, the U.S. gets less than 1% of its electricity from wind power,
Spain . . .
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October 06, 2007 02:39 AM EDT --
Most households only use one or at most two different rubbish bins, one for recyclables (paper & packaging) and one for general waste. It makes a lot of sense to add a third type of rubbish bin, . . .
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August 13, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
Off-shore drilling is a stunt! The perceived need for off-shore drilling is a stunt designed to make it look as if McCain was making efforts to lower oil prices. Oil companies have until now rarely even . . .
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September 19, 2008 10:13 AM EDT --
Emission trading will not work !
We should recognize that a global emission trading scheme will only sabotage real efforts to reduce emissions. It's a scheme designed by neocons and polluting . . .
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