Weekly Mulch: BP Oil Hits Louisiana – But How Far Away is the Next Disaster?
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Oil has hit shore in Louisiana, and despite BP’s best efforts to keep the media away, reporters can now touch the greasy stuff with their hands and feet. The onrush of oil into the Gulf has continued for over a month now, and while BP is still trying to staunch [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Bad News Bill
By Alison Hamm, Media Consortium blogger
Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) met with industry groups Wednesday evening to discuss their much anticipated tripartisan climate legislation. Based on leaks from the meeting, it sounds like the climate bill will be incredibly industry friendly, which may mean that the bill does little [...]
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Climate Change: a matter of national security.
The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonpartisan research institute, has dedicated an initiative to discovering the links between our security, our energy, and our environment. The Pew Project on National Security, Energy, and Climate just released the below video. It contains interviews from military experts that include an Admiral, Captain, and a former US Senator all [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Nuclear Plants will go up in Georgia
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
If you were to look out to the horizon of the clean energy field right now, you would see the hazy outlines of nuclear reactors. President Barack Obama announced this week that two new nuclear plants will go up in Georgia, built on the promise that the federal government will [...]
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Why We Need a Smarter Grid
It’s no secret: hybrid cars are sexy. They save on gas, they reduce carbon emissions and Justin Timberlake drives one. They have arguably been thought of as the most accessible vehicle, so to speak, to reduce greenhouse gases without infringing on our lifestyle. But while it may be the most seductive means to lower our [...]
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Sino US Mayors and the carbon challenge…
“I’m sitting in a conference room with city officials from China and the US
in a new hotel in Beijing. The sunlight is pouring through the windows and
we have a view to a beautiful courtyard garden. This is not the experience I
would have had when I first visited Beijing almost ten years ago??the
construction quality is now [...]
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Living Better-Living Green: Life Style Choices and Your Health
We’re exposed to thousands of chemicals everyday in our Environment, Food and Water. These harmful chemicals wreak havoc on the immune system and brain and if exposure to these dangerous toxins isn’t reduced, we’ll continue to see an increase in acute and degenerative disease. This article will highlight key areas in our lives that are exposed to numerous chemicals which create both immediate and long term negative effects on our health.
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Coal – how much is a lot???
The following is taken from Wikipedia – which is not always perfect….but in general good for a quick check.
So – here is the question – how much coal do we really use – and is it a lot?
Here we go…..
Coal as fuel
Further information: Electricity generation, Clean coal technology, Coal electricity, and Global warming
Coal is primarily used as a solid fuel to produce [...]
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