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Saturday, December 10, 2011

10 December- RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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The Section 1603 Treasury cash grant programme, which was created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009 to address the shortage of tax equity capacity for renewable energy projects caused by the economic recession, ...
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South Africa Approves Renewable-Energy Bidders
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By DEVON MAYLIE JOHANNESBURG—South Africa approved 28 bidders for a renewable-energy tender, the first step in the country's efforts to diversify from coal. The 28 preferred bidders, with projects totaling 1416 megawatts, have until the end of June to ...
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China a leader in renewable energy
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SAGA — Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Saturday that 1.8 tons of radioactive water leaked in the purification system of an idled reactor at the Genkai power plant in Saga Prefecture, and drew flak for failing to promptly disclose the incident to local ...
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    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • A New Driving Perspective
    Note: The 2012 Chevy Volt offers an EPA-estimated 35 miles on a single charge based on 94 MPGe [electric] and 35 city, 40 MPG highway [gas]. Actual range varies with conditions. The Chevy Volt* is unique among electric cars because it runs on two sources of energy. You have an electric source – ...
  • GREEN HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: Gifts That Give Back
    While some of us will be losing count of the gifts we will receive this holiday season, an overwhelming number of people across the globe will find themselves in a much less fortunate situation. If you’ve been looking for a green gift that also has the power to change someone’s life, then ...
  • OOO My Design’s Kids’ Pin Press Shelf Makes Cl ...
    Remember those retro toys that you could use to make 3D relief patterns with a tray of metal pins? OOO My Design has taken that concept and applied it to kids’ furniture design with its striking new Pin Press. The wall of red pins is an interactive shelf that makes cleaning up a fun activi ...
  • 7 Eco-Chic Holiday Gifts for Gadget Lovers
    Most of us have at least one gadget lover on our holiday list this year.  Since the actual electronics have bank-breaking potential, we prefer to give accessories to make their toys look unique.  We’ve gathered 7 of our favorite eco-chic gifts that are sure to spread joy to the gadget love ...
  • Azuma Makoto Gardening Club Brings Modern Desi ...
    In the midst of the Ark Hills concept center in Japan, garden designers from Azuma Makoto Gardening Club are regularly working on new designs to reshape green centerpieces in the heart of the Mori building complex. Alongside the Ark Gardening Club – a brilliant community project to encoura ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Jawbone Recovers Goodwill After Tumble
    Jawbone is offering all buyers of its Up fitness device a refund. If there were ever a way to go about recovering goodwill and standing by your customers, this is it.
  • Nook's Advertising Is Corrected
    Barnes & Noble has eliminated all references to "HD" video and the new Nook on its Web site. But there's not a shred of doubt: The Nook Tablet's Netflix video looks a lot better than Amazon Fire's.
  • Nook's Specs Are Exaggerated, Again
    Barnes & Noble says that the new Nook Color Tablet plays high-definition video. It is stretching the truth.
  • Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use ...
    Somebody at Apple took the challenges of the disabled seriously enough to write a complete, elegant and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the physical barriers to using an app phone.
  • Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books
    Amazon is giving away books, including New York Times bestsellers, for the Kindle if you're an Amazon Prime member. It is a delightful surprise to people who signed up for Prime.

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • U.S.-NATO ABM Missile System “Covers” a Large ...
    It is inadmissible for Russia NATO’s missile defence to cover the part of its territory, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after a session of the Russia-NATO Council on Thursday. At the same time, Lavrov said that a new radar, which would be deployed in Turkey within missile defence ...
  • Risk of Israel/U.S. strike on Iran has tripled ...
    (Reuters) - The chance of a military strike on Iran has roughly tripled in the past year, the senior geopolitical risk analyst at Barclays Capital said on Thursday.
  • World War 3: A Natural Resource War
    Politicians in America, talk a good game, of course. I mean let’s face it, if they hope to be any good at what they do, then every word out their mouths in a public setting, at least, had better be calculated carefully ahead of time for maximum political effect and the avoidance of undesirable r ...
  • Pakistan Upgrades Air Defences On Afghan Border
    Pakistan has upgraded its air defence system on the Afghan border to make it capable of shooting down aircraft, after Nato strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, a security official told AFP on Friday.
  • The National Defense Authorization Act Opens t ...
    The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was recently approved by an overwhelming majority of the Senate. It will place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including Am ...

Andy Worthington

  • Terrorists as Warriors: The Fatal Confusion at ...
    Last week, when the Senate voted, by 93 votes to 7, to pass the latest National Defense Authorization Act (PDF), they passed legislation that not only approved a budget of $662 billion in military spending for the next fiscal year, but also demanded mandatory military custody for all terror susp ...
  • Write to the Forgotten Prisoners in Guantánamo ...
    A year and a half ago, two Facebook friends, Shahrina J. Ahmed and Mahfuja Bint Ammu, drew on my research about Guantánamo for a letter-writing campaign, in which they asked their friends and others on Facebook to volunteer to write to each of the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo. Shahrina anno ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: End of Week Appeal for $ ...
    Please support my work! Thanks to the generosity of 20 friends and supporters over the last four days, I have raised $1000 of the $2500 I was hoping to raise to support my research and writing on Guantánamo — and all of the other topics that make up my palette of interests — over the ...
  • London Vigil for Shaker Aamer, the Last Britis ...
    This Saturday, December 10, which is UN Human Rights Day, I’ll be attending a vigil for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, outside Downing Street. The event, arranged by the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, runs from 12 noon to 3 pm, and at 1 pm speakers — myself inclu ...
  • Please Vote for My Guantánamo Article to Win t ...
    Vote for my article here! Last week, my friend Louise Gordon nominated an article of mine, “Mocking the Law, Judges Rule that Evidence Is Not Necessary to Hold Insignificant Guantánamo Prisoners for the Rest of Their Lives,” for the 2011 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Politics and Social Sc ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Imprisoned Cult Leader Warren Jeffs Predicts E ...
    Now that he has a whole lot of time on his hands, self-described prophet Warren Jeffs is claiming to be the “mouthpiece” of an angry God. And judging from the sound of things, there’s going to hell to pay for daring to lock up the racist cult leader for raping a 12-year-old “celestial” child bri ...
  • Anti-Abortion Extremist Now Attacking Gay-Frie ...
    The Rev. Donald Spitz has a message for gay-friendly churches, and the murder-endorsing anti-abortion crusader is not mincing words. In E-mails sent in recent days to an unknown number of churches listed on GayChurch.org, he wrote: “To accept sexual deviancy as normal is a sin. You put your soul ...
  • Two Bodies Recovered From Ruins of Washington ...
    The bodies of two people and four dogs were recovered Thursday from the fire-scarred ruins of a house in southwestern Washington where gunfire and explosions broke out a day earlier. A third person remains missing, authorities confirmed. The home in Washougal, Wash., near Portland, Ore., is that ...
  • An Open Letter From the World Back to David Duke
    Dear David Duke, In light of your recent travel adventures in Europe and your subsequent Open Letter to the World to set the record straight on your “basic principles and beliefs,” we thought it might be an opportune moment to remind you what those principles actually are. In all your efforts to ...
  • Officials Search for Body After Shots, Fire at ...
    Authorities are combing the charred ruins of a house in Washougal, Wash., today, looking for the remains of a man who appears to have past ties to illegal firearms, domestic violence and white supremacists. Steven Douglas Stanbary, who once said his hero was white supremacist Randy Weaver of Rub ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Russians Come Out in Force to Protest against ...
    Up to 50,000 people braved the cold and snow on Saturday to turn out for the largest ever protest against the rule of prime minister Vladimir Putin. read more
  • Gingrich Calls Palestinians 'Invented' People
    Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred controversy by calling the Palestinians an "invented" people who could have chosen to live elsewhere. The former House of Representatives speaker, who is the frontrunner for the Republican nomin ...
  • With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Dilut ...
    WASHINGTON — Last year, the Obama administration vowed to stop for-profit colleges from luring students with false promises. In an opening volley that shook the $30 billion industry, officials proposed new restrictions to cut off the huge flow of federal aid to unfit programs. ...
  • Draft Climate Deal Dubbed a "Death Sentence fo ...
    DURBAN, South Africa - No one is happy late Friday at the very contentious U.N. climate talks that went into extra time on Saturday. As the lights flicker on a rainy night here, the partial power failure echoes the failure of the multilateral process, according to civil society and some countrie ...
  • Police Evict Occupy Boston Protesters
    Police have evicted Occupy protesters from Boston's Dewey Square, tearing down tents and arresting about 40 people. The raid brought to an end a 10-week demonstration spawned by the Wall Street occupation in New York. Police moved in at about 5am and the operation lasted less than an hour. A ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Top Downloads [Hive Mind]
    Check If Your Android Phone Has Carrier IQ, No Rooting Required (Android) When we first covered Carrier IQ, the rootkit that can log everything you do on your phone, we detailed how to check and remove Carrier IQ on Android using an app from the developer who discovered the root ...
  • Aussie Apple Technique Keeps Apple Slices Hand ...
    If you or your kids prefer sliced apples you'll either have to take the time to spray the slices with acidulated water or learn to enjoy brown apple flesh. Kids lunch weblog Another Lunch shares how Australian parents send their children to sc ...
  • Open a Padlock with an Aluminum Can
    Most us who've had school lockers or rental storage units know that lots of people trust inexpensive padlocks to secure their belongings. Tactical studies weblog ITS Tactical proves that this trust is a false sense of security by opening the ...
  • FlashControl Prevents Web Sites Automatically ...
    Chrome: Some sites automatically play Flash videos which can be annoying, troublesome at work, and suck up bandwidth. The Chrome extension FlashControl stops Adobe Flash from loading unless you have authorized a particular site to bypass the r ...
  • Convert a Jean Zipper into a Button Fly [Sewing]
    Instructables user rocket had a broken zipper on an otherwise-fine pair of jeans, and by cutting out the zipper, sewing two buttons, and cutting and stitching button holes has converted his jeans to a button fly. Consider making this modificat ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Nutcracker ballet firmly entrenched as as US C ...
    Jazzed up or semi-nude, the Nutcracker ballet is firmly entrenched as a US Christmas ritualOn Tuesday, hundreds of cinemas across America will switch over from their usual fare of romantic comedies and blockbuster action flicks and make way for a more unusual show: The Nutcracker ballet.Some 56 ...
  • Free childcare would raise millions in tax on ...
    The revenue generated by working mothers would far outstrip the cost of free nursery places for all, says IPPRFree nursery care would raise millions of pounds for the government by enabling mothers to return to work, according to a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The t ...
  • David Blunkett in secret NI payout over phone- ...
    Ex-home secretary believed to have shared in £300,000 payout over allegations his phone was hacked by News of the WorldRupert Murdoch's News International has approved a confidential payout to the former home secretary David Blunkett over allegations that his phone was hacked.The exact size of t ...
  • Congo protest leads to over 100 arrests after ...
    Property was damaged and members of the public threatened as a group broke away from the main demonstrationMore than 140 people have been arrested at a protest in central London over the bitterly contested elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Police arrested a total of 143 protesters af ...
  • Technology review 2011: Twitter rules, BlackBe ...
    John Naughton, the Observer's Networker columnist, looks back on a momentous year for new technologySOCIAL UPHEAVAL Governments all over the world had to deal with the power of social networking – and their reactions were not exactly an endorsementThe year began with the reverberations from Wiki ...

McClatchey

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