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BC’s Election

Posted in Environment, tagged , , on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Is over and the centre-right Liberals won. Many in the traditional environmental movement are trumpeting it as a referendum on the BC Carbon Tax. I am not so sure. The so called people who were supposed to vote for the opposition left leaning NDP, but did not because of their (admittedly stupid) opposition to the [...]

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Pothole power for cars

Posted in Environment, tagged , , on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Via the TNR E&E blog comes this story of capturing some of the energy wasted when a vehicle moves over bumps and potholes on the road. Indian drivers are waiting with bated breath for this prototype to become a reality! The takeaway messages are that most of the mechanical devices we use today have many [...]

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Gulf States spending more on Clean Energy than Canada

Posted in Environment, tagged , , , on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Gasoline sells for 45 cents a gallon. There is little public transportation and no recycling. Residents drive between air-conditioned apartments and air-conditioned malls, which are lighted 24/7
Still, the region’s leaders know energy and money, having built their wealth on oil. They understand that oil is a finite resource, vulnerable to competition from new energy sources.
So [...]

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Vote Strategically for the Environment

Posted in Environment, Politics, tagged , , , on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

via Vote For Environment / Voter Pour l’Environnement.
This site wants you to vote strategically to avoid splitting the anti-conservative vote on the assumption that all things being equal, the conservatives are much worse for the environment than any of the other parties. This is not really how you want an election to be decided, but [...]

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Do compact fluorescent bulbs reduce mercury pollution?

Posted in Environment, tagged , on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In places that rely heavily on coal for electricity, such as West Virginia or China, the researchers say switching to CFLs can reduce mercury emissions significantly. But cleaner-powered places like California and Norway would do better to stick to incandescent bulbs when it comes to reducing mercury. “The places known for sustainability are the places [...]

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Coal-to-Liquid: Useless

Posted in Environment, tagged , on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Liquid transportation fuels derived from coal and natural gas could help the United States reduce its dependence on petroleum. The fuels could be produced domestically or imported from fossil fuel-rich countries. The goal of this paper is to determine the life-cycle GHG emissions of coal- and natural gas-based Fischer−Tropsch (FT) liquids, as well as to [...]

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What’s the matter with Canada?

Posted in Environment, Politics, tagged , , on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

But beneath the calm exterior, Canada’s political system is in turmoil. Since 2004, a succession of unstable minority governments has led to a constant campaign frenzy, brutalizing Canada’s once-broad political consensus and producing a series of policies at odds with the country’s socially liberal, fiscally conservative identity. Canada is quietly becoming a political basket case, [...]

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Clothianidin and the Colony Collapse Disorder

Posted in Environment, Food, tagged , , , , on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Clothianidin is the pesticide at the center of controversy. It is used to coat corn, sugar beet and sorghum seeds and is part of a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids. The pesticide was blamed for bee deaths in France and Germany, which also is dealing with a colony collapse. Those two countries have suspended its [...]

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India’s Environmental Portal

Posted in Environment, South Asia, tagged , , on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Home | India Environment Portal
This is a very useful undertaking by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) to gather up a lot of technical information about India’s environmental research and activism.
They have a small multimedia section as well and I found this movie, appropriately titled Faecal Attraction to be an informative watch…
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Energy efficiency, electricity, power plants

Posted in Environment, tagged , on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Suppose I paid you for every pound of pollution you generated and punished you for every pound you reduced. You would probably spend most of your time trying to figure out how to generate more pollution. And suppose that if you generated enough pollution, I had to pay you to build a new plant, no [...]

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