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WindMade: A New Label for Products Built Using at Least 25% Wind Power

June 15, 2011

Will companies be impelled to make more of an effort to use clean power if they were publicly recognized for their efforts? The folks behind Windmade are betting they will. Windmade is a new initiative spearheaded by Vestas, the Danish wind company, that will eventually allow companies to place labels on consumer products touting their clean energy commitments. So how, exactly does a company obtain the right to slap a Windmade label on their goods?

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The Fort Peck Incident revisited

June 13, 2011

Missour River flood waters shooting out of Oahe Dam at Pierre, SD.

Back in 1998 Futurist Thomas Frey wrote a paper called “The Fort Peck Incident” which outlined the devastating effects that bursting the massive hydroelectric dam located near Fort Peck would have. His scenario at the time revolved around a terrorist plot performing the deed, but the basic concept of the dam bursting is more relevant today than ever. However, this time it’s not from a foreign terrorist organization but from Mother Nature herself…

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Are We One Step Closer to Pricing Nature?

May 17, 2011

The tragedy of the commons in action.

One of the most perverse tenets of the economic model that most of the globe adheres to is that extracting natural resources or doing damage to ecosystems is “free”. Bottled water companies don’t pay for the water they extract, lumber outfits don’t pay for the trees they chop down, automakers don’t pay for the air pollution they generate, Big Oil doesn’t pay for the oil it extracts, and so on and so forth. This problem, known as the tragedy of the commons, is one that’s been an ugly thorn in capitalism’s side from the get-go. For the most part, we deal with it by imposing restrictions on how much companies can pollute, creating environmental protection agencies to enforce such restrictions, and by designating nature preserves to shield nature from corporate claws. But it’s not working…

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New Study Traces Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking

May 10, 2011

Fracking linked to flaming.

Who likes their tap water nice and fiery? I know I do — I simply won’t drink any water that doesn’t catch fire when held over an open flame. That’s why I drink all my water from underground aquifers that have been contaminated by hydro-fracking operations. Yes, a scientific study, the first of its kind, has discovered a link between flammable drinking water documented in communities around the nation, and everyone’s favorite method of extracting natural gas from the ground…

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Brown Recluse Spider Population Boom Result of Climate Change

April 29, 2011

Brown recluse spider

The brown recluse are one of the most feared spiders in North America. And now the brown recluse – or Loxosceles reclusa – spider population is growing, and predicted to expand into the northern states as a result of climate change.

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Mother Earth To Be Given Rights Equal to Humans In New Bolivian Law

April 11, 2011

Pachamama, the goddess revered by indigenous Andean people as ‘Mother World’

A brief update on a story from a year ago: Bolivia is about to pass laws granting all of nature equal rights to human beings. The laws were first proposed after the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth and show the deep differences in zeitgeist between Bolivia and, well, pretty much every other nation-state on the planet…

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Top Tech & Business Minds Try To Save the Oceans

April 6, 2011

Shark Tag, You’re It

Shark Tag, You’re It is an online platform designed to bring in the best, most creative ways to help drive ocean conservation. Drawing from a roster of top business talent, the platform has encouraged submissions from the likes of Google and the Boston Consulting Group. All of this was made possible thanks to the Summit at Sea, to which Shark Tag, You’re It is attached. Its genesis, however, is a twisted path…

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The World is Getting Windier and the Waves Higher

March 27, 2011

If winds continue to pick up at the same rate, hurricanes could become far more damaging by the middle of the century.

The world is getting breezier, according to a new study, which found a slow but steady increase in top wind speeds across the oceans over the last 23 years.

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Regional Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming According to NASA

February 27, 2011

A nuclear bomb explodes in a test on the Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia in the early seventies.

NASA Scientists have tested the climate effect of what a small, regional nuclear war would do to the world and have come up with a few revealing (and quite scary) conclusions. For the purpose of the exercise, NASA termed a small, regional nuclear war as 100 Hiroshima-level bombs.

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Advances in Producing Hydrogen by Mimicry of Photosynthesis

February 21, 2011

$hydrogen-difraction-spectru$

Light makes might?

Last time we checked in on Thomas Mallouk’s work applying biomimicry to generate hydrogen, he was reporting about 0.3 percent efficiency. According to his projections, the proof-of-concept device for producing hydrogen using the same trick applied in plants for photosynthesis could eventually reach efficiencies of 10-15%, beating nature’s average of 1 to 3 percent. Mallouk is back at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). So what’s the news on one promising option for generating large quantities of clean fuel for combustion engines or fuel cells?

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Coal Costs US Public Up to $500 Billion Annually: Harvard Study

February 17, 2011

A new look at coal in the US.

It’s well-known that the coal-fired power plants that provide the US with 50% of its electricity also inflict significant damage on the environment and citizens’ health. Coal plants spew particulate emissions that cause asthma and other respiratory woes — and they’re responsible for tens of thousands of deaths every year. And then there’s the environmental damage inflicted during the process of extracting, transporting, and processing the stuff. And then, there’s coal’s contribution to climate change. All told, it costs the nation up to $500 billion a year. That’s the finding of a new Harvard study that, for the first time, examines the true cost of coal throughout its entire life cycle …

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Rising Seas Could Threaten U.S. Coastal Cities by 2100

February 15, 2011

This map shows where increases in sea level could affect the southern and Gulf coasts of the US.

Rising sea levels could threaten an average of 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, according to new research led by University of Arizona scientists.

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