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MVTG Stock News, National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Pro... - 0 views

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 20 May 09
     
    MVTG Stock News, National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program Signs Contribution Agreement With Mantra for Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide Development Program
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NGRN Stock News : New Green Technologies Begins Process for Large Wood Railroad Tie Was... - 0 views

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 19 May 09
     
    NGRN Stock News : New Green Technologies Begins Process for Large Wood Railroad Tie Waste to Bio-Oil and Energy Feedstocks
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earthenergyenterprises.com Nansulate The Thermal Paint - 0 views

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 15 May 09
     
    Earth Energy Enterprises (EEE), a division of Earth Energy Fuels, recognizes that nanotechnology is coming of age with a broad range of applications that will dramatically change medicine, consumer products, energy, and material science.
  • Mark Kabbbash on 15 May 09
     
    Lower your carbon footprint while saving money! Cut you home energy bills!
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tobeGoodPeople.com - Commitment to be Good People Site - 0 views

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  • Irwan S on 08 May 09
     
    the first site which established the idea of be good people all over the world. This site is made to ask as many people as possible to make such a commitment to be good people by showing their profile. The main difference compare to the other "social-purposed sites", is that this site is more likely to push the people to be "good people" with the better consequence effects in their real life - not only online.\nWe hope by joining this site, people are expected to postpone their 'evil side' at least 5min, an hour, a day, even more as long as they can. So, if you think you're good enough, prove it here.
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Plastic cups could boost auto performance - tech - 01 May 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views

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  • "A polystyrene cup will dissolve almost instantly in biodiesel, like a snowflake in water,"
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      Benno Hansen on 03 May 09
       
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I take GTXO and My Athlete for a ride! - View Message - 0 views

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    Log in and check this out!
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    From beginning to end it is 42 miles for great fun. Thanks to Patrick Bertagna, the CEO of GTX Corp http://www.gtxcorp.com/?q=/about/ceos_message and John Brennan, the CEO of My Athlete http://www.myathletegps.com/index.html I can prove the usefulness of this fine technology. You will be able to track our progress by the minute (and see just out of shape I am while I drag about 300 LBS around 65 miles yes my son will be peddling......some!)
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INTK Stock : Industrial Nanotech, Inc.'s Nansulate® Energy Saving Products to... - 0 views

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    Please help spread this word! It is for a good cause and the kids need help!
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    "The idea for the event builds upon three years of grassroots collaboration among K-12 schools to become more environmentally sustainable," said Harrison Monsky, lead organizer for the event and a senior at Collegiate, "The rationale and desire for sustainability exists; now schools want to know how to do it. The resources exist today and it is a matter of connecting 'the will' and 'the way.'"

Phantom Loads or Vampire Loads, Silent Energy Wasters - 1 views

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Do nations go to war over water? : Article : Nature - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • There are 263 cross-boundary waterways in the world. Between 1948 and 1999, cooperation over water, including the signing of treaties, far outweighed conflict over water and violent conflict in particular. Of 1,831 instances of interactions over international freshwater resources tallied over that time period (including everything from unofficial verbal exchanges to economic agreements or military action), 67% were cooperative, only 28% were conflictive, and the remaining 5% were neutral or insignificant. In those five decades, there were no formal declarations of war over water2.
  • it is foolish for Israel, a water-short country, to grow and then export products such as oranges and avocados, which require a lot of water to cultivate
  • water 'embedded' in traded products could be important in explaining the absence of conflict over water
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  • as poor countries diversify their economies, they turn away from agriculture and create wealth from industries that use less water. As a country becomes richer, it may require more water overall to sustain its booming population, but it can afford to import food to make up the shortfall
  • Israel ran out of water in the 1950s: it has not since then produced enough water to meet all of its needs, including food production. Jordan has been in the same situation since the 1960s; Egypt since the 1970s. Although it is true that these countries have fought wars with each other, they have not fought over water. Instead they all import grain.
  • Palestinian and Israeli water professionals interact on a Joint Water Committee, established by the Oslo-II Accords in 1995. It is not an equal partnership: Israel has de facto veto power on the committee.
  • Inequitable access to water resources is a result of the broader conflict and power dynamics: it does not itself cause war.
    • Benno Hansen
      Benno Hansen on 25 Mar 09
       
      From causation to hen/egg
  • although India and Pakistan have fought three wars and frequently find themselves in eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation, the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, arbitrated by the World Bank, has more than once helped to defuse tensions over water
  • predictions of armed conflict come from the media and from popular, non-peer-reviewed work
  • I offered to revise its thesis, but my publishers pointed out that predicting an absence of war over water would not sell.
  • most importantly, improve the conditions of trade for developing countries to strengthen their economies
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'The hockey stick is broken' | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist - 1 views

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  • Study of the past can be informative for scientists, but it is not explanatory of the present nor is it predictive of the future.
  • The infamous "Hockey Stick" graph was featured prominently in the IPCC TAR Summary for Policymakers.
  • Two Canadians, an economist and a petroleum geologist, took it upon themselves to verify this proxy reconstruction by getting the data and examining the methodology for themselves. They found errors in the description published in Nature of the data used -- errors that prevented them from duplicating the study. Mann et al., the hockey stick's creators, published a correction in Nature, noting where the description did not match what had actually been done.
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  • The fact is, there are dozens of other temperature reconstructions. They tend to show more variability than the original hockey stick (their sticks are not as straight), but they all support the general conclusions the IPCC TAR presented in 2001: late 20th century warming is anomalous in the last one or two thousand years, and the 1990s were likely warmer than any other time in that period.
  • dozens of other proxy reconstructions, some by the same team or involving some of its members, some by completely different people, some using tree rings, some using corals, some using stalagmites, some using borehole measurements -- all supporting the same general conclusion. That general conclusion is what's important to me, not whether or not one Bristlecone pine was or was not included correctly in a single eight-year-old study.
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RealClimate: The global cooling mole - 1 views

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  • To veterans of the Climate Wars, the old 1970s global cooling canard - "How can we believe climate scientists about global warming today when back in the 1970s they told us an ice age was imminent?" - must seem like a never-ending game of Whack-a-mole.
  • during the 1970s, when some would have you believe scientists were predicting a coming ice age, they were doing no such thing. The dominant view, even then, was that increasing levels of greenhouse gases were likely to dominate any changes we might see in climate on human time scales.
  • Benno Hansen on 04 Mar 09
     
    Contrary to claims of "skeptics" 70ies scientists didn't predict global cooling.
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We're on the brink of disaster | Salon - 0 views

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  • Every outbreak of violence has its own distinctive origins and characteristics. All, however, are driven by a similar combination of anxiety about the future and lack of confidence in the ability of established institutions to deal with the problems at hand.
  • The riots that erupted in the spring of 2008 in response to rising food prices suggested the speed with which economically related violence can spread.
  • The cost of food is now closely tied to the price of oil and natural gas because petrochemicals are so widely and heavily used in the cultivation of grains
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How to adapt to climate change : Nature News - 0 views

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  • They're also growing vegetables — rather than crops like wheat — on floating gardens. They use a bamboo frame and load it with water hyacinth, which rots and makes a bed for vegetables to grow. Then when the flood water rises, they can still harvest food.
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An Alternative Energy home our children can build. Oh the things our kids are learning!... - 0 views

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 08 Feb 09
     
    An Alternative Energy home our children can build. Oh the things our kids are learning! Preparing your children for the future is a big part of life and preparing them for the right future is what we want to do. With Alternative Energy moving into the forefront of our lives it will become increasingly important for our children to understand what it is and Thames and Kosmos is there to lead them along as they walk through alternative energy sources and how they work.
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IRIN Middle East | Middle East | Lebanon | LEBANON: Climate change and politics threate... - 0 views

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  • rising temperatures, spiralling population growth and inefficient irrigation are severely straining resources and threatening renewed economic and social breakdown.
  • Lebanon has the highest annual rainfall in the region, averaging 827mm compared to 630mm in Israel, 252mm in Syria and just 154mm in Iraq
  • Yet experts estimate that demand for water in Lebanon will have increased by more than 80 percent by 2025 as Lebanon’s population is expected to grow from four to 7.6 million. In the same period, as a result of climate change, average summer temperatures in the country are predicted to increase by 1.2 degrees centigrade.
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  • Across areas of the northern Bekaa with better irrigation, many farmers have turned land over to growing water-thirsty but economically lucrative hashish plants – totalling some 16,000 acres of land
  • The valley is an economically underdeveloped area where more than 40 percent of residents are dependent on agriculture as their main source of living
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North American tree deaths accelerate : Nature News - 0 views

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  • Mortality increase correlates with climate change.
  • The mortality rates, which are of the order of 1%, have in many cases doubled in just a couple of decades.
  • This subtle trend correlates with climate change in the region, which has warmed by between 0.3 and 0.4 degrees Celsius every decade since the 1970s.
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  • The team ruled out a number of competing explanations for the trend.
  • The actual mechanism, he speculates, could vary between different forests.
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      Benno Hansen on 22 Jan 09
       
      Generalized mechanism: individual trees effectively "teleported" to foreign ecosystem.
  • "If you attempted to go out and mess around with the forests, you'd probably end up accelerating [mortality rates],"
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HYDB Stock : Hydrogen Hybrid Fuel Cell Corp. Reports New Hydrogen On-Demand System Test... - 0 views

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 05 Jan 09
     
    Hydrogen Hybrid, Corp. manufactures the Hydrogen On-Demand System, which can increase a vehicle's fuel efficiency by 30-300%. This cost-effective and environmentally conscious technology can be installed on most diesel, gas, and off-road vehicles and promises to simultaneously increase gas mileage and decrease emissions.
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HYDB News : Hydrogen Hybrid, Corp. and The Queen Mary of Long Beach Go Green by Unveili... - 0 views

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    HYDB News : Hydrogen Hybrid, Corp. and The Queen Mary of Long Beach Go Green by Unveiling the First Hydrogen Class 8 Semi Trucks
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Arctic warming spurs record melting : Nature News - 0 views

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  • Record melting in northern Greenland and the widespread release of methane gas from formerly frozen deposits off the Siberian coast suggest that major changes are sweeping the Arctic
  • The study found methane bubbling up from the seafloor over hundreds of square kilometres in the Laptev and East Siberian Seas
  • Water measurements indicate that methane concentrations were up to 200 times higher than the background levels
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  • The submerged permafrost is on the threshold of melting, and air temperatures in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf have increased by as much as five degrees Celsius over the last decade
  • In most summers, temperatures rise enough to permit melting in that region on only 10–15 days on average. But in 2008, the melt period totalled 35 days.
  • Estimates based on satellite measurements of the entire ice cap suggest that the island is now losing hundreds of billions of tons of ice each year.
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    Bike touring and more!
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