Posted in Economics, Environment on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NY Daily News:
Mayor Bloomberg wants to nickel and dime you at the grocery store – taxing you an extra 5 cents for every plastic bag you take home.
New Yorkers use an estimated 1 billion plastic bags per year. City officials aren’t sure what bags they plan to tax, or how they’d collect it – though [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged Environment, greenland, us foreign policy on August 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Christian Science Monitor:
Unsightly barrels and rubbish heaps mar the stunning landscapes near many former military sites, including former Distant Early Warning (DEW) stations the United States built to detect incoming Soviet nuclear missiles. Two DEW stations built atop the mile-thick ice cap that covers interior Greenland were abandoned on short notice, leaving everything from soldiers’ [...]
Posted in Energy, Environment, tagged carbon dioxide, co2, Energy on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scientific American
Today, this flue gas wafts up and out of the power plant’s enormous smokestacks, but by simply bubbling it through the nearby seawater, a new California-based company called Calera says it can use more than 90 percent of that CO2 to make something useful: cement.
It’s a twist that could make a polluting substance into [...]
