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13 April 2012
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Jesse Lenz08 April 2012
Education in a post carbon world
My local 'newspaper' recently published an opinion piece (Stouffville Tribune, Unions biggest threat to quality education, March 31, 2012) by a Canadian 'business leader' who opines that the reason for a country's success or failure rests with students being well-trained in math, science, and/or technology who can then produce 'intelligent, innovative products', and that the biggest impediment to ensuring students receive the best training are educational unions who resist merit pay
by Steve Bull | Apr 4 2012 by Zero Growth Now! (Canada) in Energy Bulletin | Apr 7 2012
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As Fukushima Worsens, US Approves New Nukes
Nuclear Regulatory Commission OKs New Nuclear Plants in South Carolina
Common Dreams | March 30, 2012
The Vogtle nuclear power plant, which was given the first license since the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster in 1979
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31 March 2012
A World Bank President Who's Not a Crony or a War Criminal?
On Friday, President Obama announced that he is nominating physician and Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. This likely appointment was greeted with approval by many long-time critics of corporate globalization. And it came after an unprecedented level of debate about who should be the institution’s next president
By Mark Engler | Foreign Policy in Focus | March 30, 2012
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End of coal power plants? EPA proposes new rules
The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed the first-ever standards to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants -- a move welcomed by environmentalists but criticized by some utilities as well as Republicans, who are expected to use it as election campaign fodder
By msnbc.com Staff | MSNBC | March 27, 2012
This coal-fired power plant is used by the city of Chicago, which last month decided to close it down by the end of 2014. A second coal plant will be closed by the end of this year. Chicago is the only large U.S. city with coal-fired power plants operating within its city limits. M. Spencer Green / AP
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24 March 2012
Report: Water likely to cause conflicts
Water problems in the next decade will contribute to instability in countries important to U.S. national security interests, an intelligence report says
United-Press International | March. 23, 2012
Children sit with water jugs at a refugee camp near Mardan, in northwest Pakistan on May 9, 2009. (UPI Photo/Aajjad Ali Qureshi)
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17 March 2012
Sea-Levels Rising: Millions in Coastal USA at Risk
Nearly four million Americans are at risk of severe flooding as climate change raises sea levels and intensifies storm surges during the coming century, new research indicates
Environmental News Wire | March 14, 2012
A U.S. Air Force Reserve crew rescues a family in the coastal Texas town of Nederland trapped on their roof by flood waters from Hurricane Ike, September 13, 2008. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Paul Flipse courtesy U.S. Air Force)
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15 March 2012
Former clean energy czar tries to stop Europe's dirtiest new power plant
In a letter to top-level U.S. Treasury officials, Daniel Kammen wrote that he will be "bitterly disappointed" if the World Bank finances a 600-megawatt lignite-fired power station outside the Kosovo capital of Pristina
By Lisa Friedman | E&E News in Bank Information Center | 14 March 2012
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Remotely Piloted War
In the American mind, if Apple made weapons, they would undoubtedly be drones, those remotely piloted planes getting such great press here. They have generally been greeted as if they were the sleekest of iPhones armed with missiles
By Tom Engelhardt | Foreign Policy in Focus | March 6, 2012
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World coal production and consumption data for 2011 are not yet compiled and published, but one key number is in. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reports that the country’s coal output rose 8.7 percent from 2010 to reach 3.88 billion short tons last year
by Richard Heinberg | Mar 8 2012 by Post Carbon Institute in Energy Bulletin | Mar 9 2012
07 March 2012
Why high oil prices are now affecting Europe more than the US
The world is presently sharing a limited supply of oil. When oil prices rise, oil production doesn’t rise very much, if at all
by Gail Tverberg | Mar 5 2012 by Our Finite World in Energy Bulletin | Mar 7 2012
Figure 1. Brent oil spot price and world oil supply (broadly defined), based on EIA data.
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05 March 2012
Kick Wall Street to the curb, get $15 trillion
It was only a matter of time after we started eating local food and Buying Local from main street stores that we’d start hearing about local money
by Erik Curren | Mar 5 2012 by Transition Voice in Energy Bulletin | Mar 5 2012
03 March 2012
Iran in the crosshairs again
Sabre rattling against Iran is nothing new, but that doesn’t mean the threat of war isn’t real. Phyllis Bennis analyses the situation in the wider Middle East
Phyllis Bennis | RedPepper | March 2012
02 March 2012
Mumbo Jumble: The underwhelming response of the American economics profession to the crisis
Neoclassical economists, having worked hard to convince the world that everything was hunky-dory circa 2005, and concurrently having invented the rationales and the theories behind the financial time bombs that went off across the landscape, don’t seem to have suffered one whit for the subsequent sequence of events, a slow-motion train wreck that one might reasonably have expected would have rubbished the credibility of lesser mortals
by Philip Mirowski | Feb 28 2012 by OpenDemocracy in Energy Bulletin | Mar 1 2012
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German Apprenticeship vs US/UK Uni-Jobless System
It is no big secret that youth unemployment is especially high in Anglo-Saxon economies at the present time
Emanuel | International Political Economy Zone | March 1, 2012
27 February 2012
Economic growth, obesity, and the creed of greed
Who’s right? Gordon Gekko (greed is good) or Tim Jackson (prosperity without growth)? It should be a simple question, but the answer is not so clear
by Garry Egger | Feb 27 2012 by The Daly News in Energy Bulletin | Feb 27 2012
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Confessions of a climate gate-opener
I don't normally do requests, as they say - but I've a lot of messages via emails, blog comments and Twitter asking for a follow-up post on the Heartland Institute, and am happy to oblige
by Richard Black | BBC News | 22 February 2012
Peter Gleick apologised for a "serious lapse of judgement and ethics"
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Cut all fossil-fuel use: scientists
Two Canadian climate-change scientists from the University of Victoria say the public reaction to their recently published commentary has missed their key message: that all forms of fossil fuels, including the oilsands and coal, must be regulated for the world to avoid dangerous global warming
By MIKE DE SOUZA | Postmedia News in the Gazette | February 22, 2012
Growth in Alberta's oilsands industry is only one symptom - of many - of the planet's unhealthy dependence on fossil fuels, say two Canadian climate-change scientists. Photograph by: TODD KOROL REUTERS FILE, Postmedia News
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22 February 2012
All fossil fuels must be cut to avoid global warming, scientists say
Two Canadian climate change scientists from the University of Victoria say the public reaction to their recently published commentary has missed their key message: that all forms of fossil fuels, including the oilsands and coal, must be regulated for the world to avoid dangerous global warming
By Mike De Souza | The Gazette | February 21, 2012
Two Canadian climate change scientists from the University of Victoria say the public reaction to their recently published commentary has missed their key message: that all forms of fossil fuels, including the oilsands and coal, must be regulated for the world to avoid dangerous global warming. Pictured, Suncor's operation. Photograph by: Bruce Edwards , Edmonton Journal
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EU to vote on oil sands pollution
European Union officials are expected to vote on draft legislation that would label Canadian fuel as more polluting than oil from other parts of the world
By Pallab Ghosh | BBC News | 21 February 2012
The Canadian province of Alberta has vast oil sand reserves
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