Tag: energy
group name: sustainability
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September 10, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
I hate to say "I told you so," but the news of a big new oil discovery by Chevron and two partners in the Gulf of Mexico confirms what I've been saying for years: Oil is not scarce. Big Oil's . . .
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February 15, 2006 02:10 PM EST --
What is "sustainability?" It boils down to this: don't eat your seed corn.
A time-tested concept, sustainability highlights the need to build replenishing systems that can supply the present . . .
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July 26, 2006 06:22 AM EDT --
With the release of Al Gore's new documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, has come a blizzard of commentary, both in print and over the airwaves. Speculation that Gore may be ramping up to campaign . . .
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August 11, 2006 08:44 AM EDT --
This from a classmate of mine. He fails to mention the mercury discharged to the atmosphere of coal plants which has made our fish dangerous to eat. -
<h2>President Carter and his . . .
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August 08, 2007 11:51 PM EDT --
Returning home after a 20 day vacation provided the opportunity to look at my home, my office and my schedule with a fresh perspective. After living out of one suitcase for three weeks, everything seemed . . .
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April 19, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
A wise frog once said “It’s not easy being green.” This is as true today as it was those many years ago. Yet while it is not easy to lead a green life, it is not impossible. Nothing worth . . .
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February 28, 2008 05:04 PM EST --
David Sandalow wrote Freedom from Oil because he knows that the current energy crisis needs to be addressed. In his book, he suggests several ways to solve it, but are you doing your part? . . .
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August 09, 2006 08:23 AM EDT --
Hello! Wakeup Call!
Just what we need! A brand new 4,000-mile, $184 billion transportation highway splitting the country in two. With oil over $75 a barrel and gasoline topping $3.00 a gallon, a host . . .
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April 13, 2006 01:23 PM EDT --
You asked questions regarding Whole Foods Markets' sustainability values and business, and Dave Rosenberg, Director of Marketing for Whole Foods Market, Inc. answered:
Question for Dave Rosenberg: . . .
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August 17, 2006 09:20 AM EDT --
While a commentary asserts Minnesota's corn production faces multiple challenges, MPR's garden Weblog author Preston Wright ponders another aspect - the dilemma of corn as food or ethanol:
There . . .
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April 09, 2007 11:03 AM EDT --
The recent acceptance in mainstream politics of the threats created by global warming has complicated the already complex issues which Bill Bradley discusses in his chapter on "Oil and the Environment." . . .
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December 12, 2007 03:17 PM EST --
Some people must think so. According to an article in Nature, venture capital investment in alternate energy has risen from about $30 billion in 2004 to almost $95 billion this year. Most of the investment . . .
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November 20, 2007 09:06 AM EST --
Sea Stachura 's feature Do we buy ethanol (in Minnesota) because we have to? opens with the following:
You're at this Wisconsin gas station. You're scanning the pumps -- octane . . .
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April 17, 2006 12:38 PM EDT --
Although it sounds like most people are conscious of their impact (or at least the size of their carbon footprint) I have to wonder what would happen if we all did one, small, proactive thing for the environment? . . .
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January 16, 2007 10:35 PM EST --
My husband and I got a letter in the mail this week, did some research tonight and decided to respond to it via e-mail. Competitive Energy (CES) contacted us to tell us they "are in the business of . . .
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August 08, 2007 11:56 PM EDT --
Now that's you've taken a closer look at your environment to understand how it affects you, the next step is to make it work for you. There are some things you can't control, and that's . . .
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February 21, 2007 03:19 PM EST --
I work theater, and recently moved out to the country side. One of the people I've been working with recently lives in the middle of nowhere, and runs his house almost entirely off of solar panels, . . .
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August 24, 2006 01:53 PM EDT --
This from Investor's Business Daily. The kicker is that ethanol requires more energy from oil and natural gas than it saves.
STARVED FOR ENERGY
Posted 8/23/2006
Energy: Despite huge subsidies . . .
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November 10, 2006 10:02 PM EST --
The logjam has broken. The past six years in America have been characterized by intransigent politics, negation of science, and short term satisfactions over long term survival. A brief two . . .
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August 07, 2008 12:18 AM EDT --
Solar energy refers to using sunlight to create electricity directly from photovoltaic cells, or to create electricity indirectly by using sunlight and mirrors to heat water to make steam to . . .
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