Thursday, July 10th, 2008
[kabl1992 / Flickr]
Alternative energy occupies an unusually large piece of the stage in this presidential campaign because of gas prices, the Iraq war, and global warming, among other things. Just over a month ago, the government banned new solar-energy projects on public land. The reason: it needed two years to ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Sarolta Cump found this one. It's a sendup of carbon offsets -- the idea that you can neutralize your CO2 footprint by purchasing an equivalent amount of renewable energy, reforestation, etc. Offsets are controversial, and they figure somewhat differently in the McCain and Obama climate plans.
The video stars Remy ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Veronica lives in Southern California and is a "proud far-left Liberal" who is "anti-hate" of any kind. Here she talks with Chelene, a Save Our State anti-illegal-immigration activist. Chelene argues that racism has nothing to do with her stance and that reducing crime and protecting the environment do. (Thanks, ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The devastating midwest floods point to a bunch of election issues. Global warming, for one. Whether or not these particular floods are a direct result, they're a preview of the kind of extreme weather predicted by climate models. Then there are the rising corn prices due to flooded cropland, which ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Paul lives in Wichita, Kansas, where he's an aerospace engineer. Somewhere in the eight or so years since he moved there, he decided that it has "the ambiance and excitement of a gravel parking lot." So to relieve the boredom, he took up video making. Oh, and also aerobatic flying ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
[37oC / Flickr]
Click here. Just do it. Then thank James Mills for finding it.
The "it" in question, if you weren't inclined to click, is another really cool map that shows CO2 emissions. This one tracks emissions as well as births and deaths in real time for every country in the ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Stay with this one (or fast forward) through the first 30 seconds of opening credits. After that it's cool -- probutcool, actually. (Via James Mills.) Lots of maps show different sources of fossil-fuel CO2 emissions across the US. They're based on data collected by scientists from Purdue University, Colorado State ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
[thingermejig / Flickr]
"Green" has become a buzzword for everything from lightbulbs to high rises, and with the greening come choices about personal behavior. Thirty-something Boston Gal from, yes, Boston, Massachusetts, wonders how much difference one person can make; but she decides it's worth trying to be environmentally friendly anyway (hat ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
[Octoferret / Flickr]
This six-minute probutcool podcast episode from CU-Boulder in Colorado ties together two election issues: nuclear war and the environment. (Found by James Mills.) Michael Mills (no relation!), a research associate at the university's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, explains: A small, regional nuclear war could create a ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Earth Day altar [lars hammar / Flickr]
One youth pastor in central Pennsylvania probably isn't impressed with Google's Earth Day holiday logo today. He thinks Earth Day is the "worst holiday ever" because it turns the earth into an idol. In fact he's staging a personal boycott (hat tip to Ann ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The campaigns haven't been talking much about global warming recently, so it seemed a good time to remember why they should be. This video (which comes via co-curator James Mills) was made by Greg Craven, a high-school science teacher in Corvallis, Oregon. It's an enthusiastic argument designed to convince even ...
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