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Climate change? Don't hold your breath
2013-02-05 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: When I served in the White House, I convinced a speech writer to insert a paragraph in favor of a policy I championed into President Carter's forthcoming speech. I was going (as many had before me) to use this paragraph to urge the relevant agencies to proceed, on the ground that, "the president stated... " I was stopped by a new staff director who, during the fourth year of the Carter administration, introduced a "revolutionary" idea: that speeches should be checked against policy. That is, that...
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The 404 1,199: Where it's a breath of dead air (podcast)
2013-01-31 21:35:37| CNET News.com
The Web site governmentattic.com just released a list of words, phrases, and configurations you're not allowed to put on a vanity license plate. Join us as we run through a few of our favorites, George Carlin style. Plus hacker t-shirt collections, Amoeba Music's new online Vinyl Vault store, and another bookmark in our ongoing conversation about video game violence. [Read more]
Take a deep breath of everyone else's air and pollution
2013-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: Perhaps it was due to the fever of impending flu, or the arctic winds rattling our Tokyo home, but recent media photos of Beijing`s thick smog suddenly brought to mind thoughts of the late U.S. president, John F. Kennedy. On June 26, 1963, Kennedy delivered his most famous Cold War speech to reassure the people of Germany that the United States would not abandon the citizens of West Berlin. By then, those citizens had been encircled by the 155-km-long Berlin Wall erected by the German Democratic...
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Linux Mint 14 Is a Breath of Fresh Air
2013-01-09 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Linux Mint 14, released in December and dubbed the "Nadia" version, is loaded with a horde of improvements to all four of its desktop environments. It is not usually necessary to grab every new release to a distro, but Nadia is a significant upgrade to an evolving Linux OS. This one is a keeper.
The Wind Industry Gets To Draw Another Breath
2013-01-03 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In the last-minute tax maneuvering in Congress this week, wind power came out well. Wind not only got an extension of its tax credit in the federal budget compromise, but the rules were also restructured: while the extension runs for only one year, the nature of the deadline has changed. Projects do not need to be finished and feeding electricity to the grid by next New Years Eve; construction only needs to be started. That change could prove critical. The renewal comes so late developers had...
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