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Glass jammer cuts wearable's WiFi in misguided privacy ploy
2014-06-05 11:00:07| Wireless - Topix.net
An anti- Google Glass artist is threatening to cut off the wearable's WiFi over privacy concerns, though the connection cutting project seems to be based more on knee-jerk fear than an understanding of how Glass actually works.
Divestment of fossil fuel companies is misguided
2014-05-27 05:05:58| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Pittsfield Democrat Senator Benjamin Downing has come up with a plan to send a message to fossil fuel companies who , in his judgment are destroying the earth and possibly killing babies too.
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Brown University's Misguided Vote to Not Divest From Coal
2013-10-27 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Today, on the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Brown University defied the will of its student body and its own investment advisory committee and voted not to divest from the 15 largest U.S. coal companies. "I'm deeply disappointed in our administration," said Brown student Ruby Goldberg '17. "The board acted explicitly in opposition to the voices of Brown's community, and of the endowment oversight committee. This could have been a moment for Brown to step up as a leader in the fight against climate...
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Australia: Plan to use Aboriginal land as a nuclear waste dump is flawed and misguided
2013-07-31 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This week, federal resource minister Gary Gray is talking radioactive waste with Aboriginal people in remote central Australia. Six years ago an Aboriginal clan group, the Northern Land Council (NLC) and the then Howard government signed a secret deal to develop Australias first purpose-built national radioactive waste dump at Muckaty, north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. The commercial-in-confidence plan saw the clan group "volunteer" an area of the shared Muckaty Land Trust for...
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Military Report: America Has 'Misguided' Fixation With Domestic Drilling
2013-06-24 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A new report from the U.S. Center for Naval Analyses and the London-based Royal United Services Institute, two of the NATO alliance's front-line strategy centers, recommends putting more effort into fighting global warming than securing reliable supplies of fossil fuels. The authors call the habitual American fixation on winning energy independence through expanded North American production of oil and natural gas "misguided." They say the "only sustainable solution" to the problem of energy insecurity...
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