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IEEs Powering the People Event Draws Power Industry, Government, and Technology Leaders
2013-04-04 20:12:00| Transmission & Distribution World
IEEs third annual Powering the People event attracted more than 300 electric utility CEOs, technology company executives, and policymakers to learn more about the electric revolution that is shaping the 21st century.
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Over time, nuclear power would kill fewer people than petroleum
2013-04-03 15:35:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PopSci: Using nuclear power for energy instead of coal has prevented almost 2 million pollution-related deaths around the world, and could save millions more lives in the future, according to a new paper. Its the latest publication from James Hansen, NASAs fiery climate change scientist, who is retiring on Wednesday after 46 years with the space agency. The paper argues that policymakers should increase nuclear power, rather than continuing dependence on fossil fuels. The 2011 disaster at Japans Fukushima...
UK rewards polluters and locks up people who want to save the planet
2013-04-03 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur was imprisoned like Napoleon on Elba? It would be perverse to return the favour of great, public works by depriving people of their freedom. Yet that is just what we're doing in Britain right now. The contributions...
People: Rigmaiden Elevated to Lead Painters' Union; Walsh Division President Tapped as Flatiron COO
2013-04-02 17:36:24| ENR.com: Headline News
Executive shifts also at contractors KBR and ISEC, engineers Merrick & Co. and AMEC, and other firms.
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When it Comes to Gay Marriage and Global Warming, People Are Starting to Believe Their Own Eyes
2013-04-02 11:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The caption on Time magazine's current cover has me rubbing my eyes in joyous disbelief. It reads: Gay Marriage Already Won: The Supreme Court hasn't made up its mind -- but America has. The cover story declares that, no matter what the Supreme Court decides, the public finally accepted the idea of gay marriage. I speak as an old (age 75) gay man who thought he'd seen it all, but I never expected to see progress take the form of an avalanche. What explains this momentous change? The answer is...
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