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Heeding Pressure From Activists, Harvard Pledges To Take Climate Change More Seriously
2014-04-09 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: After mounting pressure from both students and the public, Harvard on Monday announced that it will heed calls to take climate change more seriously. In a release on its website, Harvard President Drew Faust said the prestigious Ivy League school would become the first American university to pledge, via a United Nations-backed program, to make more environmentally responsible and sustainable investments. The program, called the Principles for Responsible Investment, will guide the investment decisions...
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CES 2014: 4G cars usher in the era of the seriously connected automobile
2014-01-08 14:02:44| Extremetech
Sooner not later, every car will be connected with 4G telematics. Streaming video and crash avoidance for all. Just learn to love AT&T 4G.
Every serious environmentalist must support fracking? Seriously?
2013-12-15 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: If you oppose fracking, then you are not a serious environmentalist. So say U.C. Berkeley physics professor Richard Muller and his daughter Elizabeth Muller in a new opinion paper with a none-too-subtle title: "Why Every Serious Environmentalist Should Favor Fracking." Until recently, Muller wasn`t much of an environmentalist himself. He was a prominent climate denier. But last year he wrote in The New York Times that he came to realize the error of his ways after an intensive review of the...
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Shoot Super Widescreen Films With an iPhone? Seriously?
2013-12-04 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Budget filmmakers, here's one for you: Scott Cahall, a lens designer at Moondog Labs, has invented a 1.33x anamorphic adapter lens for the iPhone 5 and 5s and is offering it through a Kickstarter project. What's anamorphic? An anamorphic lens let you capture expansive panoramic images and film in gorgeous widescreen. It introduces organic lens flares and distortion that add character and depth.
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Why is Europe failing to take the energy-water connection seriously?
2013-11-04 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Concerns are intensifying in the US about the troubling interdependence of the economy's water and energy needs. In particular, the vast quantities of water (about 40% of national water withdrawals) needed for cooling US power plants are making headlines, and proposals to build thirsty new generation plants in drought-stricken states like Texas are under heavy scrutiny. Hydropower is also under strain from climate change, as more and more "one in a hundred years" droughts are reducing rivers to a...
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