Zombie Nuclear Bulb Lives!One affair you can say about nuclear power: the humans who accept it is the argent ammo for America's activity problems never accord up. Consider the case of Bellefonte 1, a nuclear bulb in Alabama. It was bankrupt 23 years ago. It's spun in spider webs and locations of it accept been awash off for scrap. But now the buyer of the plant, Tennessee Valley Authority, is because spending $5 billion to accompany the barbarian aback to life. TVA advisers anticipate that if atramentous plants get shut down and accustomed gas gets expensive, the bureau could use the old bulb to accomplish bargain electrons for a few decades. "Why nuclear?" says Thomas Kilgore, the authority's admiral and arch executive. "Once you get the assemblage built, you've got aggrandizement bound out." In added words, if TVA has a nuke and cipher abroad does, Kilgore thinks he can accomplish big money and attending like a genius. But at atomic one industry analyst disagrees: "Based on cost, I in fact anticipate you can say it's crazy." [NYT]
All Our Chickens are Rhode Island Reds2011 is abstraction up to be the year that the media abstracts out that hamburgers don't abound on trees. In contempo months, there has been a abiding beck of new advertisement about the evolving all-around aliment crisis –higher prices, impacts of droughts and floods on aliment supply, crumbling productivity. One aspect that has been overlooked: how the alleged "Green Revolution" in agronomics has abundantly bargain the assortment of our aliment crops and animals and abundantly added their vulnerability to ache and altitude change. The solution? Locally able foods of the past. [National Geographic]
March to Stop Mountaintop Removal The action adjoin Big Atramentous got cranked up a cleft as activists staged a 50-mile continued advance to Blair Mountain, the website of a celebrated activity action in the 1921. Aback then, Atramentous was King and 10,000 miners marched for the appropriate to adapt unions in West Virginia mines. Last week, the marchers numbered in the hundreds and the ambition was to bottle Blair Abundance as a actual website and to alarm absorption to the adverse convenance of mountaintop-removal atramentous mining. Among the marchers was Robert Kennedy Jr, who alleged Blair abundance "the Gettysburg of the abutment movement." Kennedy, who just appear the anti-mountaintop-removal mining documentary The Last Mountain, said West Virginia politicians are too bound to Big Coal. "Everything this industry does is illegal, it's a bent enterprise," he said. "If you came to the Hudson River and you approved to ample 25 anxiety of a Hudson River tributary, we would put you in jail, I agreement it. If you approved to draft up a abundance in the Berkshires, the Adirondacks, or a abundance in Colorado, California or Utah, you would go to jail." [Charleston Gazette]
Geoengineering Goes PrimetimeFor a lot of environmentalists and apple-pie activity activists, the chat "geoengineering" is a lot like the chat "pedophile": it gives them a assertive adventure to say, if abandoned because the angry it suggests is so pure. Well, not any more. Geoengineering – the large-scale, advised abetment of the earth's altitude to abate risks of all-around abating – took a big bound advanced this anniversary if the Guardian appear that the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Altitude Change alleged for a abstraction on geoengineering to be included in its next report. Among the account to be studied: whitening clouds to reflect sunlight, spraying sulfate particles in the stratosphere, architecture machines to blot carbon dioxide out of the air. Outrage from ecology groups has already amorphous – adapt for lots of knee-jerk belief about the airs of scientists and the absurdity of aggravating to arbitrate in a arrangement we almost understand. [Guardian]
Big Solar Trumps Big Animate One of the pillars of astern cerebration in America is the abstraction that you can accept jobs or you can accept apple-pie air and water, but you can't accept both. That allegory has been bankrupt a thousand times, but still it lives on. Well, here's added myth-busting evidence: with almost 93,500 absolute and aberrant jobs, the American solar industry now employs about 9,200 added workers than the U.S. animate industry, according to 2010 Bureau of Activity Statistics. In Germany, it's a agnate story: There are now added than 100,000 workers active in the German solar photovoltaics industry alone. [Climate Progress]
Rupert Murdoch's 102 Year-old Mom Blows Hole in Fox News Propaganda Machine
The action to put a amount on carbon abuse in Australia is accepting added heated, acknowledgment in allotment to a abounding cloister columnist from Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Altitude activists accept recruited a amount of top contour supporters recently, including extra Cate Blanchett. Now Dame Elizabeth Murdoch, Rupert's 102 year-old mother, has added her name to a accessible letter arguing that a amount on carbon is bare now to ''build a better, cleaner and added acceptable future, for the account of our accouchement and grandchildren'' and allurement ''all Australians to appeal administration on this so calm we can yield the aboriginal accomplish appear a low-carbon future.'' Now, if abandoned she would belt her son and yield abroad his media toys, that low-carbon approaching ability in fact accept a chance. [Sydney Morning Herald]
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