Monthly Archives: October 2009
Leaf blowers, again
Yesterday, while riding my bike, I saw two people dealing with fall leaves. The first was a middle aged man in Mountain View, blowing madly away at leaves in his driveway, blowing them out into the street with a noisy … Continue reading
Filed under global warming/environment, Uncategorized
Stanford, UC Berkeley form science news wire service
The slow and lingering death of “traditional” news media has prompted some of the nations premier scientific institutions to create their own science wire service. …35 top research universities—including Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley—have created their own “wire … Continue reading
Shifting the world to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2030 – here are the numbers
Stanford Report Study: Shifting the world to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2030 – here are the numbers Wind, water and solar energy resources are sufficiently available to provide all the world’s energy. Converting to electricity and hydrogen powered by … Continue reading
Klamath River dams to be removed in 2020; will there be any salmon left?
Finally somebody is gonna do something about the catastrophic collapse of the salmon fisheries. Of course it won’t happen until 2020. And we still have the issue of how fish farms are affecting the wild population. SAN FRANCISCO — A … Continue reading
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