Wednesday, March 30, 2011

dead Turtle, Dead Aid, Waste in Europe, Europse Wasted, Steam Power

You Definitely DO NOT WANT this Turtle to Make Soup for You


The following comment appeared below the article accompanying the above picture (and two more pictures, one, a closer view of some of the objects, another just specifically the plastic “bags” taken from the same sea turtle’s stomach).

COMMENTER: DJR on Mar 30, 3:00 PM said: “What the hell is this doing on the front page of a business blog????”
MY REPLY, appears below.
RESPONSE:

The reason this appears "above the

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Monday, March 14, 2011

Exxon Truthful, UK wrong,Beware the Natural Gas, CCS for Alta, CO² on Trial

Exxon is Right, UK is wrong

I’m tempted to say something like, “What did you expect from the homeland of BP?” except that I rather like BP, so I won’t say that.

In this case however, a consumer protection agency in Great Britain ruled that Exxon Mobil has to stop playing a commercial you may have seen, and probably will continue to see here in the US and Canada. It talks about the beneficial potential of the research that they are doing. Well, that Synthetic Genomics is doing as

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Irrigation Causes Climate Change?, Dense Edu, Perennials Cooler, Exports

The MUST be a Pony Here Somewhere

On DECEMBER 7, 2010 the following announcement appeared on the www.commerce.gov website.

“Today Secretary Locke joined seven other U.S. government agencies in launching the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative, a coordinated effort to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency exports.

Through the Initiative, the U.S. government will support renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE&EE) exporters by offering new financing

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