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Job Losses Push Need for Energy Bill

February 10th, 2010 | Category: Solar, Tidal, Nuclear, Geothermal, Energy infrastructure, Wind, Hydro, Solar thermal, Wave, Photovoltaic, Ocean thermal, Ocean energy, Electricity, Renewable energy, Economics, Energy Policy, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Climate, Biofuels, Politics, Biomass, Environment & sustainablity, Solutions, North America, Natural gas, News - General

Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)

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Throwing our energy at impossible dreams…

December 16th, 2009 | Category: Health, Food & agriculture, Deep water oil, Hydro, Liquid natural gas, Ocean energy, Methane hydrates, Conventional oil, Condensates & NG liquids, Geopolitics & resource wars, Wind, Media & persuasion, Exploration, Community, Arctic oil, Ocean thermal, Other resource depletion, Military, Education, New currencies, Political movements, Water, Waste, OPEC, Wave, Petrodollars & US dollar, Overshoot, Photovoltaic, Population, Solar thermal, Shale oil, Tidal, Solar, Human Ecology & Behaviour, Oil, Biomass, Energy Companies, Coal, Technology, Politics, Energy Policy, Climate, Biofuels, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Transport, Economics, Housing & Urban Design, Heavy Oil, Tar Sands, Electricity, Renewable energy, Energy demand, Energy infrastructure, Nuclear, Geothermal, Energy literacy, Privatisation & globalisation, Consumerism, Natural gas, Industry, Solutions, Global, Environment & sustainablity, News - General

"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"

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Resources and anthropocentrism

October 12th, 2009 | Category: Food & agriculture, Health, Hydro, Liquid natural gas, Deep water oil, Conventional oil, Arctic oil, Community, Condensates & NG liquids, Methane hydrates, Ocean energy, Population, Shale oil, Solar thermal, Wave, Photovoltaic, Petrodollars & US dollar, Ocean thermal, Other resource depletion, Overshoot, Wind, Tidal, Human Ecology & Behaviour, Biomass, Coal, Heavy Oil, Oil, Politics, Biofuels, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Economics, Tar Sands, Natural gas, Geothermal, Nuclear, Solar, Energy demand, Renewable energy, Consumerism, Environment & sustainablity, Energy literacy, News - General

Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.

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