Posts tagged with ‘environment’
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | UK set for 15% renewables target
From January 18, 2008 @ 10:55 am
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | UK set for 15% renewables target
The European Union is expected to tell the UK that 15% of energy needs must be met from renewable sources by 2020.
Someone explain to me why we can’t do this here?
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Promoting bike-sharing in Philadelphia | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/16/2008
From January 17, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
Promoting bike-sharing in Philadelphia | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/16/2008
“I saw the future,” he said. “This could solve some of our problems.” Reduce traffic congestion in Center City, encourage healthier lifestyles, improve the air quality, save people money and time.
Very Cool.
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Panel: Increase gas tax to fix roadways – CNN.com
From January 15, 2008 @ 9:06 am
I’m all for this raise in the gas tax. Anything that will make the cost of transportation via gas powered vehicles too hard to bear in this country is a good thing. It will force our country to reassess how it faces life. If we can’t even afford to all drive our SUVs and Minivans and cars alone, how could we remain so ruggedly individualistic. The country needs this.
Well, maybe that’s extreme… Oh well :)
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China announces plastic bag ban
From January 09, 2008 @ 9:05 am
As much as I hate to admit it, there are advantages to running a totalitarian government (like being able to enforce efforts to curb pollution just because you said so)…
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Grass biofuels ‘cut CO2 by 94%’
From January 08, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
This article from the BBC documents a possible new source of biofuel. I was definitely against the use of corn based ethanol because corn is such a staple in the diets of so many third-world countries and would thus adversely affect their food supply. However, switchgrass? That’s not so bad. After all, who eats switchgrass?
However, you still run into the same problems of using fertile land to grow fuel instead of food in third world countries. As I was reading the article I had a bizarre picture pop up into my head of a time in the future when there will be no more natural land. Instead, every square acre will be tuned for the support of mankind. One acre for food production, another for fuel production, another for housing, another for “environmental support” (trees to eat CO2 and produce oygen, etc. etc.). Anyway, thought that was somewhat interesting.
