March 2012
10 Coal-Fired Power Plants Shuttered | Mother... →
Christmas came on Leap Day for anti-coal activists. On Wednesday, two Midwestern utilities announced the closure of a total of ten aging coal plants, including two intercity Chicago plants that have long been a focal point for environmental groups.
Midwest Generation announced that it will close Chicago’s Fisk Power Plant in 2012 and the Crawford Plant in 2014. Local and national activists...
February 2012
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“I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my...”
– Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (via whylovememylove)
“Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the...”
– José Saramago (via withnailrules)
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Fukushima – Worse Than Chernobyl →
The U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported weekly deaths by age in 122 cities, which represents about 25 to 35 percent of the population total. Deaths rose 4.46 percent from 2010 to 2011 in the 14 weeks after the arrival of Japanese fallout, compared with a 2.34 percent increase in the prior 14 weeks. The number of infant deaths after Fukushima rose 1.80 percent, compared with a previous...
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FLASH! Obama caves: Keystone XL Pipeline to be... →
climateadaptation:
The White House issued a statement supportive of TransCanada’s latest plan, saying, “The President welcomes today’s news that TransCanada plans to build a pipeline to bring crude oil from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf of Mexico.”
“As the President made clear in January, we support the company’s interest in proceeding with this project, which will help address the ...
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LEGO buys $500 million worth of wind turbines →
climateadaptation:
Only in Denmark…
citymaus:
The world’s third-largest toy manufacturer is going to be putting “made with wind power” labels on all those boxes of LEGOs, and not just because they bought their power from utilities with wind turbines. Kirkbi A/S, the family holding company that owns LEGO, will be buying actual wind turbines representing fully a third of an offshore wind...
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“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via thenocturnals)
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The emotional midnight musings of a nothing
When will it be my turn? When will I begin to feel proud of myself? Perhaps never. The other day, I was in my environmental geochemistry class that is taught by the distinguished professor of the department, Professor Delano, who also happens to be my advisor. A fantastic teacher, mentor, and part-time researcher for NASA, I’ve never encountered anyone as brilliant as this man in my entire...
