February 2012
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How A New York Taxi Company Killed The Electric...
Via Scoop.it - Green Innovation In the early 20th century, electric cars were actually mainstream. In 1900, there were more electric automobiles on New York City streets than cars powered by gasoline. True, there were only 4,192 cars sold in the United States that year, but 1,575 of them were electric. The advantages were obvious — electrics were quiet, clean, and easy to use. Battery power...
January 2012
2 posts
People’s State of the Union: A Green New Deal for...
People’s State of the Union: A Green New Deal for America from Jill Stein for President on Vimeo.READ THE FULL TEXT: http://www.jillstein.org/text_psou
Obama State of the Union "subverts New Deal" says...
Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, called today for a Green New Deal to counter the “trickle down economic agenda” laid out by President Obama last night in his State of the Union address. Stein plans to release her alternative at 8:30pm Eastern Time in a “People’s State of the Union: A Green New Deal for America” that will be given via her campaign...
December 2011
4 posts
Love Leads Into Mystery: Raising a Child With...
We’re driving home around sunset, late summer. Daniel, age nine, says aloud, “Mom, what do you think is at the end of the universe? Dragonflies? Or just inky blackness?” I write it down. A good moment when what shines in him shines through, but there are plenty of bad moments, too. Daniel, as exquisitely creative, loving, and intelligent as he is, suffers from what experts label an invisible...
TOM THE DANCING BUG: So... You've Been...
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Lists of Note
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will you still love me tomorrow?
[Via delanceyplace.com ] In today’s excerpt - between 1959 and 1964, the most prolific incubator for new teenage music in America was the Brill Building in New York City, which launched the careers of such legendary songwriters (and later performers) as Carole King, Neil Diamond and Bobby Darin: “The Brill Building, located at 1619 Broadway in the heart of New York’s...
November 2011
7 posts
13 Tech Tools for a Paper-Free Life
Here are a few services and gadgets that will significantly reduce your paper trail, making your company and your life more efficient - not to mention help the environment. Via mashable.com
Kids in Polluted Areas Show Cognitive Problems
Traffic pollution’s imprint may begin before birth as newborns with higher exposure show permanent genetic differences. Via news.discovery.com
Green Party Hopeful Vies for Suffolk Legislature →
[From Long Island Press] Ian Wilder, secretary of the Suffolk County Green Party (left),and Cesar Malaga, Green Party candidate for Suffolk By Timothy Bolge County Legislature Cesar Malaga is a…
Breaking Free
Via Scoop.it - News for Greens The revolutionary adventures of Tintin… Via tintinrevolution.free.fr
“Sometimes I leave the house and I’m like, “I know I’m missing something.” And...”
– I’m So Sad I Could Eat a Horse: A Foodie’s Guide to Eating Your Emotions.
Why is the mug of tap water so on point, and so real?
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MIT Professor: Power Your House With 5 Liters of...
Via Scoop.it - “Environmental, Global warming, Oil, Trash, recycling, Green, Energy” At the Aspen Environment Forum today, MIT professor Dan Nocera gave a revolutionary picture of the new energy economy with an assertion that our homes will be our power plants and our fuel stations, powered by sunlight and water. Show original
October 2011
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Green Party candidate peddles his message →
[From Cheektowaga Bee ] by MATT KRUEGER Editor Roger McGill, a firefighter with Bellevue, is a Green Party candidate for the Cheektowaga Town Board.Roger McGill found a new way to pound the pavement….
The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000
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September 2011
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Simulation Suggests There May Have Been a Fifth... →
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Simulation Suggests There May Have Been a Fifth...
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Rocking the Cradle to Cradle Revolution in Davos |...
Via Scoop.it - Green Innovation Consider that 90% of consumer products end up in waste disposal within six months. U.S. adoption of recycling has reached only 28%. And the UK Government estimates that the EU generates 2 billion tonnes of waste products every year. That’s almost literally throwing money away, not to mention a serious potential brand, reputation and trust liability. But...
Speed of light 'broken' at CERN, scientists claim...
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At Park Slope Food Coop, Nannies Covering Shifts
Via Scoop.it - Green Party An allegation by a blog that nannies have been paid to work their employers’ shifts has prompted some hand-wringing and shoulder-shrugging. Show original
Life is hard. Here is someone.: that also reminds... →
meaghano:
in high school, when my friend Will and I spent all day at a police academy somewhere just outside of Tallahassee, helping train SWAT team people (members? officers?) in hostage negotiation. We were chosen by our drama teacher, who got the call because the law enforcement people were looking for…
Defraggle Your Motherdisc! →
How to Watch TV Shows on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod...
Via Scoop.it - iPads in Education Gone are the days of single-television households; in fact, who needs a big, fat, cumbersome television set when you’ve got an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch in the palm of your hand? Thanks to an innovative partnership between MobiTV and AT&T, we’ve got the AT&T U-verse Live TV iOS app to make sure that everyone wins control over their favorite television...
August 2011
8 posts
Nora Bredes, Long Island nuclear plant foe, dies
Via Scoop.it - Nuclear Power ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Family members say Nora Bredes (breeds), a New York advocate for women’s leadership and environmental protection who led the fight to keep a nuclear plant from opening on Long Island 25 years ago, has died at age 60. Show original
The Curious Case of the Immortal Jellyfish
The Curious Case of the Immortal Jellyfish
It’s official: the only thing certain in this world is taxes. That’s because death, for a tiny sea creature, is not inevitable. Turritopsis nutricul, a jellyfish-like hydrazoan, is the only animal known to be potentially immortal.
Once it reaches sexual maturity, Turritopsis looks like a tiny, transparent, many-tentacled parachute (only about 5mm in...
Green Party Candidate for San Francisco Mayor... →
[From: Ballot Access News] San Francisco holds its non-partisan mayoral election on November 8, 2011. On August 8, nine candidates were invited to debate each other at the Castro Theater. Terry Baum,…
Michael Moore needs to apologize! — an open letter →
Dear Michael – Thank you for your latest Open Letter to the American public, reprinted below. As always, it is very well written and right on target. Except for the fact that what you urge us to do…
World War II: The American Home Front in Color →
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World War II: The American Home Front in Color
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Debt Ceiling Deal: The Democrats Take a Dive →
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone So the debt deal has finally been reached. As expected, the agreement arrives in a form that right-thinking people everywhere can feel terrible about with great…
July 2011
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Disagreement Hierarchy →
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Disagreement Hierarchy
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Activists Frack Themselves →
Image by arimoore via Flickr [From: On The Wilder Side] During last year’s election, anti-fracking activists wasted time protesting Andrew Cuomo. He could care less. All he cared about was money and…
June 2011
6 posts
Photoshop Clones →
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Photoshop Clones
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Conspicuous Consumption
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In today’s excerpt - in the 1980s, “conspicuous consumption” reached the middle class, as middle class consumers began to leave behind the practical but seemingly dated habits of their parents - embodied by Sears and McDonalds - and traded them for consumption that they believed would display their uniqueness and authenticity - buying Evian water and...
Florence Welch: Not Fade Away
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REGRETS OF THE DYING
REGRETS OF THE DYING For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes...
May 2011
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little things
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The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism. -...
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism. How did Margaret Marcus – a middle-class Jew from Larchmont, N.Y. – become Islamic ideologue Maryam Jameelah? The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism By Deborah Baker Gray Wolf Press 246 pp. ...
April 2011
4 posts
When I'm on the Phone
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Edgar Oliver: Apron Strings of Savannah
via youtube.com The genesis story of a true bohemian: two children, one spectacularly eccentric mother and Savannah, Georgia. Posted via email from Roger’s Posterous | Comment »
Happy Birthday Billie Holiday - The Blues Are...
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Japan Crowd-sourced Geiger Counter Readings
Japan Geigermap: At-a-glance This map visualises crowd-sourced geiger counter readings from across Japan.via japan.failedrobot.com Posted via email from Roger’s Posterous | Comment »