18+--Environmental Issues

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18+--Environmental Issues

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Forget that cr@p about saving Gaia:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture ... crisis.ars

Save the green by going green.
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New, efficient wind turbines to come into play:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/0 ... 7200.shtml
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Stories of mafia sinking ships full of toxic waste may be true:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/16 ... art_pos=21
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Rush Limbaugh to race the Ford Escort hybrid on Leno:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=16317

Cuz Rush and Levin make me laugh at politics as much as Colbert and Stewart, but for different reasons :P
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Google tool for monitoring deforestation:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10413145-54.html
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How to beat the carbon tax:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/201 ... torage.ars



Shove it in the ground.
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In honour of the green festival, a good highway idea:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/eco- ... -highways/


Lights powered by wind from passing cars.
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Beef is a very large consumer of water:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/201 ... hirsty.ars
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Are insurance rates going up due to an increase in natural disasters stemming from climate change?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dis ... te-change/

Nope. We just own more cr@p now.

Follow-up:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/foll ... te-change/

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.ca/2011/1 ... imate.html
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