Foldable Canoe for Survivalists (and others)
There have been some foldable boats on the market but probably none as light (4 kilo) and compact (13 x 23 x 70 centimeters) as this one that can be assembled in about five minutes.
Global Weirding
A Legacy: The Eternal Nuclear Dump
We are a civilization that ignores or glosses over its past mistakes, the horrors of its history and seems blissfully oblivious to all the terrible dangers that surround us in the present. With all the conflict and war, rapid population growth, dwindling supplies of resources, from water, to food, to energy, and the steadily warming temperature of the atmospheric stew we’re all simmering in, I’m amazed that anyone believes we will have descendents at all beyond a century or two.
13 Clean & Dirty Tech Policy & Politics News Stories
Some more clean (& dirty) tech policy and politics stories from the last week….
Leading Republicans Introduce Clean Energy Bill
After years of procrastination and false claims (i.e. lies) that they were going to help make the U.S. energy independent; after flat-out denial of clear scientific facts; after proposing a market-based system for dealing with environmental pollution (cap and trade) and then demonizing it when Democrats picked it up and try to implement it, leading Republicans in the Senate seemed to have turned a major corner.
New Book on Link Between Climate Change and Human Health (You Can Win It)
Director of Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment Paul Epstein, MD and award-winning science journalist Dan Ferber have a new book out on the health impacts of climate change: Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It. And you can win a copy of it here on CleanTechnica.
Cleantech Politics News of the Week
Here’s a wrap-up of some of the good or big cleantech (and dirty tech) politics stories we didn’t cover from the last week or so, to complement our wrap-ups of big solar and wind energy news and other cleantech news. Obama Says “Climate Change” Again As I noted over on … [continued]
Cleantech News Link Drop
I decided to leave last week’s roundup of cleantech (or related) news that we didn’t already cover on Cleantechnica to today (for various reasons). So, now, here’s the roundup. China’s High-Speed Trains [VIDEOS] Why fly when you can travel the 1000km between Guangzhou (Canton) near Hong Kong to Wuhan – … [continued]
Geothermal Heat Pump Systems’ Contributions Towards Emissions Reductions
On Thursday, December 16, 2010, the California Air Resource Board approved a plan that would place a cap in 2012 on the amount of carbon emissions from 600 major industrial plants in the state. This is a huge step towards California’s legislative goal set by the Global Warming Solutions Act … [continued]
World Bank Giving More to Clean Energy, but Also to Fossil Fuels
The World Bank has been talking more and more about focusing its support on clean energy projects, and apparently it has been putting much more into clean energy lately. “The World Bank’s lending for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects increased by 300 percent between fiscal year 2007 and fiscal … [continued]
Climate Change Chatbot: For When You’re Tired of Explaining Climate Science to Climate Deniers…
There are many reasons to promote clean energy — it creates more jobs than dirty energy, it improves national security, it improves our health, AND, it helps prevent or minimize the effects of global warming. Of course, one of the more well-known reasons is this latter one (that clean energy … [continued]
