Tag: New York Times
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Now ask yourself why you keep flying, driving, voting for that paving politician….
In case you were wondering whether it might be worth it to take the train instead of flying, biking instead driving, investing in a home energy audit or voting out your paving politician (yup, the progressive ones like their paving as much as your standard issue Republican)……James Hansen has the answer. And Obama needs to get…
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Peripatetic Cyber-Peregrinations May 4 – 7, 2011
My random perusals….updated periodically. There are always alternatives to fossils! June 1 – 4 New Urbanism conference–Learn about how to make sprawl pretty! Ok, I’ll be nice. Maybe they have some good ideas. But over the years of watching development projects come through the city, I’ve come to the conclusion that for the most part,…
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Peripatetic Cyber-Peregrinations
Miscellaneous readings of late: Free will does exist. Buses have history, too! Jack up the gas tax! For decades I’ve been pushing for radically higher gas taxes, at the pump, as well as carbon taxes & such. This little article earned me many enemies among good liberals*, and my public testimony against Mayor Pave’s dirty…
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Clean Energy? Not So Much.
It seems that every couple of years another big time enviro of one stripe or another starts hawking some messianic fuel source or another. I’ve gotten into flame wars with “pragmatic progressive” policy wonks over bio-fuels (um, dear, the net gain over fossils? Zero. But I’ve got a machine for sale that runs off of…
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Unobtanium Discovered in Afghanistan!
Now we’ve got enough Unobtainium — er, Lithium — to keep us in Priuses forever. And yet another reason to stay at war forever.
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How Bad Planning Reduces IQ…and Pay
Denser cities do better economically. Why? Because they bring people together, through proximity & design.
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Jesus Giveth, Jesus Bargaineth Away
The co-dependent, abusive relationship between Jesus H. Obama and His flock continues….
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A Pillar of Progressive Prairie Populism*
Progressive Prairie Populism is back and has a face: Elizabeth Warren
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The Next Messianic Miracle Fuel
Ok, so lithium is not a fuel, it is a material component for storing fuel– in this case, electricity. Lithium-ion batteries are the latest “green” holy grail. Eco-mirage of the hip. Messianic miracle material for the eco-techie. Any good (paid) environmentalist tell you that if only we had enough hybrids on the road, we would…