February 2012
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“Students today are over $1 trillion in debt. That’s more than credit card debt....”
– Noam Chomsky
(via azspot)
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Do Americans Really Support Shipping Toxic Sludge... →
First of all, you won’t find tar sands mentioned in any of the polling. And in most polls, you won’t even find oil. It’s just the Keystone XL pipeline, no context, no mention of what it will carry, and certainly no mention of the environmental risks of building a massive pipeline to carry toxic tar sands sludge through the heartland of America to the gulf of Mexico, where it would be...
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Canadian Government Poisoning Wolves to Slow Rapid... →
Oh my fucking god.
Canada’s caribou population are in steep decline. That’s due in part to the destruction of habitat through logging, expanding tar sands production, and other industrial development in the province of Alberta.
But rather than focus on habitat conservation efforts to protect threatened caribou populations in the province, Canadian officials are poisoning and shooting...
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“Contrary to how it seems to work with the rest of the human species, if you want...”
– Me
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“Mitt didn’t just beat Newt Gingrich, he stomped him by a devastating 14...”
– Stephen Colbert
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“When policymakers see things like climate change, peak oil, the economic crisis,...”
– Ahmed, The Crisis of Civilization (via solitaryforager)
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“Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity’s most pressing...”
– Saudi Arabia’s oil minister (seriously!)
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January 2012
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“If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the...”
– Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)
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Many thanks to Human Scale Cities for reblogging... →
Any other planners or planning aficionados out there?
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Mother Earth isn't a mother
Mother Earth isn’t a mother. It is incorrect to think of Earth as a superorganism. It is supraorganismic. Sorry for the clunky term. Calling the Earth a superorganism is like calling yourself a superorgan. You’re more than a collection of organs: you are more than the sum of your parts. Just so, the Earth is much more than the sum of the organisms that live and die on it. It has...
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Greg Palast » XL's "Smart" PIG designed to conceal... →
The flaw allows cracks, leaks and corrosion to go undetected – and that saves the industry billions of dollars in pipe replacements. But there’s a catch. Pipes with cracks and leaks can explode – and kill.
‘With the error left in place, [the programmer] said, “People die.” ‘Pig Man #2 was shaking a bit when he said it. On September 9, 2010, a gas pipeline exploded, incinerating...
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WatchHow Bainbridge Island Cut Peak Power Consumption 10MW
The 23,000 citizens of Bainbridge Island in Washington State are showing how a combination of transparent price signals, online social networking and old fashioned community organizing can make a big difference in reducing energy consumption.
Located in Puget Sound, Bainbridge Island has been a major energy hog — with residents consuming...
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