Apr

26

Univ. of Missouri finally fills the Ken Lay Chair of Economics.

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[From  Think Progress ]

Nine years after former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay donated $1.1 million of Enron stock to fund an economics professorship in his name, the University of Missouri (MU) has finally filled the chair. Though MU hoped to “use the chair to bring in world-renowned economists from other universities,” it [...]

Apr

26

Moving Boxes: Recycle This

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[From The Budget Ecoist]

Ahhhh…the joys of moving! All those boxes, the newspaper, the packaging peanuts! It’s enough to make an Eco Warrior go mad! We’ve previously posted tips on how to recycle and reuse packaging peanuts. But let’s face it, from an environmental perspective, packaging peanuts are, well, peanuts in terms of the bigger picture. [...]

Apr

19

Old lady signing the petiton

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Old lady signing the petiton

Originally uploaded by Kacper (tow.zwierz)

Apr

16

Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?

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[How about just skipping meat for healthier and more environmentaly friendly proteins? -RS]
[From New York Times Blog]
By Andrew C. Revkin
Muscle cells (in this case mouse) can be cultured in the lab. (Karim Sultan/Utrecht University)
The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, [...]

Apr

14

Commentary: How would-be assassin’s bullets changed me

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José Ramos-Horta, the president of East Timor, says he believes he has been given a second chance at life.

(CNN) — On February 11, a group of renegade soldiers invaded my home. As I walked toward my house, I was not aware that they had disarmed my guards and broken into the house, knocking [...]

Apr

10

New York State denies Broadwater

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[From NorwalkPlus.com News]
By Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Long Island, NY- Governor David Paterson announced today at the Sunken Meadow State Park boardwalk to a crowd of Broadwater opponents that the State finds the Broadwater proposal violates the Coastal Zone Management Act and is therefore inconsistent with the values and uses of the Sound.
CCE applauds Governor [...]

Apr

10

FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects

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[From The Iconoclast]
Posted by Declan McCullagh

Screen snapshot: This now-defunct site is reportedly where an FBI undercover agent posted hyperlinks purporting to be illegal videos. Clicking the links brought a raid from the Feds.
The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having [...]

Apr

9

what’s wrong with filtering?

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[From Spammers vs Free Speech]
[If "spam filtering consumes more electricity than everything else in [a] data center,” then spam is a environemntal issue. -RS]
Here’s the most common reaction I get from my friends to my concerns about the spam crisis.
I don’t get much spam. Postini/Yahoo/Earthlink (etc) filters it into a spam box for me [...]

Apr

9

Breaking into a power station in three easy steps

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[From Tech news blog - CNET News.com]
Breaking into a power station in three easy steps
Posted by Elinor Mills
“I will tell (you) how to break into a nuclear reactor,” Ira Winkler, president of security firm ISAG said as he launched into his presentation on “How to Take Down the Power Grid” at RSA 2008 on Tuesday [...]

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