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• Mark Amerika retrospective at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  While in Athens, i checked out the Mark Amerika retrospective at The National Museum of Contemporary Art . How could i miss it? I knew so little about Amerika, an artist who, as the press release reminds, had been described as one of the “Time Magazine 100 Innovators” of the 21st century. Society of the Spectacle ...
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• North American Governments Agree to Protect Wilderness

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  The United States, Canada, and Mexico agreed this week to work together to protect wilderness areas across North America. The cooperation agreement establishes an intergovernmental committee to exchange research and approaches that address challenges such as climate change, fire control, and invasive species in land, ...
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• Every Year of Delaying Legislation on Climate Change Adds $500 Billion a Year Says IEA

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  The normally conservative International Energy Agency is now saying that we must act faster to prevent climate change. Not only to prevent catastrophe, but also because the longer we wait, the more difficult and expensive it becomes to achieve the greater and greater cuts that are necessary to keep worldwide ...
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• Nissan CEO Says Their Electric Car Strategy is “Unique” in Industry

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  In Los Angeles this morning, at the United States unveiling of the Nissan LEAF electric car—set to hit showrooms in late 2010—Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn was enthusiastic and clearly proud of the position the Nissan-Renault Alliance has taken as a leader in the development of electric cars and charging infrastructure. ...
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• Turning Desert into a Garden

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  About two kilometers from the Dead Sea and two from where Jesus was christened, in the country of Jordan, Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute and his crew created a near miracle turning desert into a lush permaculture garden. In August in this location, Lawton says that temperatures could rise above 50 ...
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• “Exotic Behavior” Shines a Light on Piezoelectricity

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab have discovered a new lead-free material that produces an electrical current when exposed to stress.  The phenomenon, called piezoelectricity, sounds exotic but it could some day become as common as backyard grills. ...
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• Netherlands Opens Cow Dung Powered Plant

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  It seems that the more time that goes on, the more we see poop being converted into a useful energy source. The latest nation to jump on board this new green trend in alternative energy is the Netherlands with the opening of a cow dung powered plant this Friday. Read more of this story ...
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• Wilderness Protection Agreement Formed in North America

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  With the US and Canada sharing a border while Mexico meets with the United States, in order to protect North American wildlife and wilderness a collaborative effort is necessary, particularly as global climate change is beginning to put many North American species at risk. Read more of this story ...
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• Child Dies After Ingesting Pesticide Also Used to Kill Lions

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  According to reports , little Kimutai, a three-year-old child from Kenya, died hours after ingesting carbofuran, an odorless pesticide used to control insects on many crops including rice, beans, bananas, pineapple, coffee and vegetables.  But the highly toxic pesticide, sold under the name Furadan and ...
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• No climate-change deal likely by years end, officials say (Its Winter, back to "climate-change")

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  President Obama and leaders from the rest of the worlds top economic powers acknowledged Sunday that theres no hope of a major breakthrough over climate change by years end. The acknowledgment followed Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen telling the leaders gathered for the APEC summit in Singapore that next ...
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• Everyone in Britain could be given a personal carbon allowance

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 430
  Everyone in Britain should have an annual carbon ration and be penalised if they use too much fuel, the head of the Environment Agency will say. It would involve people being issued with a unique number which they would hand over when purchasing products that contribute to their carbon footprint, such as fuel ...
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• Netherlands to levy green road tax by the kilometre

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 430
  AFP | The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion. "Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will ...
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• A Picture Can Lie

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  NEW YORK -- The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combatants, was perhaps the centurys ...
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• Fedor emelianenko vs brett rogers – fight video – strikeforce – full version

  
  MMA Fight Vids! — Authority: 134
  Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko [
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• Global warming skeptic tells group that cure is worse than problem

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Science doesn’t support current global warming alarms and, even if it did, current proposals to fix things won’t work and might make life worse.
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• C-Suite: Ad Providers More Important to Strategy

  
  The NMS Blog — Authority: 146
  As cautiously optimistic global C-suite executives continue to focus on cost-containment, they expect that their advertising and communications providers will become more critical to their business strategy in the coming months, according to (pdf) research from Doremus and the Financial Times. The sixth annual ...
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• Electric cars mass market: A New Kind of Car Company TNR.v, CZX.v, NSANY, BYDDY, RNO, FMC, ROC, SQM, WLC.v, LI.v, RM.v, AV.to, RES.v, QUC.v, F, DAI,

  
  Sufiy. — Authority: 131
  " Nissan Electric Leaf i s coming , it is close and they know how to tell the story: ambitions will match the budget and geopolitical implications will make the money flow - the bottleneck will be where you can not print it: Lithium and REE will be among strategic class of commodities like oil now." With ...
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• ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 14 November 2009

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• 4 Tips for Working with a Virtual Team

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 433
  A virtual team is one where not all the team members are in the same place.  This could be across several buildings in the same town, or across several timezones .  The most extreme examples would be a ‘follow the sun’ type team, with team members in Australia, the US and Europe/Middle East/Africa.  In this ...
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• Global Markets in Review: Stocks Still in Rally Mode, For Now

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 172
  Prieur du Plessis submits: “Words from the Wise” this week comes to you in a shortened format as I do not have access to my normal research resources while on the road in Europe. Although very little commentary is provided, a full dose of excerpts from interesting news items and quotes from market commentators is ...
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