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• EPA and NREL Want to Use Brown Fields for Renewable Energy

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 142
  Along the same lines as using abandoned mines to create algae biofuel, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are pushing to use thousands of identified brown fields–old industrial sites, contaminated landfills, and abandoned mines that have been cleaned to a ...
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• Comparing the Interstate Highway System to Scientific American’s “A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030″

  
  Climate Sanity — Authority: 453
  In the November, 2009 issue of Scientific American, Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi propose a plan to supply the world’s energy needs entirely by solar, wind and water sources by 2030. They conclude that the cost would be $100 trillion. My calculations show the cost to be more like $200 trillion. This post ...
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• Scientific American’s “A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030:” the Cost

  
  Climate Sanity — Authority: 453
  The cover story of the November issue of Scientific American, A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030,” by Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi  promises a path to a “sustainable future” for the whole world in just 20 years. They define “sustainable” as a world where all energy sources are derived from ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Thursday, November 12

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  If it’s cool and green, we’ve got it this morning. Open your eyes and read on for the latest news about hybrids hitting pedestrians , tuna fishing killing albatross and the local benefits of nature tourism . Are hybrids more likely to hit pedestrians and bicyclists than other car types , as a new study ...
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• Nuclear fuel cycle and greenhouse gas emissions

  
  Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes — Authority: 470
  Scientific American has some odd ideas about sustainable development and nuclear energy Over at Brave New Climate Barry Brook and others have published reviews of an article published in the November issue of Scientific American magazine. Brook writes that the November 2009 issue of Scientific American ...
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• It’s All Semantics: Searching for an Intuitive Internet That Knows What Is Said–And Meant

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia The National Science Foundation delivers $1.1 million to Rensselaer Polytech researchers to stimulate the Semantic Web The Internet grew out of an idea to connect various and disparate sources of data, delivering to researchers around the globe unprecedented access to information via ...
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• In Honor of Veterans Day: American History Magazines

  
  Blog Magazine — Authority: 421
  Today, we are proud to participate in a great American tradition of paying homage to all those who have served our country as members of our Armed Forces. According to History.com, today there is an estimated 23.2 million veterans in the U.S. In honor of Veterans Day , were spotlighting some of our most-popular ...
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• Nov. 11, 1936: Einstein Gets Ice Cold

  
  This Day In Tech — Authority: 642
  1936: Albert Einstein and fellow nuclear scientist Leo Szilard receive an American patent for a new kind of refrigerator that requires no electricity. The most famous physicist of the 20th century wasn’t a Thomas Edison : The fridge would prove to be one of Einstein’s few forays into the world of commonplace ...
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• Science Explains Why We Are Racist Against Black

  
  The Awl — Authority: 710
  MC Serch was right. It was a white guy that started all that. And that white guy’s name was… Felix Unger! Scientific American reports on a recent study asserting that the metaphorical association of white with “good” and black with “bad” has at its roots the human desire for cleanliness: “The ...
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• Scientific Americans Path to Sustainability: Lets Think about the Details

  
  The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — Authority: 640
  Scientific American presents "A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030" in its November issue. In many ways, it sounds good. But lets think about the details: What would the end result look like? Would it really be sustainable? What would the costs really be? Is there any way we could afford to do what is proposed? The ...
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• Stellar deal: NASA awards $2 million to X PRIZE winners for helping develop a lunar lander

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image by Goddard Photo and Video Blog via Flickr Less than one month after NASA crashed its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into the moon’s surface in order to analyze the resulting plume of debris for signs of water , the U.S. space agency is handing out nearly $2 million on ...
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• Squeezing the Most Nutrients Out of your Veggies – Cooked or Raw?

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 530
  Which is more nutritious – A raw carrot or a cooked one? What about tomatoes? Mushrooms? Cabbage? If you answered raw to all of the above, you may be in for a surprise. According to the Scientific American , the answer is not so simple. It turns out that some nutrients are actually more available to the body when ...
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• Scientific American - How Noise Can Help Quantum Entanglement

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 485
  Geeky science stuff. How Noise Can Help Quantum Entanglement What spoils quantum entanglement can also restore it By George Musser Wouldn’t it be nice to be an electron? Then you, too, could take advantage of the marvels of quantum mechanics, such as being in two ...
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• Mining for Algae: Could Abandoned Mines Help Grow Biofuel?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image by `◄ccdoh1► via Flickr Missouri researchers aim to grow algae for biofuels in abandoned mines Backers of algae-based biofuels tout the simplicity of their feedstock. Sunlight and water are all that’s needed to convert carbon dioxide into fuel. Now, some scientists are testing the notion that ...
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• Plan B for Energy: 8 Revolutionary Energy Sources

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image by ozgurmulazimoglu via Flickr If efficiency improvements and incremental advances in today’s technologies fail to halt global warming, could revolutionary new carbon-free energy sources save the day? Don’t count on it—but don’t count it out, either To keep this world tolerable for life as we ...
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• Depressed? Congrats, Lady: Youre EVOLVED

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 143
  For those of you who have ever wondered, would Darwin take Xanax? - and I know that youre out there - theres finally an answer: no, because depression is a sign of strong evolutionary adaptation. Or something. Maybe. According to a report discussed this week in Newsweek , depression may be an "adaptation" in human ...
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• The Jacobson-Delucchi plan revealed

  
  The Nuclear Green Revolution — Authority: 465
  The devil is in the details, and the details are where the renewable energy schemes come apart. This is the case for the Jacobson-Delucchi plan recently published in Scientific-American to set the world on a course to an all renewable energy scheme. But support for Mark Z. Jacobsons thinking about renewable energy ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Thursday, October 29

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  Does a “green” job make you an environmentalist? Will the world come forward and pay Ecuador not to drill for oil in the Amazon ? And how do birds know where to migrate to anyway? We don’t promise all these questions will be answered, but we do guarantee you’ll get the hottest green news links around, or ...
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• How Women Can Save the Planet

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise At six billion plus today, the earth’s human population will reach more than nine billion by 2050, according to estimates. If this many ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 28

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  There are more trees out there than previously thought .  Carbon emissions may soon be offset with a text message .  Tractor-trailers might be going green (really?).  It’s a yucky, rainy morning here in Cool Green Science Land, so let’s brighten it up with some nice, happy (for the most part) green news : ...
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