Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Ireland and Scotland are looking to their offshore winds as a viable renewable energy source.
Scotland has committed to an ambitious target of supplying 50% of their total energy from renewable sources by 2020, and this is 1 more step towards that goal.
The 2 countries have partnered on a study that ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
With oil prices topping new records almost every day this would be a good time for me to say "I told you so" several years ago when I was soap-boxing heavily about the doomed future of depending on a finite resource. But I won't gloat.
My warnings in the past ...
Posted in Environment, Oil and Energy, On The Home Front, Policy | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
An optimistic look past the pollution of confusion surrounding Global Warming
In recent conversations and online discussions several things have become increasingly clear to me about the Global Warming debate. The most tragic of these I feel, are the number of misconceptions and half-truths--created and spread by politicians and lobbyists--that are ...
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
While Big Oil and Business go toe to toe with Environmentalists, I say this issue should be a no-brainer for everyone.
I'm no fan of the Oil Industry, nor am I a tree-hugger (they just aren't so fun to cuddle with)--but it seems to me there's a simple way of looking ...
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