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[Information Technology] A Quiet Smart Grid Software Player to Watch: Ecologic Analytics ...: A decade-old software firm called Ecologic Analytics has been quietly cleaning up when it comes to the software link that …

[BlueOregon] BlueOregon: Tough Choices: Salmon, Nukes, and Taxes: In other words, right now, when we need to be reducing our use of fossil fuels sharply, building nukes would mean investing huge amounts of energy, mainly from coal, into fabricating the steel and concrete, mining and enriching fuel, etc. The carbon benefits of nukes are real -- over the entire life cycle, nukes are comparable to wind in terms of grams-CO2/kWh produced -- the problem is that this is essentially all front-loaded into the construction of the plants and fuel fabrication.

[Green Thoughts] Decision Space for a Post-Carbon World: Towards Better Technology ...: Planning the infrastructure for a post-carbon world will have, in some senses, more exacting requirements placed on it than previous great pulses of public works construction.  Applied to the work will be the metric of carbon emissions invested in the construction itself against the potential for carbon emissions reduced by that infrastructure over its lifetime.  Furthermore if we accept the target of 350 ppm carbon dioxide within a decade or two, a net reduction from the current 382 ppm with an accelerating rate of carbon emissions and a half-life of hundreds of years for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there are very high demands for rapidity in the building of an infrastructure that would support this level of decline in emissions.  Furthermore, as we have become unused to massive infrastructure projects over the last few decades, we will have to become reaccustomed to the expense and practical impact of these projects.  Finally, we now live in a uniquely information-loaded society with a 24 hour news-cycle, where there is expectation for a high level of transparency in most public proceedings and the capacity for even greater levels of transparency.  While our very sophisticated information systems may be helpful in some regards they also can place every decision under a microscope.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum: Canada | Tar Sands: The Oil Junkie's Last Fix, Part 1: Funny know no seems to have a problem with mountaintop removal blasting in the hills of the U.S. Appalachian Mountains in one of the most ecologically diverse areas in the world, not even even that great greenie Al Gore, who lives within less than a day's driving distance. Instead, effort is expended at fighting windpower and laughing at solar development.

[Belmont Club] Belmont Club » Notes from the underground: “The revolutionaries who drew up the “Conspiracy of Equals” understood equality in such a way that they alone formed the government, while others were to obey implicitly-and those who did not were to be exiled to certain islands for forced labor. In the most popular work of Marxism, the Communist Manifesto, one of the first measures of the new socialist system to be proposed is the introduction of compulsory labor”¦Plato argues for the necessity of communal property and wives, since only under these conditions will the citizens take joy in and grieve over the same things.

[Greenversations] Greenversations Question of the Week: How would you use blogs ...: If, as one of the earlier commentors remarks, EPA were to provide such a venue for professionals, what is to prevent an agent of an interested party from removing or subtly changing data about, say, a potential clean up site, and both people potentially being subject ot injury (either through manipulation of property values or via manipulation of data to minimize appearance of risk) and/or the government becoming embroiled in litigation?

[ESRI News Feed] National Grid Gas Selects ESRI GIS to Improve Operational ...: The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: September 21, 2009: Smart-grid companies provide technologies like meters, software, networking infrastructure and voltage regulators to help customers consume energy more efficiently. Demand-response companies provide technologies and services designed to reduce or shut off energy use during times of peak demand, relieving pressure on the grid.

[Oilgae] 2008 Algae Biomass Summit Speakers - Seattle, Washington - Oilgae.com: His current research interest concerns developing the biotechnology of the production of high value products, with special emphasis on astaxanthin from Haematococcus, use of microalgae to encounter environmental problems, and developing integrated aquaculture biosystems for efficient water utilization. As an outcome of this work, commercial enterprises have been set up, one

[Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog] December 14, 2009 - Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions ...: In response to an appeal brought by a diverse coalition of tribal and environmental groups, this week the Environmental Protection Agency withdrew a controversial water permit for the massive Black Mesa Coal Complex, a coal-mine complex located on Navajo Nation and Hopi lands in northeastern Arizona. EPA’s permit withdrawal means that discharges of heavy metal and pollutants - including selenium, nitrates, and other heavy metals and toxic pollutants from coal-mining operations at the Black Mesa Complex - are threatening washes, tributaries, groundwater, and the drinking water for local communities, but are not being regulated.

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Who Are You (Non-Lawyers)?: I'm 26 years old, a senior in Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a U.S. Army veteran. This past summer, I was an intern at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

[Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog] Decision Space for a Post-Carbon World: Towards Better Technology ...: Applied to the work will be the metric of carbon emissions invested in the construction itself against the potential for carbon emissions reduced by that infrastructure over its lifetime. Furthermore if we accept the target of 350 ppm carbon dioxide within a decade or two, a net reduction from the current 382 ppm with an accelerating rate of carbon emissions and a half-life of hundreds of years for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there are very high demands for rapidity in the building of an infrastructure that would support this level of decline in emissions.

[I'm Mike] Flash Sucks - I'm Mike: One user posted a help request saying that when he tries to install adobe flash 9 from the active download website by clicking on the download link, he’s getting a message after 5 minutes of clicking saying “unable to authenticate installation, Try Again or Cancel.” This happens even after a fresh installation of winxp pro s2 and pop-ups disabled.The dodo bird senior engineer is to say in response that the user should relate the problem in more detailed words (he means like about 200 words or more) and then they’ll get back to him.

[By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog] Live Blogging Gill on Global Warming « By Common Consent, a Mormon ...: Doran and Kendall Zimmerman conclude that “the debate on the authenticity of global warming and the role played by human activity is largely nonexistent among those who understand the nuances and scientific basis of long-term climate processes.” The challenge now, they write, is how to effectively communicate this to policy makers and to a public that continues to mistakenly perceive debate among scientists.

[Radio Open Source] Radio Open Source » Blog Archive » Global Warming: Coal ”” It's ...: Our failure to grasp this most evident of biological facts arises in part from the blindness of our arrogance, but also, in large measure, as an effect of scale… Individual bacteria lie beneath our vision and may live no longer than the time I take to eat lunch… But then, who knows? To a bacterium, human bodies might appear as widely dispersed, effectively eternal (or at least geological), massive mountains, fit for all forms of exploitation, and fraught with little danger unless a bolus of imported penicillin strikes at some of the nasty brethren.” (p.176)

[Alex Mandossian's Blog] History Of The “Entrepreneurial Revolution” | Alex Mandossian's Blog: We can still push the deadwood aside and allow the entrepreneurial spirit save our world, but most of the deadwood standing in the way of that regrowth are the politicians who add no value to our world, but simply mooch their way off the rest of us. Does anyone else wonder why they’re talking about nationalizing the banks, which will stick each of us with the burden of all that mismanagement and corruption, but no one talks about nationalizing the energy industry that has pushed us into this corner.

[afh blog] afh blog - artforhumans.com » THESIS PROOFS, FINISH + CODA: As an example of apparent conformity of principles to presumption, Japan, with its command and control social complex seems to have offered an interesting proof to Drucker’s complex and dimensional model, responsive to Locke and Shinto, capable in socio-ecological terms of converting management or top-down authority with bottom-up compliance, and comforted horizontally by a time-proven proclivity for adaptation of multiple definitions of divinity. Social relations in Japan - complex and formal, but mutable and mitigated by honorable mechanisms or for release or temporary suspension of normative intervention - apparently struck Drucker as adequate for the task of both historic conservation and cultural viability in the contemporary milleu.

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