Leaked Confidential Document Reveals Obama’s Climate Strategy

Photo via the Guardian The Guardian has obtained a confidential document accidentally left on a hotel computer in Europe by a member of the Obama administration. The British newspaper says it “reveals the US government’s increasingly controversial strategy in the global UN climate talks.” They’ve reproduced the entire document online–but what does the classified paper reveal about US plans for brokering a climate agreement on the international stage

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Leaked Confidential Document Reveals Obama’s Climate Strategy

Americans No Greener In Past Decade, Environmental Activism Declining: New Gallup Poll

images: Gallup I’m going to try not to overly dip into despair in this next one, but the results of a new Gallup Poll on changes in green behavior in the United States over the past decade aren’t overly encouraging, particularly when it comes to political action.

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Americans No Greener In Past Decade, Environmental Activism Declining: New Gallup Poll

Hybrid Robot’s Microbial Fuel Cell Transforms Polluted Water Into Vegetation

Photo: Gilberto Esparza What if an army of mobile robots could transform polluted water into plant life? Tracing a fine line between robot and plant, art project and self-sustaining mini-ecosystem machine, Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza’s hybrid creation “Nomadic Plants” (Plantas Nomadas) is a quirky contraption that actively seeks polluted water to feed the vegetation and microorganisms living symbiotically inside its body….

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Hybrid Robot’s Microbial Fuel Cell Transforms Polluted Water Into Vegetation

Polystyrene Insulation Doesn’t Belong in Green Building

As a writer about green design, I hold some opinions that consistently attract tremendous disagreement and abuse; two are heat pumps and insulated concrete forms (ICF) noting that a sandwich of polystyrene and concrete can hardly be called green. Alex Wilson at Environmental Building News notes another significant problem with polystyrene insulation, found almost universally in structural insulated panels (SIPs) …

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WTF is Palin Talking About? Says "Gore-Gate" Revealed "Snake Oil Science Stuff" (Video)

Photo via Goose Radio Last Friday, Sarah Palin gave a speech at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference 2010 (the 2nd most influential GOP event besides the Republican National Convention). In it, she devoted some time to discussing energy, which is ostensibly considered her area of expertise. Her basic message is that the hacked email debacle , which she calls “Gore-Gate” (more on that bit of linguistic deviousness in a second), proves that climate science is just “snake oil science stuff,” a..

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