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Companies Search For Ways To Mine Uranium Outside Grand Canyon National Park | KRWG: Uranium and Nuclear power. So very much cleaner than coal. But, we have no plan, even to make a plan, to deal with the radioactive waste. Right now it is all being stored on site like the Fukushima reactor in Japan. They had an entire reactor devoted to waste storage. The best plan that I have ever seen is to take the nuclear…
Reflections on Sustainability: Earth Day, April 22, 2013 (www.EarthDay.org) … (or International Mother Earth Day) Earth Day 2013: The Face of Climate Change It’s not so much that people don’t care. . . Being green, and being sustainable, is something that we all would happily do, if it wasn’t inconvenient to do so. And if it was easy to do. And if we knew the best place to start. And if it wasn’t too complicated to do…
Warren Buffet had these pearls of wisdom to share with Kids: Never spend more than you have. Save for the unexpected Never borrow without a payback plan I like it. Short. Sweet. Accurate. Simple… Sustainable even. So simple even a caveman could understand it. I’m thinking that we need to transmit this repeatedly up to our friends in the Federal Government (and maybe even to the States). Never spend more than you have. Boy do we break this rule….
Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference: Well, shouldn’t they all be GREEN jobs? Looking for a few good jobs. Looking for a few green jobs. Looking for a few Good GREEN Jobs.:-) Before the recession, green jobs were outpacing others, both in terms of pay and number. It will be interesting to see what the conference stats have to say about this. Of course, there are about 50 shades of green!… Seems like a book,…
Bill Gates gives boost to renewables storage – PV-Tech: This is pretty cool. Use salt water as a storage medium for energy (battery, if you will). This is probably not a good solution for every occasion, but stationary power should work well… ‘via Blog this’
City of Melbourne Certified Carbon Neutral | Pro Bono Australia: Wow. Melbourne is Green!:0) Aiming for Neutral CO2 by 2020. Of course that is a long way from having the whole of the city run at Zero-emissions. Especially Transportation & Electric. But you gotta complement them. That’s a big effort. ‘via Blog this’
