Music at Midnight: Idiot Wind — Try to Bend A River.
(Previously.)
Five Links:
- Thousands of Kagan documents just released. Check them out here: http://tpm.ly/chzda0
- Stieg Larsson’s missing manuscript http://tgr.ph/d9EAgU
- New wind parks for clean energy in Chile.
- The race for Governor in Massachusetts: Patrick appears on Channel 5.
- Cool Ad Watch: “Let’s Color.”
The Twitter Two-Day:
- Wiretapping Up 26% - No Request Refused! http://huff.to/dfuxVl
- A history of New York City subway maps: http://bit.ly/aGEHJ4
- Google invests $39 million in wind farms http://is.gd/bT2Qt
- Dave Eggers sets up microlending program, Scholar Match, to send Bay Area teens to college. http://bit.ly/cHVmVb
- This is why Gordon has been a political inspiration to me for nearly 20 years, http://bit.ly/aUkeEV This is the real Gordon, the real deal.
- I love research: While working on Rin Tin Tin, found a 1927 movie magazine with a story called “Is the World Tired of Children?”
- 65 years later, the suvivors of Stalag 17B gather for ceremony: http://bit.ly/8YR9tk
- Homeland security by state. Very interesting data, painstakingly collected. http://bit.ly/ckmcAf
- Television is spreading in new directions http://econ.st/cOkore #economist
- Fun story from my friend Kristen Gelineau about people who, fed up w/ their countries, create their own micro-nations! http://ow.ly/1G7n8
- Offshore windfarms to be used for air defence http://bit.ly/cTQPn9
- Local news: MGH staff calmly adjusts routines - http://b.globe.com/csZKnl
- Cuban leader Raul Castro shakes up cabinet, sacks transportation, sugar ministers - Reuters
- A new green to recenter Quincy - http://b.globe.com/dvNNMO
- Quincy budget could mean 150 city layoffs - http://b.globe.com/9Qd6h0
This Month in Green:
- The United States and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to slash greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, one of the main drivers of global climate change.
- China Idles 40% of Windpower Turbine Output Capacity.
- …the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States, is poised to pass a roughly 5 percent rate increase on electricity use. The proceeds would be earmarked for renewable energy purchases and programs, including one that would repay people or businesses that use solar panels to contribute to the power grid.
- Japan weakens climate bill, pressured by industry.
- The Future of Wind Power May Be Underground.
- New Charging Method Could Mean Exponentially Faster Recharge Times for Batteries.
- Photographs of recently extinct species in England.
- An editorial on solar energy in Texas.
- China and India join Copenhagen accord.
- Birds are shrinking.
- US to lobby for endangered species listing for polar bear.
- There are 11 fewer Siberian tigers.
- South Africa can’t meet its power needs without loan.
- Beijing and Electric Bikes.
- Carbon footprint of the UK music industry.
- Labour’s general election manifesto proposes creating community energy co-ops.
- Eco-friendly ads that disappear in the rain.
- China looks to ‘combustible ice’ as a fuel source.
- Algae to solve the Pentagon’s fuel problem.
