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| Obama Administration Prepares to Push Biofuels The Obama administration announced steps today aimed at improving the coordination of U.S. biofuels policy, increasing investment in next-generation fuels and shrinking the industry's environmental footprint. [More] rss.sciam.com |
How Students Can Teach Congress about Climate Change Although Eban Goodstein has been educating people about the global-warming threat for a decade, he only recently took major action to help solve the problem. In 2006 he heard James E. Hansen, a leading climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, say that global warming could prove catastrophic sooner than anticipated and that the world needed practical solutions immediately.Goodstein, an economics professor at Lewis and Clark College, temporarily left teaching to form the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions. Over the past two years the Teach-In has helped coordinate 2,500 events with 1.25 million participants, most of them students, to share ideas about potential fixes. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Colorado power company wants to ratchet up fees on solar freeloaders As Scientific American’s George Musser knows, installing solar panels on your roof is a lot easier – and cheaper – said than done. Now, if a Colorado power company has its way, solar aficionados are going to have to start shelling out even more dough to be hooked into the power grid. Xcel Energy has proposed charging a new fee to customers who install solar systems after April 2010, the Denver Post reports. The fee would be linked to the home’s electricity consumption and help the company maintain its aging power grid. [More] rss.sciam.com |
An Art Park Sprouts (for Now) Where New Buildings Were to Grow A new 37,000-square-foot outdoor exhibition and performance space will open in Lower Manhattan on Friday. nytimes.com |
World Changing Ideas: 20 Ways to Build a Cleaner, Healthier, Smarter World (preview) What would happen if solar panels were free? What if it were possible to know everything about the world--not the Internet, but the living, physical world--in real time? What if doctors could forecast a disease years before it strikes? This is the promise of the World Changing Idea: a vision so simple yet so ambitious that its full impact is impossible to predict. Scientific American’s editorial and advisory boards have chosen projects in five general categories--Energy, Transportation, Environment, Electronics and Robotics, and Health and Medicine--that highlight the power of science and technology to improve the world. Some are in use now; others are emerging from the lab. But all of them show that innovation is the most promising elixir for what ails us. --The Editors The No-Money-Down Solar Plan [More] rss.sciam.com |