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• Plastic makes a comeback

  Recycled plastic products gain ground 3

  Posted 1 year, 6 months ago

  The New York Times has an interesting article up about recycled plastic products. They're profiling a company called Recycline, which makes those bright green recycled plastic cutting boards, strawberry red colanders, and even toothbrushes.

  According to the article:

• More signs of the Apocalypse?

  Soy, corn, and wheat prices puzzling economists 11

  Posted 1 year, 7 months ago

  Just in case you weren't worried about rising food prices, The New York Times has an article out that makes the food markets seem even more volatile. Apparently, identical bushels of corn, wheat, and soybeans are selling for two different prices on the derivatives and cash markets.

• If you build it ...

  Green building may be quickest path to decreased emissions 8

  Posted 1 year, 8 months ago

  Reuters has the skinny on a new report on green building. The report concluded that building green would reduce greenhouse emissions more quickly than any other approach.

  According to the article:

  North America's buildings release more than 2,200 megatonnes, or about 35 percent of the continent's total, of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. If the construction market quickly adopted current and emerging energy-saving technologies, that number could be cut by 1,700 megatonnes by 2030, the report said.

  Alas, there are "obstacles" preventing the rapid adoption of green building techniques:

  One is the so-called split incentive policy, where those who… Read More

• You feisty devils, you 1

  Posted 1 year, 8 months ago

  Check out this National Geographic video about Tasmanian devils (via The Slog):

• Here comes the sun -- again

  Solar thermal plants make a comeback 24

  Posted 1 year, 8 months ago

  

  Photo: nrel.gov

  As part of the Back to the Future alternative energy series, The New York Times has an article today about the rising demand for solar thermal power plants, which use solar panels to heat water and operate a steam turbine.

  Among the advantages cited:

  On sunny afternoons, those 10 plants would produce as much electricity as three nuclear reactors, but they can be built in as little as two years, compared with a decade or… Read More

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  it's always the drugs, isn't it?

  Ah, the old "I was high on drugs when I parted the red seas" explanation.  I think the magic mushroom (or at least magic fungus) explanation was also proposed to explain the Salem witch trials at one point: http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/history/ergot.htm.  

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