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  Bush speech

  Historians will indeed look back with awe at the Bush administration, however I doubt it will have anything to do with "foresight and right minded policies".  Bush not only had the opportunity to, but promised during his campaign in 2000 to address this early in his administration.  He didn't.  He lied.  Now that he is on his way out and his private little wars haven't gone as planned he needs something positive to hang his hat on.  This will not be it.  Bush making this speech now is an insult to every rational, thinking American.  I would say that this is too little too late but that would also be an insult to everyone reading these comments.     On Bush's unambitious climate speech bashed by other major economies posted 1 year, 7 months ago 8 Responses

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  FutureGen

  In response to the comments regarding futuregen not being clean, your right it isn't clean, however it is CLEANER than the current coal fired power plants it would potentially replace.  I think we can all agree that the US needs to fundamentally change the way it currently produces energy, and most of us would agree that nuclear is not the way to go.  That leaves us with natural gas (we're rapidly running out), hydroelectric (anyone here a big fan of damns?), wind/solar ( which I lump together as they are both a product of the suns input) and coal.  Now I am the first person to say that wind/solar is the way to go now and in the future but without an rapid developement of a massive system of energy storage for the days when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing that leads us back to coal.  We have tremendous domestic coal reserves and if we would actually spend the money to research cleaner ways of utilizing this coal (I'm looking at you DOE)then perhaps it could be a viable energy source.  Sure FutureGen has some serious flaws, but at least it's a step towards cleaner energy production.  Now if only we didn't have to mine the stuff........On A look at Barack Obama's environmental platform and record posted 1 year, 9 months ago 11 Responses

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  Put you money where your big dumb mouth is!

  I think Huckabee should start with his own campaign.  Zero energy comsumption going forward in the race for the White House.  

  I can't wait to hear him try to dance his way out of this one.  On Notable quotable posted 1 year, 11 months ago 5 Responses

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  Great List!

  What a great list that Grist provided and some really excellent suggestions from readers!  It really could have been the Top 50 since there are so many schools out there moving in the right direction.
  I am not an alum but I am very surprised Prescott College didn't make the list.  On 15 Green Colleges and Universities posted 1 year, 12 months ago 62 Responses

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  It's true

  While Kenbros comments about cable boxes taking 20 minutes to reprogram each time they are powered back up after being off is true( mine takes 30) and the same is true for cable modems, you can work around this by plugging the cable box and cable modem into an traditional hot outlet, and placing everything else on the power strip.

  Example: the TV.  Follow the directions for the cable box listed above.  Then plug the TV, dvd player, any sound system and (gasp!) video games into the power strip.  You WILL notice the savings on your next bill.  Any additional power strips you buy will likely be paid for within a year.On Umbra on power strips posted 2 years ago 13 Responses