Amsterdam Attempts to Change Culture With Repair Cafes

Posted on May 9, 2012 by rocky

In the Netherlands, a total of thirty groups have started Repair Cafes. People get together and pool their skills while working a few hours a month to mend holey clothing and revivify old coffee makers, broken lamps, vacuum cleaners and toasters, as well as at least one electric organ, a washing machine and an orange juice press.

Amsterdam’s Repair Cafes encourages people to bring old items that they might have otherwise thrown out to have them restored by expert volunteers.

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New Proposal on Fracking Gives Ground to Industry

Posted on May 7, 2012 by rocky

On Friday, the Obama administration issued a proposed rule governing hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on public lands. This will require disclosure of the chemicals used in the process.

“The pullback on the rule followed a series of meetings at the White House after the original regulation was proposed in February. Lobbyists representing oil industry trade associations and individual major producers like ExxonMobil, XTO Energy, Apache, Samson Resources and Anadarko Petroleum met with officials of the Office of Management and Budget, who reworked the rule to address industry concerns about overlapping state regulations and the cost of compliance.”

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Clouds’ Effect on Climate Change Is Last Bastion for Dissenters

Posted on May 7, 2012 by rocky

97 percent of working climate scientists see global warming as a serious risk. The climate change skeptics have seized on one last argument that cannot be dismissed which is clouds will save us.

“They acknowledge that the human release of greenhouse gases will cause the planet to warm. But they assert that clouds — which can either warm or cool the earth, depending on the type and location — will shift in such a way as to counter much of the expected temperature rise and preserve the equable climate on which civilization depends.”

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How to Turn Waste Into Energy

Posted on May 7, 2012 by rocky

Students and staff are working on sustainability just about every where we go nowadays. However, the amount of things that are accomplished vary from college to college. To see how one college in Upstate, New York was about to turn their own waste into energy click Here.