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Category Archives: Energy & Environment
February 22, 2012
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From Test Tube to Dinner Table
Regular readers know that Via Meadia (along with Winston Churchill), is a strong proponent of the future economic and energy benefits of faux meat. We are happy to report that the first “shamburgers” should be coming off the grill in October—albeit for … Continue reading
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New Study: Tar Sands No Global Warming Threat
Renowned climate scientist Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria in Canada and his colleague Neil Swart have published a study in Nature [subscription required] that concludes that Canada’s oil sands are not as harmful to the environment as previously imagined. The science, once again, … Continue reading
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Green Movement Jumps the Shark
Over the past week, the climate blogosphere has been in a tizzy, first over a cache of leaked documents from the climate-skeptic Heartland Institute, then over the slow realization that at least one of these documents was probably faked. These … Continue reading
February 21, 2012
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Mexican Oil Good, Canadian Oil Bad?
The Obama Administration’s energy policy is looking more convoluted by the day. On the one hand, its controversial nixing of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried Canadian oil south to refineries in the United States, delighted his green … Continue reading
February 20, 2012
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Keystone Pipeline: Everybody Wins!
The failure to move ahead with the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, as regular readers will know, has cost the U.S. in all sorts of ways—in diplomatic relationships, in energy security, and in jobs. About a month ago, … Continue reading
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Backlash Against Wind Energy Gains Momentum
Once the darling of the greens, wind turbines are spinning up a storm. Over in England, Sir Simon Jenkins, the chairman of the National Trust, which oversees millions of acres of protected land in the UK, came out strongly against wind … Continue reading
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Beyond Blue 5: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
America’s economic structure, the labor market and the American workplace have changed greatly in the last twenty years and will likely change even more in the twenty years to come. Some of these changes are unpredictable; others look baked into the cake. But as the blue social model continues to fade, the question of jobs will rise even higher on the national agenda. The American economy will not only need to create new jobs, it will need to create new kinds of jobs and new relationships between workers and employers as we work to build the next version of the American dream.
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February 17, 2012
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Unsettling Science on the Himalayan Glaciers
The Himalayan glaciers aren’t melting, at least for the moment, says a recently study published in Nature. Between 2003 and 2010 the effective change in the size of glaciers in the high mountains of Asia was “not significantly different from zero,” said a British scientist … Continue reading
February 16, 2012
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Oil on Troubled Waters Fails To Soothe
Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, the foreign minister of Cyprus, complained on Wednesday about the threatening behavior of Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean, saying it was an attempt to intimidate Israeli and Cypriot cooperation on natural gas exploration. Ankara’s “provocative” military exercises and … Continue reading
February 12, 2012
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The Brown Revolution Needs Help
An earlier post drew attention to falling gasoline consumption as a potential harbinger of bad economic news, but there is a flip side to the issue. As Blake Clayton, a new energy blogger at the Council on Foreign Relations, a … Continue reading
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Green Innovator Meets The Patent System
Last October, Via Meadia highlighted a new product from the man who brought us the iPod: the Nest learning thermostat. It was a great example of innovative design and engineering lighting the way forward for a greener future. And it showed … Continue reading
February 10, 2012
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Obama Doubles Down on Greens
The greens that form a key part of President Obama’s base have gotten him in a lot of trouble lately. The president experienced the first major scandal of his “scandal-free” White House due to unwise and ill-considered government loans to … Continue reading
February 9, 2012
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Brown vs. Green in the Rust Belt Battleground
Green complaints about fracking reached a fever pitch over the past year, but Pennsylvania apparently wasn’t listening to them. The Wall Street Journal reports that the state legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that will make state laws more favorable … Continue reading
February 8, 2012
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Will Fracking Save Obama?
Conventional political wisdom holds that Obama’s reelection fate is bound up with the economy. If employment is up, he’s in good shape; if it remains stagnant, we may see some turnover on Pennsylvania Avenue. If this is true, the President … Continue reading
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Times Blasts Greens, Spares Obama
Here’s something we don’t see every day: the Times‘ op-ed page sticking it to the greens in a devastating piece by columnist Joe Nocera. Here at Via Meadia we’ve flagged the President’s decision to nix the Keystone XL pipeline as … Continue reading
