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...smart New York Times story earlier this week about how web users seem to be gravitating to the on-line versions of the best-known national news organizations, Andrew Kohut, the head of the Pew Research Center in Washington was quoted as saying: "Online, people tell us they go to look for what they are interested in, which tends to narrow people's horizons, not expand them...
...Dot.com closings get a lot of attention, but they don't affect the way people use the web. A recent Pew survey showed that only 8% of web users say a favorite site of theirs has bit the dust. And a report by Forester research says that despite the Nasdaq swan dive and the VC drought, people spent $45 billion online last year, and they predict that figure will reach $75 billion this year. By my calculation, that's $75 billion more than was spent on the Internet, oh, ten years...
...important to realize that the industry is not monolithic. Enron, for example, which has close ties to the Bush administration, is heavily invested in natural gas, and they're member of the Pew Foundation, which means they sign onto the science of global warming and the search for ways of meeting the Kyoto targets. BP has a heavy investment in energy alternatives. There's a lot of support in industry for doing something reasonable to address climate change. Industry is not that reluctant to sign on as long as the playing field is level. It's difficult for Ford...
...Britain announced plans earlier this month for 18 new offshore wind farms as part of the Labour government's effort to ensure that 10% of the country's electricity comes from renewable sources by 2010. Last June, a study by the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change showed Britain among the most probable nations to meet the targets. Greenhouse gases dropped 6.5% between 1998 and 1999 alone, Environment Ministry officials boast, while toxic CO2 emissions have been cut by 9% between 1990 and 1999. Potentially quadrupling current British wind power, the sites will be home to some 500 turbines expected...
...Parker, research director at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., spoke with TIME.com Wednesday about the poll - and what Americans are ready...