Word: solarization
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...more progressive than states. He could take Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell's advice and give loans instead of grants, which would both help the Treasury down the road and encourage states to make wise investments. He could require states that receive bailouts to promote wind and solar, expand health coverage or buy fuel-efficient police cars. If they don't want to, they don't have to take handouts. The bottom line should be: federal money, federal priorities. (See pictures of Obama's nation of hope...
...improved filters on coal plants, sending less traditional pollutants like sulfur dioxide and mercury into the air, the toxic waste that remains behind is only growing. The biggest advantage of coal power has been cost - in most cases, it remains much cheaper than cleaner alternatives like wind, solar or natural gas. But the cheapness of coal depends on the fact that external costs - climate change, or the health impacts of air and water pollution from coal - remain external, paid for not by utilities or coal companies but society as a whole. The coal industry itself estimates that taking better care...
...patients follow their breath ... and try to let their focus settle into their physical center, at the bottom of their inhalation. That very centered point is wise mind." Lily remembers this sensation clearly; she came to feel that her dark moods had a physical location in her body - her solar plexus - and when she focused on it, she could deactivate a destructive emotion...
...Energy: Obama has proposed including the creation of a national energy grid to harness and distribute energy from renewable sources such as wind, solar and hydroelectricity. He would also double the funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a program slashed by Bush that seeks to make U.S. manufacturing more efficient by using new technologies. These are two small pieces of the President-elect's massive $150 billion green-jobs plan he touted on the campaign trail that is expected to come later this year or next...
...most detailed map to date of the galaxy's spiral arms. Pohl's map establishes that there are two symmetric arms in the inner part of the galaxy that branch off into four - answering a question that astrophysicists have grappled with for 50 years. (According to Pohl, our solar system is located near one of the branching-off points, about 28,000 light-years - or 168 quadrillion miles - from the galactic center...