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...that will take him to Shanghai and Beijing, where he'll be addressing students at high schools, universities and international schools in China's most important cities. He'll also be meeting with some of the country's more prominent greens, like Zheng Shigrong, the billionaire founder of the solar panel manufacturer Suntech. It's all being arranged by members of China's Minister of Environmental Protection (Francis's teacher in San Francisco has impressive contacts...
Legal scholars start licking your chops: The fate of the known universe, or at least the known solar system, may lie in the hands of the ever-expanding jurisdiction of the United States Federal District Court in Hawaii. Last March, former nuclear safety officer Walter Wagner, along with Luis Sancho, petitioned for a temporary restraining order against the United States Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in order to stop the building and operating of CERN’s new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The reason...
...Green Dreams and Doubts How can you call geothermal power a fringe alternative energy source when it already produces more electricity than wind and solar technologies combined [April 28]? Geothermal has none of the drawbacks associated with wind, solar, nuclear, or clean coal. It is abundant, affordable, dependable, produces no emissions, generates no waste, and is not a blight on the landscape. Joseph Fuller, Las Cruces, New Mexico...
...Green! "They're realizing they need to get involved in greening their communities." Take actress Laura Dern, mother of two. First she hired Green Life Guru, a Los Angeles--based environmental-services company, to evaluate the eco-fitness of her house. "After they advised me on water filtration and solar paneling," Dern says, "I realized, Wait a minute--I'm sending my children off to a school, which can be a toxic environment." Now she and other parents are working with the company to eliminate chemical-ridden carpeting and pesticides at their children's school and introduce composting and recycling...
...disappointed that you covered all the fringe power sources like wind, solar and wave action, which can meet only a small percentage of our needs. Making fuel from foodstuffs seems evil, considering the world's hunger crisis. The time has arrived to reconsider nuclear power. Please give us an unbiased study on the efforts of those nations that are producing electricity from nuclear energy. How safe are the plants? What are they doing with the waste? What is the carbon footprint? Lyman Burgmeier, CYPRESS, CALIF...