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New $2 Billion Bicycling & Walking Legislation
Posted on Mar 12, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.
We know by now that bicycling and walking for transportation purposes are great ways to reduce climate change pollution, address the obesity epidemic and numerous other critical health problems, and create a sense of community. Additionally, there are huge economic benefits to bicycling and walking.
Nonetheless, bicycling and walking are drastically underfunded in the US. “Ten percent of trips are by bicycle or foot, yet bicyclists and pedestrians… receive just 1.2% of federal transportation dollars,” the Alliance for Biking and Walking reports.
New legislation, the Active Community Transportation (ACT) Act of 2010, is looking to help change all of that.
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Community Solar Gardens Help Renters Go Green, but Solar Companies are Concerned
Posted on Mar 12, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.
If you live rent an apartment, own a condominium, live in a shady neighborhood, or simply don’t want solar panels on your roof, residents of Colorado have a solution: community solar gardens. What’s a community solar garden? It’s a unique idea to allow residents to purchase a share of a large solar array that would give them credit on their utility bill and qualify for rebates.
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Skeptical Science iPhone App: Overcoming Global Warming Deniers
Posted on Mar 09, 2010 by Scott James.
We’ve all been out at the pub getting a seasonal pint, or down at the deli getting a tea and some salad, when you overhear someone next to you say, “I don’t know, I just don’t think that global warming thing is real. At least, it’s not our fault…” Or maybe it’s the friend you’re sitting with. Or maybe it’s someone in your family. Do you ever wish you had some science on hand that applied to their specific argument? Now you do. For all of us green geeks who are passionate about both environmental issues and new technology, there is the Skeptical Science iPhone app- a resource full of peer-reviewed science for nearly every skeptic’s argument.
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False-Flag AB32 “Implementation” Group is Dealt Another Setback
Posted on Mar 08, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.
A conservative economist at a state college who was paid $54,000 to write a false report on California’s global warming cap and trade bill has backed off his claims after Stanford University economists criticized the business-funded study as “very, very defective.”
An industry group, falsely naming itself “AB32 Implementation Group” AB32IG.com paid Sanjay Varshney of Cal State Sacramento Business School, for the economic scaremongering used by the campaign. In fact the AB32 Implementation Group is not about implementing AB32. Not at all. It is all about opposing its being implemented.
All of the industry sponsored attacks on the global warming law depend entirely on the study the group commissioned from Cal State, but now Varshney won’t even defend his “very, very defective study”.
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iPhone 3G S or DROID: How Much Radiation Does Your Smartphone Emit?
Posted on Mar 05, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.
I got my first smartphone for my birthday, and it is true it has changed many aspects of my communicating life. I love my iPhone and have been so enthralled with its applications that I have not stopped to consider how much radiation it emits until a friend sent me the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) 2010 Cellphone Radiation Report.
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