by L J Furman on January 26, 2011
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Tweet “Join me in setting a new goal: By 2035, 80 percent of America’s electricity will come from clean energy sources.” – President Barack Obama, State of the Union, January 25, 2011. When a mouse makes noise, only other mice and local cats take notice. When a lion roars, however, everyone notices; other lions, elephants, [...]
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Clean Energy,
Long Term Thinking.,
President Obama,
SOTU,
State of the Union,
Sustainable Energy,
Systems Thinking
The videotape and law enforcement officers of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said Judge John Roll saved Ron Barber’s life after both were shot in Tuscon, January 8, 2011. Judge Roll had been appointed by George H. W. Bush in 1991. Barber is an aide to Representative Giffords. Video Shows Chief US District Judge Roll [...]
New Jersey taxpayers could net $36.9 million per year, $369 million over 10 years, with the installation of 152.5 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic (PV) solar electricity systems on public schools, community colleges, and each of the public universities in the state. The systems would pay for themselves within the first 8 years. At 2010 values [...]
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Economics,
electric grid,
Infrastructure,
National Security,
Solar Energy
Tim Kane, “a senior fellow in research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and a former Air Force intelligence officer,” writes Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving in the current issue of The Atlantic, also available online. This should be a concern, we think, regardless of what one thinks of particular military policies [...]
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morale,
officer corps,
Tim Kane
Via WikiNews US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot at a public event in Tuscon, Arizona on Saturday. At least five were killed and several others were wounded in the shooting, including at least one from Giffords’ staff. The shooting occurred at a Safeway supermarket where Giffords, a Democratic Party member who represented Arizona’s 8th congressional [...]
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assassination,
Homicide