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Biomass Train: National Forests May Soon Power Your Computer
It's not often I have the opportunity to connect computers, biomass and national forest protection.
Bryan Bird, National Forest Protection Alliance board member and blogger for BLOG IT, DON'T LOG IT, writes:
There’s
a train leaving the station, and it may be hauling your chipped-up
national forest away to a power plant. The biomass express is gaining
steam from politicians, private industry, alternative fuel advocates
and even some in the conservation community.
Someone had better pull the emergency brakes quickly before our shared
forest heritage is sacrificed to the modern consumer lifestyle.
Biomass energy generally comes from three sources: wood, waste, and
alcohol fuels. Wood energy may be produced from harvested wood as a
fuel and from wood waste streams. What is at issue here is virgin woody
materials produced from public forest lands for the sake of energy
production.
Trees can fuel our energy needs, but what are the consequences for our
forests, the wildlife they support and the clean water they produce?
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03:30 PM May 19, 2006 -
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An Oxidizing Derelict's Journey through the Network
"The S.S. United States doesn’t only exist as an actual thing, but as an electronically available information point."
From Weber's Polar Night.
(though the Flickr photo set link only goes to a single picture -- try this instead.)
How's your spime-osity?
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01:00 PM May 19, 2006 -
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Christian Coalition and MoveOn, Together At Last
Net neutrality is making strange, uh, platonic acquaintances. The Christian Coalition yesterday announced its support for net neutrality, joining the scads of endorsers (including DemocracyInAction) at SaveTheInternet.
Update: Moby, too.
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02:30 PM May 18, 2006 -
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Lessons from the Infancy of a Titan: Christine.net on Google
Christine Herron of the Omidyar Network takes an intriguing tour of Google's scrappy startup days and the strategies that paid off for them -- most of them broadly applicable to the evolving new constellation of needs and opportunities in the nonprofit sector. The lessons learned, for the most part, work for mission-focused nonprofits just as much as tech providers:
- Build a great product that users love
- Think big
- Solve an important problem
- Rally the company around a vision, and be focused on doing one thing well (and this is easier for small companies)
- Hire the best people you can
- Question accepted practices, and invent the right ones for you; try new things quickly and learn from the results
- Base decisions on data, and wait for the information you need to do the right thing
- Make decisions for the long term
We like to think we resemble those remarks, but then, that's just what you'd expect us to say...
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11:00 AM May 17, 2006 -
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Trends: Pollsters Fret Over Cell-Only Households
The still-small but growing population of people whose only phone is their cell phone is bad news for pollsters. Read more...
10:30 PM May 16, 2006 -
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