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Energyshortage has a clickable map with info on short term and long term energy shortages worldwide, with detailed blog posts too. The Oil Drum has more, especially about India, where a lack of monsoon rain for hydroelectric power has led to massive power shortages. This also effects the US, as the high tech hub [...] The Ashbury Park Press has a comprehensive mini-site on Solomon Dwek, detailing his curious, checkered past, including a recent arrest for defrauding a bank for $21 million. He’s now bankrupt and the apparent informant for the NJ corruption arrests. Excellent investigative reporting like this is a good reason why we need newspapers. Dwek’s real [...] Pacifica, a proudly left-wing independent radio network, has been wobbling noticeably lately. Endless fundraisers. Rumors of ultra-leftists trying to jack the leadership of WBAI in NY. KPFA in Berkeley was riven by factions when we lived in S.F. recently. The programming is suffering too. On KPFK in L.A. on Friday, Sherry Beale of Healthy [...] Merle Hazard is perhaps best known for his songs about the credit crisis. He is the first and only country singer to write about mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, and physics. MerleHazard.com Researchers at MIT’s SENSEable City Lab have developed smart tags to be attached to individual pieces of your trash and send its location back in real time. One reason for this is to determine if the trash gets dumped illegally or shipped overseas where it wasn’t supposed to go. Also, the more we know about [...] Bruce Foods, a manufacturer of Tex-Mex food and hot sauces is converting a plant to run on recovered methane. The Wilson plant, one of four owned by the Tex-Mex specialist, produces canned yams, potatoes and gravies, which results in huge mounds of food waste and consequently a prodigious output of methane. Previously, the plant [...] Sharif Abdullah writes: I continue to monitor the lack of progress in Sri Lanka since the end of the war. Now, months after the crushing defeat of the Tamil Tigers as a military force, there are still hundreds of thousands of innocent Tamil civilians locked in detention camps, with no relief in sight. Today, the [...] Paul Kedrosky did the math… We need to find uses for all these empty houses, especially in now-vacant tract areas, before they start falling into disrepair, get vandalized, turned into crack houses, etc. There are parts of southern California where brand new developments of housing have virtually no one living there, victims of the housing [...] The battleground. Lake Lanier in Georgia Last week a federal judge ruled that Atlanta has three years to stop taking water from Lake Lanier. That’s bad for Atlanta (devastating even) but good news for the Alabama and Florida, downstream states. The coming “negotiations” between the three states will no doubt be every bit as [...] The upshot of all this? First, while the budget agreement is clearly a relief after weeks of gloom, it hardly puts an end to the fiscal problems of America’s largest state. California officials must do more — much more — and that includes making serious efforts to stabilize the state’s unusually volatile tax base. [...] |  | ||||
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