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Austria so totally does not want to contribute $258 million more in their next tranche to Greece, saying Greece isn’t hitting their promised targets. The EU president says the mounting insolvency crises in Greece, Portugal, and Ireland threaten the EU itself. Much of this was deliberately caused by speculators driving up the cost of debt [...] The Oyster from Aquamarine Power generates power from waves. Scientists and developers plan a testing site between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket for offshore wind, tidal, and wave energy systems. The site would have berths for equipment, allow sharing of information, and be compliant with all regulations – something which will save projects large [...] Market-Ticker.org says we should heed TSA Secretary Janet Napolitano’s snide remark to “travel by some other means” if we don’t like the new procedures and start boycotting the airlines. While terrorism is horrifying it does not rise to a risk that justifies abrogation of our Constitutional rights – especially when the proffered claims of [...] Not only will Wylio search for images of your choosing that are Creative Commons and thus licensed to share, it’ll also resize the image for you, host it on their site with credits, and provide you the link code. And it’s free. Wow! [...] Everything is just fine here in California budget land! (ConceptArt.org image) Why do official estimates for California’s budget deficit consistently overestimate revenue and underestimate expenses? This has been happening so steadily for years that it seems a deliberate attempt to erect a Potemkin Village (a shiny and phony facade covering up the true and [...] It’s superbly-designed and cost $500,000, a bargain for Tokyo, and is on three floors. But still, the primary reason for its size is the stratospheric price of housing there. [...] There are good reasons why residents in Arizona are freaked by what’s happening on their border. It’s not just xenophobia and racism. Unlike other states, the Arizona border is so rugged that a fence can’t be built, hence it is widely used as a conduit for drug and human smuggling. While we may ponder whether [...] Portugal needs a bailout. So does Ireland. It used to be banks, now it’s countries. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymdI1zXuI0&feature=player_embedded Tiger Stone will lay 400 meters of brick road a day. BldgBlog A new street-printing device—unfurling a geological substrate known as Tiger Stone, as orderly and as easy “as laying laminate flooring”—can neatly place brick roads where there weren’t roads before. Inhabitat has more. In Cool It, Bjoern Lomborg says current climate change initiatives are based on fear and that new approaches are needed. He says he admires Gore’s documentary since “his movie made us all aware of climate change”. However, “it did so by creating panic, and we need to move on from that”. I agree. [...] |  | ||||
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