Industrial composting, 40 acres of it

Treehugger has lots more info.

Solar powered electric scooter

CleanTechnica has the details.

Murdock, Scotland Yard, and cozy relationships

Scotland Yard is essentially the detective branch of the Metropolitan Police of greater London which now appears to have been comatose about investigating early claims of News of the World phone hacking.

NY Times: Stain from tabloids rubs off on a cozy Scotland Yard

Washington Post: In Britain, phone hacking sullies famed Scotland Yard

Guardian: [...]

40 ways the working class is being systematically wiped out

From those crazed radicals at Business Insider.

Vending machines for bicycle parts

Bike Fixtation offers self-service kiosks on an extended-hours basis for bicyclists in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. You can buy a tube or patch kit, pump up your tires for free, and make simple adjustments using supplied tools.

Water wars. BLM slams attempted Vegas water grab

BLM releases 1,400 page report attacking a plan by Las Vegas to siphon billions of gallons of water from rural Nevada, saying it would be a disaster.

Japan’s Prime Minister calls for end to nuclear power

“We should seek a society that does not rely on nuclear energy. We should gradually and systematically reduce reliance on nuclear power and eventually aim at a society where people can live without nuclear power plants,” said Prime Minister Kan.

480 sq ft tiny house in Hawaii

A housekeeper / gardener built his own tiny home on the Big Island and it’s mortgage free.

Murdock throws another executive under the bus

But the Guardian says it won’t help News Corp, Rupert, or his son James.

Commentators have compared the crisis to Watergate; Carl Bernstein, the former Washington Post reporter whose revelations helped depose a US president, says it is evident to him the events of the past week “are the beginning, not the end, of the [...]

What could go possibly wrong with accepting unknown warlords as a government?

Libya’s Opposition Council is accepted by Europe, U.S. as sole government

Arming warlords whose loyalties we know nothing about in hopes of ousting a thug seems a doomed strategy with a distinct possibility of nasty blowback from letting powerful weaponry get into the hands of whoever.

Libyan rebels abused civilians: Human Rights Watch.

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