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Denmark Is Set to Be the Largest Nation Yet to Run on 100 Percent Clean Power
2014-05-02 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: Denmark is making good on one of the world's most aggressive plans to transition entirely to clean energy. The government aims to generate 70 percent of the nation's power from renewable sourcesmostly offshore and onshore wind farmsby 2020. It then plans to add enough solar power, electric car infrastructure, and waste-to-energy plants to be able to ditch coal, oil, and gas altogether. If all goes well, Denmark will ratchet up its sustainable power levels to 100 percent by mid-century. These...
Project Ara Is Technology's Best Hope for a Maker Nation
2014-04-22 17:34:44| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
The modular phone can turn transform the mobile industry, but only if Google invests in showing us why.
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VIDEO: UK could become 'nation of renters'
2014-04-18 13:16:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Almost half of Britons believe the UK will become a nation of renters within a generation, research suggests.
05.15: Marijuana Nation
2014-04-16 00:35:00| Powells Books Events Calendar
Roger Roffman first discovered marijuana while serving as a U.S. Army officer in Vietnam. From these seemingly innocuous beginnings, Roffman has been fascinated by marijuana as a researcher, scholar, therapist, activist, and user. From lobbying in Washington, to talking to doctors and nurses in oncology wards, to watching his brother struggle with addiction, Roffman has experienced firsthand the layered and complex relationship Americans have with marijuana. As public attitudes about pot undergo rapid change, Roffman's Marijuana Nation (Pegasus) rises above punditry and rhetoric.
B.C. First Nation along pipeline route officially rejects Northern Gateway plan
2014-04-11 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: A group of First Nations with territory covering a quarter of the route for the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline met with federal representatives Friday to officially reject the project. Officials with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, the National Energy Board and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans met with the four clans of the Yinka Dene in Fort St. James, and listened as dozens of elders, hereditary and elected chiefs said "No." "We do not, we will not, allow this...
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