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“Net zero is not a practical goal in New England”

February 26, 2014 By gmoke

Peter Wilson [in a Cambridgewickedlocal with news from the Chronicle and Tab LtE http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140220/NEWS/140229717/2014/OPINION] wrote that "Net zero is not a practical goal in New England" and that may or may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cambridge, ecology, energy, environment, net zero, pollution, waste

23 Million Years of Data Per Year: Why The Surveillance State Cannot Meaningfully Assess Terrorism Risks

April 30, 2013 By marthews

[Cross-posted at Digital Fourth] The NSA has just vigorously denied that their new Utah Data Center, intended for storing and processing intelligence data, will be used to spy on US citizens. The center will have a capacity of at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: border security, Data Valdez, drones, electronic wiretaps, facial recognition, fbi, fusion centers, marathon, massachusetts, NCTC, nsa, overcriminalization, surveillance, tamarlen tsarnaev, terrorism, usaf, warrants, waste

Palin’s porky $26 million Gravina road to nowhere

September 20, 2008 By Pablo

Joyously cross-posted at Red Mass Group. Sarah Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere (linking Gravina Island to Ketchikan) before she was against it.  The access road is another story.  According to the LA Times, the death of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bridge-to-nowhere, earmarks, pork, sarah-palin, waste

Earth Day 2007 in 3-Ply

April 21, 2007 By lori

And now another treasure from Italy not seen in any museums, but certainly zipping all around them.  Cozy and adorable although at first glance for us Americans, they're freakishly small. As I took in great works of the last couple … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2007, abcnews, bill-maher, earth-day, environment, garbage, global-warming, honey-bees, knut, leonardo-dicaprio, massachusetts, msnbc, narwals, vanity-fair-green-issue, waste

Big Dig Culture marches on

October 10, 2006 By Charley on the MTA

Affordable housing under 40B: No oversight, no accountability, big profits for private business:Inspector General Gregory W. Sullivan's staff has spent the past year examining records from state offices and town halls and financial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: big-dig, governor, hackery, healey, massachusetts, patrick, romney, waste

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