Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy
Thursday 11th of March 2010 11:56:38 AM
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| BOSTON (Reuters Life!) – Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds. Sound nuts? Not yet -- brake pads made from cashews are still under development. Meet Lola, the England's University of Warwick's blend of muscle and eco-friendliness and the world's first racing car retrofitted with renewable and sustainable materials. |
Debt-Based Positions: The Great Mirage
Thursday 11th of March 2010 11:56:38 AM
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| Let's spin this globe and take a look at things from a slightly different angle. If we could inventory the entire planet, every real, solid, tradable item we came across would belong to someone. Someone somewhere, or a group of someones would have bragging rights to each and every thing on this planet. Each one of these items that is the least bit tradable would have some sort of value attached to it. Of course some things are not tradable. For example, a mountain in the United States that has been designated by the collective as public land is not... |
Electing God
Thursday 11th of March 2010 11:56:38 AM
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| Ezekiel Emmanuel MD, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, who is Barack Obama’s “Special Advisor for Health Policyâ€, is described by the [1] Huffington Post article as engaged in a very important mission: redesigning the US health care system. Emanuel and the White House are attempting to reorganize the delivery and reimbursement systems of health care, changing what the types of procedures doctors rely on, making people more aware of disease prevention, encouraging insurance companies to expand coverage, and so on. It is a process rife with sensitivities, trickeries and, of course, the potential for failure. It is not, he insists, impossible.“It... |
The New Jacobin Elite
Thursday 11th of March 2010 11:56:38 AM
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| The New Jacobin Elite | Print | Written by William F. Jasper   Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:00 The Socialist Party of Great Britain is celebrating the reissuing of Peter Taaffe’s book, The Masses Arise: The Great French Revolution 1789 -1815. “Its republication by Socialist Publications, in time for the 220th anniversary of this great event in July 2009, is extremely timely,†says the party’s website. A different page on the party’s site promoting the same book instructs readers: “An understanding of the French Revolution remains crucial for all revolutionaries. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky studied it intensely to gain an... |
Sustainability: just another excuse for a UN power grab?
Thursday 11th of March 2010 11:56:38 AM
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| At the regular meeting of the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in Vienna last February, France’s Ambassador François-Xavier Deniau suggested that the UN consider a proposal to establish, as a regular agenda item, a “multi-year workplan” intended to look at “…ideas on possible recommendations and mechanisms that could contribute to keeping outer space safe and secure for the long term.” |
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