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I am pretty sure I have sung the praises of “Inside Renewable Energy” before, but if you haven’t listened, take a listen to the review of 2006 episode from last week. I like listening to I.R.E. because it highlights so many amazing renewable energy projects that are taking place around the world. it is also well produced, and the right length (12 to 27 minutes).
A followup to my post last night about the effect of “watching the meter” on power consumption. Today’s NYT ran a front page story on a project in Chicago to give rate payers hourly electricity cost information . According to the article, those in the program are using less energy at peak times reducing overall peak energy demand and decreasing their electricity bill.
This was an interesting week in the New York Times. Thursday’s House and Home featured a cover story about home solar (photo voltaic) installations mostly in NY and California where tax incentives encourage home owners to add solar panels.
I just read of Charles Leadbeater’s book project, We-Think on World Changing . Leadbeater and his publisher have pre-released his book about new forms of collaboration and organization. From the introduction :
At CivicActions we know all about open WiFi networks , and I often get asked by friends about “internet security” and specifically, how secure their activities are when they are on open networks. David Pogue covered the issue in his column today. While he believes his wifi traffic is not worth snooping (“Frankly, I consider the details of my life so boring to other people that I really couldn’t care less. I’ve got nothing to hide, so why not accept it?”) he disabused his readers of any notion that their WiFi traffic was generally safe from snooping eyes.
Bruce Byfield wrote a nice article for Linux.com about the work of our client, the Free Software Foundation in this past year including the DefectiveByDesign campaign.
Public Radio is reporting this morning that border agents on the US Canadian border are looking way back into people’s past to find ways to deny them entry to one country or the other. Border agents are even using Google. One case mentioned in the story was of a Canadian Psychoanalyst who was denied entry after agents found an article he wrote in 2001 about his use of LSD in the 1960s. I imagine the day is not far off when border agents use facebook or myspace!
Paul Krugman has had two great columns recently in the NYT. Unfortunately they are buried behind a pay-wall. In “Authentic?
I guess it is video week here at CivicActions… Visit ImpeachGonzales.org .