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Researchers warn of nitrogen hazard to environment

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:11:41 EDT

While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn.

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Water Trading in China: A Step Toward Sustainability

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:28:15 EDT

In recent years, scarcity and pollution of water have become the paramount environmental woe in China. Numerous reports and books have exposed China's water crisis, depicting a nation suffering in the face of black-running rivers and dried-up waterways. Nationwide, the per capita availability of fresh water is only one-quarter of the world average.

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Utilities and Auctions: There Is No Free Power Lunch

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:28:07 EDT

An economy-wide cap on climate warming emissions Ã;Â¢Ã¢â;;Â¬" our preferred climate policy Ã;Â¢Ã¢â;;Â¬" has one enormous sticking point: once the cap is in place, who gets the right to pollute?

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Carbon Accounting in New Zealand

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:26:24 EDT

Carbon trading is making headlines in New Zealand with changes to the way the government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will be phased in over the next few years.

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Green Jobs Find International Support

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:25:11 EDT

Many predict that the future of job growth lies within a green economy. Expanding renewable energy industries, such as wind and solar, can offer high-paying jobs for skilled workers. Sitting in a warm Capitol Hill office building last week, a panel of green-collar job activists attempted to rally support among a room of sleepy Congressional staffer

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The Chinese Far West

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:23:17 EDT

For the 500.000 Chinese who have emigrated to the 'dark continent' there is the promise of a 21st century Wild West. Some have struck gold and run large conglomerates that span whole regions of Africa, others are still selling their cheap goods on the burning hot roadsides of the poorest countries in the world.

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TerraPass' New and Improved Flight Emissions Calculator

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:22:57 EDT

The new calculator Ã;Â¢Ã¢â;;Â¬Ã;Â¦ takes into account a range of factors including plane type, route anomalies such as weather detours and holding patterns, cargo loads, seat pitch and width, etc. TRX engaged an outside expert to validate their emissions methodolo

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Street Art is Dead

Neophile — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:16:09 EDT

Sometime in the autumn of 2006, an anonymous figure began to splash once sacred images. Revolutionary creativity does not shock or entertain the bourgeoisie, read communiquÃ;Â©s posted at the scene, it destroys them. Deriding street artists as "advance scouts for capital," the Splasher, as he came to be known, was i

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Using Disasters for Systemic Change

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:19:53 EDT

Article Photo After reading Justus Stewart's recent article about a BIM collaboration I immediately thought of the Earthquake in China, the Cyclone in Myanmar, Hurricane Katrina and the SE Asian Tsunami, and last year's mini-disaster in the San Francisco Bay Area where I live, the collapse of the "MacArthur Maze" Interstate 580 connect

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Where On (Google) Earth Is Waldo?

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:17:13 EDT

A great video to get you thinking about.... where Waldo might be.

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Wooster Collective: Seen On The Streets Of Athens

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:15:48 EDT

Greek graffiti.

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When Artworks Collide

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:14:33 EDT

"Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?," a group show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea, is the latest proof that you don't have to be a museum to shake things up. It was organized by Gavin Brown, who has a downtown gallery of his own, and Urs Fischer, a Swiss artist he represents.

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From Around the Globe, a Mustering of the Tribes

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:14:30 EDT

All art fairs are messy, but the New York International Tribal & Textile Arts Show is messier than most. It assembles a ridiculously broad range of tribal art from Africa, Oceania, Asia and North and South America. It is a forceful, entrancing ensemble nonetheless.

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Things that oughtn't be flying

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:38 EDT

From a design standpoint, birds look like they can fly. They're small, light, feathery and they've got, you know, those wings. But did you ever realize every manmade thing that can fly, from blimps to 767s to Sikorsky helicopters, don't look like they can, or should?

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A "transitional chair"

Digidave — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:10 EDT

Raj and the boys would have felt right at home in Andrea Ruggiero's Tempo chair, an unusual seat that forgoes a back in recognition of the fact that, well, there are plenty of people who don't sit normally.

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