Greenobyl http://greenobyl.com Tending the Environmental Wasteland Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en An economic plan we can all believe in. http://greenobyl.com/380/an-economic-plan-we-can-all-believe-in http://greenobyl.com/380/an-economic-plan-we-can-all-believe-in#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:52 +0000 admin http://greenobyl.com/?p=380 Architecture 2030’s plan for renewing the economy through renewable energy. Hopefully, someone is listening.

]]> http://greenobyl.com/380/an-economic-plan-we-can-all-believe-in/feed British want to use the antartic as a carbon sink http://greenobyl.com/379/british-want-to-use-the-antartic-as-a-carbon-sink http://greenobyl.com/379/british-want-to-use-the-antartic-as-a-carbon-sink#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:19:03 +0000 admin http://greenobyl.com/?p=379 By pumping iron into the ocean, algae forms, sinks to the bottom, and sequesters carbon.

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]]> http://greenobyl.com/378/green-benders/feed WTF? http://greenobyl.com/377/wtf http://greenobyl.com/377/wtf#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:38:13 +0000 admin http://greenobyl.com/?p=377 CEO of Exxon promotes the idea of a carbon tax. Hell has frozen over.

]]> http://greenobyl.com/377/wtf/feed Extraterrestials hate wind power? http://greenobyl.com/376/extraterrestials-hate-wind-power http://greenobyl.com/376/extraterrestials-hate-wind-power#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:25:59 +0000 admin http://greenobyl.com/?p=376 A wind turbine is destroyed in Lincolnshire. Residents claim a octopus-like UFO took it down. They killed JFK; Will they kill renewable energy?

(From EarthFirst)

]]> http://greenobyl.com/376/extraterrestials-hate-wind-power/feed The damned gray squirrel faces the foodies http://greenobyl.com/375/the-damned-gray-squirrel-faces-the-foodies http://greenobyl.com/375/the-damned-gray-squirrel-faces-the-foodies#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:16:36 +0000 admin http://greenobyl.com/?p=375 In Britain, where the red squirrel is pushed to extinction by the gray squirrel, squirrels are moving from a gastronomic curio to a ethically-minded delicacy.

]]> http://greenobyl.com/375/the-damned-gray-squirrel-faces-the-foodies/feed How many jobs will green tech create? http://greenobyl.com/374/how-many-jobs-will-green-tech-create http://greenobyl.com/374/how-many-jobs-will-green-tech-create#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:07:57 +0000 admin http://greenobyl.com/?p=374 ~300,000 coal jobs, ~400,000 renewable energy jobs. How will the figures balance if the renewable jobs take off and coal dies?

]]> http://greenobyl.com/374/how-many-jobs-will-green-tech-create/feed Exxon invests in carbon capture http://greenobyl.com/373/exxon-invests-in-carbon-capture http://greenobyl.com/373/exxon-invests-in-carbon-capture#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:04:09 +0000 admin http://greenobyl.com/?p=373 In a move no doubt featuring in every future ad they will create, Exxon spends $170 million on carbon sequestration technologies.

Compare this to their $11.7 BILLION quarterly profit to put things in perspective.

]]> http://greenobyl.com/373/exxon-invests-in-carbon-capture/feed Protester protects land via bidding. http://greenobyl.com/372/protester-protects-land-via-bidding http://greenobyl.com/372/protester-protects-land-via-bidding#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:57:37 +0000 admin http://greenobyl.com/?p=372 Protesting the government’s sale of land to oil companies, a protester bids against the oil companies, and wins! Paying for it may be another matter.

]]> http://greenobyl.com/372/protester-protects-land-via-bidding/feed Solution to ADHD: Go look at a damn tree. http://greenobyl.com/371/solution-to-adhd-go-look-at-a-damn-tree http://greenobyl.com/371/solution-to-adhd-go-look-at-a-damn-tree#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:12:19 +0000 admin http://greenobyl.com/?p=371 Scenes of nature and pastoral serenity may improve cognitive function, a new study in Psychological Science reports.

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