China just switched on the world’s largest floating solar power plant By switching on the world’s largest floating solar power plant, China is cementing its position as the world’s leader in renewable energy – at a time when leadership is… WEFORUM.ORG[...]
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May 30th, 2017 - 12:14 pm § in Environment, The Ave Scene
Meanwhile, back in Puget Sound, Tears For a Baby Orca
David Neiwert This is one of the most heartbreaking photos I’ve ever seen: Little J-54, struggling to survive and too weak to swim on his own, being held up by his big sister, J-46, on the right, and his cousin, J-47, on the left, after the death of J-28, his mother. Captain Mark Malleson of [[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Leak at Hanford
U.S. Department of Energy declares an emergency at a Hanford nuclear site tunnel that contained rail cars full of nuclear waste collapsed. There apparently has been no release of radiation and no workers were injured, said Randy Bradbury, a spokesman for the Washington state Department of Ecology. T[...]
May 5th, 2017 - 11:34 am § in Environment, The Ave Scene
DRINKING LIBERALLY-FREMONT: FRED FELLEMAN: Our Environment
MONDAY MAY Next Monday 8 at Drinking Liberally. Living along the waters of Puget Sound is wonderful as long as we do not lose the water, the whales, the fish, the shoreline and of course our port. Fred is a committed activist for the environment as well as a Port Commissioner. Did [...]
May 5th, 2017 - 11:17 am § in America, Environment
NEXT MONDAY’S DRINKING LIBERALLY: Fred Felleman
MONDAY MAY Next Monday 8 at Drinking Liberally. Fred is a committed activist for the environment as well as a Port Commissioner. Join him at the Fremont Tavern next Monday Night, May 8, for our regular Drinking Liberally meetup. [...]
April 25th, 2017 - 9:16 am § in Environment, Misc.
Radioactive Boars Invade Japan
Municipal incinerators have been used to dispose of the boars, but there is a shortage of personnel needed to perform the gruelling taskSHIN YOSHINO/CORBIS Communities in northern Japan are being overwhelmed by radioactive wild boars which are rampaging across the countryside after being contaminate[...]
April 23rd, 2017 - 8:28 am § in Donald Trump, Environment, Hypocrisy, Politics, Science, The Ave Scene, UW
Was The March for Science a Bad Idea? I
On Saturday, UW faculty took very different paths in the March for Science. Some of us stood aside, concerned that the March might politicize science, others celebrated science by joining with the the crowd marching in the Seattle rain. Cliff Mass was among those who stayed away. Cliff is [...]
China Threatens the Totoaba