Greenpeace anti-whaling pair found guilty
via guardian.co.uk
HSBC: bigger growth for low-carbon cars than renewables
The report predicts that 8.65m electric vehicles and 9.23m plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles will be sold globally in 2020, up from around 5,000 and 657,000 respectively in 2009.
When fuel-efficiency measures and switches to lower-carbon transport such as trains and coaches are included, the report for investors predicts that the market will be worth $677bn (£440bn) a year in 2020 – up from $113m in 2009. In contrast, HSBC predicts smaller growth in the renewable energy sector, from $203bn in 2009 to $544bn in 2020.
via guardian.co.uk
Fresh Water from Alaska to India
Imagine an oil tanker plowing through the ocean, hauling valuable cargo from resource-rich nations of the world to the countries that need it: but instead of oil, the tanker holds millions of gallons of fresh water.
It's not a vision from some futuristic film or doomsday novel, but the present-day intention of companies trying to launch the bulk water export business. The idea has been around since the 1990's, yet no one has succeeded in making it a practical reality.
via guardian.co.uk
Loyd Alter on TreeHugger
via treehugger.com
"But somehow over the last 50 years, America's business became one of building houses, cars and roads to get to the houses, digging up coal to make electricity to cool the houses, buying oil around the world to run the cars, and filling big box stores with cheap imported crap to fill the houses, all on borrowed money and subsidized by cheap gas. That cycle is over."
Ian Dunt On The State Of Journalism
The consequences of this are monumental. More and more redundancies mean fewer and fewer journalists are available to write the same number of stories. It's harder to sell the product when customers are offered free versions left, right and centre, so the pressure is for even more content being produced by dwindling teams of hacks. With such little time to research and the constant threat of a legal attack under Britain's draconian libel laws, journalism becomes safe. Safe journalism is celebrity stories. Safe journalism is restricted to government pronouncements, which can't prompt a lawsuit. Safe journalism doesn't investigate corporate misbehaviour.
It's a far cry from the sort of thing that got most journalists into the profession. That motive was best summed up, for me at least, by writer Warren Ellis. "Journalism is a gun," he said. "Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world."
via politics.co.uk
Apple TV Faces Obstacles to Conquer Living Room [NYTimes]
If Mr. Jobs had bolder ambitions for Apple TV, they were thwarted, in part, by the same challenges faced by most of its competitors: the established cable operators and content companies that want to protect their businesses even as they tiptoe into the world of Internet television.
via nytimes.com
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