Light.org U.S. Congress: Research Guide
http://maplight.org/
If you want to run for Congress, you need money. A lot of money.
To win election, U.S. House members raised, on average, $1,900 per day, every day, for an entire two-year term—including weekends and holidays. That’s $1.4 million per House member, on average.
Winning senators raised $8.5 million, on average—$3,900 per day. (These figures are for the 2008 election, from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.)
The main so
Interview with a prominent red-shirt 'cyber warrior'
Mon, 22/03/2010 - 17:19
http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/1686
Pravit Rojanaphruk
As the political standoff continues, Pravit Rojanaphruk talks to "Luke Chao Na Thai" or "Thai Peasant's Son", an influential red-shirt intellectual whose articles under the pen name is widely followed by many middle-class red shirts. "Luke Chao Na Thai" was educated in Thailand and England. He is a bureaucrat in his mid forties who kept
A man of the middle path
Published on July 18, 2009
Dr Sumet Tantivejchakul warns mankind to beware of Mother Nature's wrath |and to maintain the balance by taking the route of sufficiency
Dr Sumet Tantivejchakul, 70, secretary-general of the Chai Pattana Foundation, had no hesitation in sharing his belief that overpopulation, environmental degradation and extreme capitalism were the culprits behind the current global economic crisis, climate change and other illnesses affecting the planet.
GBN Global Business Network • Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_energy_strategy
“The Same Road”
Today
This is a world in which a combination of political inertia and global economic growth keeps the U.S. energy environment in familiar territory. Energy prices fluctuate in well established patterns, along an upward trend with a series of price spikes. Economic power steadily shifts toward developing nations, but not at a disruptive pa
Paul Krugman, professor in the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Economics and New York Times columnist talks about his book: `The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008`
I have the audio book and found it understandable and informative.Well, looks like the U.S. needs to invest it's way out of this "Depression". And investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy is a good w
http://earth2tech.com/2010/03/08/doe-chief-on-why-we-dont-have-a-manhattan-project-for-energy/#more-52838
In times of national need, history has shown that countries can innovate fast — with enough funding. The government has been able to say “Deliver the goods now, we need them, quickly,” and has seen successful results, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said in a talk today hosted by Stanford University’s Green Alliance for Innovative Action. The classic example: The Manhattan Project. Asked wh
Ten percent of Americans, 30 million, have taken their money out of big banks and opened new accounts in community banks. Also, the L.A.city council voted move the their bank accounts to community banks. Hope this trend keeps going.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/real-time-michael-moore-oscars-bank-regula
http://news.discovery.com/tech/top-ten-countries-nuclear-power.html
What if you could generate all the electricity you could ever want at half the cost of coal, one quarter the cost of natural gas, a tenth the cost of oil and with negligible greenhouse gas emissions? What if it came with potentially expensive startup costs, rare, but spectacular, disasters and waste perfect for making weapons of mass destruction? Of course, we’re talking about nuclear power and for many countries, particularly
Bill Gates recommend a book called "Sustainable Energy – without the hot air" by David J.C. MacKay. So I went to the MacKay's website to check it out. This is a good book on Climate Change, CO2, how we use energy, and what options we have to live in a sustainable way.You can download a Synopsis or the whole book for free (PDF).Link: http://www.withouthotair.com/ Reviews
At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable a
Watches this movie last night.Unforgettable movie, thought provoking and very entertaining. Some highlights,The film then depicts home videos of families being evicted from their own houses, as well as the "Condo Vultures", a Florida real estate agent whose business flourished with the increasing number of foreclosures.
The film then cuts back to the past "golden days" of American capitalism following World War II, and a "bummer" speech by President Jimmy Carter warning Americans of the danger
Mandarin: an official in any of the nine top grades of the former imperial Chinese civil service.(2) a powerful official or senior bureaucrat, esp. one perceived as reactionary and secretive : a civil service mandarin. This is your money!!!! ENERGY CONSUMPTION- BUILDINGS Thailand Today- as viewed by Khun Thai academics.Sources:http://www.palangthai.org/docs/MekongEnergySeminar-CanThoFeb2010.ppt http://www.carbonwarroom.com/
Watch video on 60 Minutes.http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6228923n&tag=related;photovideo Eight years and close to $400 million later, ultra-stealthy fuel cell maker Bloom Energy is finally ready to officially launch and ditch its “stealth-mode” status.Former Mars Mission Tech: Sridhar originally came up with the idea for the Bloom Box after developing a device for NASA that would be able to create oxygen on Mars. After NASA ditched their Mars mission, Sridhar had the idea to reverse
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
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Apple's new iPad is being criticized for lacking the capacity to run multiple third party applications at once, but the company has a variety of options to pursue in addressing the issue.
The iPad's iPhone OS arbitrarily limits third party apps from running in the background after the user closes the app. But this isn't because the iPhone OS "can't multitask," as the iPhone OS uses the same preemptively multitasking Mach/BSD kernel as Apple's desktop Mac OS X.
The iPhone OS is constantly run
The Solution to the traffic menace, especially Songteaws.
The Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV) is a tracked, armored engineer vehicle specifically designed for conducting in-stride breaching of minefields and complex obstacles. The ABV will provide crew protection and vehicle survivability while having the speed and mobility to keep pace with the maneuver force. Major components of this system include a Full-Width Mine Plow (FWMP), two linear demolition charges (LDC), a lane-marking syst
How does the Golf TDI compare with Hybrid Electric vehicles?
I support all efforts to decrease petroleum fuel consumption and think that hybrid electric vehicles are an important step in this direction. However, Hybrid electric is an expensive and unproven technology compared to the simplicity of the diesel engine which has been time tested for over 100 years. Cars like the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic Hybrid are great cars, but who knows how their exotic and expensive hybrid components wi
I tried this app, pretty cool. Also, check out "Notational Velocity" a simple notepad for Mac that syncs with SimpleNote or Dropbox. I have many notepads, but I never found one that is just right yet, maybe I'm getting closer with this setup http://notational.net/http://simplenoteapp.com/
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/Fantastic device, for many the iPad all the computer they need. This is transformative device, a bridge to across the digital divide.
See video at url below http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_surace_fixing_drywall_to_heal_the_planet.html
http://www.seriousmaterials.com/html/ecorock.htmlImagine a rain of 1,000 Baht notes from buildings in Bangkok generated from a lack of energy efficiency, happening every single day.
