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6 Podcasts About the Joys and Perils of the Great Outdoors

Baua Electric

Starter episode: “The Worst Black Bear Attack in History: Part 1” Matt Pycroft, a filmmaker who specializes in documenting far-flung and hostile outdoor locations, delivers interviews with guests who share his thirst for exploration. Other episodes use a pop culture hook, like last summer’s installment pegged to “Oppenheimer.”

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010).

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

As they planned to buy whatever hardware they needed after they had perfected their programming language, they focused first on Jam. s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that preceded PostScript in the laboratory but followed it in the marketplace, is described in the June 1986 issue of IEEE’s magazine, Computer (pp. 2, 1988, pp.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

Their charter was 'Ship ‘em’” “It takes a very tough person,” explained Charpentier, “to say ‘I’m not shipping these because they’re not as good as they could be’—especially when people are clamoring to buy them.” ?Changes Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! The disk drive? What a gory story!” “The

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. People wont buy a full car. This company is not stupid." ( NY Times Magazine ) 2/16/07 In an interview with BusinessWeek on Feb. Hell, yes," he says.

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