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Startling Environmental Facts – Take Action Now

By Vihar Sheth on January 12, 2010

Below are 10 startling facts we learned in 2009 that underscore the climate threat. I am republishing them from an email I received from the Environmental Defense Fund. 

A study published in the journal Science reports that the current level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere – about 390 parts per million – is higher [...]

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Our Last Best Chance

By Vihar Sheth on December 7, 2009

I’m approaching 30,000 words. While I’ve been moving at a much slower pace than I’d like, I’m coming up with a few subplots that will hopefully help my story. Tortoise and the hare, tortoise and the hare.
What some people are calling the last best chance for humanity to save itself from climate change starts today [...]

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Coal Ash In The Mornin’, Baby

By Vihar Sheth on December 2, 2009

My wife is on a mission. The objective: get in shape. She and a friend are working out five days a week doing a mix of classes and running. I’m tagging along, though not working out nearly as hard. The point of this is that when I’m doing my cardio, I like to read. And [...]

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Intergalactic Energy Battle

By Vihar Sheth on July 6, 2009

While there are not a plethora of lessons to be learned from Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, there is one in particular of which to take note. Amid the some of the best CGI ever seen and the slow-motion-hotness of the ever ungrateful Megan Fox (and regular-motion-perhaps-even-greater-hotness of coed Isabel Lucas) looms a battle for [...]

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Say “No” to Nukes

By Vihar Sheth on April 23, 2009

I really, really, really hope this:
“AmerenUE CEO Tom Voss said the company is suspending its efforts to build a second nuclear plant in Missouri because of the failure of legislation it was pushing in the General Assembly,”
is true. And by true, I mean that I hope this is a long term decision. So long in [...]

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Blowing Away The Need For Coal

By Vihar Sheth on April 7, 2009

On Monday, a day the winds blew fiercely in St. Louis, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said, “The idea that wind energy has the potential to replace most of our coal-burning power today is a very real possibility. It is not technology that is pie-in-the sky; it is here and now.”
Could you ever imagine a statement so [...]

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Climate Action Summit: Local Action Against Global Warming

By Vihar Sheth on March 20, 2008

On March 8, 2008 I attended the Sierra Club / Missouri Coalition for the Environment sponsored Climate Action Summit. I was going to provide a summary of the key points and my thoughts related to them – and still might – but the Missouri Coalition for the Environment put up a summary page on their [...]

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Livestock A Major Threat To The Environment

By Vihar Sheth on February 4, 2008

Just a little reminder from the Sierra Club:
Livestock create a beefy portion of all greenhouse-gas emissions: 18 percent, according to the United Nations. Could the answer be as simple as two slices of bread and a slathering of peanut butter and jelly? Perhaps. Compared with a burger, this classic sandwich saves as much as 2.5 [...]

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Just Checking In

By Vihar Sheth on February 1, 2008

My apologies for the quietude. I was traveling this week for work and haven’t had a chance to sit down and think about anything green. I did manage to read a few informative articles this week, and I’ve provided links to them below:

What makes the U.S. West so dry?
Intel buys 1.3B kW hours/year of green [...]

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Coal, Coal, Go Away

By Vihar Sheth on January 15, 2008

People all over the country are fighting the good fight against coal. According to the Associated Press:
In federal and state courtrooms across the country, environmental groups are putting coal-fueled power plants on trial in a bid to slow the industry’s biggest construction boom in decades. At least four dozen coal plants are being contested in [...]

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