Would you show your Facebook friends how much electricity you use? A new app is harnessing the power of social media – the peer pressure, camaraderie, and good old-fashioned competition – to inspire people to improve their energy habits: Can Facebook Help Good Energy Habits Go Viral?
Colbert on hydrofracking. Brilliant.
What we spend on alternative energy vs. what we spend on other stuff.
Talisman Energy, a Canadian natural gas company, has a coloring book for kids about the glories of fracking! It stars “Talisman Terry” who is called “the friendly fracosaurus.” No really. This isn’t an Onion article, it’s an actual piece of propaganda by the natural gas fracking industry. It’s using this as part of an outreach strategy in Pennsylvania, where it has a lot of business and has been distributing them locally. It has puppies, kittens, American flags, the aforementioned friendly fracosaurus and a whole lot of not mentioning the controversies that surround the natural gas and fracking industries. It also tries to teach children that fracking produces rainbows and smiling suns (see above photo from the coloring book). Via Think Progress.
The coloring book is here: Fracking Coloring Book (PDF).
See also the Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette’s article, “Color me fracked: Energy industry produces coloring book to make case for gas drilling to kids“
Solar Panels Rise Pole by Pole, Followed by Gasps of ‘Eyesore’
We have these in our neighborhood and we find them totally inconspicuous. I don’t see what the big deal is. People just like to find things to complain about.
Installations have been popping up across New Jersey for about a year, but some residents worry aloud about the effect on property values.
Transportation Chief to Unveil Pipeline Safety Effort
Jersey City pipeline people, read up!
The safety campaign is aimed at coordinating federal, state and local oversight of pipelines and making more information available to the public about potential hazards.
A passive house in the Hudson Valley. More on Passive Houses here.
Boingboing of all news sources has a pretty excellent sum-up of nuclear power.
Stay informed, learn what’s going on, don’t let the talking heads do it for you.
