June 5th, 2012, became a red-letter day for solar energy, as Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse solar-powered airplane under a full moon in Rabat, Morocco. The flight, which started in Madrid, marked the first intercontinental flight for a solar airplane. And its next jump will take the Solar Impulse to Ouarzazate, Morocco, where workers […]
Occupy Chicago guards first aid tent. The day after she got out of jail, Martese Chism gave an interview to Mike Malloy on his nightly radio talk show.1 On Saturday, October 22nd, Chism, and her fellow registered nurse, Jan Rodolfo, were manning the first aid tent at Occupy Chicago in Grant Park, when police came […]
The days after the winter solstice, when the once-receding sun has turned and begun its walk back towards the people of the North, have for ages been marked by holidays and rising hopes.1 Now, as we go through the Great Recession, with a battered middle class and government under the sway of big corporations, we […]
Nikola Tesla was a visionary inventor who devoted his life to making an abundant, clean energy supply for humanity. Among his inventions toward that end were alternating current (AC) power transmission, the AC motor, and the bladeless turbine.1 He also invented radio, neon & fluorescent lighting, x-ray imaging, robotics, wireless remote control, wireless energy transmission […]
Global Warming
Skeptical Science
¶ There’s No Warm Time Like the Present
¶ Facts Shatter Global Warming Denier Claims
¶ Greenpeace Explorers on First-Ever Summertime Trek to North Pole
¶ Fossil Fuel Global Warming More Certain than Ever
Net Neutrality
¶ Net Neutrality in Pictures
Occupy Movement
¶ Welcome to the Plutonomy Backlash
¶ Chicago Occupier: “Not the first time kids have stood up for other people’s rights.”
¶ Obama Backs Protesters’ Rights — in Egypt
¶ Old Law Could Stop Corporate Dinosaurs
