NYT: Challenges to Both the Right and Left on Global Warming

This article describes an emerging consensus on the reality of global warming and the changing debate on what to do about it.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Part Deux)

This is a great video for the non-believers.

P.S. Thank you for the articles Ayora, guess I was wrong (maybe...).

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Here is an article from the San Francisco Chronicle that describes the GPGP, an enormous pile of garbage located between San Francisco and Hawaii weighing 3.5 million tons and twice the size of Texas!

Radioactive Nimby: No One Wants Nuclear Waste

Here is an article from today's New York Times exploring the chief unresolved challenge to nuclear energy: where to put the waste. In the American southwest, plans to store radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada have run into serious opposition, and other examples of the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) drama are being played out around the world.

GreenTechMedia.com

Here is a site dedicated to news about venture capital and green technology.

New Information Technology meets New Energy Technology

In this column Thomas Friedman considers the broad possibilities of a convergence between the I.T. and E.T. sectors. This article about a solar powered I.T. center in India is a specific example of this convergence.

Edward Abbey

Here is a short video on Edward Abbey to supplement this week's handout.