Carbon Contest

The Federal Trade Commission charged K-Mart and two other companies with falsely claiming that their products are biodegradable.

Energy Northwest, a consortium of power producers in Washington State want to build new nuclear facilities, but their past mistakes and the uncertainty of where they will store the waste are causing some people to pause. Grist interviewed Robert Alvarez, director of the Nuclear Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. about the potential pitfalls of adding more nuclear power.

Although, nuclear power has seen its shares of mishaps in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, both could have been avoided by better HUMAN processes.

A small hurdle towards a more nuclear future has just been removed in a current energy bill being written in the Senate. Under this bill, new nuclear generating capacity would be counted towards a state's renewable portfolio. Although I disagree with the renewable classification, I strongly support the increased use of nuclear power in the US and around the world.

We have eaten/thrown out over 90% of the world's big fish: sharks, swordfish and tuna and we could see the bluefin tuna completely disappear if we do not let the stocks replenish and continue to pollute the waters of the world.