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Geography in the News: Guantanamo
Posted by Neal Lineback of Maps101.com and Maps.com on May 2, 2013 By Neal Lineback and Mandy Lineback Gritzner, Geography in the NewsTM and Maps.com Guantanamo’s Troubles The U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was selected by President George W. Bush’s administration to house some of the worst of Osamma bin Laden’s al-Queda terrorists and their Taliban supporters from Afghanistan. It is one of the few…
Posted by Updated December 1, 2012 The geographic extremities of any continent tend to have strategic value and it is thus no surprise that the so-called “Horn of Africa” was contested and divided between the colonial powers. Italy, the United Kingdom and France vied for control here. While the highlands of Abyssinia remained a formidable challenge for…
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“Our fuel bill was $20 billion last year,” Sharon Burke, assistant secretary of defense for operational energy plans and programs, told a big crowd at the Aspen Environment Forum in late June. Burke explained that the U.S. Department of Defense also spends about $4 billion a year in electricity costs for its 300,000+ buildings…
Redefining the Environmental Movement: Part III
Posted by John Francis, Planetwalker of National Geographic Fellow in Explorers Journal on March 23, 2012 Can college students focused on environmental and social justice have a constructive meeting with the Department of Defense? You might be surprised.
Solar Industry “Darwinism” Weeding Out Weaker Companies
Posted by Mason Inman on September 8, 2011 Solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, which recently filed for bankruptcy, got special treatment from the Obama administration, some have alleged, since the company’s $535 million in federally guaranteed loans had much lower interest rates than those of other green energy companies, according to an investigative report. The FBI raided Solyndra’s office, although it would not comment on the…
As Markets Dive, Clean Energy Stocks Hit by “Triple Whammy”
Posted by Mason Inman on August 11, 2011 The stock market took a beating this week, after the rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded U.S. bonds—but clean tech stocks have been falling even faster than the market as a whole. Shares in clean energy companies have been hit by a “triple whammy”—producing too much capacity for the demand, problems with government debt, and…
Ethanol Tax Breaks Survive, but Vote May Have “Broken the Dam”
Posted by Mason Inman on June 16, 2011 While a bill to slash $6 billion in annual tax breaks for ethanol fuel failed to pass the U.S. Senate, it was still hailed by some lawmakers and analysts as a major break from the past. It raises a philosophical quandary, says the Christian Science Monitor: “If Congress takes away a tax subsidy, should that count as…
