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A great mass of the people frequently are not heard or may not be informed, may not understand the arguments, may feel the arguments are too complicated, may be so involved in their own private lives that they don’t have time to take an informed interest in world events or in great national issues. Therefore, the field is left to a few participants on both sides.
Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth: BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah solar power project will soon be a humming city with 24-hour lighting, a wastewater processing facility and a gas-fired power plant.
To make room, BrightSource has mowed down a swath of desert plants, displaced dozens of animal species and relocated scores of imperiled desert tortoises, a move that some experts say could kill up to a third of them.
Environmentalists are torn over the high cost of breaking reliance on fossil fuels. Public comment has been sought, but insiders are calling the shots.
Read our article here, and be sure to check out the accompanying graphic.
Images: Top, artist’s conception of Ivanpah ‘solar farm’ project. Bottom, the impact of a solar farm on desert ecosystems.
The old modern lifestyle (by Jorsh Pena)
Casa Mila, Barcelona, Spain
DC's WTOP Gears Newsroom For Digital
“One of the nation’s top-grossing radio stations announced plans Wednesday to reorganize and expand its Washington newsroom to make online news as high a priority as radio and in some cases break news online first.”
Read the full story on Net News Check.
The most remarkable use of screens I’ve seen recently was at a Portishead show in October. The band finished their world tour two weekends ago, in Australia, and the band’s visual director, John Minton, agreed to answer questions and provide the one-minute collage you see below. What you see [above] isn’t footage of the show—it’s a sample of the visuals that appear behind the band as they play.
(Source: newyorker.com)
There is no better time in New York than that of the fall…
One last weekend of splendor, thinking about the holidays to come, a long walk in Central Park before the last leaf falls.
