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Kenan Samms

Lessons From Fossil-Fueled Rats

How do we pay for decarbonizing the global economy?READ»

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EPA's Porous Pavement Cuts Down on Parking Lot Pollution

Parking lots have a nasty tendency to harbor all the oil, grease, and antifreeze that leak from vehicles. And after a heavy rain, all those substances mix together and take a trip to the closest porous surface--no matter whether ...READ»

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California Polluters Beware: You Will Be Charged for Emitting CO2

Sweeping climate change legislation may have to wait until December's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, but California is getting a head start on cutting down corporate emissions with the first statewide fee for ...READ»

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"Reverse Graffiti" Artist Paul Curtis Shows Us How Dirty We Really Are

If there is a lesson in the work of the British artist Paul Curtis (aka "Moose"), it would be that the world is a mess. Curtis's signature technique is cleaning.READ»

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Realtime Carbon Website Tracks Power Plant Pollution As it Happens

It's one thing to watch pollutants billow out from smokestacks, but it's quite another to know exactly how much carbon dioxide is being injected into the atmosphere. Realtime Carbon, a website developed by Demand Logic, ...READ»

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International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution

Let's not beat around the bush. Fifteen thousand of the world's medicinal plants are nearing extinction, thanks to pollution caused by population growth and rapid industrialization. Each die-off also produces a ripple effect; for ...READ»

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City Senspod Makes Air Pollution Paranoia Easy

Sensaris's wearable City Senspod makes tracking air pollution as easy as checking the time. The wristwatch-like device uses GPS and Bluetooth technology to display real-time CO2 and ozone levels for your exact location. An "air ...READ»

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Spain to Unleash Schools of Oceanic Pollution-Sniffing Robo Fish

Robotic fish developed by scientists at the University of Essex in the U.K. are soon to evolve from engineering curio to actual tool when they go on a world-first mission off the coast of Spain. As part of the larger European SHOAL ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Ideas Are the Best Stimulus Package

With governments around the world shoveling money out of pubic treasuries in the hopes of stimulating their economies, how about summoning a modicum of creativity to build better mousetraps that consumers might actually want to buy? I mean even at 10% unemployment, that means 90% of the population still has a job and is buying stuff. If we can come up with a few good ideas, we can put people to work making things and, hopefully, sell a few more widgets at home and abroad.READ»

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Can We Just Bury Our CO2 Problem in The Sand?

A research project is underway in Illinois to perform a large-scale test on a solution to carbon dioxide pollution: The gas is being pumped underground instead of being released into the atmosphere. Sounds crazy, or irresponsible? Not ...READ»

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Bisphenol A Remains in Body For Longer Than Thought

Our recent article shone a light into the dark and complex issues of bisphenol A, or BPA, a component in many consumer plastic goods. And now a new study is darkening matters further since it suggests the chemical stays in our systems ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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When Politics Kill

When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed me to serve as the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency in 2003, my first challenge came not from the smoggy skies of Los Angeles or the pesticide-laden drainage ...READ»

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A Glimpse of Our Future?

I came across two very different sources of fortune-telling this week. The first was the Border Governors’ Conference (BGC), held at Universal Studios in Hollywood and focused on building a green economy (check it out at ...READ»

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