electricity realities in Iraq & infrastructure decline

Article in today’s Guardian about the latest electricity challenges in Iraq.  The challenges stem from a decline in the overall infrastructure from Saddam’s reign to post-war looting to ongoing destruction, and the difficulty that regional utilities are having in cooperating when they feel ripped off and so rarely plug their plants into the larger grid.
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Goldberg and avoiding knee-jerk hatred

So I was inspired by Brian’s post on “why gays are second-class citizens” [in the US], and by some of the anger-filled comments in response to his post, to think more this morning about people loving each other instead of knee-jerk hating.
Then I was roaming on newsvine to this inspiring editorial from Alexander Goldberg, about [...]

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Latest Economist :: how business is driving clean energy and climate change is driving business

The latest Economist is all about business and climate change, and particularly exciting given the possible business and public policy outcomes from this week’s G8 summit. Here’s the article from the issue that kicks off the series of ~15 articles. Before the intro article, I’ve included 1-liner argument summaries for the first few [...]

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