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  • from mérida, with (wild) hopes

    Gathered weeks ahead of the looming climate conference in Copenhagen, delegates of the 9th World Wilderness Congress emphasized the ability of wilderness to help regulate Earth systems slipping so quickly out of balance. [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:55am EST
    by gharman

  • nukes, nuts, news

    Feeling the urge to open up, “It’s been four months since my last confession.” This space truly has been an empty hole for a good stretch. I’ve been absorbed in a finishing a series on the nuclear fuel chain, Nukes of Hazard, for the Current. I’ve posted two worthwhile blogs since. [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:54pm EDT
    by gharman

  • pause blog, cue celebrity

    So HOE is in a rut. Popular (boss) demand has me scrawling all my madness (virtually) solely for the SACurrent. Still, every once and a while a golden noodle will slip loose. Latest dangling gem is a Q&A — with me bouncing around the ‘A’ column for a change — in [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by gharman

  • great jupiter!

    Or: How I snuck aboard the USS Scripps despite erratic biorhythms. Getting accepted into the Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment for a week of specialized enviro journalism training has got my brain humming. It’s humming early Ramones. Stuff about Chinese food and electric shock; the crackle of adrenaline and obliviousness. Seems [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 7:50am EDT
    by gharman

  • proud

    If you haven’t yet, read my critique of ongoing nuke industry efforts across the great state of Texas. Loving that The Daily Climate rolled it into their feed. I’d blush if all my oxygenated blood hadn’t poured into my purple prose already… Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: nuclear power, San Antonio Current, [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 4:15pm EDT
    by gharman

  • gonzalez, hardberger, ahern, femicide

    NEW POST: On the pavement for climate action. P.S. did South Texas activists find their own Joe the Plumber? http://bit.ly/uiFgk [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 11:00am EDT
    by gharman

  • protesting gonzalez

    U.S. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez got an early warning blast at the King William Fair parade this weekend from a handful of exhuberant climate activists. He must be thinking his support for giving pollution credits away to industry may not be such a sound idea. [...]
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    Posted: April 26, 2009, 10:18pm EDT
    by gharman

  • read ‘em an weep

    Number of comments: 2
    Yeah, there is movement in the Lege now, but otherwise we've been left with a governor who dismisses and mocks the reality of climate change (when he isn't condoning thoughts of secession) ... [...]
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    Posted: April 18, 2009, 10:56am EDT
    by gharman

  • global warming: slow dancing?

    Even as I was filing my story on the latest from the climate-change frontier, news was pouring in. The EPA was preparing the way for CO2 regulation by declaring greenhouse gases a danger to human health, and fascinating panels about adaptation to global warming were being held in Washington. (And, yes, i [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
    by gharman

  • talkin’ desalination & drought

    Folks at the San Antonio Water System are trotting out revisions to the utility’s 50-year plan and I’m pulling out of jungstown for plain simple waterfront camping for a few. [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 4:37pm EST
    by gharman

  • fall down, retch

    Number of comments: 1
    Were I a runner, this sort of effort would have in me on the ground, cramped and retching. [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 4:49pm EST
    by gharman

  • what am i doing here?

    Number of comments: 6
    Ideas sought. [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2009, 2:16pm EST
    by gharman

  • san antonio’s green leap

    The coming weeks will determine if San Antonio pulls off a sustainability leap into international prominence or chokes on the weight of its own fears. [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 4:43pm EST
    by gharman

  • white flight of fancy over chocolate city

    Despite myself, I am a product of white privilege. Let’s just put that out there. As such, I know that even in this remarkable age of our celebrated Obama presidency that if I can put on a clean shirt, show up and smile, and nine times out of ten my [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 12:56pm EST
    by gharman

  • 200,000 feet on street

    Images/audio from MLK Day March in San Antonio. [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 3:40pm EST
    by gharman

  • blessing of the nuke dump

    Denying a request for further study of a radioactive waste repository in the lower Panhandle before opening it for full-fledged dumping, two of three Texas Council for Environmental Quality commissioners gave final approval yesterday for Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons’ company Waste Control Specialists to start receiving low-level radioactive wastes from [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 4:42pm EST
    by gharman

  • elephants, efficiency, and san anto

    San Antonio leaders are hard at work putting the finishing touches on their stimulus request now. Concurrently, San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger has a lot of (admittedly) late-coming, but eco-sensical stuff he wants to see the city tackle in the near future: city-spanning efficiency retrofits, in-fill development along the San [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by gharman

  • comanche peak perking

    Countering popular claims that environmentalists are just a bunch of hairy nay-sayers, the Sierra Club release also offered alternatives for North Texas power deciders: Solar, wind, efficiency. Sounds a lot like the direction South Texas had been heading. [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 1:31pm EST
    by gharman

  • twit change, ban the bag, & ellis eye land

    Number of comments: 1
    Well, chalk another one up for Energy City: Houston is now also where Global Warming solutions are being proffered, thanks to legislation filed by State Senator Rodney Ellis. [...]
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    Posted: December 23, 2008, 4:36pm EST
    by gharman

  • body against border wall

    Number of comments: 2
    Just as highways, once built, never freakin’ disappear, multi-million dollar walls have this habit of staying in place — at least until the empire crumbles, and sometimes not even then. [...]
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    Posted: December 19, 2008, 12:58pm EST
    by gharman

  • dissecting dr. chu

    Number of comments: 1
    So all eyes shift to Obama where murkier statements on nuclear's roll in the national energy mix began to clarify with Dr. Chu now in ascendancy. [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 11:20am EST
    by gharman

  • kick fuel: hit bijou

    Number of comments: 1
    Sometimes changing the world really does mean just showing up. Popcorn is optional. [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2008, 11:22am EST
    by gharman

  • watergate that almost wasn’t

    We've been waiting a long time for this. When "W" leaves office, a flood of new information about domestic spying, torture, detainments, Iraq war intelligence manipulation, etc., will begin to drench this impoverished nation with the changing of the guard. [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2008, 8:53am EST
    by gharman

  • made for 2012?

    I am a child of the Doom Generation. Or perhaps a precursor to it. Raised on Mutually Assured Destruction and flowering on a diet of Global Warming, I am one of those whose core is programmed, who finds himself agreeing (as Laurence Joseph writes in Apocalypse 2012) "Armageddon just feels [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2008, 12:28pm EST
    by gharman

  • no n-baf for sa

    Can we imagine Texas losing a fight to Kansas or Mississippi? Why, yes we can. [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2008, 12:21pm EST
    by gharman

  • texas climate news launches

    Also Ike-motivated this week, I was running a parody shop at the SA Current, with my impressions of the U.S. NRC's damned-if-we-don't approach to regulation and general defense running for the nuke industry. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2008, 10:19am EST
    by gharman

  • bioterror and uranium

    Number of comments: 1
    Great to see Plum Island, the most secure location of six candidates according to Homeland Security, being played up for proposed massive germlab, the N-BAF. Finally, something like sanity surfacing. [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 5:44pm EST
    by gharman

  • border wall slowdown?

    Sixty-something days. For some, it can't come fast enough. By "some," we mean those losing land, liberty, and fraternity on La Frontera. [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 10:49am EST
    by gharman

  • how green was your vote?

    So now that the numbers are in and we've got a fresh crop of dandies to feed into the national rule-making machine, perhaps you're wondering what it all means for a livable planet? Will we finally take the lead on the world stage and make climate change a priority? Invest [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 4:08pm EST
    by gharman

  • facebook terrors?

    A friend who knows I throw up my personal stats, associations, and political colors on Facebook suggested I check out this YouTube video, where a sedated-sounding narrator challenges our comfort level with hoisting such personal gargantua and minutia online. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2008, 12:52pm EST
    by gharman

  • mccain ‘blah’ on nuclear’s toll on kids

    Yes, let's "pay attention to his words." Risks of nuclear power? McCain's response is "blah, blah, blah." [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2008, 3:47pm EDT
    by gharman

  • sunday night cynicism

    Number of comments: 4
    Sure Maryland state police were shadowing climate activists for over a year and had even scratched their names onto a list of suspected terrorists. But, hey, Gore did call for civil disobedience in defense of the planet, didn't he? Forgive the police powers for misunderstanding the difference between non-violent dissent [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2008, 11:42pm EDT
    by gharman

  • nytimes and san anto’s germlabbing

    Though even the Ex-News had to budge when the U.S. General Accounting Office investigation of lax security at two of five high-risk BSL-4 labs in the country found SA's Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research wanting. However, for the Express, the breaking news report appears to be the end of it. [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 1:36pm EDT
    by gharman

  • green jobs and belt buckles

    While I was researching my climate-energy offering in the Current this week (which is not about green jobs, though the inputs were unavoidable), I hit upon several interesting numbers — particularly when it came to Google Lab's proposed national energy plan, which I analyzed alongside those being brought by Obama, [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2008, 12:25pm EDT
    by gharman

  • chicago march & mountain boom

    As my story on energy, climate, and misery winds its way to the printers this week, I am stung by how many things keep getting worse. The pace of carbon dioxide emissions increasing over last decade's; scientists slack-jawed at the potential carbon-fueled demise of our oceans, and the son-of-a-Bush that [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2008, 4:37pm EDT
    by gharman

  • a true reagan conservative?

    You can see a couple more Oliver toons at golliver’s cartoons. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Posted in Uncategorized   Tagged: cartoon, gary oliver, Global Warming, sarah palin, trees    [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2008, 3:32pm EDT
    by gharman

  • bioterror bombast

    Three steps to rethinking the federal germlab/bioterror/agro-defense research compound known as the National Bio- & Agro-Defense Facility... [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2008, 10:09am EDT
    by gharman

  • dear mister schieffer

    But there’s potentially a major crimp in the hose of plenty. And it looms in the higher energy prices waiting to meet us as we cross the energy divide. [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 5:07pm EDT
    by gharman

  • perry’s soggy arteries

    Yeah, SurvivaBalls for all would be a challenge. Recognized. Doesn’t stop us from expecting sober-minded planning to keep state residents in “Energy City, USA” of all places from going for weeks without power (and coming a mite close to marching to lofty Austin, Texas for your head, sir). [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2008, 7:47pm EDT
    by gharman

  • nuke fight whack-a-moley

    The ad is scare-your-pants-off serious. I don’t know what the budget for the campaign sits at or where this sucker ran, but it certainly was on par — or approaching parity with — those fullpage “filthy coal” ads that preceded the Guv Perry ass-kicking protests that shot down coal-plant fast-tracking [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2008, 4:01pm EDT
    by gharman

  • non-proliferation (re)fissions

    While Iran brays against the extension of nuclear trade between the United States and India, voices elsewhere, including the United Arab Emirates have been more encouraging. UAE leaders have reasons to cheer – perhaps chief among them is the hope that proliferation of such trade suggests their own nuclear-power ambitions [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2008, 2:28pm EDT
    by gharman

  • houston’s last ghasp

    Foul air wasn't my — or anyone else's — paranoid imagination. As cities like San Antonio and Austin are now facing possible federal sanctions in 2009 for racking up bad air quality points this week, Houston has been judged so severe a case that the EPA agreed with Gov Perry [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2008, 3:57pm EDT
    by gharman

  • smog, americums, kapital

    here’s the bad news, this solid five days of high ozone (pictured here) have knocked much of the state out of compliance with running three-year federal mandates. That not only is likely keeping the doc boxes hustling asthma sufferers late into the day, but could result in a lot of [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2008, 10:00pm EDT
    by gharman

  • obama’s unknown farm life

    Number of comments: 1
    Though he's getting the bulk of the applause post-debate, Obama let me down in Mississippi. Not only has he creeped ever closer right of middle by labeling Venezuela a “rogue state” on par with Iran and by asserting he is "not against nuclear waste," (Well, you know, Jim. There's a [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2008, 11:32pm EDT
    by gharman

  • czar palin, crude nuke, & deceit

    I've been picking up a new book my sis sent down from Denver post-convention. It's about energy. More specifically, it's a hyper-annotated challenge to these isolationist chanters enervating over energy "independence" who have have grown so pervasive of late. It'll likely be one of those great love-hate reads that pushes [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2008, 4:05pm EDT
    by gharman

  • ike stains

    The Gulf of Mexico represents the vast majority of our offshore oil wealth. Here's a visual reminder of what drilling means in a climate-cyclic sense: An image snapped above High Island, Texas, the day after Hurricane Ike roared ashore. [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2008, 7:30pm EDT
    by gharman

  • bio defense late in game

    I've been supremely critical of the paper's smalltown chamber of commerce functioning on this issue. Consider their coverage and you can't help but conclude, the editorial content has been spun - if not to sell the lab to SA - at least to keep a lid on the criticism. [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2008, 10:36am EDT
    by gharman

  • the great nuke giveaway

    While the "Drill Me - Drill You" mantra has pressed offshore derricks and scenes of middle-aged Republican coitus to the forefront of popular consciousness, there's a lot more to this here debate than crowd hysterics. What you may not have heard about is the proposed opening of the national treasury [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2008, 12:38pm EDT
    by gharman

  • a new custard universe

    All eyes in Texas are on Ike. Wonderment being expressed about the sheer size of this sucker. Questions about the potential storm surge, force of winds, and damages in refinery row as the storm clicks toward midnight. Some are also watching the nuclear plant on the coast in Matagorda County. [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2008, 12:48pm EDT
    by gharman

  • media misleads on drilling

    Number of comments: 4
    Uh, Drill Why? [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2008, 1:34pm EDT
    by gharman

  • life review

    Number of comments: 2
    unpacking. every small token kept becomes new and precious when unpacked, held, and considered. some of my favorite small things so easily lost... [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2008, 3:01pm EDT
    by gharman

  • pickens sans plan

    Number of comments: 3
    When I first started seeing the "Pickins' Plan" adverts, I just assumed everyone knew as much as I did, which is about whatever the face on the screen was telling me. Then I got a call from a long-lost bud in the UAE. "Whose this Pickens guy?" he asked. [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2008, 4:26pm EDT
    by gharman

  • let’s make a deal

    Not new thoughts. No. But another explanation, perhaps, of why we tolerate the despoiling of our lands and waters. Working with living systems implicates us as partners in the web, rather than masters. [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 7:05pm EDT
    by gharman

  • texas-shaped hole in border pact

    Now I know Lone Star politicos aren’t traditionally the cheerleading sort — especially when it comes to entering into “entangling alliances” (lest they be petrol-based), suspicious treaties (only “free” trade for our bannana growers), or — heck — abiding by international law (does sovereignty mean nothing?). How many disappointments must [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2008, 6:11pm EDT
    by gharman

  • border wall damages

    'Member all those federal rules Chertoff trampled to get Border Wall construction on track? Water, land, animals, native graves, etc. — all shrugged off with Congressionally mandated powers granted the Homeland Security Czar under the Real ID Act. As South Texas wall portions are going up, and residents there are still [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2008, 11:48am EDT
    by gharman

  • karl on plum

    Karl Grossman tackles Plum Island (as he has dutifully since the 1970's) in two news segments to be aired on WVVH-TV up in New York this weekend. There are some interesting facts about the proposed federal germ lab that may be on interest to San Antonians, to date the most [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 9:50am EDT
    by gharman

  • for beckie

    — Several things I meant to expound upon this week but haven’t… a. coal soon to cost too damn much; b. south tx uranium mining lay-offs — even with short-sighted nuke dump expansion explosion in andrews county (if the forbes-run pr newswire report doesn’t satisfy, you could try the texas observer report); c. and pickins’ [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2008, 12:46pm EDT
    by gharman

  • gatsby crowd rebel

    Something about those damn Colonists huddled up on the Eastern Seaboard. Makes folks skittish living that close to the Euro Zone's market wobbles. Or maybe it's the acidifying Atlantic sea spray. Whatever the cause, it's no illusion that the further west one gets from Long Island and the Plum Island germ [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2008, 6:05pm EDT
    by gharman

  • cps saves the day

    CPS Energy had just enough cash on hand this year to pay off our city council and keep the city out of the red. The announcement came the day before the annual budgeting was to begin. [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2008, 9:20pm EDT
    by gharman

  • bio-lab boosterousness

    Number of comments: 2
    day after I called our local paper down on the carpet for failing to ask more challenging questions about Homeland Security's planned bioterror research goliath, the San Antonio Express-News' top policy-recommenderers stumped for the National Bio- & Agro-Defense Facility again — as if this increasingly competitive process were as simple [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2008, 12:07pm EDT
    by gharman

  • ‘news’ treads lightly on germ-lab

    As a writer, consumer, and critic of that all-so-serious thing we call "news," I often find myself reminded of a former small-town publisher's words: "It's not so much what you put in the paper, but what you don't." [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2008, 3:25pm EDT
    by gharman

  • don’t flip that switch!

    Number of comments: 1
    This is the week my second major story on CPS hit the street. When I took them on a year ago the challenge was tied to climate security concerns: The promises of decentralization and pitfalls of nuke overlooks. My split with CPS Energy plans was based on economic argument and [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2008, 2:37pm EDT
    by gharman

  • close relations

    Number of comments: 1
    While I don't consider myself "anti-zoo," I have ideas about what such an institution should look like. It's not the SA Zoo. It's not Woburn Wild Animal Kingdom. Is it New Orleans' "frozen zoo?" [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2008, 12:31pm EDT
    by gharman

  • why not geothermal?

    My buddy Karl gets inquisitive and finds the renewable armada is “more than ready.” [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2008, 11:31am EDT
    by gharman

  • pimpin’ perry

    Rick Perry traveled to Los Angeles to lay out his energy plan for Texas. I'm just amazed. Not that Perry — along with Governors across the windy Plains states — see the bonanza to be had in wind energy (or that they continue to give short shrift to sun), but [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2008, 10:24am EDT
    by gharman

  • no badges, no king

    Number of comments: 2
    Worldwatch wants Al Gore to be your Daddy. As if the environmental movement, grown increasingly diffused across the political and social spectrum in recent years, all of a sudden needs such a figurehead. [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2008, 10:25pm EDT
    by gharman

  • shadow

    Number of comments: 2
    Depression is not the absence of light or an overwhelming surge of darkness. It is a blankness, a not seeing. It is a shelter from sight and from engagement in authentic experience, wherever such involvement settles on the gradient-scale of dualities: happy-sad; excited-bored; fearful-loving, etc. Today I was saved from depression [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2008, 9:18pm EDT
    by gharman

  • wind picks up

    Number of comments: 2
    Thanks to a ruling of the state Public Utility Commission today, Texas will get $5 billion worth of transmission lines running out of West Texas and the Panhandle drawing, ultimately, 18.5 megawatts of clean new wind- and solar-generated electricity. PUC commissioners, after being lobbied aggressively by a variety of utilities and [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2008, 8:16pm EDT
    by gharman

  • countering climate insurgency

    Okay. I have a lot to answer for. For starters, I cry out when I am terrified by the careening industrial machine and what it is doing to this planet. Gotta fix that. Anyway, I shot one up on the Current blog today, bringing my teaming tribe of indifferent grazers up [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2008, 4:41pm EDT
    by gharman

  • plant your roof

    Now this should be fun… Bexar Audubon Society’s Vegetated-Roofs Competition Vegetated rooftops are one of the most promising trends in conservation. Buildings with such roofs incur lower heating/cooling costs. We all benefit from reduced demand for energy, reduced heat-island effect on urban weather, cleaner air, and habitat for birds and beneficial insects. [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2008, 9:21pm EDT
    by gharman

  • dear john, dos

    There are already enough people arguing about global warming policy. It wouldn't help for the State Climatologist to step into the fray. He's too valuable a researcher. Apparently. [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2008, 11:38am EDT
    by gharman

  • dear john

    I just submitted this to atmo.sphere, where Texas’ state climatologist has a blog. I thought some of you may be interested. (And, yes, I could have spent a few minutes checking sentence structure/grammar. Oh well. You’ll catch the drift, I promise.) My initial post wasn’t intended to sound as personal as [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2008, 3:51pm EDT
    by gharman

  • crane peddles ’schwarzenegger approach’

    We could save the planet the nice way, by way of conservation and non-deadly renewables. Or we could just go on rampaging as we always have. David Crane of NRG Energy (San Antonio utility's partner in two proposed nukes plants in Matagorda County) wants to let the rampage continue, and says [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2008, 3:53pm EDT
    by gharman

  • roots

    Number of comments: 2
    It seems an appropriate time and place to be recording my dream of roots, post Independence Day, writing on my father’s computer. The dream was one of those that takes on the intricacies of a big-budget, science fiction thriller. We - you and I and this whole human endeavor - had [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2008, 1:16pm EDT
    by gharman

  • biodefense blows

    Number of comments: 3
    One year ago, San Antonio’s chances of landing Homeland Security’s $500-million golden goose of germ research — the National Bio- & Agro-Defense Facility — were good. Three of the eighteen sites being considered were in Alamo City. We had Brooks City-Base, Texas Research Park, and the nation’s only privately run BSL-4 [...]
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    Fetched: July 02, 2008, 11:38am EDT
    by gharman

  • destabilizing waste control

    State Sierra Club leaders are hoping to scuttle a highly controversial radwaste disposal license granted to Waste Control Specialists back in May with a last-ditch legal grab for a contested case hearing. The would-be national dump out on the Texas-New Mexico line at the southern end of the Panhandle has been [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2008, 5:43pm EDT
    by gharman

  • healthy bays, drowning lands

    You will pay more for a healthy Gulf. And that’s not just some rancorous blogger talkin’. Maybe you didn’t realize that you’re willing to factor more than the rising gas and beer prices into future fishing, birding, or paddling trips across your favorite Texas bay, but that’s what two reports just [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2008, 11:25pm EDT
    by gharman

  • cps’s bad output

    Number of comments: 1
    Five thousand box fans and expensive advertisements reminding you to turn off the television. That’s the price for forgiveness? Angry? Is somebody angry? Consider the last six months of inputs: Repeated scoldings leveled from the public realm at every significant public meeting CPS Energy has held thanks to plans to expand its [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 10:42pm EDT
    by gharman

  • flurry dos

    Transmission issues and federal policy are the greatest barriers to the development of wind energy in the United States, according to a poll conducted by NRG Systems during Windpower 2008 last weekend. [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2008, 7:44pm EDT
    by gharman

  • goliad countdown

    There is still time to raise a stink about UEC's plans to mine an unconfined drinking-water aquifer in Goliad County for uranium. [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2008, 5:38pm EDT
    by gharman

  • flurry o’ blurbs

    Short bursts of semi-related scrum that have been collecting in my lower tract this week… how to nap (in case you forgot); why we love warblers; a poem to lift you up; and cps energy news to drive you mad. Firstly, this image above of future reverse-migration rights advocates was [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2008, 2:29pm EDT
    by gharman

  • leatherbackup?

    A young endangered sperm whale had been either bled to death or sent off with a handful of tranquilizers on Mustang Island after stranding there Tuesday. Reports between print and TV media also differed on the reasoning for not returning the 8-ton mammal to the Gulf. One said it was [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2008, 4:59pm EDT
    by gharman

  • coleman & co.

    Number of comments: 8
    Lord knows, I have paid my dues arguing climate science with entrenched and avowed deniers of human-induced climate change, or this here global warming. This past week I got tangled in another thread where the host raised the spectre of climate change but tried to keep the course of conversation [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2008, 7:03pm EDT
    by gharman

  • numb skulls, dead zones

    Agribusiness fertilizer runoff and urban wastes rush the Gulf through our creeks, streams, and rivers. There they spawn massive algal blooms that suck the oxygen out of the water creating huge “dead zones” along coasts worldwide. One of the worst ongoing lifeless stretch has been the result of that fluid - [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 8:09pm EDT
    by gharman

  • green dreams in alamo city

    Number of comments: 4
    Raging gas prices and Wall Street jitters on the subject on nuclear power have provided the perfect launching pad for a major green initiative in San Antonio. [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 11:29am EDT
    by gharman

  • shriveled lungs

    Aside from the premature deaths from heart attacks, stunning asthma rates, and shriveled lungs, citizens of the Distrito Federal in Central Mexico — where ozone levels (smog) exceed World Health Organization standards 300 days out of the year — are being deprived of their senses. Or at least their sense [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2008, 9:46am EDT
    by gharman

  • yucca, goliad, & mr. zero

    Number of comments: 2
    Meanwhile, complaints about tained water from Uranium Enrichment Corp's exploration of uranium zones in a confined, drinking-water aquifer in Goliad County have gone nowhere. It hasn't stopped the company from receiving the first of a needed covy of licenses to mine uranium there. [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2008, 2:33pm EDT
    by gharman

  • swallows swallow

    Barn Swallows in the stairwell at our apartments. Fewer this year, but could have something to do with all of last year's nests management knocked down. Is an "unmanned" nest subject to federal Migratory Bird Act? [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2008, 11:38am EDT
    by gharman

  • trains over, ii

    "Friendship to Hope Vigil" at Santa Elena Canyon on June 1. Terlingua community organizer, Adrienne Evans said, "Along with people in Brownsville and San Diego, we gathered to show support for people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border who are suffering because of a border wall." [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2008, 11:33am EDT
    by gharman

  • nuke texas (please)

    Number of comments: 5
    Yesterday, San Antonio's City-owned CPS Energy, local automotive mongrel Red McCombs, and Illinois polluter Excelon Energy established "Nuclear Energy for Texans," an apparently private-public partnership established to lobby taxpayers, voters, and lawmakers for a nuclear-powered future [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2008, 11:36am EDT
    by gharman

  • trains over planes

    Number of comments: 2
    Obviously, significant policy and practice remedials are called for. Will Amtrak (or private investors) seize upon air travel's increasing woes from exploding oil prices and climate concerns? [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2008, 1:00pm EDT
    by gharman

  • wired wanks off

    Number of comments: 4
    Just as I was beginning to enjoy Wired again, they pulled a horrendous bait-and-switch with one of those overdone "everything you thought you knew about environmentalism is wrong" feature assemblage of featurettes. Stark reverse text is scrawled over a safety orange and lime cover. [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2008, 2:29pm EDT
    by gharman

  • peaky oil & damned water

    Number of comments: 9
    In this volatile land of exploding oil & gas recovery, a new truth seeks out a blame. The reality of Peak Oil, trumpeted as the gas station marquees (before the experts even had time to line up over Hubbert's equation), appears to be settling over us like smothering tenor. First we [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2008, 11:01pm EDT
    by gharman

  • radwasting west texas

    Number of comments: 3
    After four years and at least 14 permit application revisions, Waste Control Specialists today was awarded a contested and highly-controversial license to begin burying radioactive waste in a series of trenches in western Andrews County. [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2008, 3:39pm EDT
    by gharman

  • bowties savaging utility plans?

    Number of comments: 1
    Lo and behold, the sun is truly breaking on San Antonio. Thanks in large part to the man we celebrated at his 95th bday this week, Mr. Bill Sinkin. You can find him above explaining plans for a new solar bowtie to SA Editor Bob Rivard. (And why not? We [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2008, 11:38am EDT
    by gharman

  • caught in the act

    Why is this man filming me? What about his buddy in the Ranger with the viewfinder glued to his eye? Several men with digital recorders and hard hats took part in a digitized stand-off Saturday as a group of about 20 uranium-curious amateur photographers toured mining operations outside Kingsville sans invitation. [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2008, 5:00pm EDT
    by gharman

  • bird, bra, robot

    Nosy naturalists have spied more racoons than red-winged blackbirds at their popular feeding center in Sinton, Texas, but that’s OK. No ornithological-whatchamabug graduate students got sunburned, or rat-scratched, or hyperventilated sitting in the scrub day after day marking boxes. That’s because you (yes, YOU, bummer o’de blogosphere) are the birder and [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2008, 7:54pm EDT
    by gharman

  • avenger, plus two

    Number of comments: 3
    So, the Toxic Avenger dropped by the Current office this week. He had a lot to say about CPS’s backpeddle on nuke investments being included in that rate hike the San Anto Council votes up, down, or to the side next week. Weird, you know. He’s from Jersey. Now-solvent NRG Energy [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2008, 6:15pm EDT
    by gharman

  • moore, morals, & nucleai

    Former Greenpeace member Patrick Moore and reborn nuclear power champion has had a busy schedule as a paid promoter of atomic energy, most recently glad-handing with the Victoria Economic Development Corporation. Excelon wants its next plant to be in Victoria County. The company, you may remember, is the owner of the [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:29am EDT
    by gharman

  • recognize!

    are you absolutely, positively sure you're at the right site? there is still time to eject; a full range of war-devaluing services await you... [...]
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    Posted: May 09, 2008, 9:33pm EDT
    by gharman
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