Is Solar Power An 'Important Piece Of Our Energy Future?'

Monday, October 17, 2011 Is Solar Power An 'Important Piece Of Our Energy Future?' Spending less on one's monthly energy bill -- that's appealing. Saving the environment at the same time, says Ryan Park, "that's icing on the cake." Study Blames Global Warming For Shrinking Species BP, Anadarko Settle Gulf Disaster Claims Money Doesn't Grow On Trees: Environmentalists Occupy Wall Street Could Your Starbucks Frappuccino Be Endangered? Mexico's Newest Export To U.S. May Be Water BLOG POSTS Rep. Keith Ellison: Spearing Sacred Cows Earlier this week, I was on MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes about jobs, the Occupy Wall Street movement and other issues. During the show I said that some regulations have created jobs. David Mizejewski: New Antelope Discovered in Plain Sight There are actually dozens of specimens in museums and the animal has been recorded in the wild for decades. In fact, you can often find it in local food markets. Kelly Rigg: Climate Change and Food Security: Out of the Mouths of Babes If you've ever looked at grocery store labels (grapes from Chile, apple juice from China, rice from Thailand) you know the global food supply system is complex. With climate change, there will be winners and losers. Kevin Bermeister: Time Travel, Your Mother and the Limits of Science Despite the great strides that man has made in the past few hundred years, we still can say what Socrates said long ago: that the wisest man is the man who is most aware of his own ignorance. Miro Cernetig: Oil Orgy and Canada's New Man in London Two oil sands protesters -- a man and a woman -- stripped down to their delicate under things and climbed atop a table at Lancaster House. The woman with underwear emblazoned with the maple leaf represented Canada. The man in Union Jack boxer shorts was Britain.

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