Congress is mid-hearing about all sorts of piracy at the moment, but one interesting trend has emerged: The notion that Congress could force Google to de-list pirate sites from search results? And does this constitute censorship?
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The sustainability movement is stuck in a slump, a stall, a "trough," as moderator Scott Henderson of CauseShift called it on the PepsiCo Plugged-In Stage at SXSW yesterday. He wanted to give it a kick-start, he said. "How to we get past the idea that someone else is going to take care of it, and start taking action?" Henderson asked his three panelist to present big ideas for how to inspire Americans into action--and these weren't your typical green-is-good approaches
Read More »How Smart Design Made a Home-Energy Device Simple Enough for Your Grandma to Use
It's not easy to design a home energy monitoring device that people actually want to use and pay for. As evidenced by Tendril's recent decision to nix its IDEO-designed dashboard, not even slick devices that look like they came straight from the Apple store will necessarily make it to market (the $200 price tag was deemed too expensive). Enter EnergyHub , a consumer-facing energy management company that thinks it has a solution to the energy monitoring device quandary
Read More »How Failure of Climate Satellite Sets Back Earth Science
The crash Friday of NASA's Glory satellite couldn't have come at a worse time. The incident is a blow for climate science and the space agency's efforts to rebuild an Earth observation program weakened by years of lean budgets
Read More »John Stamos to replace Charlie Sheen on "Two and a Half Men"?
Former "Full House" star denies the rumor, Sheen says the actor doesn't have what it takes
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Congress sends child nutrition bill to Obama
More children would eat lunches and dinners at school under legislation passed by the House and sent to the president Wednesday, part of Michelle Obama's campaign to end childhood hunger and combat childhood obesity.
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