Sunlight provides a clean, renewable energy source. Along with wind and geothermal, solar energy offers a unique economic opportunity to countries that pursue these alternative energy sources. According to a recent report by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, global energy markets are poised to expand significantly, but the economies that will most likely benefit will be the countries willing to invest in clean technologies now – and the U.S. is falling behind.
Archive for March, 2010
The United States and Solar Energy: the Tortoise or the Hare?
Posted in Blinding People with Science on 03/09/2010|
Biology of Misfortune
Posted in Nutrition and Health on 03/05/2010|
“Early childhood is more than a time to prepare for school, but also a time to reduce stress levels caused by economic hardship,” began Jack Shonkoff, Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. “New research shows that stress during early childhood gets translated into the bodies and organ systems [of the child] and continues to be expressed into adulthood.”
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