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A Course Adjustment for Climate Talks

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

With little hope that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process will produce an effective treaty, at least for the next several years and perhaps longer, are there other… Read More

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Toward a Common Wireless Market

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Imagine a world where you can buy a mobile phone, and if you have problems with service—say, poor reception at home—you can move to a different service provider that offers better reception… Read More

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California’s Pioneering Transportation Strategy

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

No place in the world is more closely associated with the romance of the automobile and the tragedy of its side effects than California. Having faced the problem of traffic-damaged air quality,… Read More

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The Climate Benefits of Better Nitrogen and Phosphorus Management

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Nearly four decades have passed since the phrase “global warming” first appeared in a scientific journal. Writing in Science in 1975, geochemist Wallace Broecker warned that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels… Read More

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Blueprint for Advancing High-Performance Homes

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Given the economic devastation caused by the housing industry collapse in the United States and the years remaining until full recovery, it may seem out of touch to be talking about meeting… Read More

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Improving Spent-Fuel Storage at Nuclear Reactors

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, which began with an earthquake in March 2011 and continues today, is casting a spotlight on nuclear reactors in the United States. At the Dai-Ichi nuclear… Read More

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Archives – Winter 2012

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

LEE BOOT, Insight 1234, Inkjet print of a digital composition, 24 x 36 inches, 2011.
Insight 1234
In 2010, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences engaged artist Lee Boot… Read More

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Reducing Nuclear Dangers

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Ron Rosenbaum wants us to be worried. His book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III is intended as an urgent warning that the terrifying dangers of… Read More

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Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

At a recent Washington, DC, conference on the state of U.S. manufacturing, the head of one prominent economic policy think tank was asked, “How much of its manufacturing sector can the U.S.… Read More

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Forum – Winter 2012

Issues — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

“Paying for Perennialism” by Sarah Whelchel and Elizabeth Popp Berman (Issues, Fall 2011) calls attention to an important area of research that, if successful in its goals, will enhance… Read More

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