planetwater

• Top economistss scary picture: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/scary-picture/ #

• Water: for cooling of supercomputer AND for heating of students’ homes: http://twiturl.de/kiste #
• What’s critical in terms of policy for oceans: http://twiturl.de/litte #
• Green jobs grow (in the US): http://twiturl.de/cesco #

There is an organization in Stuttgart, Germany, called s-wasserforum.de. Their goals are

1) to de-privatize the water network of the city. A public water works need to be re-installed at the city.

2) to get out of the cross-border leasing contracts the city has with respect to sewage treatment plants as well as drinking water mains.

There is a petition to start a public referendum in the city including lists for signatures. See also the webpage.

• nature publishes swine-flu paper under creative commons: http://twiturl.de/hetnu via http://twiturl.de/torlu #

• radioactive wasp nests put at storage site — puzzle for future archaeologists?http://twiturl.de/gulgu #

• Intersting theory: AF plane crashed because hit by meteor: http://ur1.ca/5ay3 thoughts on probability – what about other technical failures? #

• We should be ok for quite some time: http://twiturl.de/haclu #
• Plankton might consume less CO2 than previously thought: http://twiturl.de/dajra — impact on geoengineering? #
• more lithium in drinking water, less suicide? Sounds like a there’s an explanatory variable missing! http://twiturl.de/cisko #

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the guy who made the book Earth from Abovein 2005, just made a movie called “Home“.

It will be available online, for free, for one day on June 5th, for example on YouTube. Here is the trailer:

• CO2 storage situation, including new federal law, in Germany: http://twiturl.de/sugji #