Gary Hart Book Recommendations

Zoya’s Story HART TOP TEN BOOKS The Healing of America:  A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (T. R. Reid) American Prometheus:  The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin) An End to Suffering:  The Buddha in the World (Pankaj Mishra) Overthrow:  America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Stephen Kinzer) Retribution:  The Battle for Japan, 1944-1945 (Max Hastsings) The Bottom Billion:  Why the … more

36 Hours in Santa Cruz, Calif. – NYTimes.com

36 Hours in Santa Cruz, Calif. – NYTimes.com. NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES > CALIFORNIA > SANTA CRUZ 36 Hours in Santa Cruz, Calif. Ann Johansson for The New York Times A lone surfer on the beach. More Photos » By DAN WHITE Published: December 30, 2010 RECOMMEND TWITTER E-MAIL SEND TO PHONE PRINT REPRINTS SHARE FORGET what you heard about Santa Cruz being the city that sleeps. Yes, this sunny coastal town still has its countercultural wackiness. You … more

NASA – How Hard Are We Pushing The Land?

NASA – How Hard Are We Pushing The Land?. Feature Text Size Grow Text SizeShrink Text Size How Hard Are We Pushing The Land? 12.14.10 We may be becoming an ever more technologically advanced society, but we remain as dependent as ever — if not more and more so — on the natural world that surrounds us. That is one takeaway from new NASA research that has found humans are using an increasing amount of … more

The Santa Barbara Independent A Good Samaritan Named Pete

The Santa Barbara Independent A Good Samaritan Named Pete.   http://media.independent.com/img/top_date_time_flash.swf CREATE AN ACCOUNT LOG.IN CONTENTS CLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVE INFO | ADVERTISING | CONTACT US http://media.independent.com/swf/newestindylogowitheppy.swf Home News A&E Opinion Events Living Food & Drink Sports Outdoors Classifieds Obits >> Columns >> On The Beat A Good Samaritan Named Pete The 36th Hole Thursday, December 23, 2010 by BARNEY BRANTINGHAM (CONTACT) Article Tools Print friendly E-mail story Tip Us Off iPod friendly Comments Share Article ROOM AT THE … more

A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning – NYTimes.com

A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning – NYTimes.com. TEMPERATURE RISING A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning Jonathan Kingston/Aurora Select, for The New York Times KEEPING WATCH The Mauna Loa Observatory, at an altitude of 11,135 feet above sea level in Hawaii, has been continuously monitoring and collecting data related to climate change since the 1950s. More Photos » By JUSTIN GILLIS Published: December 21, 2010 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS(256) E-MAIL SEND TO PHONE PRINT … more

Michael Oppenheimer delivers American Geophysical Union’s first Stephen Schneider Lecture « Climate Progress

Michael Oppenheimer delivers American Geophysical Union’s first Stephen Schneider Lecture « Climate Progress. Michael Oppenheimer delivers American Geophysical Union’s first Stephen Schneider Lecture Scientists, Expert Judgment, and Public Policy: What is Our Proper Role? December 20, 2010 The truth is bad enough Integrity should never be compromised Don’t be afraid to use metaphors Distinguish when speaking about your values (as a member of the human race) and when speaking as scientist Don’t let fear (of … more

Where would be the best place to live in 2035? 2060? « Climate Progress

Where would be the best place to live in 2035? 2060? « Climate Progress. Where would be the best place to live in 2035? 2060? December 18, 2010 I often get asked the question where should people live, so that’s the question of this week’s open thread. Trying to understand that question is one of the reasons why I ultimately decided to read Matthew Kahn’s Climatopolis:  How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future, even … more

For PrimeSense, Microsoft’s Kinect Is Just the Beginning – Nicole Perlroth – Everything Ventured – Forbes

For PrimeSense, Microsoft’s Kinect Is Just the Beginning – Nicole Perlroth – Everything Ventured – Forbes. Nicole Perlroth EVERYTHING VENTURED MY PROFILE MY HEADLINE GRABS MY RSS FEED TECHNOLOGY 40Share 0digg 1 inShare For PrimeSense, Microsoft’s Kinect Is Just the Beginning Dec. 13 2010 – 9:34 pm | 2,317 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments Imagine owning a car so loyal it refuses to drive without you, with a security system so astute it instantly identifies any thief who … more

Everything Is Illuminated – Magazine – The Atlantic

Everything Is Illuminated – Magazine – The Atlantic. TECHNOLOGYMAY 2010 ATLANTIC MAGAZINE SHARE EMAIL PRINT Everything Is Illuminated Inexpensive, handheld Raman scanners will soon enable anyone to identify just about anything. ByLOUISE LEVATHES IMAGE CREDIT: PARAMOUNT/THE KOBAL COLLECTION SERGEANT KRIS GILBERT of the Polk County, Florida, narcotics squad is teaching his officers to use a new device that’s going to make their job a lot easier. It looks like a vintage cell phone and weighs … more

Air Resources Board Adopts Cap-and-Trade Program

Last night the California Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted a cap-and-trade regulation. The ARB staff presentation outlines the program. The regulation establishes California’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cap-and-trade program. Cap-and-trade is a regulatory approach that controls GHGs from major emission sources by setting a declining limit (the “cap”) on GHG emissions while employing market mechanisms (the “trade”) to cost-effectively achieve the emission reduction targets. The cap-and-trade program is one element of California’s plan to address climate … more