Used to augment the police in crime fighting, to combat narcotrafficking (although there have been no arrests) and protect the national parks and archaeological sites, but little deployment on the borders and coasts, which would be closer to their mandate. Commentary from a Guatemalan military analyst.
Prensa Libre - Ejército está sin rumbo definido en tiempos de paz
Cool. Portable. Being tested in La Florida, Guatemala. via Ron Granich. Thanks Ron!
Hydroelectricity: Hydroelectric Bucket Will Gladly Help You Miss the Point of Camping
42 of them assigned to the División de Protección a la Naturaleza to help protect the forests.
15 to protect tourists, 25 to add to the force in San Benito, Flores, and Santa Elena.
Prensa Libre - Llegan 82 policías a Petén para ciudar bosques, turistas y poblados
Simpler once you have set up hotkeys and installed a couple of Applescripts. Essentially, it lets you stay in a text-editing or wordprocessing window and still control Quicktime player. No switching between applications.
Simplify media transcription with hotkeys and AppleScript - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Available in 2012 for $18,000. So that will be a different world then. Weighs less than 600 pounds. The seats in our van weigh that much.
Two of the Girls Gone Green, our environmental group at the Girls Club, have written an excellent report for the Crain's site as part of an internship. A cheer for Daria and Qu Ting!
Urban music outfit goes international - Crain's New York Business
Hosted by those Car Talk guys. Have to watch it online and see what they really look like. Some good extra material on the site to share with the Girls Gone Green.
NOVA | Car of the Future | PBS
Broadstar Windsystem's AeroCam wind turbines break elusive price barrier - Engadget
Inhabitat » QUIET REVOLUTION WIND TURBINE
MIT prototype solar dish passes first tests - MIT News Office
Rainwater harvesting advocates bring filter tech to the U.S. | Green Tech - CNET News.com
Building the Green Data Center | O'Reilly News
Public Bike System | The station
Nanosolar touts 1 gigawatt solar cell machine | Green Tech - CNET News.com
Here's a video logging and annotating program that uses the MPEG-7 metadata standard to embed shot by shot information in the clip itself. I'm wondering if Final Cut Server has any of this capability.
Frameline 47 Features: Overview
Close to us in the Adirondacks, our first trailer jam, and intro to Colin Hyde, our new Airstream guru.
As usual.
Olbermann: McCain should know better - Countdown with Keith Olbermann- msnbc.com
Never mind the polar caps. That's just water.
File this under "Oh Shit..."
Yes, but we will get substantial "rebates" from New York State through NYSERDA incentives.
Solar grants to sweeten San Francisco for 'green' start-ups | Green Tech - CNET News.com
"This rebate program further establishes San Francisco as America's solar energy leader and symbolizes the commitment of the city to make affordable solar power available to those who want it," Mayor Gavin Newsom said in a statement.
He hopes the incentives will launch in July with some $3 million in annual funding, and touts their potential for attracting more businesses and green jobs.
However, the city has a long way to go before becoming a solar capital, regionally or nationally. The San Francisco Solar Task Force ranked the city last in the Bay Area for the number of solar installations, with panels on only 744 of 195,000 rooftops.
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Not quite sure how this makes SF the top in rebates. I guess that city incentives are added to state and federal there. But let them crow about it. It's all good.
Solazyme's algae diesel ready to hit the road | Green Tech - CNET News.com
How many algae must die for us to drive?
Never mind - it's a real breakthrough.
UPDATE:
Giant project to be built in Mexico.
Algae farm in Mexico to produce ethanol in '09 | Green Tech - CNET News.com
Yaxha was the location of the most recent removals of illegal settlers in Guatemala's protected areas and archaeological sites.
Prensa Libre - Desalojan a invasores del parque natural Yaxhá
Forty other families were removed from the Sierra del Lacandon park on May 23. The largest community, Centro Campesino, is still in a legal battle. Other actions are expected.
Prensa Libre - Se han recuperado 657 hectáreas invadidas en Petén
Prensa Libre - Guatemaltecos se refugian en Tabasco
I just returned from the Porvenir station on the Usumacinta, where a contingent of 15 soldiers is in place to guard against reprisals on park guards and archaeologists.
Rising Gas Prices Finally Kill The Once-Mighty SUV | Autopia from Wired.com