“Food Force, created by the World Food Programme, tops the game download charts on Yahoo — despite being more ‘edu’ than ‘tainment.’”
Full Story: Wired News.
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The Palo Alto Research Center, the storied Xerox subsidiary responsible for many of the computer world’s breakthrough technologies, is making a move into clean technology and sustainable products and services. It’s a watershed moment of sorts: the birthplace of today’s user-friendly computing wants to be the birthplace of tomorrow’s clean and green innovations.
PARC, as it’s […]

An underwater mountain with some of the richest diversity of marine life in the Caribbean has been found by scientists.
During a two-week dive researchers discovered scores more species of fish than previously known in the region and vast beds of “seaweed cities”.
Full Story: BBC.
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Environment group Greenpeace, which led the fight to prevent Clemenceau from entering India, welcomed the decision.
“President Chirac’s decision shows how governments, when confronted with the truth and pressurized by public opinion, take corrective action,” it said in a statement issued from the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
“This incident should set the precedent not just […]

Democrat Donna Howard has won election to the Texas House today to serve the remainder of Republican Todd Baxter’s term.
Baxter resigned November 1. He became a lobbyist for the Texas Cable and Telecommunications Association.
After two elections in the last month, voters in west Austin and western Travis County are making a big change in the […]

Here’s the sticky part for The Right’s Lady Macbeth: She wrote down an Indian Road address instead of Seabreeze on her voter’s registration application. And she signed to certify the information as true.
“She never lived here,” said Suzanne Frisbie, owner of the Indian Road home. “I’m Ann’s Realtor, and she used this address to forward […]

Only 15 percent of respondants said they were “not too happy.” The bad news is that Republicans tend to be happier than Democrats and independents. But oh well, at least most people aren’t feelin’ too bad.
Full Story: Pew Research.
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Artists and city planners are reshaping the city’s largest undeveloped downtown water front — a toxic vacant lot — into a sculpture park, museum and environmental restoration project that officials hope will become a new landmark alongside the Space Needle and Pike Place Market.
Surrounded on three sides by high-rise condominiums, the $85 million Olympic Sculpture […]

The bald eagle, the national bird depicted on the Great Seal of the United States carrying arrows and an olive branch, is a step closer to coming off the endangered species list.
The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service issued draft voluntary guidelines Monday that spell out how landowners, land managers and others should protect the […]

BP and Edison International said Friday they plan to team up on a $1 billion hydrogen-fueled power plant in southern California.
The plant, near the BP refinery in Carson 20 miles (32 km) south of Los Angeles, would come online by 2011 and generate 500 megawatts of electricity, about enough to power 325,000 homes.
Full Story: Planet […]