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Down To Earth archive for Nov. 3, 2010

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 2010

They took a vote and said "no!"

No. That's what this election meant to me. Simply put, most voters chose "no" on ballot measures in recession. Sightline had a great analyis of the elections with some wins for the environment:Arguably the most important from the view of sustainability was California Proposition 23,…

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Twitter bot battles climate skeptics

I think a lot us could use more of these Twitter bots: Tired of arguing with climate change deniers in 140 character quips, the programmer wrote a script to do it for him. Chatbot @AI_AGW scans Twitter every five minutes searching for hundreds of phrases…

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