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Treehugger looks into the people behind the ‘non-partisan’ Stats.Org finding it to be “…a front designed to confuse the public about science, operated by an extremist conservative think tank.”
Sourcewatch by the Center for Media and Democracy is a great resource if you want to do a ‘connecting the dots’ excercise of your own.

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“It’s hard to tell, at first glance, whether Zerofootprint is a serious business or a feel-good environmental action group. The answer, easily discovered before long, is that it is likely both…the company as two separate entities: A non-profit umbrella group, the Zerofootprint Foundation, and separate for-profit arms that handle building out the calculator for cities and other companies. Zerofootprint can thus profit from the various websites it builds out, getting revenue from advertising, partnerships with other organizations, and payments from its clients…Zerofootprint currently has six cities signed up for its service, including Boulder, Colo. and Seattle, Wash.” Continued in Venturebeat…

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Wired reports that “Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. The project, known as Palimpsest and previewed to the scientific community at the Science Foo camp at the Googleplex last August, missed its original launch date this week, but will debut soon…”

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“Businesses, governments and NGOs are laying the foundations for the world’s first sustainable global economy, the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute says in an uncommonly upbeat State of the World report for 2008.” More…

Briefing by WWI: Jan 30th: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5563

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