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Icelandic Modern Media Initiative hopes to entice investigative journalists with the world's first off-shore publishing center .
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Welcome to the Planet 100 for February 18, 2010. Here's what we're covering today.
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Iceland Lures
A radical new proposal could see Iceland become to journalists what the Cayman Islands is to wealthy tycoons—with far reaching ramifications for environmental reporting.
Icelandic Modern Media Initiative is looking to establish the world's first off-shore publishing center and is hoping to entice investigative journalists by compelling Icelandic legislators to pass the strongest combination of source protection and freedom of speech laws in the world.
The proposal was drafted with help of whistle blower website, Wikileaks, which published information on 400 tons of toxic waste dumped in the Ivory Coast last year, when UK libel laws prevented the BBC from covering it.
Via: Mother Jones
Climate Deniers
The last few weeks have brought some crazy snowstorms and the blogosphere has caught fire about the topic of weather.
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Deniers have reveled in the snowfall, with a GOP ad referring to "12 inches of global warming"—Donald Trump even called for Al gore's Nobel Prize to be revoked over the storms. At the Vancouver Olympics, however, warm temperatures have forced organizers to IMPORT snow.
Climate scientists have actually PREDICTED that extreme weather events will be more common as we deal with the many complex effects of climate change—but the blogosphere has created a storm of its own discussing it.
Via: Huffington Post
PUMA Solar Cell
PUMA has unveiled their new solar cell phone designed to get you of the house—the built in speedometer, pedometer, compass, geo-tagging, mapping and music player—encourages users to run, hike and cycle. Phew.
Via: Treehugger
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