So, what do a major investment from Verizon Wireless and the melting of our polar ice caps have in common? A lot more than you may think. On Monday, America’s largest wireless provider announced that it will be making a $40 million investment in solar power at eight of its facilities across the United States.

According to a press release from Verizon, new solar installations at facilities in California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York will nearly double the amount of energy that Verizon gets from solar power. Speaking about the $40 million investment, Verizon’s chief sustainability officer James Gowen told Bloomberg that, “Solar is a proven technology. It didn’t hurt that the technology is getting better and prices are coming down.”

Last year, Verizon announced a similar $100 million investment in solar power and fuel cell technologies. These types of investments in clean and green forms of renewable energy from major U.S. corporations couldn’t come sooner. That’s because new research suggests that climate change and global warming are happening a lot faster than we first thought.

According to new data from a European space probe, our planet’s two largest ice sheets – in Greenland and Antarctica – are melting at unprecedented speeds. The CryoSat-2 space probe has discovered that the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are losing a stunning 120 cubic miles of ice each year.

That’s A LOT of ice that's going from being frozen ice up on land into being river water flowing into the rising oceans. But more importantly, the rate of sea ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica has more than doubled since 2009, which shows just how fast the processes of global warming and climate change have become.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Is there a sexbot in your future?! (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

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Big Picture Politics Panel:
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- Nate Sweet, Progressive Commentator
- Marc Harrold, Congressional Candidate (L-VA -11th district) / Observations of White Noise

The Growing Suburban Poverty in America
- Elizabeth Kneebone, The Brookings Institution / Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

Everything You Know Is Wrong: Is there a sexbot in your future?!
- Lynn Stuart Parramore, Alternet

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A friend of mine has a new book out that you may want to know about... Identity Theft Alert: 10 Rules You Must Follow to Protect Yourself from America's #1 Crime by Steve Weisman

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Will you boycott the King?
- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

Site: Sherrod Brown campaign site

Article: "Your Whopper May Soon Come With A Side Of Tax Avoidance" by Bryce Covert.

Bill: "Bring Jobs Home Act (S. 2569; 113th Congress)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian soldiers detained in Ukraine; leaders meet in Minsk" by Laura Smith-Spark, Diana Magnay and Victoria Butenko.

Article: "Gaza conflict: Israel and Palestinians agree long-term truce" by BBC.

Article: "Are 12 million Americans living on less than $2 a day?" by Shawn Donnan.

Article: "Bills Blocked by Republican Filibusters" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "Bid to Expand Medical Marijuana Business Faces Federal Hurdles" by Dave Philipps.

Article: "Kentucky Wins Fight with Feds over Hemp Seed" by Allison Floyd.

Article: "Oregon Democrats back marijuana legalization, genetically modified food labels, other measures" by AP.

Article: "House Lawsuit Against Obama Price Tag: Up to $350K" by David Eldridge.

Article: "School Superintendent Asks Female Students To Bend Over During Dress Code Check" by Igor Volsky.

Article: "Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S." by CNN, November 2, 2004.

Article: "Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy" by Brendan James.

Hour Two: Could peace be a reality soon in Ukraine?
- Stephen Cohen, The Nation Magazine

Book: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War by Stephen F. Cohen.

Article: " The New Cold War and the Necessity of Patriotic Heresy: US fallacies may be leading to war with Russia" by Stephen F. Cohen.

Article: "Ukrainian President dissolves parliament, schedules elections" by Steve Almasy and Victoria Butenko.

Article: "Germany urges Ukraine to accept federal solution with separatists" by Roman Olearchyk in Kiev and Jeevan Vasagar.

Article: "Nato plans east European bases to counter Russian threat" by Ian Traynor.

Article: "The Blood Shed By Russia to Liberate the Ukraine from Fascists during WWII" by Roland369.

Article: "Stepan Bandera" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Svoboda (Ukraine political party)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Malaysian Press: Ukrainian Fighter Jets Shot Down Flight MH 17" by Ohio Barbarian.

Article: "Ukraine crisis: Putin, Poroshenko meet in Minsk amid border violence" by AP.

Article: "Clouding Talks, Ukraine Says It Captured Russian Troops" by Andrew Higgins.

Article: "McCain to Georgian President: "Today, We Are All Georgians"" by Robert Barnes.

Article: "Senator John McCain: “We Are All Ukrainians”" by Jay Newton-Small.

Hour Three: Toxic seafood...on your table?
- Michael Okwu, Al Jazeera America

Article: "On Calif. coast, biotoxins cause deadly sea lion seizures, seafood scare" by Courtney Quirin.

Article: "Domoic Acid Toxicity" by Marine Mammal Center.

Article: "Pseudo-nitschia" by NCCOS.

Article: "Red tide" by Wikipedia.

Tonight: "Michael Okwu's report Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET/6 PT on Al Jazeera America".

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann. Get "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann!

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "Comprehensive Employment and Training Act", 1973.

Clip: "The Man from Abilene" - Eisenhower (you need to select it).

Article: "What The U.S. Can Learn From Germany's Green Energy Debacle" by Fred Roeder, 11/07/2013.

Article: "Forge River (New York)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "1 In 6 Food Charities Could Close Down Soon, And 5 Other Disturbing Facts From A New Hunger Report" by Alan Pyke.

Article: "For-Profit College Grads Have The Same Shot At A Job Interview As People Who Never Went To College" by Alan Pyke.

Article: "Federal judge: Florida gay-marriage ban unconstitutional" by Steve Rothaus.

Article: "Carlos Slim Reiterates Support For 3-Day Work Week" by Juan A. Lozano.

Article: "California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Protests" by Jake Laperruque.

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