published October 9, 2011 and has No Comments
The climate activism community is now firmly in the Occupy Wall Street fight. 350.org joined in the tens of thousands in the streets of the New York last week; and now Bill McKibben has starkly laid out the links between climate change, the corporations blocking climate action, and the rank effect of the oil industry corrupting the
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published July 13, 2011 and has No Comments
President Obama is getting ready to kick his reelection campaign into high gear. As such, it's an opportune time to take a look back at his achievements in the environmental arena thus far -- and that's precisely what Slate's Green Lantern has done here , serving the president an environmental report card for his first term. Go see how ...
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published February 4, 2011 and has No Comments
See? Obama still cares about climate change! Despite keeping largely silent on the issue over the last year or two, failing to speak up to save the climate bill from certain death in the Senate, and not giving it any mention at all during his State of the Union address , he still wants Americans to address climate change. He ...
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published January 31, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Flickr, ca2hill , CC When I wrote my reactions to Obama's State of the Union address last week, I mentioned how disappointing it was that he didn't take the chance to engage the American public on the issue of climate change. The most common retort to this was along the lines of well, actions speak louder than words ...
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published January 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Obama just wrapped up the 2011 State of the Union address, and one of the clear highlights was his call for massive national investment in new technologies -- especially clean energy. Referring to renewable energy, Obama said that "this was our generation's Sputnik moment"; the moment when we realize that we've fallen behind and redouble our efforts. But that ...
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published January 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Consumer Energy Reports A new study from the RAND Corporation claims that the US military will see no direct benefits in adopting alternative fuels -- but that benefits will "accrue to the nation as a whole", according to Science Daily . The report looked primarily at jet fuel alternatives like algal and ethanol-based fuel -- and determined that ...
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published January 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Arch1Design Carol Browner, the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change -- i.e., the administration's top climate post -- is stepping down . Speculation had long swirled that she was going to give up the job, but beltway rumor had it it that she was moving to another in the administration. Alas, 'twas not to be. ...
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published January 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Zimbio As per usual, the intertubes are awash with speculation of what President Obama will say during his State of the Union address -- along with plenty of friendly advice on what he should say, too! And who am I to sit on the sidelines while the internet chatters away? Here's my two cents: Obama should use the ...
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published December 19, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Lance Cheung , Flickr, CC The US Interior Department has released a report identifying the 24 best locations for solar development on public lands across the nation. These so-called "solar zones" across the Southwest have been pinpointed in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona California, and Nevada. This plan will hopefully help speed up development for solar projects nationwide. ...
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published November 17, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: DOT . Click to enlarge Here are the updated plans I know that I've made a lot of noise about how high speed rail is falling apart (and getting replaced by out-of-c... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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