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 September 15, 2011 and has No Comments
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Enough Climate Denial! 24 Hours of Climate Reality Starts Tonight! (WATCH NOW)
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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 July 13, 2011 and has No Comments
Excuse the helicopters. It was surprisingly hard to find an image of the Gloucester facility. Image credit: Holt Logistics When I wrote about Renault's 60MW solar project in France , I noted that it is getting hard to decide what is impressive these days in the world of solar power. No sooner do I write about a refrigerated warehouse ...
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published June 2, 2011 and has No Comments
Mountain top removal project from satellite view, 2009. Image credit:NASA via Mongobay . (from Satellite Photos Reveal How Mountaintop Removal Is Scarring Appalachia .) The Charleston Daily Mail reports that "U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., says President Barack Obama agrees that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should analyze the potential economic impacts of its decisions before making them ...
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published May 4, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Mike Baird via Flickr /CC BY I reported yesterday that there's a major push from the GOP to vastly expand offshore drilling and to loosen regulations to boot -- they have, evidently learned zilch from last year's catastrophic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But they're persisting -- they falsely claim that rising gas prices could be alleviated ...
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published May 4, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Flickr /CC BY-SA Bill Gates is keen on the notion that we can invent our way out of climate change . This isn't such a terrible thing, and there are many others who more or less push for this approach -- that is, focusing on dumping huge sums of cash into research and ...
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published May 3, 2011 and has No Comments
Excerpt from portrait of Donald Trump speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. Image credit, Wikipedia , George Skidmore Republican political strategy. bypassing the the failed 'birther' tactic, is likely to move to ' what you going to do about high gas prices? '. That, naturally, involves attacking EPA generally, resurgent "drill baby drill" chants, demanding ...
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published May 3, 2011 and has No Comments
Asian carp, meet your worst nightmare. Not poison. Not an electric barrier, or a predator from your native land. No, this is good ol' American ingenuity. With a touch of Ted Nugent , or maybe Chuck Norris . People dressed in spiked body armor with Wolverine -style claws and samurai swords are taking to the Illinois River to battle Asian ...
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published May 3, 2011 and has No Comments
photo: escher_47 / Creative Commons There's been a lot written lately about more and more people in high places recognizing peak oil isn't just something cranky ex-petroleum geologists and environmentalists reading too much Jared Diamond go on about. In fact both those groups have probably been right all along about peak oil, and it increasingly looks like we are ...
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