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The House is considering, amid all the energy legislation, instituting a nation-wide renewable power standard (RPS). HR969 is up for a vote TODAY!  ACT NOW!
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CRITICAL to moving toward a prosperous and sustainable energy future.
Here is a step that you can take to Energize America.
The Energy Bill is [...]

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These are the Best of Time and Worst of Times for EcoGeeks. We know that Global Warming is already wreaking havoc, that snipping our hair is likely to show mercury, that plastics just don’t go away. But, boy, it is truly the best of times. One can’t pause for a moment without seeming to miss [...]

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Written by A Siegel   

Monday, 30 July 2007

digg_url = ‘http://www.digg.com/environment/Tic_Tock_Goes_Carbon_Energy_Clock_Cool_Tool_Environment_on_Desktop’;Lou Grinzo, at The Cost of Energy, often has some of the best commentary on energy issues out there, succinctly catching key elements of major reports and articles from all over the spectrum. He also provides tools of interest, such as the Energy Clock. Want a [...]

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We live in a “time of consequences.” We, as individuals and collectively, are setting the path which will determine the living conditions for millenia to come.  This time of consequences is both long term and quite immediate.
This is true for the individual. Do you invest in an energy efficient future life? Will you unplug the [...]

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There are many tremendous technologies, processes, and such out there that can help us move toward a prosperous and sustainable energy future.  These range from urban bike programs to energy efficient public housing to finding out just how easy it is to cook with the sun. Or, as advertised here, Frying in the Sun.
ANNOUNCEMENT  There [...]

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Front-page of the Metro section is not where readers typical turn to a tall tale suitable for the fiction section, something with an “H” for Horror.
In With Close Contacts, Md. Wind Project Gets Boost, Post readers discover that a well-connected industrialist (Goliath) has run roughshod over concerned environmentalists (the David) through a legislative end run [...]

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We each have heroes in our lives, some quite personal and close, others remote to us.  Some to whom we can attached face and powerful emotion, others to whom our respect is a less tangible relationship.
For me, those who serve for a greater good, often anonymously, often at great personal sacrifice are a form of [...]

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Every so often, need to delve into one of those policy arenas which are — on their face — arcane, but critical pieces of moving the nation on the path toward a sustainable and prosperous energy future, on the path to Energize America.  
Just as Renewable Power Standards are critical to helping drive America’s electrical [...]

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No, this is not a GBCW diary …
But words from one of the latest Greenpeace advertisements on Global Warming. Take the 1 minute and 43 seconds to watch this with me.
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NOTE UPDATE at end of diary — ask the next President a question on Global Warming.

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On a cold winter’s night, storms outside, wrapped in a blanket by a crackling fire, whiling away the hours reading a good book.
Well, there are an increasing number of great books that suggest that blanket and fire will be required fewer and
fewer evenings in the coming years.
The genre of Global Warming literature has moved [...]

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