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Paying attention to “friends”

April 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments

To many in the climate ‘blogosphere’, myself not excepted, the siren’s call of tackling global warming denial, of deceitful astroturf “studies” distorting the situation, and of shoddy ‘faux and balanced’ reporting in the nation’s newspapers of record can eat up too much of our attention. We must pay attention to what is actually going on […]

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Tags: carbon dioxide · Congress · democrats · electricity · emissions · Energy · energy efficiency · energy smart · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics · pollution

When your friends aren’t …

April 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on When your friends aren’t …

Taking meaningful steps to pursue sensible policies to deal with E3 challenges (economy, energy, environment) and seize E3 opportunities will take leadership and political courage. Leadership to move past simply testing the political environment via polling, wetting the finger to see which way the wind is blowing at the moment. Political courage to stand up […]

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Tags: Congress · democrats · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics