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When it comes to environmental and energy cartooning, there is no other major outlet’s cartoonists who comes close to matching the knowledgeable and insightful cartooning that Tom Toles brings to the pages of The Washington Post. As commented before,
With Toles, we don’t know whether to laugh or cry. But, he last won the Pulitzer [...]

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Since before the 2008 election, the core challenge for the incoming President was clear: JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
Yes, we were amid a collapse of the economic system, it required stabilization. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
Yes, our energy situation was (is) a mess and the climate is boiling. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
Yes, our political system is [...]

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The roof, that is …
Just got off the phone with my better 95+% … Dominion Virginia Power staff are at my home, right now, upgrading the meter to be able to handle net metering.  Fingers crossed … with tomorrow’s dawn, my roof will be part of the power generation system covering over 90 percent of [...]

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To make it quite clear: the implication has nothing to do with the cause. the implication is that we are faced with an unexpected crisis that reveals a much ignored problem, and which can, if responded to the way it should be, change the nation and the world- for the better.

The explosion of Deepwater Horizon [...]

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The day before the 40th Earth Day, VP Joe Biden kicked off a series of White House actions and announcements with an excellent initiative:
selection of 25 communities for up to $452 million in Recovery Act funding to “ramp-up” energy efficiency building retrofits. Under the Department of Energy’s Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative, communities, governments, private sector [...]

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The 40th Earth Day comes next week and, sigh, while globally there has been progress on many fronts (Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, reduce CFC emissions, etc), the reality is that the earth (our living space) is under ever greater stress, on ever more fronts, almost literally with every passing moment. Thus, the [...]

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President Barack Obama spoke to and met with the Business Roundtable today in a speech that could be described as extending an arm, seeking agreement to work together for the common good.  This could be a real challenge as, for example, Obama challenged business leaders to lead beyond the daily stock ticker and the quarterly [...]

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The Obama Administration seems to be pulling back, on front after front, in the face of economic challenges, sobering poll numbers, and steadfast Republican obstinacy. Whether on health care, jobs promoting legislation, EPA regulation of pollutants, and/or energy/climate policy, the political powers that be within the Obama White House have determined that ‘tactical retreats’ toward [...]

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Those seeking to undermine knowledge and respect for science, whether it is those who decry Charles Darwin’s laying out of evolution or fossil-foolish interests attacking Nobel Prize winners, have something to fear when Barack Obama chooses to speak (with or without a teleprompter). While there were many reasons for his election, his ability to [...]

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This guest post from tboggia expresses an outrage over some of President Obama’s words shared by many fighting for a clean-energy future.

Right after the State of the Union, young climate activists submitted a question about the President’s remarks on clean energy and crossed their fingers hoping that it would get asked. The smiling faces of [...]

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