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Well, when it comes to the future of America’s automotive fleet, it is clear that at least part of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology can’t get its mind around the reality of change in the transportation system.  They are focused on ‘Business As Usual’ (BAU) rather than the Business To Be (BTB).

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Denmark has an announced plan for 30 percent of all electricity to come from renewable power by 2025. Well a just released study might make this seemingly ambitious goal a relic of the past.  Ea Energy Analysis produced 50% Wind Power in 2025 laying out the costs, benefits, and challenges of reaching this target.

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Well, yesterday the International Panel on Climate Change released a quite serious report (pdf), stating that global warming is unequivocally occurring, that humanity is a leading factor, and that major action is required (ASAP) or the damage will go from serious to, well, potentially catastrophic.  So, where is this covered?  For the Washington Post, page A3 Saturday. […]

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Freedom from Oil … This is an agenda, an objective that all Americans should support. (Okay, maybe not some oil company CEOs …)  And, this is a good key agenda item for next President, to move past the current occupant of the Oval Office’s identification of our “oil addiction” to actual action to fight the […]

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According to the Governmenta Accountability Office, comparing federal electricity subsidies by fuel type shows that renewables such as wind still get only a small share of the overall subsidies awarded to the energy sector. Again, no surprise here.

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Okay, anyone who understands energy and global warming issues knows that eating down the food chain and eating locally are two great ways to reduce your carbon footprint.  This post, however, is not about this. According to work done by Paul Higgins (American Meteological Society (AMS) Climate Policy), tackling obesity and global warming opportunities go […]

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How bad is it?  Well, we don’t know but Cyclone Sidr has hit Bangladesh hard.  Let me put it clearly, as per Chris Mooney,  Bangladesh needs our help. Now, this is the immediacy of the problem of in Bangladesh. But, in addition, there are the long-term threats related to Global Warming in Bangladesh which, among […]

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Environmental Defense is calling on us (US) to write to Congress to demand legislative action on Global Warming.

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The saga continues.  As it stands now, the Liberman-Warner Climate Security Act provides a secure financial environment for historic polluters and secures little else. It has inadequate targets to prevent catastrophic climate change.  It hands away $100s of billions, impoverishing the average American for the favor of giving handouts to polluters. And, in giving away […]

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A research team at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara is conducting a survey about buying habits, focusing on questions related to environmentally friendly products. … to help understand consumer preferences and behaviors regarding environmentally-friendly product selection. Well, time to go take that survey and […]

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