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The Feds Object To Energy Smart Local Governance

April 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Feds Object To Energy Smart Local Governance

Montgomery County, Maryland, is moving toward a stronger building code, with requirements for new homes to meet the Energy Star home building parameters. This is the type of measure rapidly implementable across the country to help foster the move toward a more sensible building infrastructure such as envisioned by Architecture2030 (which has a plan to […]

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Tags: eco-friendly · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · government energy policy

Skeptical about Skeptics? Check this out …

April 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Skeptical about Skeptics? Check this out …

Being skeptical about Global Warming skeptics’ arguments has proven, to date, to be a healthy and sensible way to deal with their truthiness claims and arguments.  The Heartland Institute‘s distribution of a list of scientist supposedly doubting Global Warming yet again verifies the value of being skeptical about Global Warming skeptics. DeSmogBlog decided to take a look […]

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Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · Heartland · skeptic · truthiness

Bethesda Bagels vs County Executive’s SUV?

April 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Two Washington Post articles in the past week provide an interesting little localized contrast of the challenges related to finding a path toward an Energy Smart future.

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Tags: agriculture · climate change · emissions · Energy · environmental · ethanol · fuel economy · Global Warming · peak oil · political symbols · politics · pollution