Perhaps you are so embroiled in the uproar over Republican lack of decorum during the President’s health care address to a Joint Session of Congress that you missed that the Supreme Court looks to be on the edge of opening the floodgates of Corporate “speech” in the electoral process (here, here, and here as well). […]
Questioning Kennedy: Do Corporations just want to share information?
September 10th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questioning Kennedy: Do Corporations just want to share information?
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Offsetting problems …
September 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Carbon offsets should trouble anyone concerned about climate change. Whether on a personal, business, or community/nation level, even when they work, they act almost as a form of indulgence: paying someone else resources as a means to make up for your own failures and problem creation. As we consider climate change challenges, this sort of […]
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Heading for a crash
September 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments
The world is at 390 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 and 430+ CO2 equivalent. The IPCC has concluded, in what might actually be an optimistic assessment, that we can limit temperature growth to 2 degrees if we cap CO2 levels at 450 ppm. That is, limiting to 450 ppm would give us a 50% […]
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