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Attn Barack Obama: A guide to dealing with kindergarten bullies

September 14th, 2009 · 10 Comments

Tommaso Boggia provides, in this guest post from Campus Progress, some thoughts from the sand box that Barack Obama might find useful to deal with Glenn Beck and other little people throwing tantrums running around kicking sand in people’s faces. On November 4th 2008, young people propelled President Obama to victory with a clear mandate […]

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Tags: Energy

Stop the Presses: Bipartisan sanity on Green Jobs and Helping American Homeowners

September 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Last week, the New York Senate passed legislation to take revenues from New York’s ‘cap and tax’ on carbon emissions and leverage these funds into the private financing market to make energy efficiency improvements more affordable and more accessible to New York’s homeowners. Passed unanimously in the New York House, a Republican Senator played a […]

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Tags: building green · Energy

MTR from some security guards’ perspective

September 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on MTR from some security guards’ perspective

Mountain Top Removal, as practiced in Appalachia, is perhaps best described as a warfare on America, Americans, and the planet. A practice filled with devastating implications, about the only redeeming feature is its short term profit making for those who rate the dollars in their pocket above essentially everything else. Many of those who encounter […]

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Tags: coal · Energy

Change via a Green Economy: A new branch of g Green Design Center

September 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Change via a Green Economy: A new branch of g Green Design Center

“Green” is the buzzword for business, seeking to greenwash themselves into warmer customer relations and “consumer” confidence. “Green” also represents substance and represents giving people options, making it easier to do less harm to the planet while fulfilling needs for food, transport, and shelter. Expansion of the second is a Silver BB / Dust mite […]

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Tags: environmental · green

Sunday Train: The Charleston WV Hub

September 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Sunday Train: The Charleston WV Hub

Another guest post from BruceMcF.  Quite simply, rail (and, especially, electrified rail) is one of the more important Silver BBs before us (the U.S.) to deal with the perfect storm of economic, energy, and environmental challenges.  Bruce is a thoughtful, eloquent advocate on rail (and nodal transportation) issues who is well worth paying attention to. […]

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Tags: trains · transportation

The American Dream … Time for a Redefinition?

September 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment

What follows is a guest post (the quotation material), with some commentary, from Stranded Wind who has a major focus on finding routes for solutions and opportunities amid the perfect storm of economic problems, peak oil (and other resource constraints), and global warming.  One of the streams of discussion, with various degrees of urgency and […]

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Tags: analysis · catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming

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