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As the sun bursts through weeks of massive rain, the Washington, DC, area is entering into several hot solar weeks. The Washington Redskins and NRG Energy are holding a press conference 15 September to inaugurate Fedex Field’s solar panel installation. Next week, the bi-annual Solar Decathlon opens at West Potomac Park (running from 23 September […]

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As we get prepared to be underwhelmed with inadequate proposals for job creation that, mainly, seem taken out of old Republican playbooks (which is why, of course, today’s Republicans will reject them out-of-hand), my in-box is increasingly filled with people wondering whether they are going to take the path of MVANE (My Vote And Nothing […]

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We are less than two days out from President Barack Obama’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress and to the nation to outline proposals to help put Americans back to work. This speech could be a strident call for all-out measures to reinvigorate American employment, a more limited set of programs constructed and conceived […]

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This guest post comes courtesy of Barath. We’re at the end of economic growth as we know it.  Not everyone has realized this yet, but it has arrived nevertheless [see discussions here and here]. As gas prices remain high and climate chaos becomes ever more apparent, people and institutions are rightly argue ever more insistently […]

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This guest post comes from Brendan DeMelle With over 700 people arrested so far in the Keystone XL tar sands action taking place at the Obama White House, and widespread distrust and criticism of the State Department’s final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), this is a critical moment in the fight against a disastrous proposal to build […]

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This look at the job claims related to the Keystone XL pipeline is a guest post from the thoughtful Patriot News Daily Clearinghouse. One big spin to promote the TransCanada XL tar sands pipeline is that it would create lots of jobs. So, there are headlines like this: Approving Keystone XL Pipeline Would Create Jobs […]

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706 Tea Party members arrested in prolonged demonstrations in front of the White House … protesting that President Bachman (or Perry or …) wasn’t living up her promise to send climate scientists to prison. This sort of event would get banner headlines. A series of events, with people being arrested every day, would be banner […]

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Day in, day out, for two weeks dedicated and impassioned Americans of all creeds, races, (adult) ages, have made a choice that likely would have been thought unthinkable just less then three-years ago when President-Elect Barack Obama stated that climate change mitigation would be the top agenda item for his Administration: they have chosen to […]

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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF. There has recently been a flurry of activism regarding regulatory approval of the “XL Pipeline” in support of bitumen production from Canadian Tar Sands. Along with hundreds arrested in front of the White House, this is an issue that has attracted substantial attention from a variety of […]

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Retirements often create uncertainty. They can be times for celebrating accomplishments and marking an individual’s opportunity to move forward to something that they crave to do (whether political activism, fishing, spending time with grandkids, or …).  These events are usually tinged by sadness, as they are also life transition moments with someone passing into, as […]

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