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Finding another currency …

August 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Finding another currency …

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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Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · Energy · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics

A Filibreather for all of us

July 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on A Filibreather for all of us

Monday afternoon, 25 Representatives stood to speak out against moves to devastate protections for America’s environment: from measures to open up the Grand Canyon for uranium miners to measures to eliminate monitoring of polluters. This two-hour call for sanity was a joint move between the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and the Sustainable Energy and Environment […]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · environmental

Steel Interstates, Fast Freight, and Brawny Recovery

July 4th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF laying out how a Steel Interstate program provides one of the most sensible national policy paths forward to address our intertwined economic, energy, and environmental challenges … and opportunities. (Right: Liberty Line) The Steel Interstate proposal is an effort to build Rapid Electric Freight Rail Tollways across the […]

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Tags: Energy · environmental · rail

Polluters War on Existing Effective Cap-and-Trade Programs

June 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Polluters War on Existing Effective Cap-and-Trade Programs

This guest post comes from the eloquent and thoughtful Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse. After DC failed to enact comprehensive climate change legislation, it was good to see states take the lead on regional cap-and-trade programs. We now have 3 regional initiatives to address greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) involving more than 30 states. That so many […]

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Tags: cap and trade · Energy · environmental · Global Warming

Imagine There’s No Cars in the Streets

May 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments

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Tags: environmental · guest post

Caring Coal

May 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Reminiscent a bit of Caroling Coal, my in-box this morning was deluged with Peabody Energy press releases (see full material after the fold) and other announcements of a new public relations campaign:  Coal Cares.  Evidently stung by the medical community’s highlighting of the linkages between the burning of coal (mainly for electricity) and health problems in […]

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Tags: coal · emissions · Energy · environmental · environmental economics · pollution

Florida fights to increase nutrient pollution, algae blooms, and midge population

May 6th, 2011 · Comments Off on Florida fights to increase nutrient pollution, algae blooms, and midge population

This guest post from DWG provides a window on depressing developments in Florida highlighing the likely impacts of pending (soon to be signed) legislation. Nothing attracts tourists, increases property values, and improves quality of life like water choked with algae and clouds of aquatic midges hovering nearby. Fortunately, Governor Rick Scott and his Republican allies […]

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Tags: environmental · environmental economics · pollution

Terrible climate messaging from a Google communications specialist+*

April 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Terrible climate messaging from a Google communications specialist+*

This guest post from DWG provides a perspective on “Climate Shift”, questioning Google’s intentions with the climate communicators’ program. In addition to the items cited below, see Nisbet’s “Climate Shift” and where did they get these numbers (Item #374) Several months ago, Google announced with some fanfare the creation of a new Science Communication Fellowship […]

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Tags: analysis · climate change · environmental · journalism

Nisbet’s “Climate Shift” and where did they get these numbers (Item #374)

April 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments

The release of Matt Nisbet’s Climate Shift report (and the opening of the Climate Shift Project website) has been surrounded by a storm of controversy, opened by Joe Romm’s critique of Nisbet’s financial analysis (follow up here and here; Chris Mooney on science ‘balance’, and Media Matters’ critique of Nisbet’s media analysis).     I read a […]

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Tags: analysis · climate change · environmental · George Will · journalism · Washington Post

The Value of Zero

April 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on The Value of Zero

What is the value of zero? Is it nothing? Imagine zero dependency on foreign oil. Zero polllutants in our environment. Zero depletion of the ozone. Suddenly zero starts adding up … Zero is worth worth more than nothing. Zero is worth everything. Nissan’s Leaf advertising is capturing a vision of a different path forward that […]

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Tags: advertising · automobiles · environmental

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