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In the United States, at this time, any voter who progresses “Green” sentiment has no viable option other than voting Democratic in all Federal elections — even as Democratic politicians and the Democratic Party fall (far) short of what is required to address our climate and other challenges.

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This guest post from Barath enriches the GESN conversation begun with CNN’s celebratory misinformation about America’s energy situation. [Update:  See, more recently (18 March 2012), Zakaria error tweets its way around the world … ] …while the truth is putting on its shoes. The Wall Street Journal reported some exciting news not that long ago—you might […]

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Written prior to the SOTU, guest blogger Barath’s thoughts still ring true as to what the focus should have been … You may have read that President Obama is going to propose energy as a key piece of his agenda in the State of the Union tonight: President Barack Obama will encourage the country’s booming […]

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This guest post from Barath lays out a perspective on the interactions of climate change and peak oil — interactions in terms of people as well as substance.  My perspective from a few years ago might be of interest:  THE Progressive Crises: Global Warming and Peak Oil.   I’ve been wondering for the past year about […]

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This guest post from scientist FishOutOfWater looks at the what might be the closest event in Earth’s history to what humanity, through its ever mounting carbon emissions, is rapidly heading the planet to … The most precise study yet of the the earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, the end Permian, found that warming caused by […]

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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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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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This guest post from Barath reviews key pitfalls and hurdles to deployment of clean energy systems As gas prices remain high and climate chaos becomes ever more apparent, people and institutions are right to argue ever more insistently for a shift to alternative energy sources that are likely to be available for the long haul […]

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