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Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and insightful BruceMcF. Bruce’s thoughts, writ large, about transport policy and, more specifically, electrified rail merit attention and action. Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence As Dean Baker reported on the (bookmark worthy) Real World Economics Review Blog, new home sales figures for July are out, […]

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This guest post from Lefty Coaster provides windows on the anti-science syndrome suffering hatred of a livable economic system running through the rhetoric of many of the Republican Party’s candidates. Republicans would despoil our country in pursuit of the oil and coal that are so profitable for their corporate sponsors, and so bad for our […]

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Let us face a simple fact: no matter how good we get at mitigating climate change, climate chaos and damage from human-driven global warming will get worse before it gets better.  We might have control over how bad and influence on the impacts of the disrupted climate system, but the situation will get worse than […]

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Warren S has made a commitment with a New Year’s Resolution. Every day, another letter to the editor or a politicians about climate change and global warming issues. One of his most recent conclusions is that the rampant inability of traditional media institutions to link global record war temperatures, the hottest year in recorded weather […]

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This guest post from CitiSven (A World of Words) discusses the work being done to develop an international standard for EcoCities. Some of you may be familiar with my diaries about ecocities. From Venice and Istanbul to West Oakland, I’ve written about urban areas within an ecocity context, and I’m about to launch another series […]

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George Mokray is a long-term solar power advocate, with a focus on figuring out how to help people — in quite practical terms — realize (in both intellectual and practical terms) the opportunities that ‘going solar’ provides for them.  He has also been, more recent, quite active with weatherization barnstorming — including via Home Energy […]

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What follows is a very practical discussion of how to help move ‘green’ incrementally into America’s primary school cafeterias from the perspective of a ‘green’ parent in Virginia. I was recently a guest blogger on Mrs. Q’s “Fed Up with School Kunch” blog and cross-posted here to gain a larger audience. Here’s the original blog […]

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Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and insightful BruceMcF. Bruce’s thoughts, writ large, about transport policy and, more specifically, electrified rail merit attention and action. If we reduce our oil consumption by 5% a year over each of the next twenty years, that allows use to be free of our oil addiction if we […]

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This is another guest post from BruceMcF, whose ideas on transportation (mainly, but not solely rail) merit heeding. See Burning the Midnight Oil. Well how the frack d’ya like me now? I’m not going to say “toldya so”, since many who will be reading this diary said much the same during the “Drill, Baby, Drill” […]

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This guest post from chparadise provides some important information about the climate ‘state of play’. While the focus has (rightfully) been on HCR, climate change news hasn’t been fully dead. In fact, it may have been easy to miss a couple notes: 2010 is very likely to be the hottest year on record. This was […]

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