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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Finding another currency …
August 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Finding another currency …
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · Energy · environmental · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics
My Master Metered Condo and Its Priorities
August 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Tags: Congress · economics · Energy · energy efficiency · master metering · politics
Climate Disruption: THE Progressive Crisis!
June 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Sunday, Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher asked Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change? If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate change. Would that it were so! Smith and Brecher lay out a series of challenges and issues that coalesce […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming · peak oil · politics
In the Fixer-Upper with Barack Obama
June 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments
This guest post is from Bill McKibben who is the co-founder of the grassroots climate group 350.org, and Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College. Nothing tests a relationship like home renovation (well, maybe twittering crotch shots, but I mean for ordinary folks). Fixing the kitchen, putting in a new bathroom: “It can bring up core […]
Tags: Energy · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama · renewable energy · solar · Solar Energy
Not an “Orange” Cent!
June 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Not an “Orange” Cent!
Last month, Daily Kos’ front page boldly proclaimed Orange-to-Blue: Our new questionaire. These seven questions, while “not a litmus test”, set a clear standard for judging whether that progressive policy / politics community should or shouldn’t put it resources to bear in support of a political candidate. Notably (and far from just to me) these […]
Tags: climate change · political symbols · politics
Carpe Diem! Killed bin Laden? Now kill oil …
May 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment
In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush had a moment to change history and turn America(ns) toward a more prosperous and secure future. Rather than seizing the day to announce a plan to end America’s oil addiction and ‘turn oil into salt’, President Bush called on Americans to go out and shop while […]
Tags: Energy · government energy policy · oil · politics
Republican Whitfield Hates Investments That Pay Off for Taxpayer: Killing the Greening the Capitol Initiative
February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Republican Whitfield Hates Investments That Pay Off for Taxpayer: Killing the Greening the Capitol Initiative
As part of the general agenda to drag America into a nightmarish Mr Rogers’ neighborhood, the Republican House Majority is pushing through legislation that will savage the U.S. government’s ability to monitor risks to the public and inform decision-makers about how to move forward to address these threats. And, they are also savaging programs — […]
Tags: Congress · Energy · environmental · environmental economics · government energy policy · green · political symbols · politics
America: Welcome to Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
February 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment
For a huge share of Americans, Mr. Rodgers’ singing “won’t you be my neighbor” on their local public television station was a warm welcoming to becoming part of a larger community. Well, in the 21st century, associated with prospects for killing off funding for those public outlets and for creating havoc for years to come […]
Tags: coal · Energy · mountain top removal · politics · pollution · republican party
The terrifying implication of the LIHEAP cuts?
February 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on The terrifying implication of the LIHEAP cuts?
As rumored prior to the release of President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) program will take a serious hit, roughly a 50 percent cut. As David Dayen put it prior to the budget’s release, The Administration says this lowers LIHEAP assistance to where it was in 2008. But […]
Tags: Energy · Obama Administration · peak oil · politics
Confronting Anti-Science Climate Cranky Zombie Politicians
February 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment
A simple truth, anti-science suffering haters of a livable economic system have hindered action to address our mounting resource challenges of our overuse and overabuse of depletable resources. These include oil (Peak Oil), water (depleting fossil acquifers), top soil (with increasingly serious dust storms in many parts of the world hastening creation of new deserts), […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · Congress · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · political symbols · politics · republican party