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Today, a group of the nation’s leading experts on climate science sent a brief letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  The message is simple: include climate change in the review of the Keystone XL pipeline.  From that letter: At the moment, your department is planning to consider the effects of the pipeline on “recreation,” […]

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Facing growing and increasingly prominent calls to restore solar panels to the White House roof, roughly 30 years after Ronald Reagan pulled off the panels President Jimmy Carter put up, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu made an exciting announcement at Green Gov last October: As we move toward a clean energy economy, the White House will […]

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Sometimes, your kids tell you great things. We have the coolest house on the street. Wow. We’re cool — according to the kids. Certainly isn’t the non-existent slide for the pool that isn’t there. Our lack of a huge media room and the glaring absence of a gym didn’t contribute. And, while I’ve always thought […]

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Bill McKibben fired up Powershift 2011 last night with what must rank as among his most powerful statements ever … (full text after the fold) There is no one else. No one … but the attendees of PowerShift 2011 … and me … and you …

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For a long time, I described myself as a pessimistic optimist (or an optimistic pessimist — just couldn’t remember which …). This changed recently as I learned a critical definitional issue. An optimist is assuming things will work out and it doesn’t necessarily rely on their efforts or necessarily require any special action to end […]

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A simple question: Where will you be at the 10th second of the 10th minute of the 10th hour of the 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year? As for me, in a little more than 10 hours, I will be in an attic, adding insulation to cut down power demands. And, […]

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Sometimes, your kids tell you great things. We have the coolest house on the street. Wow. We’re cool — according to the kids. Certainly isn’t the non-existent slide for the pool that isn’t there. Our lack of a huge media room and the glaring absence of a gym didn’t contribute. And, while I’ve always thought […]

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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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Where will you be on the 10th minute of the 10th hour of the 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year? On 10 October 2010 (10/10/10), mobilized due to the energy of the 350.org team, people around the world will gather to show their support for climate action by leaders, nation, and […]

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Another day, another leak from COP15. As final (???) negotiations go on, from the outside it seems clear that there is no possibility that world leaders can leave Copenhagen having put in place a fair, aggressive, and binding (FAB) that would provide a good deal of assurance (insurance) that the world community will successfully act […]

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