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Below is a guest post by Clem Guttata from WVABlue, providing a window on the Your lights are on, but you’re not home, your will is not your own Might as well face it you’re addicted to coal. Appalachia suffers from a resource curse. Coal mining wealth is illusory–the benefits have long been obvious to […]

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Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and knowledgeable BruceMcF, offering a vision for rail transport that would be well worth embracing. On Thursday, djrekluse wrote: Despite considerable tension and even aversion in green communities to the subject, we cannot talk about “going green” without making it a discussion about growth through various hierarchies of […]

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Tommaso Boggia provides, in this guest post from Campus Progress, some thoughts from the sand box that Barack Obama might find useful to deal with Glenn Beck and other little people throwing tantrums running around kicking sand in people’s faces. On November 4th 2008, young people propelled President Obama to victory with a clear mandate […]

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Another guest post from BruceMcF.  Quite simply, rail (and, especially, electrified rail) is one of the more important Silver BBs before us (the U.S.) to deal with the perfect storm of economic, energy, and environmental challenges.  Bruce is a thoughtful, eloquent advocate on rail (and nodal transportation) issues who is well worth paying attention to. […]

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A guest post from Deborah Phelan, providing a window on issues of Eco Justice in Uganda — a picture that most in the developing world never see and an issue that they rarely, if ever, consider. “You know, right now we are standing on top of ten feet of plastic.” Overheard in Kampala, Uganda at […]

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This is a guest post from the thoughtful Magnifico providing a perspective on the “OMG, China” issue in climate change. “Climate change is happening now. It’s not just happening in the Arctic regions, but it’s beginning to show up in our own backyards.” Americans are now seeing a changing climate across the country, according to […]

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Polling seems a national mania, able to get on the front-page of the newspaper, top of the news report, top of the pile for agenda-setting for (at least some) politicians.  Doing polling right is a serious and difficult challenge. All too often, for any number of reasons from shoddiness to intentional deceit, polling is done […]

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Here we have a guest post from BruceMcF who blogs at Burning the Midnight Oil.  BruceMcF has done tremendous work re rail issues and how to move the United States toward a better transportation system.  Here, he lays out what might be called a smear campaign against sensible rail policy. I speculated on what was […]

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A Fish Out of Water struggles to survive, finding a path toward a safer environment. FishOutofWater is a thoughtful, engaged scientist, passionately struggling to help us find our way toward a prosperous, climate-friendly future. Here is a guest post focusing on the local, regional, national tragedy that is mountain-top removal. Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) at […]

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This is a guest post from Prof. Don Mikulecky highlighting Richard Heinberg’s alerting us to the seriousness of our situation. In his MuseLetter Richard Heinberg has been trying to get us to wake up and face the music, so to speak.  The August 2009 edition is entitled:Temporary Recession or the End of Growth? In it […]

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