[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o1R16juyQ4[/youtube] whitehouse — April 22, 2010 — Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, answers your questions about the clean energy economy. WhiteHouse.gov/earthday
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On Monday, February 22, the Seattle City Council announced that a carbon neutral Seattle was one of our 2010 priorities. We knew this was about as ambitious a goal as you could imagine. But we also knew that reality demands no less. It’s exciting and challenging—and on the cutting edge for a City government. And [...]
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rachel Maddow takes a look at Koch Industries, the private conglomerate that pumps more money into climate-denial campaigns than Exxon Mobil does.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
At the end of the day we need a comprehensive approach that would allow this country to jump start its economy and lead the world to a cleaner environment Every day we wait in this nation China is going to eat our lunch. The Chinese don’t need 60 votes. I guess they just need 1 [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
A new ranking of the world’s nations by environmental performance puts some of the globe’s largest economies far down the list, with the United States sinking to 61st and China to 121st. In the previous version of the Environmental Performance Index, compiled every two years by Yale and Columbia University researchers, the United States ranked 39th, and [...]
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Last year, the EPA issued a long awaited set of guidelines on regulating large, stationary sources of CO2. The rules, known as the “Endangerment Finding,” used the authority granted to the agency through a Supreme Court ruling that found CO2 to be a pollutant that the EPA could regulate. While environmentalists, especially those skeptical of Congress’ [...]
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
In case you missed it, the Supreme Court yesterday decided 5 to 4 to roll back campaign finance laws that limit corporate spending. Oof. The Times calls it “a sharp doctrinal shift” that “will have major political and practical consequences. Specialists in campaign finance law said they expected the decision to reshape the way elections [...]
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Meet the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming… via The Climate Killers : Rolling Stone. Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway (investments) Rupert Murdoch, CEO, News Corporation (Fox News, WSJ, MySpace, etc.) Jack Gerard, President, American Petroleum Institute Rex Tillerson, CEO, ExxonMobile (funding climate denial by the Heritage Foundation) Sen. [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
During President-Elect Barack Obama’s transition, the Center for American Progress proposed a 10-point clean-energy agenda for the president and Congress that would speed the economic transformation to a clean energy economy. A review of these items today finds that all were adopted or are working their way through the process. This is a startling achievement [...]
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfuCPFb8wk[/youtube] By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans — and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems. The world is in need of bio-fuels, but most have many problems. Tapergy‘s does not. It is produced from a previously untapped, efficient and [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
This is the time-honored question, one I get asked so frequently, from very qualified individuals, that I decided to answer it online. It is heartbreaking (and encouraging) how many skilled and interested people are looking for work in the sustainability field. The good news is the sector is growing exponentially. If you ask anyone in [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday he's inviting activists, scientists and government officials from around the world to an alternative climate conference following the failure of a summit in Copenhagen to produce binding agreements. The leftist leader said the April 20-22 meeting in Cochabamba will include indigenous peoples, social movements, environmentalists and scientists as well [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
While the scientists involved say there is no current reason for alarm, and that more study is needed to determine exact causes, pay attention to this one: Following up on a story that emerged back in August, BBC News reports that methane bubbling up from the Arctic sea floor appears to be stronger than first [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
A computer company in Siberia was ultimately used to post the controversial messages – which cast doubt on the reliability of scientists’ global warming claims – on the internet. The revelation led to claims that the Russians were behind the release of the information. But, anxious to distance themselves from the leak, the FSB revealed [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
After an exhausting planning process, during which the initiative was twice rejected by local planning authorities, a group of families building a 74 acre ecovillage in Wales won £350,000 (over half a million US dollars) in grant money from the UK government last week. It took a lot of convincing, but for the folks at Lammas, the third [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Despite Reporting Results, CNN Ignores Its Own Memo The results of an important survey of 3,145 scientists, are crystal clear: the vast majority of the scientific community believes humans are responsible for a warming climate. A full 90% of all scientists surveyed believe global warming is occurring, and 82% believe it is because of the [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
For two weeks we’ve been listening to the story of the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia—a media tempest in an English teapot. And all the time the biggest scandal has been directly under our noses. This afternoon at Copenhagen a document mysteriously leaked from the UN Secretariat. It was first reported from [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Even in Copenhagen, where agriculture is getting less attention than it arguably should be considering its impact and potential for mitigating climate change, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack spoke about the need for research, and seeing agriculture as an opportunity for climate change mitigation. He even said to the delegates in Copenhagen, “We need [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Corporate lobbyists (Monsanto, Royal Dutch Shell, and American Petroleum Institute) and their influence over Congress are the single greatest barrier to meaningful climate change reforms, according to Naomi Klein. Monsanto wins the Angry Mermaid award.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Climate-justice activists in Copenhagen will argue that, far from solving the climate crisis, carbon-trading represents an unprecedented privatization of the atmosphere, and that offsets and sinks threaten to become a resource grab of colonial proportions. Not only will these “market-based solutions” fail to solve the climate crisis, but this failure will dramatically deepen poverty and [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
Copenhagen must face up to the decade lost in curbing volatile finances, corporate power and the pillage of resources.
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
Don’t be fooled about climate science. In April 1994 – long after scientists had clearly demonstrated the addictive quality and devastating health impacts of cigarette smoking – seven chief executives of major tobacco companies denied the evidence, swearing in a US congressional hearing that nicotine was not addictive. Now, the American public is again being [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
Today, at the International Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, we demonstrated a new technology prototype that enables online, global-scale observation and measurement of changes in the earth’s forests. We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world’s rapidly-disappearing forests. Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all of [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3B541KM3q4[/youtube] At TED2009 [May 07, 2009], Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on “clean coal.” TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where [...]
The groups in question are charging that Al Gore and the new Senate climate bill aren’t tough enough on polluters, and they’re doing so by dressing up like pirates, passing out fake Gore money, and hurling pies. via Radical Green Groups Attack Al Gore and the Climate Bill : TreeHugger.