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Tsunami of stupid

Rogue 9/11 ad isn’t from WWF—and its science is bogus 3
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago By Ashley Braun
An ad purportedly from World Wildlife Fund that features a slew of airplanes attacking New York a la 9/11 has stirred up some heated controversy. But WWF denounced the tasteless ad, saying it had nothing to do with it. And the ad doesn't make much sense anyway.
Money talks

Buy green, forget Congress—or not 11
Posted 3 months ago By Jonathan Hiskes
The director of a new poll says concerned Americans see themselves as consumers, not citizens.
Back to 10th-grade history

US Chamber of Commerce calls for ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ on climate change 19
Posted 3 months ago By Brad Johnson
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to put climate science on trial. This is an attempt to disrupt the effort to fight global warming with a culture war, tying the science of climate change to fundamentalists’ unease with evolution.
Snow jobs

The nefarious net-effect argument: Recent conservative studies on clean energy jobs miss the mark 0
Posted 3 months ago By Craig Morris
Proponents of clean energy have long argued that investment in solar, wind, and other renewable sources creates domestic jobs. In the past few years, however, critics of renewable energy have responded -- with considerable success -- by arguing that the net effect is actually negative.

The concept of "netting" the effect of investments (including government subsidies) on the job market is legitimate when used correctly; when not used correctly, it is disingenuous.
Green Colleges Make Green

Colleges without rocking enviro programs are failed businesses 5
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago By Auden Schendler
Even if you didn't care one little tiny bit about climate or environment, as an undergraduate institution you'd create a killer Enviornmental Studies program with a climate focus simply to recruit students and make money as an business.
The bank job

If progressives want a Clean Energy Bank, they need better economics 5
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago By David Roberts
One of the most unquestionably excellent pieces of the climate bill now awaiting defenestration at the hands Senate Blue Dogs is its creation of a Clean Energy Bank that would help finance nascent clean energy projects. Naturally, conservatives are now coming out in opposition to it.
How to Make Green Conferences Feel Less Like Capital Punishment

Sustainability conferences can be boring and terrible 3
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago By Auden Schendler
Sustainability conferences are now so ubiquitious that you can't swing a cat without hitting one. But I find myself massively dissatisfied by most (though not all) events, which typically bore the crap out of me.
General Musings

GM: Innovators or crackheads? 5
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago By Katharine Wroth
Hot on the heels of last week's news about the 230-mile-per-gallon Chevy Volt comes word that GM will build a $4,000 compact. Brilliance or desperation?
VICTORY

Dynegy out of the new coal business 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago By Bruce Nilles
Coal is again proving to be a bad investment. Dynegy announced yesterday that the company is essentially going to lose $100 million as it sells its portion of the Texas Sandy Creek coal plant back to LS Power. But they decided a $100 million loss was better than continuing to be involved in the expensive and risky project.
But is it working?

Surprisingly popular Cash for Clunkers program raises hopes—and questions 2
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago By ProPublica
The sight of car buyers back in showrooms these past two weeks has raised hopes that U.S. consumers are ready, primed by government stimulus, to spend again. But questions remain.