Anna Fahey’s Posts

• Clean Energy Economy

  Is China winning the clean energy race? 7

  Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago

  Industrialized nations may find themselves borrowing and begging for new technologies that China has been busy perfecting all along.

• In the game or on the sidelines?

  Northwest businesses weigh in -- or bow out -- on energy policy 1

  Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

  This fall, Northwest-based global businesses Nike and Starbucks led a group of consumer brands to publicly champion muscular, science-based climate and energy policies.  But where are all the other Northwest companies on climate policy? Amazon? Microsoft? Boeing?

• It’s time for climate policy.

  American Public Wants Climate Policy 1

  Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

  New Pew survey numbers indicating strong public support for the essential ingredients of a national cap and trade program. Who cares if people can't name the policy -- they know what they want.

• Connecting the economy-energy-environment dots

  Seeing the light in the Pew poll on Americans' top priorities 14

  Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago

  At first glance, the latest poll numbers from Pew Research Center on Americans' top priorities for the new president might appear worrisome to climate policy advocates.

  Global warming is in last place in the top 20, and the environment in general slipped down in the list since last year. Andrew Revkin over at New York Times' Dot Earth blog goes so far as to say, "America and President Barack Obama are completely out of sync on human-caused global warming." (There are some startling new numbers from Rasmussen on that… Read More

• Step right up to the fossil fuel roller coaster!

  Survey: Oil and gas industry leaders say the era of cheap gas is over. 1

  Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

  The cost of oil has been a rollercoaster ride since the 1970s. Thankfully, we've hit a low in this season of recession, foreclosures, and a major Wall Street meltdown. But nobody expects the ride to be over -- and the only way to go now is up.

  Just ask oil industry insiders. A recent survey of senior oil and gas professionals by (auditing and consulting firm) Deloitte revealed growing concern among the top brass of the fossil fuel industry about the affordability and sustainability of oil and gas in the near future, along with a surprisingly strong belief in… Read More

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  You're right...

  Even my quiz kind of points to my own "party" bias, I guess, considering a not so veiled irony in my choices.  

  Even if stewardship was a different ball game back when Earth Day started, it's intersting to see how "going green" -- or whatever it's been called over the years -- has been used here and there to gain some sort of political capital. At the same time environmentalists are accused of being extremists, radicals, long-haired tree-huggers -- take your pick -- savvy politicians know when it's a good idea to take a piece of the green pie for themselves. Just ask Frank Luntz!

  Watch for signs of my increasing obsession with Newt Gingrich. On A belated Earth Day quiz posted 2 years, 6 months ago 3 Responses