Mike Tidwell’s Posts

• Copenhagen climate crash

  Hot planet to Obama: What's your Plan B? 6

  Posted 3 days, 1 hour agoThe planet just can't endure another year of inaction. Obama should travel to the Copenhagen climate conference in December and guarantee dramatic action from the U.S. in 2010 even if it means blowing everything up in Congress and starting over.

• Utilities and coal-state Democrats are wrecking our last chance on climate change 0

  Posted 6 months ago

  Utility companies and their coal-state apologists in Congress are wrecking America’s last, best chance to solve global warming. By insisting on free pollution permits, utilities are creating a climate bill that is complicated, unfair, and destined to fail in future years.

• See you in jail: It's not symbolism when you live in D.C.

  Why I'm joining 2,000 people for a global warming mass arrest on Monday 3

  Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

  On Monday, I'm going to get arrested just two blocks from the U.S. Capitol building. I'll peacefully block the entrance to an energy plant that burns raw coal to partially power Congress. My motivation is global warming. My colleagues in civil disobedience will include the poet Wendell Berry, country western signer Kathy Mattea, and Yale University dean Gus Speth.

  Up to 2,000 other people from across the country will risk arrest, too. We'll all be demanding strong federal action to phase out coal combustion and other fossil fuels nationwide that threaten our vulnerable climate.

  This mass arrest might seem symbolic… Read More

• I Spy Something Green

  Police spy on climate activist while global warming goes unarrested 4

  Posted 1 year ago

  

  Terrorist Activist Mike Tidwell (at podium) exhibiting clearly threatening behavior.

   

  Photo: chesapeakeclimate

   

  I'm not sure what's more shocking: the news that the Maryland State Police wrongfully spied on me for months as a "suspected terrorist," or that, despite surveillance of me, officers apparently wouldn't recognize me if I walked into their police headquarters tomorrow.

  I'm a former Peace Corps volunteer, an Eagle Scout, church member, youth baseball coach, and dedicated father. I also happen to be director of one of the largest environmental groups in Maryland,… Read More

• Yes, Virginia, there is a clean energy constituency

  Will Democrats take the votes but ignore the voters in increasingly powerful Northern Virginia? 2

  Posted 1 year ago

  Northern Virginia voters solidified their reputation Nov. 4 as a virtual factory for Democratic victories. Collectively, the Virginia suburbs of D.C. broke for Obama in numbers exceeding 60 percent. The margin is comparable to such liberal bastions as California and New York. Given the results, and given that 1 in 3 Virginia voters now lives in the fast-growing region, it's no wonder state Democrats see a gold mine. Already Gov. Tim Kaine (D), elected 2005, and U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D), elected 2006, can credit their victory margins to "NoVa." And Democratic Senator-elect Mark Warner considers the region his base.

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  I hear ya, David. But McKibben has it right about Obama. We'll never get a strong climate bill unless the President makes climate a priority at least on par with health care. And, contrary to your post, Obama DID have a specific climate plan at one point: during the presidential campaign. The plan would have been very popular with voters had he fought for it upon taking office. See my Grist post today calling for a second look at candidate Obama's 2008 "cap-and-rebate" plan: http://www.grist.org/member/view-all/posts/1675 MikeOn Is Bill McKibben right to be angry with Obama? posted 2 days, 23 hours ago 35 Responses