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• A dirty lie

  Waterkeeper Alliance unveils anti-coal campaign 4

  Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

  The essay below was written by Steve Fleischli and Scott Edwards of Waterkeeper Alliance.

  Right now the coal industry is engaged in a multi-million-dollar campaign propagating the lie that coal and so-called clean-coal technology are the answer to America's future energy needs. Nothing could be farther from the truth. There is no such thing as clean coal.

  Waterkeeper programs in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, and West Virginia have been fighting the coal industry for years. Now, they have joined together with the nearly 200 programs of Waterkeeper Alliance in a grassroots campaign called "The… Read More

• After the green economy, green security

  How to build resilient communities in a chaotic world 3

  Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago

  This is a guest essay by Chip Ward, a former grassroots organizer/activist who has led several successful campaigns to hold polluters accountable. He described his political adventures in Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West and Hope's Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land. This post was originally published at TomDispatch, and it is republished here with Tom's kind permission.

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  Now that we've decided to "green" the economy, why not green homeland security, too? I'm not talking about interrogators questioning suspects under the glow of compact fluorescent light bulbs, or cops wearing… Read More

• I love it when you talk carbon taxes!

  Memo to tax sirens: Both a carbon cap and a tax can be implemented well 20

  Posted 9 months ago

  This is a guest post from David Hawkins, director of the climate program at NRDC.

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  In the Odyssey, Odysseus had to be tied to the mast to resist the call of the Sirens, who tried to lure his ship onto the rocks.  These days the siren song of a carbon tax fills the ear of many commentators who urge us to recognize its beauty and steer our ship in its direction.  A Washington Post editorial is a recent example.

  The premise of the Post editorial is that cap-and-trade regimes are complex and vulnerable to special pleading, and they… Read More

• Burning questions

  What does economic 'recovery' mean on an extreme weather planet? 4

  Posted 9 months ago

  This is a guest essay by Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and an editor of the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. Englehardt is also the author of The End of Victory Culture and the editor of The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire. This post was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission.

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  It turns out that you don't want to be a former city dweller in rural parts of southernmost Australia, a stalk of wheat in China or Iraq, a soybean in… Read More

• Life after coal: It's sooner than you think

  Investors will figure out that coal is growing scarce and too expensive 0

  Posted 9 months, 1 week ago

  The following is a guest essay by Tom Konrad, a financial analyst specializing in renewable energy and energy efficiency companies, a freelance writer, and a contributor to AltEnergyStocks.com.

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  A couple years ago, I began to see reports that coal supplies might not last the 200-plus years we've all been lead to believe, so I wrote an article about what you could do to prepare your portfolio for Peak Coal.

  Now two years have passed, and peak coal is undeniably two years closer. (Ever wonder why people who have been saying that we have 200 years of coal… Read More

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