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The real cause of global warming ...
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
On William Shatner speaks out against global warming posted 1 year ago 4 ResponsesAnd the trolls come out to play
Wow, the first two comments are from a global warming denier and a power company apologist. Mike must be doing something right!
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On The dirty secret behind D.C.'s high-tech Virginia suburbs posted 1 year, 1 month ago 7 ResponsesWha-huh?
McCain's campaign thinks it's a "personal attack" to point out that he owns somewhere between four and ten houses? Thank goodness Obama didn't mention how many cars and/or boats McCain owns. Then the gloves would be off!
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On John McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns posted 1 year, 3 months ago 15 ResponsesThe real loser: conventional wisdom
And it's Democrats who have an energy problem? Right. Like Matt said -- let's stick to our guns.
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On GOP rep in Tenn. loses primary after being linked to Big Oil posted 1 year, 3 months ago 1 ResponseThat's so awesome
Treestump:
A) It was a joke.
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On GOP leaders unveil new energy bill that calls for some of everything and lots of drilling posted 1 year, 4 months ago 15 Responsesha i am superier
I love trolls. You are stupid! And I bet you will not like me calling you stupid! So there!
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On GOP leaders unveil new energy bill that calls for some of everything and lots of drilling posted 1 year, 4 months ago 15 ResponsesHere we go again
JMG, where does that line of argument stop? Am I allowed to take a trip home for Christmas to visit my family? Am I allowed to drive to Old Town Alexandria because it's twice as fast to drive there than Metro (three times on weekends)? Am I allowed to drink this beer because it came in a bottle and was trucked in from Michigan?
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On Netroots Nation pledges to cut footprint ... in 2009 posted 1 year, 4 months ago 6 ResponsesHarumph
You can expect to hear from my attorneys about the blatant copyright violation contained in the title of this post. Just as soon as I can afford some attorneys. Could I borrow $10? ;)
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On Popster Miley Cyrus pens 'eco-anthem' posted 1 year, 4 months ago 7 ResponsesAmtrak
Anyone know why the train from DC to Pittsburgh takes twice as long as driving (7:45 trip time on Amtrak's website vs. 4:15 on Google Maps driving)?
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On Event planners announce location, greening plans for next year's conference posted 1 year, 4 months ago 2 ResponsesSo by extension ...
All the green companies that are getting free promotion plus hundreds of thousands of dollars in business from the DNC should hope they find other customers? Barack Obama's nationally-televised address that will have 75,000 people thunderously applauding climate action -- the networks should just air re-runs of Wipeout instead?
We're on the same team, so I don't want to nit-pick too much. But saying you have to stay home to be green is not going to stop global warming. It will, however, succeed in getting people to tune us out.
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On To convene is not green posted 1 year, 4 months ago 9 ResponsesWhat's the point of this post?
Are you saying we must cancel all gatherings to save the planet?
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On To convene is not green posted 1 year, 4 months ago 9 ResponsesOther states?
It'll be interesting to see what effect this ruling will have in states that are considering new coal-fired power plants (like here in Virginia).
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On Georgia judge finds that coal plant must obtain emissions permit from state EPA posted 1 year, 5 months ago 2 ResponsesMy favorite part
Organic cotton cap day, sponsored by ExxonMobil.
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On Protestors object to a green baseball stadium sponsored by the world's dirtiest corporation posted 1 year, 5 months ago 3 ResponsesSaudi Arabia analogy
It's truly a symptom of our oil addiction that suddenly comparisons to Saudi Arabia are a good thing. A few years ago, Saudi was an authoritarian regime whose textbooks taught children to hate America and produced Osama bin Laden. Add a couple of bucks to the price of gas and suddenly Montana's the Saudi Arabia of coal and Canada's the Saudi Arabia of tar sands. This is what we're aspiring to?
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On The mag exalts Canada's potential to become the Saudi Arabia of the north posted 1 year, 6 months ago 10 ResponsesTwo kinds of conservatives
Cultural conservatives are still fighting the battles of the 1860s.
Intellectual conservatives are still fighting the battles of the 1960s.
With all the references to commies and leftists, this fits right in with the latter.
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On Conservative pundit correctly recognizes the radical implications of the polar bear decision posted 1 year, 6 months ago 5 ResponsesAh, I get it now
If it's a fledgling industry without a lot of clout trying to get a few million bucks to get off the ground, it's "subsidies."
If it's an established industry with tons of lobbyists going to bat for billions in loan guarantees and billions more in hopes of making their unproven technology work ... it's "research and development."
Oh, and when Republicans are trying to cut the estate tax, it's "fighting for small business owners." When they're trying to subsidize Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Nuke, they're ... hypocrites.
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On Grist asks McCain about contradictory messages on nuclear subsidies posted 1 year, 6 months ago 8 ResponsesHillary's getting killed among environmentalists
The gas tax holiday is a blatant pander ... but it's Obama who's going to have trouble defending his position? If anything, this is establishing Obama as the greenest candidate in the race, which may not be a big deal in a general election, but when we're down to fighting over a few hundred superdelegates, a strong green stand could make an impact.
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On Candidates, Congress split on 'gas tax holiday' posted 1 year, 7 months ago 5 ResponsesDisappointed in cover art
I'd much rather have seen them raising a windmill. Would've looked better than the weird tree, anyway - the branches are so high up it looks more like one of those "this clearly is in no way a cell phone tower but rather a tree" structures.
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On Mag's green issue exalts cap-and-trade posted 1 year, 7 months ago 11 ResponsesSounds familiar
The "we don't know how much your bill will go up" refrain is also being heard in Virginia.
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On Cheap at any price! posted 1 year, 8 months ago 2 ResponsesAmazing
"Scott's greedy intentions are out in the open." What? You mean all this time, he's been trying to improve his bottom line by reducing overhead while still selling lots of stuff? I'm shocked and chagrined. SHOCKED AND CHAGRINED!
But seriously, isn't this what we've been trying to tell CEOs all along? Becoming more efficient will save you lots of money (and oh by the way, also save the planet)?
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On CEO charged with seeking profit posted 1 year, 8 months ago 2 ResponsesFunny
Sorry, GreenMom, I meant my mom -- on The Green Miles, my girlfriend is The Green Girlfriend, my mother is The Green Mom, etc. I'll be more clear next time :)
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On A quick history of N.Y.'s incoming governor David Paterson and his environmental record posted 1 year, 8 months ago 7 ResponsesThanks!
Great background info on Paterson! Even The Green Mom, who lives in NYC, didn't know much/anything about his environmental record.
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On A quick history of N.Y.'s incoming governor David Paterson and his environmental record posted 1 year, 8 months ago 7 ResponsesRules for the slacker journalist
The lazy news producer's rule: If you want to put out something you think is fact but don't want to bother coming up with an actual source, just make up an attribution like "supporters say" or "critics say" (or in this case, "observers say").
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On Bear poops in woods, some observers say posted 1 year, 8 months ago 7 ResponsesWho cares what Bush would do
Would there be any better climax to Bush's environmental disaster movie than to force him to veto a climate bill passed with the support of 10 Republican Senators? And would there be any better way to clear a path for an even stronger 2009 climate bill than to already have 10 GOP senators already on record supporting climate action?
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On Delay makes environmental catastrophe more likely posted 1 year, 9 months ago 25 ResponsesSellout.
As a member of the media, you're just trying to prove you can be useful in convincing people to toil in their underground fluorescent mines.
I think all future Gristmill posts should be written entirely in Simpsons references.
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On Have you been naughty with your light bulbs? You need some good old command and control. posted 1 year, 9 months ago 33 ResponsesWell said, Sean
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On Notable quotable posted 1 year, 9 months ago 6 ResponsesDude ... weak.
What's with pulling this quote out of context, then linking to the subscription-only article when a free link is easily googled? You can find the full article here.
The Lieberman aide is stating the obvious -- any carbon constraint bill is going to be an incentive for nuclear because nuclear power, for all its major flaws, is low-carbon. In fact, if you read the full article, the aide is arguing against adding even more nuclear incentives as Sen. McCain wants to do.
Attack Lieberman-Warner all you want, but pulling stuff out of context to do it? Major party foul.
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On Notable quotable posted 1 year, 9 months ago 6 ResponsesPerfect the enemy of the very good
Cutting carbon emissions 63-70% by 2050 "undermines the principle" of cutting carbon emissions 80% by 2050? Auctioning carbon permits to raise hundreds of billions of dollars for clean energy development, low-income energy assistance, and wildlife funding "undermines the principle" of making polluters pay?
I'd love to get perfection at 80% and full auction, too. But if this very good bill could win over enough moderates to get us to 60 votes in the Senate (or if they vote no, expose "moderates" as opposing climate action), why not push it forward?
Would the 2009 Congress/President move a stronger bill? Sure, I'd like to think so. But I thought sure this Congress would pass tough ethics reform and start bringing the troops home. Instead we got Larry Craig and the surge.
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On 'Fix it or ditch it' posted 1 year, 9 months ago 2 ResponsesWill McCain support climate action?
McCain doesn't support Lieberman-Warner because it doesn't contain giveaways for nuclear, right? So what makes us think he'll support a climate bill as president?
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On Romney out posted 1 year, 9 months ago 5 ResponsesTrue story
I was working a table at an environmental meeting last summer when the guy who did the voice of Captain Planet stopped by. He chatted us up for a few minutes.
Just as he turned to leave, he turned back, melodramatically pointed at us, and said in the Captain Planet voice, "The power is YOURS!" High comedy.
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On Live-action Captain Planet film a no-go posted 1 year, 9 months ago 8 ResponsesHmmm
I agree amazingdrx and GreyFlcn, it seems like Obama has only recently (to borrow his phrasing) found religion on climate change. I like that his Super Bowl ad mentioned saving the planet, but while Obama has tiptoed around "clean" coal, CCS, corn ethanol, and promised continued support for FutureGen, Clinton has talked up solar and wind.
David is right that either of them will be a quantum leap over Dubya, but I wonder if Obama's star is blinding him a bit on this one.
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On Obama or Clinton: who's greener? posted 1 year, 9 months ago 46 ResponsesThe Morgan excuse
It's not that CCS is a wicked stupid idea. It's just that management is restructurin'.
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On Dept. of Energy paints different picture of clean coal than president's SOTU posted 1 year, 10 months ago 15 ResponsesVirginia's coal ship may be sinking ...
... but we'll be saved when the affordable carbon capture and storage rescue boat arrives! It is on its way, right? Hello? Mayday, mayday!
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On Mike Tidwell speaks out in the WaPo against coal posted 1 year, 10 months ago 7 ResponsesIn the words of Royal Tenenbaum ...
"I'm not talking about dance lessons! I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield. I'm talking about taking it out and chopping it up."
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On A plea for some pepper in the climate change message posted 1 year, 10 months ago 13 ResponsesNow that's energy independence
I'd imagine Israel worries about getting cut off from oil someday against their will. If your cars are running on juice generated from solar, wind, and tidal farms, no more worries.
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On Israel to build national electric car infrastructure posted 1 year, 10 months ago 14 ResponsesSpeaking of Galileo ...
... amazing how far Fred's star has fallen. When I first read this, it prompted me to write a long retort. Now I'd bet anything Fred never even laid eyes on the commentary until 30 seconds before he read it.
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On Thompson out posted 1 year, 10 months ago 2 ResponsesWe're in good hands ...
... with any of the Democratic contenders. The whole Obama vs. Clinton debate is a distraction - we should stay focused on the fact that any of the Dems are vastly better than any of the Republican candidates.
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On Obama puts the 100 percent auction idea into the mainstream posted 1 year, 10 months ago 22 ResponsesA question for God/Chris Allen
Why did God let Katrina happen?
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On Today: Chris Allen posted 1 year, 11 months ago 19 ResponsesReminder
Today (Dec. 14) is the deadline for Virginia residents to tell regulators to block the coal plant!
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On Forest Service objects to Va. 'clean coal' plant that would be one of state's biggest polluters posted 1 year, 11 months ago 3 ResponsesHuckopaque
Does he mean free of energy importation?
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On Notable quotable posted 1 year, 11 months ago 5 ResponsesDripping with passive aggression
Wow, I wouldn't want to be riding in anything with you, Mr. Stewing in My Own Rage At Those Know-It-All Liberals.
Why are the only options in Angry World carpooling in an SUV or driving alone in an efficient vehicle? Doesn't a Kia hold four people?
I wonder how parents transported their children before SUVs came along. Did they just have to leave them at home? Surely small children could never fit in a regular car.
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On Thumbs down for Toyota, GM, Ford, Washington Post posted 1 year, 11 months ago 5 ResponsesGreat analysis!
Glad someone's keeping an eye on the ever-changing numbers.
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On High gas prices make hybrids look even better posted 1 year, 11 months ago 45 ResponsesWicked pissah
Time to crack open a Wolaver to celebrate. At least, until the Senate votes.
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On The 15 minute House vote on the Energy Bill ... posted 1 year, 12 months ago 2 ResponsesWhat does it say about the deep greens ...
... that they're not impacting this debate? Is it a symptom of the "environmentalism is dead" argument, that the deep greens refuse to come to the table to hammer out a deal and would rather stay on the margins screaming about how The Man is screwing it all up?
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On A roundup of today's action in the Senate Environment Committee posted 1 year, 12 months ago 7 ResponsesPerfect vs. passable
The bill wasn't bad to begin with, and these are excellent improvements. It's frustrating that greens won't get fully behind a carbon bill unless it's what they deem as "perfect". Any "perfect" bill in environmentalists' eyes will just get filibustered in the Senate. This ain't perfect, but if making it a little less perfect is enough to peel off 10 GOP votes and get it passed, I'm all for it!
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On New version of Lieberman-Warner circulating posted 2 years ago 2 ResponsesCall me a cynic, but ...
Gas prices aren't significantly different from where they were this summer or last summer. Unless prices permanently hit $4 a gallon, I doubt we'll see dramatic, long-term changes in driving patterns.
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On Per-person gas consumption has decreased in the last year posted 2 years ago 2 ResponsesWill Virginia be next?
Now if only Virginia would follow suit ...
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On Coal plant application rejected in Washington posted 2 years ago 4 ResponsesSeems a bit high?
8 million people work in energy efficiency? That's one out of every 37 men, women, and children in the country. Doesn't that seem a bit high?
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On A great summary of recent studies on green jobs posted 2 years ago 1 ResponseWhat does Bush have to be resentful of?
Why should Bush harbor any resentments? He got the election handed to him! If anyone should be resentful, it's Gore. Maybe after 9/11, Iraq, and losing Congress, Bush wishes he'd never become president in the first place?
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On Notable quotable posted 2 years ago 4 ResponsesGore on tar sands
From his interview with Rolling Stone:
Are you at least glad that Bush now refers to our "addiction to foreign oil"?
I don't like the addiction metaphor, because it carries with it a sense of powerlessness. But there are some aspects of the metaphor that are accurate in ways that Bush doesn't intend. The spiral of increasingly self-destructive behavior - spending more and more for supplies of a substance that is harder and harder to get - is just bizarre. I caused a stir in Alberta, Canada, recently when someone asked me about the advisability of trying to extract oil by processing the tar sands they have up there. I said, "Well, junkies find veins in their toes" [laughs]. The then-premier of Alberta lost it - and hasn't recovered since.Join the discussion on global warming, recycling, and organic beer at The Green Miles!
On Is there really so much money in environmental devastation that it can't be stopped? posted 2 years ago 10 ResponsesDebate has shifted from science to economics
The denial movement seems to have shifted from the flat-Earth "climate change does not exist" to "it's happening but we can't/shouldn't do anything about it". If you're need a debate, why not have two GW-accepting scientists debate which solutions would be most effective?
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On Search for local climate skeptic in Texas proves fruitless posted 2 years ago 61 ResponsesAddicted to oil, but do we want to kick the habit?
Frankly, I question whether we as Americans even want to use less gas. I mean, I know the people reading this blog do. I'm talking about the What's the Matter with Kansas types.
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On How oil-intense is your state's economy? posted 2 years ago 10 ResponsesRules to live by
Never blog drunk or before your morning coffee.
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On 80% by 2050? Try 2010. posted 2 years ago 8 ResponsesGreat story, but I don't get the negativity
Wow, this is an amazing story! It's sort of breathtaking that a corporation would do this not to get free publicity and not to greenwash but just because it makes economic sense.
I'm not sure I get the subtitle though. Why would this imply that "environmentalists are setting the bar too low"?
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On 80% by 2050? Try 2010. posted 2 years ago 8 ResponsesGet a clue on how to do media
I agree with Bryan. Why do environmental groups always agree to be the token green on these panels so some right-wing douche blogger can wave a box of Kleenex at you?
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On Fox News disses Clinton climate plan posted 2 years ago 8 ResponsesExcellent op-ed
Where's the Washington Post's editorial board on this? Robert Samuelson's column today is quite a dire warning on the consequences of fuel economy inaction.
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On New York Times supports renewables in energy bill posted 2 years ago 2 ResponsesWhat WILL Democratic leaders go to the mat for?
Democratic leaders won't stand up against the Iraq War or Bush's pro-torture attorney general, and won't stand up for renewables or climate action. What DO they stand for? Or are they going to sit the rest of Bush's term out and let him dictate what Congress can and can't do?
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On Dem leadership considers axing renewable energy from the energy bill posted 2 years ago 12 ResponsesWeird
Apparently Barack Obama has decided that to win the Democratic party nomination, you have to appeal to the mining industry AND environmentalists. So he supports 80% by 2050 AND liquified coal. And Clinton's the panderer???
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On Obama condemns mining reform package as too hard on the mining industry posted 2 years ago 18 ResponsesIf Katrina didn't make Americans change ...
If Americans didn't cut their gas consumption when Katrina threatened to push prices to $4 a gallon, why would they change their habits now when prices are lower than that? Just this week, with allegedly ominous news on gas prices dominating the headlines, my best friend just bought a Honda Pilot SUV (18 city/24 highway). Not once in our conversation did he mention gas prices.
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On Why we're not conserving like it's 1980 posted 2 years ago 13 ResponsesDoes international sell on the campaign trail?
I think if Hillary included too much international aid in this plan, she'd open herself up to attacks that global warming was just an excuse for those liberal hippies to raise our taxes and send the money to Red China and use whatever's leftover on their all-night reefer parties. At least, that's what I'm sure my Uncle Warren would say.
International aid is necessary, and I'm sure it will come, but I don't think it's a plank in the campaign platform.
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On Some reflections on the strengths and weaknesses of Hillary's new proposal posted 2 years ago 9 ResponsesGetting interesting
What's the green consensus on this bill? Seems like we'd like to see it move forward (which it did) as long as it's strengthened (which it may or may not have been). It'll be interesting to see what happens in full committee.
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On America's Climate Security Act passes out of subcommittee posted 2 years ago 5 ResponsesWhat could GOP senators do?
Would they filibuster the energy bill? Let them. They've abused the filibuster process more than anyone has in history. So go ahead, let's see them block fuel efficiency and energy independence, then let the voters judge them in 2008.
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On Can the House and the Senate agree on energy legislation? posted 2 years, 1 month ago 3 ResponsesCost/benefit?
Does it say in the article how much more the building cost to build or how much they expect to save each year? I couldn't find them, but those numbers would be good to know.
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On With more 'zero-zero' buildings, maybe we could still have cake now and then posted 2 years, 2 months ago 8 ResponsesHow's this for adaptation
Nationwide is adapting their insurance policies, dropping thousands of Floridians. They know what's coming even if their senator, Mel Martinez, is still pretending all is well.
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On When it comes to climate change, prevention is more important than adaptation posted 2 years, 3 months ago 15 ResponsesYou're right to think big
A Prius may only get 20% better gas mileage than a Yaris, but a Ford Escape Hybrid SUV gets roughly 35% better mileage than its non-hybrid counterpart. The bigger the guzzler, the more you'll save by making it a hybrid or electric.
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On Honda fights to regain green car company mantle posted 2 years, 3 months ago 33 ResponsesMuch as I love Natalie Portman ...
I worry ads like this send the message that all we have to do to stop global warming is change light bulbs.
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On A simple video about CFLs posted 2 years, 3 months ago 2 ResponsesLess pavement, more telecommuting!
It's amazing how changes in the habits of a small percentage of drivers can have such a huge impact in traffic congestion. Here in DC, traffic drops noticeably when school lets out for the summer, and plummets when vacation season hits in August. Both are only a small fraction of overall drivers.
But when transportation planners add lanes to roads in the name of relieving congestion, it basically has the opposite effect, proclaiming to commuters, "Come drive here!" Then we wonder why the wider road is just as congested as the old one.
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On Fear of traffic snarls led to easier commutes in Seattle posted 2 years, 3 months ago 2 ResponsesSwitch your electricity to renewable
I just converted by electricity to renewable energy. Everyone who can afford it (and it's only a difference of hundreds, not thousands, of dollars) should call their power company to do the same.
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On A tragedy in Utah and everywhere else, too posted 2 years, 3 months ago 5 ResponsesDisgraceful
Few things illustrate Congress' complete dysfunction when it comes to policy-making like the Farm Bill. Everyone knows its subsidies are giveaways to corporations, yet every year those subsidies continue intact. Members of Congress from both parties are absolutely terrified of being labeled anti-small business (in this case, anti-small farm). So instead of leadership we get pandering.
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On But key Senators are making noise about rocking the boat posted 2 years, 3 months ago 2 ResponsesOne more reason to dislike coal
Listening to the news this morning, all I could think was, when's the last time anyone got trapped in a solar panel collapse?
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On Listen up posted 2 years, 3 months ago 5 ResponsesWow
Cool idea!
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On To count ... heh posted 2 years, 4 months ago 5 ResponsesSay it with me now ...
Subsidies for solar and wind power are throwing away tax dollars on pie-in-the-sky feel-good treehugger mumbo jumbo that will never be a reliable source of energy.
Subsidies for nuclear power "demonstrate new technology that meets the nation's energy needs."
Everybody clear on that?
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On Your government at work posted 2 years, 4 months ago 7 ResponsesEven if it IS a head fake, it's a lousy one
Why should one concept car, one that won't be in showrooms for at least three years and even then will only represent a fraction of Chevy (never mind GM as a whole) sales, convince us there's no need to tighten fuel economy standards?
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On Sure looks that way posted 2 years, 4 months ago 50 Responses
