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  • So then why is Boxer doing this?

    http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/02/03/it-gets-worse-boxeri ...On Sen. Barbara Boxer rolls out her climate policy principles, with very few details posted 10 months ago 2 Responses

  • Ciclovia in San Francisco on Sunday!

    Tom,

    If you aren't too hung over, I hope you can step outside the Ferry Building and witness the big carfree celebration in SF on Sunday. Should be a blast.

    Here is a promo film about it.
    http://carfreeusa.blogspot.com/2008/08/come-out-to-play-i ...On Sandwiched between the two political conventions, a slice of food politics from San Francisco posted 1 year, 3 months ago 9 Responses

  • Another topic being avoided by the media...

    is that there is no law to ensure oil from new domestic drilling would even end up in US gas tanks. It would go straight to the international market and be sold to the highest bidder.

    Exxon and Chevron get access to our OCS and public lands, we get nothing.

    "While the U.S. oil industry wants access to more federal lands to help reduce reliance on foreign suppliers, American-based companies are shipping record amounts of gasoline and diesel fuel to other countries."
    http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN032564092008070 ...On The media will not tell the public the real story on the energy clash in Congress posted 1 year, 3 months ago 9 Responses

  • Bush's Head of EIA "resigns"

    "The chief of the Energy Department agency responsible for energy forecasting and analysis announced his resignation today."

    This is the same guy you call BS on the GOP drilling plan.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&si ...

    Maybe he wanted to spend more time with his family.On Get to work! posted 1 year, 3 months ago 1 Response

  • Americans are guilty too

    Considering the USA exported most of our industrial production to China over the last 30 years, aren't we also culprits in the dirty air that is currently choking the heroic Olympians in Beijing?

    It's easy to point a finger. But take a look at where your computer and all the other gadgets in your house were manufactured.

    If we don't like dirty air in China, we should start making the things American consumers use every day, back here in America.

    Globalized capitalism is a much bigger villain in this story than dodgy Chinese bureaucrats.
    On IOC and multi-nationals complicit in subjecting world class athletes to world class pollution posted 1 year, 3 months ago 3 Responses

  • No thanks. The private automobile

    should never be promoted as an environmental gadget.

    Just the amount of toxic waste the production of this vehicle creates far outweighs any fuel savings.

    Grist should write about cool new vehicles being used for public transportation. (Admittedly, the Bike Friday is pretty cool.)

    The Tesla Roadster strikes me as a very expensive green viagra pill. Kind of like a hybrid SUV.

    We can do better.

    If you really want to go green, consider going carfree! A movement to liberate ourselves from car ownership growing in the USA and around the world.
    http://carfreeusa.blogspot.com

    Carfree advocates, urban planners, and architects will gather in Portland this summer. Join us!
    http://carfreeportland.org/index.phpOn Eco-conscious gizmos for the enviro to lust after posted 1 year, 7 months ago 14 Responses

  • This is big news in the finanical press today

    http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/19/news/companies/coalplant_ ...

    Perhaps investors are getting the message that coal is now officially, a crap investment. On Kansas coal plant air permit denied on basis of CO2 posted 2 years, 1 month ago 9 Responses

  • AP Reports on the impact of the Kansas decision

    The ruling could have an impact across the country and was hailed as a victory by environmental groups that warn the plants contribute dangerously to global warming.

    "As far as I know, this is the first time an air permit for a coal-fired power plant has been denied based on concerns about the impact of carbon dioxide emissions on human health and the environment," Nick Persampieri, an attorney in Denver for the environmental group Earthjustice, said Friday. "We think it is a big deal."

    The case will be used as a precedent elsewhere, he said.

    Coal Plants Rejected - AP (via Forbes)

    What is that giant sucking sound? The sound of big capital headed out of coal and into green energy. Thanks Republican-stacked Supreme Court who declared we really should do something about global warming back in April.

    Once conservatives realize there is money to be made building the sustainable energy economy, this argument will be over.

    Today is a tipping point.On Bad news abounds for Big Coal posted 2 years, 1 month ago 13 Responses

  • Monkey Wrench Gang is Fiction

    Just like Crichton's movie about the dinosaurs that come back to kill and eat humans.

    Should be lots of fun as a movie.On Maybe posted 2 years, 9 months ago 11 Responses

  • Environment a negligible role in '06 elections?

    Hardly.

    One of the biggest upsets was Jerry McNerney's (D-CA 11) victory of Richard Pombo (R-CA 11), the only sitting head of a House Committee to lose his job.

    The McNerney vote was largely fueled by backlash against Pombo's career on the House Resources Committee, his war on endangered species, his chainsaw hugging, and his love affair with oil and gas drilling on public lands.

    If Luntz hasn't digesting the environmental reality of what happened in CA-11 in the last election, his advice to anyone about political strategy is suspect.

    I think he is just angling for a new job with the emerging environmental majority. He's quite a political streetwalker.

    Good luck with the job search, Frank. We have a copy of your CV and it's not very green.
    On GOP strategist Frank Luntz argues enviros are failing -- and they're mean to boot posted 2 years, 10 months ago 35 Responses