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  • Right now, the most ambitious climate bill in Washington calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 7% below 1990 levels by 2020. That's pathetic. According to the Nobel Prize-winning International Panel on Climate Change, the world must reduce emissions much more aggressively -- 25-40% by 2020 -- to have a 50/50 chance of avoiding runaway climate change. Tell President Obama and your Members of Congress to support an emissions reduction target of 40% by 2020 today: http://bit.ly/40by2020On Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change posted 1 week, 1 day ago 29 Responses
  • Right now, the most ambitious climate bill in Washington calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 7% below 1990 levels by 2020. That's pathetic. According to the Nobel Prize-winning International Panel on Climate Change, the world must reduce emissions far more aggressively -- 25-40% by 2020 -- to have a 50/50 chance of avoiding runaway climate change. Tell President Obama and your Members of Congress to support an emissions reduction target of 40% by 2020: http://bit.ly/40by2020On Hot planet to Obama: What's your Plan B? posted 1 week, 2 days ago 6 Responses

  • Join the movement to draft Van Jones for governor of California!

    On Thoughts on Van Jones' resignation posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago 37 Responses

  • Being nice has little to do with it. What you need to get elected in America is corporate money, and Obama had plenty of that. Why do you think he's such a booster of 'clean coal'? The problem is that both Democrats and Republicans are beholden to big-money interests.

    The Green Party has a message that would resonate with a large number of Americans, if only that message had a vehicle. Do you think "the majority" is opposed to nonviolence, justice, grassroots democracy and sustainability - the four cornerstones of Green politics?

    The point of this article is that we shouldn't be lazy and vote based on the letter next to someone's name, right? That's all well and good, but it's another form of laziness for the media to focus on two narrow choices and ignore everything else out there.

    On Myth: Democrats support good climate policy and Republicans oppose it posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago 13 Responses

  • There's only one party with a climate policy that's based on science, and that's the Greens. You could at least give them a mention, especially since the intent of this article seems to be to get environmentalists to be more open-minded politically.

    On Myth: Democrats support good climate policy and Republicans oppose it posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago 13 Responses

  • We just elected Obama...

    Now we have to put pressure on him to do the right thing.
    GreenChange.org is telling President Obama and Congress to introduce a moratorium on new coal and nuclear plants. Future generations will thank us for moving from dirty, dangerous fuels to safe, green energy. Find out more at http://tinyurl.com/alp453On As meaningful as his presidency is, Obama will not act fast enough on the climate crisis posted 10 months ago 11 Responses

  • Green party strategy

    The Green Party is the only party talking about the environmental solutions that America needs. The Green plan would make us all healthier and safer, and if the poor have more to gain from that (as they've borne the brunt of environmental problems), does that make it any less valid? The fact is that America's working poor have no voice in Washington aside from a handful of maverick Democrats, and Greens are working to change that. And since all Green candidates take a pledge to refuse corporate money, you can be sure they won't back down from protecting our environment.

    The Green Party is working hard to get senators, representatives, and other officials elected. However, it makes no sense to sit out the presidential election when Greens would lose hard-won ballot access in many states by doing so. As we watch both parties moving farther into the corporatist camp, it's imperative that we break our addiction to the corrupt, do-nothing Democratic party and build a party based on real American values. If you want more military spending, more drilling, and more government surveillance, by all means vote for Obama/McCain, but recognize my right to vote for a candidate that I actually agree with. If you think I should vote for Senator Obama, then tell him to debate Cynthia McKinney so that we can compare their respective merits.

    McKinney and the Greens know that with the corporate media and the Commission on Presidential Debates whiting her out, she'd be lucky if a majority of Americans even knew she were running. That being said, McKinney has wisely defined victory as 5% of the vote - which would establish the Green Party as America's third major party and qualify it for federal matching funds. Think about it - a national party standing up for grassroots democracy, social justice, human rights, peace, and ecological wisdom. That's what we're working for, and if environmentalists and their fellow progressives ever want to stop fighting Washington DC and start running it, then they should help build the Green Party into a force to be reckoned with. Meanwhile, Greens will keep running at all levels, against all odds, because there is so much at stake.On Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney talks to Grist posted 1 year, 3 months ago 19 Responses