http://www.democraticcourage.com by Glenn Hurowitz
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Hey, Look, a Forest!
Report: Forest conservation can be as reliable as other ways of reducing pollution 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Experts increasingly agree that pollution reductions from forest conservation are as easy or easier to track than those from other sources, such as energy. Read More -
Not your daddy’s offsets 6
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago A new report, "Forging the Climate Consensus: Domestic and International Offsets" makes clear exactly how important a role high-quality offsets play in maintaining the integrity of climate legislation -- and how they could allow an international climate agreement to achieve far stronger emissions reductions targets than would otherwise be possible. Read More -
The Negotiators
The Non-Concession concession? 1
Posted 5 months ago Henry Waxman and Ed Markey seem to have mastered the art of the non-concession concession: striking deals with potential opponents in ways that meet their needs while minimizing (though not entirely eliminating) the negative impacts. Read More -
How Waxman-Markey tackles climate change by saving forests 1
Posted 5 months ago One of the little-known ingredients of the deal that allowed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454 to pass the Energy and Commerce committee was a breakthrough on protections for the world's vanishing tropical forests. Read More -
The political economy of climate policy
Understanding offsets 6
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago Carbon offsets have come under fire from critics who believe the Waxman-Markey climate bill is too weak. Read More -
Same polluters, new deceit
Industry spin on climate is still working on media 1
Posted 7 months ago New York Times reporter Andy Revkin has a blockbuster story showing that the Global Climate Coalition, the main industry group that spent much of the 1990s seeking to sow doubt in journalists' and politicians' minds about the reality of climate change, knew all along that it was real and dangerous. Read More -
The Green Divorcee
Environmental Organizing as Solution to Family Discord 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago This weekend, The New York Times Magazine ran as its cover story an article entitled "Why Isn't the Brain Green?" (i.e. why humans don't generally make environmental choices automatically, even though it's good for us in the long term). And a front page Monday story in The Washington Post, chronicled how "going green" could lead to discord in families as, for example, one spouse wanted the heat on and another wanted to shiver for the planet."You're kind of in a perpetual state of feeling like you're not measuring up," said Janet Tupper, 50, of Cheverly,… Read More
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Roe is Me!
The Fishery That’s Too Big to Fail 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago This is a guest post by John Hocevar and Jeremy Jackson. Jeremy Jackson is the William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution. John Hocevar is a marine biologist and the director of Greenpeace’s oceans campaign.
If you like seafood, you’ve probably eaten Alaska pollock, the tender white fish used in most frozen fish sticks, McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, and the imitation crab meat found in California rolls. But the pollock – the world’s largest food fishery – is on the verge of collapse.The most… Read More
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Trust me, I'm from the GOP
Republicans as defenders of the poor 0
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks ago Last week, the House GOP leadership proposed a budget outline that provides an alternative to President Obama's. Here's Citizens for Tax Justice's analysis of how it compares to President Obama's plan. Read More -
Furadan shame
U.S. corporation poisoning Africa’s lions 0
Posted 8 months ago 60 Minutes had an extraordinary piece by Bob Simon this weekend on how U.S. poison manufacturer FMC is exporting Furadan to Kenya, where it's being used to poison lions, leading to an 85 percent drop in their population. Read More
