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Graham rebukes fellow Republicans saying, “The green economy is coming!”

Graham, Kerry, ‘will be working closely with the White House’ 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago Joseph Romm shares Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.) remarkable remarks about climate action.
Pretty words

Obama energy speech contained few policy specifics, but shaped forward-looking narrative 1
Posted 4 weeks ago Obama delivered a speech on energy at MIT on Friday, marking the kick-off for what is likely to be a protracted effort by the administration and Democrats in the Senate to pass the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill.
Nobelist Chu agrees, warning we otherwise face catastrophe, with St. Louis above 90°F for 1/3 the year

Browner says bill without carbon cap would be a “big mistake” 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Chu, Locke, Browner headline clean economy forum with business leaders

American companies tell Senate “We Can Lead” on clean energy 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Market rules in D.C.

White House hosts farmers market 7
Posted 2 months ago
"I've never seen so many people so excited about fruits and vegetables!" declared First Lady Michelle Obama at Thursday's opening of the new White House Farmer's Market.
What you can do

A message from Van Jones 16
Posted 2 months ago
My family and I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support that we have received over the past week or so.
Newly confirmed regulatory czar needs to close OIRA’s backdoor for special interests 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
After weeks of sustained attack from the right-wing on issues that are marginal to the job the President asked him to do, Cass Sunstein has emerged from the nomination process bloody but apparently unbowed.
Hope, damn it!

In dark times, back to the garden 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
While climate change rages ahead, the climate bill is flat on its back and the political system seems stuck in the mud of right-wing faux-populism. Tom Philpott finds hope in a different kind of dirt.
to market, to market

Obama wants to set up White House farmers market 8
Posted 3 months ago
President Obama says he and the First Lady are looking into setting up a farmers market just outside the White House, which might sell food from the White House garden or from local farmers.
Choice nuggets

Obama garden drama, and other choice morsels from around the Web 2
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
From a food fight over the White House garden to year-round veggies in Minnesota, Tom Phlipott serves up tasty morsels from around the Web.
What are they smoking?

Obama endorses climate bill, press corps asks about his cigarettes 0
Posted 5 months ago
President Obama gave a strong endorsement of the American Clean Energy and Security Act at a White House press conference today, but reporters didn't bother to ask him about it.
plus full reports, summaries, charts, *AND* a slideshow!

It’s time to act “after many years of dithering and delay” 0
Posted 5 months ago
The Administration has put together a terrific new website, globalchange.gov, on its landmark 13-agency report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Memo to White House: Have You Considered Blogs?

The NYT buries White House “exclusive” on the landmark U.S. climate impacts report 1
Posted 5 months ago
A fine bromance

Snap, son! Baseballer Ryan Howard gets White House garden tour 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Two men and a veggie garden: White House chef/gardener Sam Kass shows off his boss' garden to baseball great Ryan Howard. Earnestness ensues. Isn't it bromantic?
It Could Be Verse

A climate-news poem for the week of May 11 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
All the climate news you need, now in a convenient rhyming format.
Food, class, and the new, new agrarianism

Using food as a tool of development, not extraction 1
Posted 8 months ago
When Michele Obama plunged a shovel into the White House lawn last Friday, she wasn't just preparing a productive vegetable-garden bed. She's was also tilling fertile ground for debate about new directions for the food system.
Alice Waters’ move into the political sphere is hitting some bumps 3
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
First Lady promotes ‘fresh and local and delicious’ veggies at state dinner 8
Posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago
Summers doesn’t advocate for climate solutions, but Obama’s climate team makes up for it 1
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Obama administration on green investment 1
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago