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 Stories About: climate AND climate change mitigation AND environmental movement AND messaging AND politics
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Newt Gingrich's 'green conservatism'
It's not an alternative, it's a subset |
David Roberts |
10 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Newt Gingrich has a new book out called A Contract with the Earth, which purports to outline a "green conservatism." For a summary, you can check out this brief op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I approached it with an open mind -- eagerly, even. There's nothing I would like more than for a vibrant green conservatism to join the debate over the best way to accomplish green goals. That would be an enormous step forward from the current situation. ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, messaging, Newt Gingrich, politics (all these topics) |
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No sweat solutions to global warming: a series
A reintroduction |
Gar Lipow |
16 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'm restarting my series on solutions to global warming, both on how to phase out fossil fuels and the best means to sequester carbon, because I consider the topic a critical one. The carbon lobby has mostly (not entirely) given up disputing that global warming is occurring. They know that they won't be able to confuse the public on its human-caused nature much longer. But a final stalling tactic is open to deniers -- to pretend that nothing can be done, or at lea ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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Walking backwards from cataclysm: A strategic planning methodology
The basic approach of the Bright Lines project |
Ken Ward |
16 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| ((brightlines_include)) After a decade of brutal political trench warfare, the surreal debate in the U.S. on the reality of climate change is over. A Democratic Congress looking to put climate in play in 2008, serious buy-in for federal regulation from a band of corporate heavyweights, and a rash of climate conversions from the likes of Pat Robertson and Frank Luntz (author of the infamous strategy memo advising Bush administration operatives how to muddle the clima ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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