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Josh Dorner

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Obama Hits Green Homerun With Remarks to Govs on Energy, Climate

Josh Dorner | Posted November 18, 2008 | Green


Much like Al Gore's surprise appearance at Netroots Nation this summer (which seems like eons ago at this point), I am told that President-Elect Barack Obama's taped message to the Bi-Partisan Governor's Global Climate Summit was met with thunderous applause and a standing ovation earlier today.

President-Elect Obama's remarks...

Jeffrey Feldman

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Rust-Covered Car Execs? Kick 'Em To The Curb

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted November 18, 2008 | Business


As Thanksgiving approaches and I watch the dire economic situation in Detroit unfold,  I keep having a recurrent thought:  Washington must try to prevent economic disaster for Michigan workers, but GM executives should get their gooses cooked.

There is no question that the collapse of the Big Three manufacturers in...

Michael DeJong

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Green Week

Michael DeJong | Posted November 18, 2008 | Green


Green Week for NBC-Universal-Bravo launches with green themed programming. Their website - www.greenisuniversal.com - invites individuals to "Green Your Routine" by taking on simple environmentally sound actions until they become a habit.

Their "Green Your Routine" feature offers easy, practical and economical ways to become green just by changing...

Michael DeJong

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A Green Opposition to a Colorless Proposition

Michael DeJong | Posted November 18, 2008 | Green


Most of us want what's best for the environment - green jobs, eco-sensitive housing, clean energy, mindful technology, lower or zero emissions, and thoughtful environmentally-conscious industry standards in the hopes of solving Global Warming and creating a healthy planet.

In an ever-growing collective effort, most of us have taken up...

Michael DeJong

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Obama-kinda-clean

Michael DeJong | Posted November 18, 2008 | Green


"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones."
~Publilius Syrus

While he was campaigning in 2000, George Bush used to say that when he got into the White House he would give the Oval Office "one heck of a scrubbing" making allusions to the traces of "icky-bits"...

Bruce E. Dale

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Thinking Clearly about Oil and Alternative Fuels

Bruce E. Dale | Posted November 18, 2008 | Green


Read More: Energy

Never mind the recent decline in oil prices from their record highs. The age of cheap oil is over. And it will not return. Shrinking supplies of conventional crude, rising demand from emerging markets and the shadowy presence of speculators have forever ended the days of $20 per barrel oil...

Randi Rhodes

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Bridge Loan to Nowhere or Bridge Loan to the 21st Century?

Randi Rhodes | Posted November 18, 2008 | Politics


In every crisis there is opportunity. That lesson has been well-learned by all the wrong people over the past eight years.

American defense contractors like Blackwater, Triple Canopy and DynCorp made obscene profits in the chaos created by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in Iraq. Imagine their armored Humvees pulling...

Eric Kuhn

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President of Earthjustice on Being the Earth's Lawyer Under Obama

Eric Kuhn | Posted November 18, 2008 | Green


Trip Van Noppen is the president of Earthjustice, one of the largest non-profit public interest law firms "dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment." As Barack Obama heads towards the...

Steve Parker

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Five Mistakes by DC and Detroit Hurt Detroit Three's Survival Shances

Steve Parker | Posted November 18, 2008 | Business


Five mistakes Washington and Detroit are making which could kill any help or support for our American car companies:

Mistake #1: Consumers and the environment are no longer considered in Washington's loans to the Detroit Three.

In Sen. Harry Reid's new bill to allow direct and swift loans to the...

Robert Redford

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Americans Rejected 'Drill, Baby, Drill' -- Bush Should Respect Our Choice

Robert Redford | Posted November 17, 2008 | Green


Part of the change Americans just voted for in overwhelming numbers was to move away from the failed energy philosophy of "drill, baby, drill" to a more farsighted strategy, emphasized by Barack Obama, based on clean, renewable energy and efficiency. Yet on the very day that we raised our voices...

Katherine Goldstein

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Attention Shoppers (and Economic End Days Predictors): It's Not All Doom and Gloom

Katherine Goldstein | Posted November 17, 2008 | Style


I think it's fair to say the general conversation about the economy borders on, well, the hysterical. I'm certainly no economist (not that they know anything about the economy anyway!) but radical changes in spending and behavior may be completely warranted. Even for people like myself whose job has not...

Harvey Wasserman

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GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered

Harvey Wasserman | Posted November 17, 2008 | Green


Bail out General Motors? The people who murdered our mass transit system?

First let them remake what they destroyed.

GM responded to the 1970s gas crisis by handing over the American market to energy-efficient Toyota and Honda.

GM met the rise of the hybrids with "light trucks."

GM built...

Elizabeth Rogers

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Death of the Clamshell

Elizabeth Rogers | Posted November 17, 2008 | Green


The extinction of the dreaded plastic species can't come soon enough.

A couple of months ago my son Emmett got a small toy knight. Of course it came in an impenetrable clamshell package that he was trying to open himself. I told him I would help him pry the thing...

Linda Cronin-Gross

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Environmental Movement's Grandchild, Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Grows Up, Turns 30 in Brooklyn

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted November 17, 2008 | Green


Today in Brooklyn, the Center for the Urban Environment will celebrate its 30th anniversary. There will be a "green tie" gala, locally grown food, and a party in the organization's brand new, totally "green," LEEDS certified space. Hundreds will attend. It's a terrific accomplishment. But it's more than that....

Tara Lohan

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Finding the Best, Local Food Near You Just Got Easier

Tara Lohan | Posted November 17, 2008 | Green


Food is making big headlines, and it's about time.

In a year marked by rising food prices and riots throughout the world, we've seen what happens when the reality of our energy, climate and water crises collides with trying to feed a planet.

As Vandana Shiva writes in her newest...

Jeremy Jacquot

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Are Southern California's Wildfires a Harbinger of Worst Things to Come Under Climate Change?

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted November 17, 2008 | Green


Like many anguished Southern Californians, I spent the better part of this weekend obsessively checking local news websites and poring over the Orange County Register's extremely helpful fire map. Though I had been keeping a side eye on the wildfires that blazed through Santa Barbara a few days ago,...

Steve Fleischli

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Can President Obama Save the Environment?

Steve Fleischli | Posted November 17, 2008 | Green


President Bush has left a regulatory wasteland in his wake these last eight years, and it won't be easy for President Obama to undo all of the Bush rollbacks and fulfill the original intent of many of our nation's environmental laws.

Waterkeeper Alliance's new report, the U.S. Blueprint...

Mitchell Bard

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The Meaning of Change Will Be Tested by the Auto Industry Bailout

Mitchell Bard | Posted November 17, 2008 | Politics


On Meet the Press yesterday, Tom Brokaw presented the two sides of the proposed $25 billion auto bailout debate. Sen. Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, argued that it was essential to help the car manufacturers survive, since not to do so would mean the loss of millions of...

Rebekah and Stephen Hren

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Obama, Please Don't Hire Any More Dunderhead Economists!

Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted November 17, 2008 | Business


Something fundamental is wrong with our system of political economy, and we need to fix it. It's not just that we're spending more than we make in terms of money, it's that we've been consuming more than we produce on an ecological level as well. The overall long-term results are...

Howard Learner

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Gearing Up to Advance the Green Economy

Howard Learner | Posted November 17, 2008 | Chicago


It's time to gear up to seize the opportunities to advance a greener economy and cleaner environment with the new Administration and new Congress. The Midwest and Great Plains states can become business and economic winners in growing the new green economy as discussed in previous blog posts. Moreover, when...


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