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Asphalt to Ecosystems
Say you were abducted by aliens, flown around the galaxy, then finally dropped off in what appears to be an American town. There’s not a soul about. What kind of place is this? Are you among friends or are there going to be more of those ‘probes’? Then you notice a school. You walk closer. […]
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Friday music blogging: Lloyd, with Andre 3000
I love when a good single drifts across my radar, and this new one from Lloyd (otherwise a pretty standard R&B crooner) is a gem.
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Tar Sands Protest is like the War on Drugs
What I am about to say may be considered blasphemy: I think the tar sands protests are misguided and will not (should not) achieve their stated goal. Before you grab your sustainably harvested bamboo pitchforks, I should say that I want the protests and arrests to continue, because there could be a much greater win, […]
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First Ozone Standards, Now This?
I woke up this morning wondering if my ears had deceived me. I didn’t remember hearing anything in Obama’s speech last night about clean energy investments or clean energy jobs. So I looked up the transcript and went through it. It turns out Obama did say something along these lines. One thing, one part […]
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The World Bank Still Can't Quit Dirty Coal
This column was co-written by Justin Guay of the Sierra Club International Program. As the New York Times recently reported, coal plants don’t come dirtier than the Soviet-era relics currently in operation in Kosovo. Despite the terrible pollution these plants spew, the World Bank has decided the only option for this young country is to […]
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Obama's Job: Protect Us from Pollution [video]
While Obama’s jobs speech is being framed as a turning point for his tenure as President, there is another job I would respectively suggest he concentrate on: his own. Here’s a quick video ad that I think gets right to point: Late last week the President blocked reforms to the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to […]
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This Roller Coaster Never Stops
Waking up every morning thinking about how to move us beyond coal always comes with its share of highs and lows. But last week was an exceptionally wild roller coaster, and it left my brain spinning Last week started with an adrenaline rush as the City of Alexandria, Virginia and GenOn Energy announced plans to […]
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The Political and Technical Advantages of Distributed Renewable Power
A serialized version of ILSR‘s new report, Democratizing the Electricity System, Part 3 of 5. Click for Part 1 or Part 2. The Political and Technical Advantages of Distributed Generation While technology has helped change the economics of electricity production (in favor of renewables and distributed generation), this new dynamic can as easily be controlled […]
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Obama secretly saves world while environmentalists protest
While Bill McKibben and Daryl Hannah were getting hauled away in handcuffs in protest of the Obama administration’s decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, that same administration was quietly fixing the problem. I don’t have an informed opinion about the pipeline, except that it’s clearly a symptom of our addiction to fossil energy and […]
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The Tar Sands Action (smile)
My mind has been a jumble the last couple of days as I’ve tried to think about what I would be saying in this column. I knew I would be writing about the historic and amazing Tar Sands Action in Washington, D.C. I am literally smiling as I embark on this writing journey. […]
