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Obama hosts Facebook town hall, because what could go wrong when you combine politics and Facebook?
Listen up, Facebook nation: Obama would like you to stop friending and unfriending each other for a second and pay attention. He's hosting a Facebook town hall today at 4:45 Eastern, in order to, you know, get down verbally with the youth. The subject is "Shared Responsibility and Shared Prosperity," which sounds like a great excuse to bring up questions about energy policy, sustainability, and the environment.
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This Earth Week: Taking America Back From the Polluters
Last weekend, I was proud to join the likes of former Vice President Al Gore and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson as a keynote speaker at Power Shift 2011. There was an incredible energy; more than 10,000 young leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., to work towards two common goals – a cleaner future and a just […]
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Congress Passes a Budget That Doesn't Invest Enought in International Efforts to Curb Global Warming
The long drama of whether or not the US Congress would invest in international efforts to curb global warming pollution or gut these investments is finally over – at least for the rest of this fiscal year. Last week President Obama signed into law a budget for the rest of this fiscal year (fiscal year […]
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Confessions of an international climate advocate at Powershift
I’ve just walked away from thousands of students who have taken to the streets of DC to tell the White House, dirty energy polluters, and Congress that they won’t rest until their vision of a clean energy future is realized. It was a strange feeling, really, to walk away from all the energy and excitement […]
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Coal Ash Continues to Poison Americans
This week, some of them traveled to Washington to tell their stories Mike Eslinger lives near a coal ash waste dump in Sullivan, Indiana. On some days the wind gets the ash blowing around his house so much that he cannot let his two children play outside. Curt Haven lives only 100 feet away from […]
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Major victory for clean air
Earlier today the Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) voted to approve a settlement that provides for the single largest coal retirement announcement in the nation’s history. The settlement requires the permanent retirement of 18 coal units, totaling 2,700-megawatts of TVA’s coal fleet. In addition, it requires the retirement or clean up of an […]
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Gambling when we don’t have to
Two weeks ago, I visited the office of a friend of mine, a partner at a top cleantech Silicon Valley law firm. He and I shared a concern about the increasingly hostile, anti-clean-energy propaganda from dirty-energy-funded critics who are trying to position clean energy as expensive, subsidy-dependent, and “not ready.” The good news, my friend […]
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Brie a hero for Grist
Dear Grist readers, Would you give $5 to have a platter full of green news, astute advice, and tips for taking action at your fingertips? Today, ONE DAY ONLY, we’re asking for your help. As the big cheese of Grist, I know there’s plenty of stuff to scare the holes out of your Swiss when […]
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Earth Night 2011, brought to you by Green Drinks & Grist!
On April 21, Green Drinks and the Center for Environmental Health will be hosting their first annual Earth Night bicoastal celebration, sponsored by Grist!
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The China-Europe-America Smackdown
America, it could be worse. We could be Europe. I mean, we’re still mostly in the race with China – – in the past five years, they improved energy efficiency by nearly 20% and have a new five-year plan for another 20%. I say big deal – – the Empire State Building recently completed an […]
