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Green deal or great disillusion?

While the United States is unlikely to pass a climate bill in the near future, there may be greater hope from one of the country’s closest allies: France.

Feds say deepwater wells can no longer dodge environmental reviews

For decades, oil and gas companies pretty much called the shots in the Gulf of Mexico. Yesterday, the Interior Department made it clear its rubber stamp days are over.

A New Verb is Born — Outgreen

Cross posted from the Biodiversivist Blog From Wiktionary: VERB to outgreen (third-person singular simple present outgreens, present participle outgreening, simple past and past participle outgreened)    1. (transitive) To surpass in environmental activism or consciousness I submitted this word to Wictionary after writing a review of Tom Friedman’s book Hot, Flat, and Crowded where he […]

Urban guerrillas 'fix' São Paulo streets during World Cup

Bicycling and pedestrian activists in São Paulo, Brazil, engage in do-it-yourself street painting. What better time than when the entire country is watching TV?

Mosque near Ground Zero will be greenest in the nation

The Cordoba House in lower Manhattan will be the nation's first "green" LEED-certified mosque, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin reports at Daily Beast.

‘Shadow a Senator’ climate push draws inspiration from Tea-Party town halls

Remember those chaotic town hall meetings last summer with irate Tea Partiers confronting Congress members about death panels and socialized medicine? A coalition of activist-oriented green groups are drawing inspiration from those town-hall scenes in a new push to force senators to answer for their failure to pass clean-energy legislation.

Will China steal the U.S. thunder by launching cap-and-trade in the next five years?

Just when the U.S. Senate finally admitted to abandoning its plan of issuing a federal climate bill by the end of this year, top Chinese officials were discussing how to launch carbon trading programs under their country’s next five-year plan (2011–15).

Natural Enemies–People And Nature

Crossposted from Biodiversivist The above photo is from Rhett Butler’s (of Mongabay) latest trip to Bali. It inspired me to do a post. Beetle collecting was all the rage back in Darwin’s day. Photos from today’s high-quality, affordable, digital cameras, which allow anyone to snap cool pictures and video of wildlife, may be just the […]

Friday music blogging: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

Ariel Pink got his start in the Los Angeles low-fi freak folk scene, which I know nothing about. Recently, though, he put a stable band together, the Haunted Graffiti, and earlier this year put out an album, Before Today. It's confounding and addicting.

Greenpeace shuts down 30 London BP stations

Greenpeace U.K. shut down at least 30 BP stations in London on Tuesday in one of the more ballsy displays of civil disobedience against the energy giant. Something for us Yanks to learn from?