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Al Gore: Not retarded

Chris Rock, in this week’s issue of Life, on the ’08 elections: LIFE: In the first movie you directed, Head of State, you were president of the United States. Is this country ready for an African American president? ROCK: It’s ready for a retarded president, why wouldn’t it be ready for an African American president? […]

Did you know ‘biodiversity’ means gay marriage?

Over at The New Republic, Brad Plumer has a nice rundown on the whole green evangelical “creation care” thing. Most of it is probably familiar to readers of this site, but some bits are worth pulling out. First of all, there’s … this: “I’ve learned the hard way that, for instance, you can’t use the […]

Why it hasn’t gotten anywhere

For two generations now, various governments and corporations have been trying to build a pipeline to bring natural gas from the Mackenzie River delta north of the Arctic Circle, south to consumers in the Canadian provinces, and potentially to the American Midwest as well.

It hasn't gotten anywhere for a variety of reasons.

Across the country, legal students rally to beat global warming

The Gore Tour Stops in D.C.

This coming Sunday, former Vice President, Oscar winner, and rock 'n' roll organizer Al Gore will address a group of more than 400 leading CEOs, COOs, nonprofit leaders, politicians, court justices, attorneys general, law school professors and Deans, entrepreneurs, and environmental professionals.

Only most of them are still in law school.

This Sunday, Gore will give the closing address at the 17th Annual Conference of the National Association of Environmental Law Societies, The Future of Environmental Protection, hosted this year by the George Washington University Law School. His inspirational words will no doubt have a profound effect on a group whose actions over the next 50 years will play a central role in the future of the planet.

I can’t believe I just wrote that line

A (projected) group of thousands of people representing 45 environmental and other organizations will be convening in Washington, D.C., next Tuesday to tell our reps on Capital Hill that we want action on climate change now — before it’s too late for polar bears the Arctic. According to their website: Action day will begin at […]

Kids these days

Seriously. These guys recharge their electric mowers with solar panels on top of their vans.

Crazy kids. What will they come up with next?

Even with the proposal as low as 4 percent per year

This sad but predictable. The UAW has consistently been one of the most anti-environmental unions in the country. What excuse they can come up with now that climate change is an established fact and U.S. automakers are getting creamed by Toyota is beyond me. It is simply myopic thinking in the extreme. And Bush's proposal is only for a 4 percent increase in fuel efficiency per year! This is one of those issues that don't break down neatly across the political spectrum.

Hard sell? Maybe not

Last week, The New York Times published an article that rhetorically posed this question: If the 11 coal-fired power plants proposed by TXU are kaput, and the state continues to experience record growth, where is the new energy going to come from?

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has one answer: energy efficiency.

We've got another: Solar. And we have a plan to make it happen. My colleague JP Ross is the primary drafter of legislation for a $500 million solar program, enough to jumpstart the state's solar industry and turn the fossil fuel state on to the renewable energy path. It's been introduced as HB 2226 by Representative Coleman, and Sen. Rodney Ellis filed a companion bill in the Senate.

Food and Punishment

Colorado’s inmates-as-farmworkers plan says plenty about our food culture Last summer, Colorado cracked down on illegal immigrants and the businesses that hire them, causing lots of folks to flee the state. But now that spring is rolling around, farmers are finding themselves out of luck when it comes to labor. Who will replace the poorly […]

Maybe They Should Just Call It LNG Beach

Natural-gas terminals canceled, pursued, and potentially dangerous In a great victory for greens (we love saying that!), Chevron Corp. has announced that it will not build a $650 million liquefied-natural-gas terminal off of Mexico’s Coronado Islands, rewarding years of protests about the risks to marine life. But farther north, the seas aren’t so smooth. Even […]