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Tom Friedman, erstwhile Great Green Hope
Tom Friedman of the NYT gets a lot of love around here as the green movement’s great popularizer, someone whose plain-spoken pronouncements can convince politicians and plain folks alike to act on climate change, etc. So what’s up with the so-called Mustache of Understanding puffing vigorously into his rhetorical trumpet (sub. required) in favor of […]
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Property rights measures are about stifling community
You see, this is what I was talking about.
From today's Oregonian:
The Clackamas County Board of Commissioners decided Tuesday to speed the processing of claims made under Oregon's Measure 37 property rights law by preventing residents from testifying about filings. The commissioners will approve valid Measure 37 claims without question or public comment.
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On the year ahead for greens
The folks at Tom Paine asked me to write a piece on a green agenda for the coming year. I tried to tackle three points: We’re in a chaotic, transitional period on energy and environmental issues. Circumstances are uniquely aligned for green progress. Several economically powerful and politically connected interests will be trying to take […]
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Fails
Whereas Tony Blair just makes me feel vaguely sad, the British press never fails to delight me. No pretense of objectivity here, no sir.
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About climate change, that is
After years of having any mention of anthropogenic climate change purged from press releases and public statements, NOAA public affairs officials express shock that the agency has finally stated the obvious.
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U.S. automakers don’t know what all the climate change fuss is about
In public, American automakers are trying to put on a chipper new green face. In private: Chrysler’s chief economist Van Jolissaint has launched a fierce attack on “quasi-hysterical Europeans” and their “Chicken Little” attitudes to global warming. … Mr Jolissaint was speaking at a private breakfast where the chief economists of the “Big Three” US […]
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A new NYT blog about oil
The New York Times has a new blog about oil called Pipeline. Sadly, it’s behind the $elect pay wall, so most of you will never get to read it. Here’s a bit from the first post: In Nigeria, stolen oil is accelerating decades-old conflicts by bringing together the poor, the thugs and the powerful. For […]
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Anything You Can Ban, I Can Unban Better
Bush opens Alaska’s 5.6-million-acre Bristol Bay to drilling Just a few days after a bipartisan push to ban drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge made headlines, the U.S. Driller-in-Chief lifted a ban on resource extraction in Alaska’s 5.6-million-acre Bristol Bay. Playing the energy-security card, President Bush is raising hackles left and right: The bay […]
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Ex-Interior secretary may be facing jail time
First the good news: the Justice department recently had a sit-down with erstwhile mining lobbyist and ex-Interior deputy Stephen Griles and outlined the federal criminal charges he faces.
Presumably they also brought photos of his potential future roommate, Bubba, in an effort to get him to flip on his former boss, Gale Norton.
Now for the better news:
