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What a wind farm dispute in Michigan says about us
Earlier this month, on a snowy afternoon, the newly renovated Garden Theater held the largest crowd I’ve ever seen indoors in the small Lake Michigan coastal town of Frankfort, with the exception of girls and boys basketball games. On tap that day was a polemical documentary film, “Windfall.” Two groups of citizen activists held the […]
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Investment is win-win for global economy and climate, Stiglitz argues
Following John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Stiglitz proposes solutions that would heal the economy and the environment in one fell swoop.
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Friday music blogging: The Decemberists
I've been a Decemberists fan from way, way back. Little known fact: Colin Meloy, the lead singer, used to live in Missoula, Montana, around the same time I did, playing in an alt-country band called Tarkio. On the band's 2001 debut EP, Five Songs, there's an "Apology Song" about Meloy accidentally allowing a friend's bike to be stolen from in front of the Orange Street Food Farm, where I used to shop!
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In profound denial, Chamber of Commerce lectures on 'energy reality'
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce dug further into global warming denial, attacking Barack Obama's State of the Union and clean energy goals.
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The Climate Post: So really, how will we get to a post-carbon future?
Is the United States going about its energy policy "planlessly"? Did Obama's State of the Union address teach us anything new about his plans?
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Taco Bell says, 'Thank you for suing us'
The fast food chain, victim of a class-action lawsuit claiming that its taco beef is only 35 percent actual beef, has released a very polite new ad.
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Is it hot in here? Or is the climate changing?
What?s one way to convert climate change skeptics? By turning up the thermostat and making them sweat.
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Race to innovate the clean energy future heats up after the president’s address
President Barack Obama, in his annual State of the Union address called for new economic growth based on clean energy and innovation. The president proposed obtaining 80 percent of America’s electricity from clean energy sources by 2035. Other countries are seeing the benefits and reaping the rewards of making smart investments in the clean energy […]
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Paul LePage, new Maine guv, takes aim at the environment
This week, Paul LePage made the leap from abrasive style to corrosive substance, proposing a dramatic rollback of Maine's environmental protections.
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Farmworkers are climbing up the organic food chain
A number of migrant workers are no longer making pennies per bucket picked but working for themselves, running CSAs, and bringing new blood into American farming.
