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Midterms: Green power helps Colorado buck the national trend
Wins by Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper sent a strong signal that supporting new energy and fighting global warming pollution are winning issues.
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Big exciting news about building codes. No, really
Maybe it's more inspiring to look at glitzy new green developments like UniverCity or Vancouver's Olympic Village, but these new energy codes improve every new home by 30 percent, not just the ambitious projects.
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Me, on EnergyNow [VIDEO]
I was on the show EnergyNow yesterday. I think the episode airs this morning on ABC in the Washington, D.C. area, after Christiane Amanpour's show. Here's the clip and a few thoughts.
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House Republicans vying for top energy spot ratchet up tough talk
Now that the voting stuff is over, Washington gets down to its real business: Backroom power.
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Why did the Prop 23 fight in California go so well while the national effort flailed?
Why were climate hawks so successful in California while they've done so poorly at the national level? What lessons can be learned from the Prop 23 campaign? Here are a few thoughts to get the discussion started.
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California's conservative counties voted green on Prop 23
The No forces' message that Prop 23 would kill green jobs seemed to hit home in conservative counties like Riverside and San Bernardino, where the unemployment rate has hit 15 percent this year.
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The failed presidency of Barack Obama, post-election edition
Future generations will judge us with unimaginable harshness for our failure to address the coming global catastrophe, and justifiably so.
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Fixing climate change with a video game
If you're game to save (or set aflame) the planet from the threat of climate change, you should give the eerily realistic computer game, Fate of the World, a spin.
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The Climate Post: Earth will take 100,000 years to recover from the midterms' effects on climate
Nothing ruins the opportunity of stopping climate change like Speaker of the House John Boehner. Plus, the Leaf's batteries and Alaska's gas problem.
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Big Oil's Golden Backup Plan
One of the few bright spots for environmentalists and progressives over the last year was this week’s successful defeat of Proposition 23 in California. As the organizer Saul Alinsky famously observed, power flows from both people and money. Unlike every other energy battle this year, for Prop 23, activists had both. It hasn’t been […]
