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Sierra Club parodies the worst song ever recorded about coal
Don’t ever accuse the Sierra Club of being bad sports. After the West Virginia Coal Association released a series of the worst cellphone ringtone songs about coal ever recorded–I mean, as in the worst coal songs ever recorded since Thomas Edison pioneered the first coal-fired plant and phonograph in the late 19th century–the Sierra Club’s […]
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Cash for clunkers inventory clearance sale!
(photo credit Wen-YanKing via the Flickr Creative Commons license). The Cash for Clunkers Agreement is a short-term attempt to stimulate consumer spending on new cars, nothing more, nothing less. It’s a no-brainier from a political perspective because voters will support any program that will give them thousands of dollars to trade in a junker for […]
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Vilsack’s USDA shakes things up
I know some are still reeling from the recent Obama administration announcement on biofuels and its implication that it remains a bit too much in thrall to the concerns of Big Ag. And Tom Vilsack’s continued pimping for Monsanto and other biotech companies seems both unsustainable and uninformed. But a slew of positive decisions have […]
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Rep. Barton says the only way to stop a global pandemic is if everyone does nothing
“Don’t confuse my opposition to excessive regulation with a desire for inaction. We don’t need an international treaty with rules and regulations that will handcuff the American economy or our ability to make our environment cleaner, safer and healthier.” – “Words that Work” from GOP messaging guru Frank Luntz, in his 2002 memo on talking […]
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Green building in the West Bank
At the West Bank’s first green-building conference.Courtesy Eric Pallant Read more about Eric Pallant’s eco-explorations in the Middle East. Al Quds University in Abu Dis, Palestine, hosted the first Green Building conference in the West Bank this week. It wasn’t just students who showed up — there were suits, too. Forty-nine people attended, and the […]
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After 15 days of lockdown, exhaustion sets in at Grist HQ
Wondering what food to serve, and how to confront the guy who always leaves the water running? Umbra advises.
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One Hard Thing You Must Do to Save the Planet
Perhaps you know someone in the district of a swing Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In “25 Easy Things One Hard Thing You Can Must Do to Save the Planet,” Jimmy Seidita disses the Earth Day lists of 10 simple things that you can do to save the planet and then (wisely) […]
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Why mandate renewables if we already have a cap on CO2?
A question I hear frequently (in wonk circles anyway): If the U.S. implements a declining cap on CO2, why does it also need a national Renewable Portfolio Standard? (For non-wonks, some basic background: a declining cap on CO2 emissions would, theoretically, force electric utilities to find low-carbon alternatives. An RPS would dictate that utilities generate […]
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As seen on David Letterman! (In my defense, this is “Odd day”)
If you saw the Late Show with David Letterman last night and are visiting this website for the first time, please click here: “An Introduction to Climate Progress.” For regular readers, yes, this is me with a ventriloquist’s dummy, but I can explain… First off, it is now officially “Odd Day,” and everybody should do […]
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In the lush dirt of Iowa, community grows alongside veggies
ZJ Farms: Everyone’s a farmhandI had the pleasure the other day of visiting ZJ Farms, the anchor of Local Harvest CSA, which is one of the biggest in the area. Farmer (and pillar of the local food scene hereabouts) Susan Jutz has been running this organic farm for all the years I’ve been buying food […]
