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Dress down for the earth
Well here's an energy-saving program I can get behind!
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Big Media Dave
So, this past Friday I was on a radio show called Oregon Territory, which as far as I can tell is pretty wide-ranging.
The subject was peak oil. You can listen here. The first segment is with a petroleum geologist from ARCO; the second is with me.
I've discovered the key to good radio: Do pre-taped shows where they take your rambling and edit it to make you sound smart.
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The Loan Changer
J.P. Morgan to green lending policies Today, New York banking giant J.P. Morgan Chase will issue new lending policies with an environmental bent. Although the company denies it was pressured into the shift, the bank’s pledge is similar to those made in recent months by other financial institutions like Citigroup and Bank of America that […]
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Everything coal is new again
Congress seeks tax money to make defunct “clean coal” plant dirty again For aficionados of government pork, the energy bill that recently passed the House is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest gem uncovered is a provision that would offer $125 million in loan guarantees to a “clean coal” power plant in Alaska. […]
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Shock and Thaw
New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change Writer Elizabeth Kolbert must have single-handedly accelerated global warming with the jet fuel she burned visiting the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Antarctic to research a big three-part series on climate change for The New Yorker. What did she find? Well, it’s all melting. The Alaskan […]
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Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers questions
Allan Thornton. What work do you do? I run the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nonprofit environmental group with offices in Washington, D.C., and London. I generally oversee the strategic development of the organization, which includes targeting research, deploying investigative teams to obtain documentary evidence, and exposing environmental crimes; I work in close cooperation with our […]
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Before Sunset
Language in budget bill could unravel federal environmental protections Buried deep in the 2,000-page budget bill President Bush recently sent to Congress is a three-sentence provision that threatens to eviscerate environmental and other protections. Authored by the White House Office of Management and Budget, the provision would, if passed unamended, subject any and all federal […]
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Flat Earth Award winner pens acceptance speech
File under Mildly Amusing:
We wrote a while back about the Flat Earth Award students at Middlebury College dreamt up to recognize the leading lights of the climate-change denialist movement. Nominated were Rush Limbaugh, Michael Crichton, and Fred Singer.
Well, on Earth Day it was announced that Singer won. Now he's been kind enough to pen an acceptance speech.
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Author! Author!
Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan waxes poetic on climate change From 35,000 feet above the earth’s surface, you can see awe-inspiring views of vast, open spaces. Unless, that is, you’re flying over spots like Mexico City and Beijing, in which case you’ll see “a great rim of grime — as though detached from an unwashed […]
