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Adam Browning is the executive director of Vote Solar.

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  • New York Times Magazine profile offers lessons from activist Wayne Pacelle

    Sunday’s New York Times Magazine contains a profile of Wayne Pacelle, the head of the Humane Society. In it, you will find much grist for the mental mill. Consider strategic campaigns that bring new constituencies into the fold without alienating your base, the perils and advantages of incrementalism, and effective policy changes made in the […]

  • Green party

    The Electric Slide — now with actual electricity.

  • Why renewable advocates oppose Proposition 7

    This post is crossposted at Vote Solar’s blog. —– Proposition 7 [PDF] is a California ballot initiative that would dramatically increase the state’s renewable energy requirement to 50 percent renewably sourced by 2025. Yet most environmental groups and almost all renewable energy companies and trade associations oppose it. Why? The problem is not with the […]

  • Global warming is an important issue for undecided voters

    So says a poll [PDF] done by Yale and George Mason Universities. Some highlights: Nearly two out of three undecided voters say that the presidential candidates’ positions on global warming will influence their vote in the upcoming election, according to a new national survey released jointly today by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry […]