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Reclaiming Earth Day
How do you celebrate Earth Day, when your homeland or homeplace has been stripmined into oblivion? For my family, standing in the ruins of our 150-year-old homestead in the devastated historic community of Eagle Creek, in the Shawnee Forest of southern Illinois, we turned to guerilla reclamation: My billie boys, the 9th generation of Eagle […]
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Al Gore tweets and blogs "Straight Up"
Here is something you twitterers out there can retweet, from twitter.com/algore: The Nobel prize-winner has posted a longer recommendation on his website: An Important New Book Joe Romm is one of the most important and influential voices fighting for an end to the climate crisis. His blog, Climate Progress, is a must read. Romm just published an important […]
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Top scientists call for research on climate link to volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis
Periods of exceptional climate change in Earth history are associated with a dynamic response from the solid Earth, involving enhanced levels of potentially hazardous geological and geomorphological activity. This response is expressed through the adjustment, modulation or triggering of a wide range of surface and crustal phenomena, including volcanic and seismic activity, submarine and sub-aerial landslides, […]
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Walking on Two Legs
Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 19, 2010 At the end of my third day in Cochabamba and after the first day of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, it has become very clear that “walking on two legs” is very much what is taking place and will be taking place. […]
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Buy my new book, "Straight Up"
My new book is now In Stock at Amazon.com, so you can buy it today (click here). You know you want to after getting all these Climate Progress posts for free for so long. And if you have already bought a copy (thank you very much), buy one for a friend. Or a frenemy! The journal Nature editorialized in March: […]
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Coal front group compares mining coal to fighting in a war zone
Talk about bad timing. Just weeks before the most deadly mining disaster in decades, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) — a front group of big utilities and coal companies — compares mining coal to fighting in Afghanistan: Yes, well, mining coal is like fighting in a war zone if you are working for […]
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What are your favorite climate and energy metaphors and jokes?
Last Sunday’s post “What are your favorite climate and energy soundbites? drew dozens of comments that are a must read for anyone who speaks on this subject. I will definitely use and/or adapt some of those suggestions. Now I’m looking for something a little more specific — pithy metaphors and jokes, maybe two sentences at most. […]
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The first book review of "Straight Up"
Buried on page 95, midway through his chapter titled “The Clean Energy Solution,” Joe Romm summarizes the only workable strategy for saving the planet from catastrophic climate change. That strategy focuses on rapid commercialization of existing renewable energy technologies. Our plan, he says, must be “Deployment, deployment, deployment, R&D, deployment, deployment, deployment.” That’s a powerful […]
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Senate bipartisan climate and clean energy jobs bill set for launch April 26
Looks like a Senate climate bill will not be unveiled the week of Earth Day after all. The new goal for Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Lieberman, I/D-Conn., to publicly release a potential deal is April 26, sources said. National Journal has the story: Graham explained why the bill would […]
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Straight Up: How the press bungles its coverage of climate economics
In January 2009, I blogged on a remarkable study by a leading journalist documenting the media’s mistakes and biases during the 2008 Senate debate of the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. I posted it again last May since the media repeated the exact same mistakes in the debate over the House bill. I included it in my new book “Straight Up” — […]
