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Why the ‘SuperFreakonomics’ global-warming chapter is worth your time
The two Steves knew exactly what they were doing when they sat down to pen the final chapter of their sequel to their 2005 bestseller Freakonomics. In the now infamous chapter in the newly released SuperFreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner manage to downplay the global warming threat, compare climate change believers to religious fanatics, […]
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New Agreement on Standards for Outdoor Lights Announced
The Natural Resources Defense Council, along with our fellow efficiency advocates, announced the results of successful negotiations with the lighting industry on standards for street lights and parking lot lights. Standards on outdoor lights are such a no-brainer because these lights stay on through the entire night. Daylight Saving Time brings an early end to […]
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Why the climate movement needs more Ethiopian-style activists
Of all the amazing stories that emerged from last month’s historic International Day of Climate Action, the one that really caught my eye (and made my jaw drop in disbelief and admiration) was that of 15,000 Ethiopian students swarming though the streets of Addis Ababa brandishing 350 signs and whooping it up big time in […]
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Is John Broder embarrassed to have a baseless hit job on Gore under his byline?
Al Gore’s back in the public eye, promoting his new book, which naturally raises the question: which mainstream press outlet will be the first to do a vapid hit piece? Today we have our answer: The New York Times, which has run a truly absurd and embarrassing piece from John Broder. It casts about desperately […]
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Senate GOP embrace Inhofe’s boycott of Clean Energy Jobs Act in effort to thwart Copenhagen
The GOP’s approach to climate and clean energy policy has remained the same for decades – obstruction and obfuscation (see “Senate GOP propose 25% ‘Do-Nothing’ energy tax on Americans“). Now, led by James “the last flat-earther” Inhofe, they are trying to stall climate legislation as long as possible, on the flimsiest of excuses, presumably because […]
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The Examiner.com’s First Annual Push Poll on Global Warming
Okay, the Examiner.com calls it their “First Annual Survey on Global Warming.” But I think you’ll agree with our friendly neighborhood Rabett that it’s more like a “push poll.” What has gotten Eli hopping mad? This remarkable “you-are-a-pigeon question”: Which, if any, of the following statements comes closest to capturing your attitudes and opinions about […]
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Nearly 200 organizations and companies urge adoption of key energy-efficiency provision
A diverse coalition of nearly 200 business, labor, civil rights, and environmental groups have sent a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) urging her to support an important energy-efficiency provision that would: Generate $100 billion in electric efficiency investments; Create more than 900,000 new construction, […]
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Interior will consider mountaintop removal rule in 2011?
It’s funny how these embarrassing announcements always come on late Friday afternoon. While anti-mountaintop removal protests spread across the nation and at the EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. last Friday, a legal representative for the Department of Interior checked the empty parking lot of the National Press Club and then scurried over to the dark […]
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The power of the people
The 350.org International Day of Climate Action a week ago was unprecedented, historic, stirring, and inspiring. Watching the pictures scroll across the computer screen at 350.org from literally all over the world, seeing the very concrete evidence of a worldwide grassroots movement for climate justice, was truly unforgettable. It was impossible not to feel that, […]
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Roll-up for the world’s largest mangrove planting project
A mangrove seedling planted in the Saloum Delta in Senegal.Atlantic Rising “Become a superhero, plant your mangrove today,” declared the poster. Eager to enter the pantheon of mangrove superheroes, we headed to the Saloum Delta in Senegal where the world’s largest mangrove planting project is underway. Organized by local NGO, Oceanium, almost 30 million mangroves […]
