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  • Obama Tells Agencies to Shape Up on Sustainability

    Yesterday President Obama signed a sweeping Executive Order that instructs all agencies to step up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and save energy and water. This isn’t the first time that the inefficiency of federal facilities has received attention, but it certainly represents the strongest and broadest push towards overall sustainability given to the […]

    Lane Burt Climate & Energy

  • A rollicking tour of America’s energy landscape

    This is a dummy article pointing here: https://grist.org/article/series/2009-10-07-power-trip-a-rollicking-tour-of-americas-energy-landscape  

    Amanda Little Climate & Energy

  • Confessions of a fossil-fuel addict

    The power grid: more feeble than you think.The trouble started on an August afternoon in a remote field in northern Ohio, miles from any town large enough to be marked on a standard road atlas. The only trace of humanity hung above the trees—an electrical cable known as the Harding-Chamberlin Line, carrying 345,000 volts of […]

    Amanda Little Climate & Energy

  • Climate Denial Crock of the Week/Birth of a Crock

          Early in September 2009, at a gathering of experts on global climate change, one of the world’s most respected and experienced climate modelers, Mojib Latif, made some observations on climate, media and human nature.   The message seemed clear. natural variations in the long term warming might be misinterpreted, by the media. […]

    Peter Sinclair Climate & Energy

  • Strategies to promote energy efficiency in buildings

    My colleague Nick Zigelbaum posted this on his NRDC Switchboard blog. Nick is NRDC’s lead advocate on California building policy and has worked extensively on efficiency policies in China. He’s a fellow engineer and his blog is a great resource for thoughts on California and all things building related. I developed the following graphic for a […]

    Lane Burt Climate & Energy

  • Young, Green, and Out of Work

    by Rinku Sen & Billy Parish Last week, the Labor Department reported that youth unemployment stands at 18.2%, nearly twice the national average of 9.8%. The percentage of young people without a job is a staggering 53.4 percent, the highest figure since World War II. Looking deeper, the statistics for youth of color are terrible […]

    Billy Parish Climate & Energy

  • Big coal gone wild: The sequel

    It wasn’t enough for FACES — the bogus Big Coal front created by a Washington, D.C. lobby firm — to be pilloried on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Daily Show for using fake iStock photos in their ads. Now comes Big Coal Gone Wild: The Sequel. While a broad and peaceful national movement rooted […]

    Jeff Biggers Climate & Energy

  • Global warming negotiations with 21 (or so) negotiation days left

    You know the saying: “it’s the little things that matter.”  Well you can’t really take that saying too literally when discussing global warming pollution as it is the big things that ultimately matter, such as: pollution reduction cuts, assistance for developing countries in cutting emissions further, and support for the most vulnerable countries to adapt […]

    Jake Schmidt Climate & Energy

  • Gandhi today

    On Oct. 2, 140 years ago, Mohandus Gandhi was born in Gujarat province in India. I didn’t learn this from the New York Times, CNN, or any other mainstream media source. I didn’t learn about it from progressive media outlets, although it is very possible that one or more of them publicized it and I […]

    Ted Glick Climate & Energy

  • Our parks in peril

    Tonya Ricks for Grist Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.) – The home of the Cascade Mountain range’s highest peak (and its glaciers) is in danger from heavy rain and floods, overcrowding, and loss of snow/ice, water, plants, and animals. Glacier National Park (Mont.) – This once glacier-packed park is in danger of melting due to […]

    Mary Bruno Climate & Energy