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Sierra Club delivers 'Coal is not the answer' slogans to ACCCE
Is clean coal as oxymoronic (and just plain moronic) as healthy cigarettes? Natalie of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network thinks so. She and others irked by the ubiquitous misinformation of the clean-coal lobby joined the Sierra Club to deliver more than 5,000 anti-coal slogans to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. The Sierra Club's contest for catchy coal smack-downs resulted in the top 10 slogans, including "Coal: Party like it's 1899!" and "Coal: It will take your breath away." The slogans are being featured on a digital billboard-on-wheels, alongside pictures from the Tennessee coal ash spill.
Watch the Sierra Club delivering all the slogans to the ACCCE:
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Observations and reflections from a House hearing on stimulus, efficiency, and green jobs
On Thursday I attended a hearing of the House global warming select committee on stimulus, efficiency, and green jobs. You can find a list of attendees, their full written testimony, and some pictures on the committee website.
Just a few observations.
First, and this will shock no one, Van Jones is a marvel. (It is not normal for Congressional testimony to solicit applause.) To take one example from today: I have labored through thousands of words on Grist to try to explain why the most common economic models fail to fully account for the benefits of efficiency investments. In doing so I have bored even myself and built great, airy rhetorical castles that only masochists would want to explore.
Here's what Jones said at the hearing: "Get the math right: don't just count what you spend, count what you save."
Um ... dammit. Why didn't I think of putting it that way? I could have trimmed 14,000 words down to 14.
Here's his opening statement, if you're interested:
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New CEQ head Nancy Sutley on transit and green jobs
I am loving the level of transparency and interactivity from the Obamites so far, but I must say, this is directionally heartening but somewhat short on specifics. Sutley likes transit, green jobs, and efficiency. But what's the administration going to do about them?
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Magnetically levitated wind turbines
Some surprisingly cool green tech, brought to you by ... Jay Leno?
(via Jetson Green)
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Lou Dobbs works to make CNN viewers less informed
Will you look at the monumental, paleolithic, mind-boggling idiocy that's appearing on CNN in prime time?
Amazing. But there's more:
"Advocates of global warming." They're called scientists, you neanderthal. Christ. What year is it?
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ZapRoot takes on 'clean coal'
The anti-coal bandwagon grows ever larger:
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Newt Gingrich is an idiot
This short video should utterly discredit Newt Gingrich:
Then again, if nothing has discredited this dimwit yet, it's hard to see what could.
