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CBS interviews oil man Pickens on his new greenish plan
I was gone last week when T. Boone Pickens’ big energy plan came out and everyone was buzzing about it. CBS has a new interview with him, done by Katie Couric, who actually asks some reasonably tough questions: Of course what she doesn’t do is get much into the meat of the plan itself, or […]
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Dancing
In Salzburg, one person made — and several people subsequently reiterated — the point that all this work and struggle on behalf of future generations should be undertaken in a spirit of joy. It’s the human capacity to transcend circumstances, to love and laugh and be goofy together no matter how oppressive the context, no […]
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Al Franken talks green jobs while Jesse Ventura threatens to bust heads
Minnesota Senate candidate and former funny-man Al Franken (D) recently put out a very, very sincere video on green jobs: Franken is taking on incumbent Norm Coleman (R), and polls so far have shown Coleman ahead by a considerable margin. But now former Reform Party governor, professional wrestler, and actor Jesse Ventura is threatening to […]
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E.O. Wilson’s mentors
The great biologist E.O. Wilson discusses the kinds of people who inspired him: Check out Grist’s interview with Wilson here.
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Virginia candidates split on personal transit choices
Rep. Virgil Goode, the incumbent Republican in Virginia’s 5th District, appeared in a Scottsville, Va. Fourth of July parade last week accompanied by a Hummer H3. His opponent in this year’s House race, Tom Perriello (D), appeared on a float pulled by a biodiesel-fueled tractor. Perriello fans put together a video highlighting the candidates’ automotive […]
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Alice Waters: Dem candidate gets it on food issues
I read once that during the 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy met Norman Mailer, already a lion of American letters. If I remember correctly, Kennedy let slip that his favorite novel was Mailer’s The Deer Park — thus establishing his impeccable taste and intellectual rigor in the eyes of that mercurial novelist. Mailer went […]
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Oil in the ocean: light as a feather!
“These [oil] firms have learned a lot over the past two decades and three decades about their ability to go out and put a platform in water and extract oil and do it in a way that they’re not causing any environmental harm at all.” — White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto
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New Obama ad knocks McCain’s energy policy
Barack Obama’s campaign has released a new ad to counter those from the Republican National Committee criticizing his energy plan. Obama’s ad, called “New Energy,” accuses opponent John McCain of being “part of the problem” and hits on his support of drilling and tax breaks for oil companies. The ad says that energy independence is […]
