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Meet your newest green candidate: Double Rainbow guy
It turns out that Double Rainbow guy, everyone's favorite non-cat meme producer since Tay Zonday, has a name (it's Paul Vasquez) and a face (it's sort of Cheech Marin meets Hurley). He also has an alternative energy platform and a presidential campaign, of sorts. A Facebook app called Votocracy allows normal (for some value of "normal") people to declare their candidacy, garner votes, and even debate each other in a sort of American Idolesque shadow campaign.
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Minor threat: Our lame response to climate change
A new article compares U.S. resources spent against perceived threats like international terrorism, economic crisis, and climate change. Can you guess which one gets shortchanged?
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What’s the real cost of not investing in clean energy?
Politicians have not invested in the insurance policy against climate change that we need.
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The dirty little secret behind the ‘transmission debate’
Utilities are working to protect their profits again by blocking action on the creation of a better and cleaner electricity grid.
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Critical List: Captain Planet movie in the works; the U.N. considering climate peacekeeping force
The producer of Transformers is backing a live-action Captain Planet movie, which will teach children about environmentalism and green mullets and the periodic table of elements (earth, air, fire, water, and heart!). Next can we do a live-action G.I. Joe Knowing is Half the Battle movie? Because it will be just as fun.
Climate change could lead to conflicts so contentious the U.N. might need a separate peacekeeping force to deal with them. -
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Our economy is hungry for food stamps
Food stamps do more than feed the needy-- they also boost a struggling economy.
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Republicans: We must protect children from energy efficiency
Republican Rep. Sandy Adams wants to limit funding for Department of Energy websites that educate kids about efficiency. She doesn't know how much money that will save, but by god, we must stop children learning at any cost!
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This is nuts: The House wants the EPA to stop protecting clean water
Oh, EPA, why do you have to go around, you know, regulating all the time? You know it just pisses off Republicans. You tried to keep coal companies in West Virginia from dumping waste into streams, so now House Republicans (and, to be fair, a handful of Democrats) have passed a bill that would take away your authority to enforce the Clean Water Act. I mean, what did you expect them to do?
No bigs, right? It's only one of the most fundamental environmental laws OF ALL TIME. -
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GOP introduces slash-and-burn budget for the environment
The Tea Party bill includes major funding cuts for climate protection and axes protections for air, water, and land.
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Bachmann: Energy is 'the most easy problem for America to solve'
During a campaign event this past weekend, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offered up her solution to the energy crisis.
