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What is the American Dream?: Dueling dualities in the American tradition
Throughout history, there have been alternative, competing visions of the "good life" in America. What is the American Dream and what is its future?
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Even Republicans and climate skeptics support fuel efficiency and clean energy
Regardless of how they felt about global warming -- from "alarmed" to "dismissive" -- nearly everyone in this 2009 survey supported increased fuel efficiency standards. Even the ones who dismissed the threat of climate change weren't very strongly opposed. What's more, 90 percent of people think clean energy should be a priority for the president, including 85 percent of Republicans. And more than 80 percent support increased funding of renewable energy research.
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Has Obama lost environmental voters?
Al Gore's critique of Obama's failure to act on the climate crisis is further evidence of environmentalists' frustration with this administration.
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GOP's tiny cuts wound small farmers
A $2 million cut to the USDA's budget by the GOP-controlled House makes little difference to the nation's bottom line. But it brings big hurt to small farmers by undercutting efforts to reform the meatpacking industry.
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How utilities make money while investing in cleaner generation
Calling the EPA's mercury reforms "anti-business" is good for exciting a political base during the campaign season, but it doesn't match reality.
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What is the dream behind the American Dream Movement?
Van Jones gave a speech at Netroots Nation on the "American Dream Movement." The idea is for the left to borrow from what the Tea Party has done well.
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Do we have to choose between big or small clean energy projects?
The choice comes from the reality that financial resources are limited, the system of regulations and incentives are skewed toward big, centralized solutions, and choosing one strategy (long-distance transmission of centralized generation) necessarily reduces the money available and future prospects for expanded distributed generation.
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Silver linings behind Supreme Court's bummer clean air decision
This morning's Supreme Court decision in American Electric Power Co. vs. Connecticut is undoubtedly a setback for the environment. Yet there are two silver linings for environmentalists in today's opinion.
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Standing up for the EPA: the panel that’s sweeping the nation
David Roberts joined a Netroots Nation panel that included Miles Grant, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, and Sen. Ben Cardin. You can watch it here.
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Republicans love bike and rail — so why don't Republican politicians?
Listen up, Limbaugh: It's not actually ridiculous for a Republican presidential candidate to take global warming seriously. Americans want solutions, like bike lanes and increased public transit, that will address climate change, and that's true across the political spectrum. In a recent poll, 74 percent of Republican respondents supported bike lanes, and 80 percent wanted more public transportation.
