Here’s an excerpt from legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben’s appearance on Democracy Now! earlier today, in which he points out how insane our civilization’s response is to climate change. ConocoPhillips, which is developing that ill-begotten project up in the Arctic, has …
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The Dialectic: Activism Blossoms Under the Trump Presidency
This isn’t an original thought, but it’s a good one. It was expressed yesterday by the Governor of Vermont, who said something like, “The only good thing about the Trump presidency is that it has turned tens of millions of …
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Looking Beyond the White House for Strategic Planning in Clean Transportation
My colleague Jon LeSage writes in his Green Auto Digest: The Trump administration is keeping the president’s campaign promises supporting fossil fuels and pushing back on clean energy and efficient, clean transport. The State Department’s approval of the Keystone XL …
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Will We Achieve Sustainability? Brain Chemistry Plays a Role
A colleague from England, Gary Tulie, sent me something yesterday that he knew you and I would find interesting, given that it has a direct relationship to achieving sustainability on this planet. He writes:
The Love Affair Between Big Money and Politics Will Soon Be Over
There must be 200 posts here since 2GE’s inception in 2009 dealing with the imperative to remove Big Money from U.S. politics. The reason? Though we happen to be focused on renewable energy here, the American people will never get …
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On a Carbon Tax
Those of you who caught Dr. James Hansen’s interview yesterday on “Democracy Now!” noted how unimpressed he was with the climate change proceedings in Paris. In brief, he has low regard for the basic concept emerging from the talks (putting …
Carbon Trading — A False Solution
Here’s an informative interview with South African activist and professor Patrick Bond, who spoke with Democracy Now!‘s Mike Burke at the March for Climate and Social Justice in Warsaw. As he discusses here, Dr. Bond believes, as I do, that …
U.S. President Obama: Sounding Good on Energy and the Environment
Here’s a headline from the syndicated news show “Democracy Now” along with a few comments: The Obama administration is preparing to unveil what it calls a major initiative on tackling climate change. The White House says President Obama will soon …
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