Referring to the fact that the Sierra Club accepted a $26 million donation from Chesapeake Energy, a natural gas company, check this out: “Runners shouldn’t smoke, priests shouldn’t touch the kids, and environmentalists should never take money from polluters,” John …
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Weekday mornings I get up at 6 AM and watch at least part of “Newsroom Tokyo,” a wonderful program distributed through PBS that presents the highlights of goings on, not only in Japan, but around the world. The first thing …
Those who read the comments on this blog recognize frequent commenter MarcoPolo is a man whose position is that free market economics should be the only force guiding our civilization. Using his words, “Attempting to create a “moral” or “ideological” …
As I like to think of myself as a kind and civil person, I generally do not celebrate the loss of anyone’s life. Yet it’s hard to mourn the passing of those who were bitter enemies of fairness, justice and …
It’s heartening to look through the comments to my recent post: “The Environmental Movement: Too Conciliatory?” — insofar as many point out the role of the individual in determining the course of history. We have FAR greater capacity to change …
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One of the more radical civil rights leaders of the 1960s was not at all happy with the progress that African Americans were making at the time, with their sit-ins to force “white people only” diners to allow blacks to …
Insofar as we here at 2GreenEnergy tend to view the world through the lens of energy and the environment, the principal reason we call for the rejection of the TPP is that it will guarantee big polluters immunity from prosecution, …
As I wrote yesterday, Obama is not checking out of here without making some extremely important reforms before he goes, and he seems to be picking up the pace as the time for his departure from office nears. Here he’s …
Those of us who concern ourselves with environmental matters unanimously agree that the Obama Administration has represented a complete about-face in this arena from that which came before. Yet it’s hard not to notice our president’s work in dozens …
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There were two stories in our news last week that bear notice. One was the discovery of a mass grave in Kenya in which the bodies date back 12,000 years. It was clear that these people met their demise in …
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