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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) released an energy and oil spill bill this week that has no carbon cap, no renewable energy standard, and no chance of changing the course of America’s energy future. And yet, despite Senate setbacks, the clean energy economy is growing.
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
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This summer, Americans are cranking up their air conditioning. At the same time, Senators are letting climate legislation cool its heels in Washington. Ultimately, both of these summer trends are contributing to climate change. Air conditioning dumps greenhouse gases into the environment, and without climate legislation that caps the country’s carbon emissions, America’s share of global carbon levels will only continue to grow.
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Michael Brune, the new executive director for the Sierra Club, spoke yesterday at an international gathering of renewable energy entrepreneurs, policy experts, and advocates. In his remarks, Brune spoke of his most moving image yet of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf. It’s a moving and heartbreaking story, but from disaster comes opportunity. Brune message yesterday was not only of tragedy but also of solutions: sustainable development, electrifying transportation, and the the “three R’s”: retiring coal (and eventually all fossil energy), replacing coal generation with renewable sources of energy and rejuvenating the beleaguered economy in the process. The following podcast is edited from his remarks:
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They are fast becoming the ghost towns of the 21st century, places like the southern California exoburb of Victorville, built around the car and an endless supply of cheap gas for the 50-mile drive to work and the 5-mile drive to the supermarket.
Continue Reading Sustainable Development: The Modern Day Ghost Town and the Future of the City
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- Electric Cars
Toyota and Tesla Motors team up to make electric cars in a recently shut down car plant in Northern California.
Technology Review covers another advance in the development of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap – June 11-17
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Congress today heard testimony from executives of the three companies involved in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the ruptured well-head gushing oil even now, weeks later, at the bottom of 5000 feet of ocean. The event unfolds in slow motion before our eyes, in quiet desperation, we watch as oil spreads across the Gulf, turning its blue waters brown.
Continue Reading Circle of Blame: Oil Industry Executives Shift Blame in Congressional Testimony
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By Jack Lundee
follower of all things green and progressive
Emission reduction, green spaces, and renewable energy are some of the most talked about topics of the 21st century. With the recent passing of Earth Day, and the undying rally for improved green efforts worldwide, some industry giants are making a large footprint.
Continue Reading Google Goes Green with Wind Turbine Investment
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
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On Monday, climate activists, nonprofit leaders, and governmental officials will gather in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to look for new ideas to address climate change. The conference, organized by leading social organizations like 350.0rg, “will advocate the right to “live well,” as opposed to the economic principle of uninterrupted growth,” as Inter Press Service explains. In the absence of real leadership from the world’s governments, the conferees at Cochabamba are looking for solutions “committed to the rights of people and environment.”
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Clean Edge is a research and publishing firm focusing solely on global clean-energy trends, publishing an annual report for renewable energy and clean tech trends and developments since 2000. Despiste the ongoing recession, clean tech continues to grow, and with concern over jobs. climate, and the unsettling reliance on foreign and finite sources of energy, is increasingly understood as a clear path to the future.
Continue Reading 2010 Clean Energy Trends Report
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America is rife with confusion and contradictions about climate change. Contrary to what some may be thinking, a green oxymoron is not a colorful appellation for climate change deniers. An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms. A green oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms in an environmental context.
Continue Reading Green Oxymorons – Coming to Grips with Being Green
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