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Dear EarthTalk: What does it mean when one uses the phrase, “building a green economy?” I’ve heard it repeated a few times lately and would like to have a better understanding of the concept. – Rosie Chang, Islip, NY
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Last night, in his first Oval Office speech, President Obama had the perfect opportunity to define his executive, leadership and inspirational skills and abilities, as the leader of the free of the world, the Commander in Chief, the President of the United States. Did he succeed? Alas, while his rhetoric was somewhat soaring, or perhaps hovering, he yet again missed the tanker and failed at what could have been a golden and critical moment – to actively develop and implement a National Clean Energy Plan and tie the need to end our addiction to fossil fuels with the need to curb our emissions of climate changing GHGs.
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- The Obama Administration recently threatened BP that if they did not invoke confidence that they have the Gulf of Mexico situation controlled soon the government will step in to clean up and stop the oil spill.
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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.
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The Give and Take of Washington: If You Can’t Take It, Then Don’t Give It…
In a press release last week, Greenpeace announced the launch of PolluterHarmony. The parody website, created through Greenpeace’s PolluterWatch, seeks to match “lobbyists. CEO’s, and propagandists” with easy and willing public officials to help ease the path to buying and selling influence and “sabotage our clean energy future without ever leaving the house.” The site is a spoof on the popular matchmaking site eHarmony.
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
(reposted with Permission)
Nuclear power, biofuels, clean coal: These are the Obama administration’s answers to climate change. The 2011 budget, released this week, promised new loans for the construction of nuclear power plants, and on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House, and other departments detailed steps to encourage ethanol and clean coal production.
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Almost one year ago, on February 24 2009, President Obama asked Congress for legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution. Henry Waxman and Edward Markey responded with The American Clean Energy and Security Act. Waxman and Markey outlined a cap-and-trade system involving significant US carbon emissions reductions. Early last fall Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry put together a new climate change bill.
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“Reaching the future faster,” says Clinton Climate Initiative chairman Ira Magaziner, is needed to insure a stable climate and prosperous future.
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Examining the elements that constitute a “green” business.
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Over 60 groups form a coalition called Clean Energy Works to help demonstrate broad support for climate legislation.
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