You get the feeling that if the protest is as peaceful as its planners intend, Chief Ferreira will be disappointed.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Local Police Chief Ready to Crack Skulls at Peaceful MA Coal Protest
You get the feeling that if the protest is as peaceful as its planners intend, Chief Ferreira will be disappointed.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Yes, Wind Energy is Clean & Affordable, But THE VIEWSHED
I don't understand people who say wind turbines are eyesores that ruin the view. Personally, I like looking at them - simple & elegant. Even on mountains, in fields, or in the ocean, they seem to belong there harnessing nature's abundance.
But even if you don't like looking at them ... well, so what? Since when did we start holding new projects to that standard? Big box stores, highways and power lines aren't exactly works of art, but we put up with them because they perform important services and support jobs. We should be at least that willing to tolerate things that collect clean, affordable, locally-produced energy.
Now go like Friends of Fairhaven Wind.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Google: We Never Said Anything About Being Stupid
Google, the company whose motto is "don't be evil," recently hosted a big money fundraiser for Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the Senate's climate science denier-in-chief. Watch Andy Cobb take a look at how that might affect Google's search performance, then tell Google to stop funding evil:
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
Billionaire Polluting Kochs Think Disclosure Is For The Little People

New England climate movement leader Craig Altemose and several other concerned citizens have co-signed a letter to the Internal Revenue Service urging it to investigate the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound after its repeated failures to properly document its donations and expenses.It's part of an admitted strategy by the Kochs - invest in the political process to maximize their own interests and profits. But they know that billionaire polluting energy kingpins are the least-persuasive public spokesmen possible, so they fund a series of front groups and puppet spokespeople to make their case for them. And on top of that, the politicians they fund constantly fight for laws to help hide that funding and its connections.
They point out that the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound has forwarded $394,000 to the Town of Barnstable to pay for its litigation against the Cape Wind project, America’s first offshore wind farm, and has failed to properly account for these grants as required in its recent Form 990 filings.
All that stands in stark contrast to clean energy and its supporters. Cape Wind's conservation, public health and labor allies are so transparent they put all their names on one website.
Show your support for Cape Wind by asking federal regulators to speed the development of clean, affordable offshore wind energy.
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Friday, July 19, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Learn Why Keystone XL Isn't in America's Interest in Under 2 Minutes
The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would cook our climate, threaten wildlife and drain money from American families. What's not to like?
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
Political News is Filtered Through Lens of Well-Off White Political Junkie
But hey, did you hear who's going to a pancake breakfast in Iowa this weekend? The Iowa caucus is only 30 months away! Never mind that it's failed to predict the Republican nominee two cycles in a row. HORSE RACE! It's on!
Your national political news is almost always filtered through the lens of someone who's white, middle to upper income, lives in the DC or New York City suburbs, drives more than relying on walking/biking/transit, never worries about where their next meal will come from, cares much more about political spin than policy impact, and thinks everyone sees the world the exact same way.
As Ezra Klein often says, "The first rule of being a political junkie is to always remember that you are a very weird person, and most people are not like you." Seems like very few political journalists ever get that introspective.
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Monday, July 15, 2013
Amusement Park Ride Looks Exactly Like Wind Turbine
Canobie Lake Park in New Hampshire has a ride called Equinox that looks just like a wind energy turbine. A park spokesman tells me it's just a coincidence, but for the few, the proud, the wind energy fanatics, this seems like a rare chance to experience being strapped to a working wind turbine:
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Monday, July 15, 2013
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
See What Happens When Local Tea Party Group Thinks For Itself
But Koch Industries founded the Tea Party to fight limits on corporate pollution, not promote solar power. So the Koch collective is now sending piles of cash to put down the pro-solar insurrection, as Kiley Kroh reports at Climate Progress.
The moment anyone bucks the pro-polluter party line, those Tea Party muskets of freedom turn into a firing squad.
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Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Friday, July 5, 2013
Ask The Green Miles: Are Smart Cars the Greenest Choice?
The quintessential auto show picture |
But smallest size doesn't necessarily mean the best fuel efficiency. Sure, the Smart ForTwo gives you a really good 36 miles per gallon combined city/highway at a very low base price. But a nice gas-sipping subcompact - say, a Ford Focus or a Toyota Yaris - will give you very similar fuel efficiency (low 30s) with TWICE the passenger volume for only a couple of thousand more.
If you're a short-to-medium distance commuter, all-electrics like the Ford Focus Electric or Nissan Leaf will deliver absolutely amazing savings on fuel cost and pollution. And for folks who regularly make longer drives and need a hybrid, the Toyota Prius is still king.
The Environmental Protection Agency's FuelEconomy.gov gives a great rundown of the most fuel-efficient cars, along with the most and least fuel-efficient SUVs and trucks.
That brings me to a related pet-peeve: When people think I'm reflexively anti-SUV. Yes, if you're a single person driving a Chevy Suburban because you might go skiing once next year, you're wasting money and polluting our air for absolutely no reason. But if you need some room for your family, get a Toyota Highlander Hybrid and you'll be getting only somewhat worse mileage (28 mpg combined) than those Smart Car drivers.
If you're a short-to-medium distance commuter, all-electrics like the Ford Focus Electric or Nissan Leaf will deliver absolutely amazing savings on fuel cost and pollution. And for folks who regularly make longer drives and need a hybrid, the Toyota Prius is still king.
The Environmental Protection Agency's FuelEconomy.gov gives a great rundown of the most fuel-efficient cars, along with the most and least fuel-efficient SUVs and trucks.
That brings me to a related pet-peeve: When people think I'm reflexively anti-SUV. Yes, if you're a single person driving a Chevy Suburban because you might go skiing once next year, you're wasting money and polluting our air for absolutely no reason. But if you need some room for your family, get a Toyota Highlander Hybrid and you'll be getting only somewhat worse mileage (28 mpg combined) than those Smart Car drivers.
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Friday, July 05, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Help Fund Forest Film-Making
My cousin Rebecca Billings and her documentary partner Jacob Wise are kickstarting project on Vancouver Island's old-growth forests. Watch the video below, then if you can spare it, kick them $10 to help their project to protect these ancient wildlife habitats.
IndieGoGo Promo Video from Jacob Wise on Vimeo.
IndieGoGo Promo Video from Jacob Wise on Vimeo.
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Top Wildfire Fighter: "We've Had Climate Change Beat Into Us"
Just posted to the National Wildlife Federation blog on how climate change is fueling the Arizona wildfires and may be permanently changing Western wildlife habitats.
Watch more as Scott Pelley of +CBS News' 60 Minutes interviews Tom Boatner, the federal government's chief of fire operations, on the front lines on the connection between global warming and wildfires:
Watch more as Scott Pelley of +CBS News' 60 Minutes interviews Tom Boatner, the federal government's chief of fire operations, on the front lines on the connection between global warming and wildfires:
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
Beltway Journalists Now Writing Polluter Fan Fiction
The National Journal's Amy Harder fantasizes about how President Obama could lay the smackdown on his administration's own experts and anyone who wants a stable climate by approving the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
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Monday, July 01, 2013
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