A Good Climate Bill Will Be Strong, Not Easy
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Passing a strong climate bill, Good tells us in a recent editorial, is a necessity. Such a bill, they write, must be defined by what is good for the country, not what is easy for the Senate to agree upon….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Colorado Legislature Approves 30% by 2020 Renewable Energy Standard – Only California’s is Higher
Distributed generation for utilities is part of the mandate. Photo: Solar Dave via flickr.
Now this is getting somewhere… Climate Progress reports that the Colorado House of Representatives has passed an increase in the state’s <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/higher-national-renewable-…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Take Action! Come Out to Support Monkeywrencher Tim DeChristopher at His Trial
Tim DeChristopher speaking last October at the International Day of Climate Action via It’s Getting…Read the full story on TreeHugger
What If the Global Economy Was a Giant Hamster? or Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet (Video)
This is one of the funniest takes I’ve ever seen on what it is the single most important topic in the green movement. Forget climate change, forget…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Good Looks at SCOTUS , Campaign Finance, and the Climate Bill
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The decision from the Supreme Court of the United States prohibiting government limits on campaign contributions stood out among all of yesterday’s big news.
Good takes a look at what the decision might mean for the climate bill….Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Facts of Cap and Trade (Video)
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Cap and trade is notoriously one of the least understood political concepts in the US–polls show that huge swaths of Americans don’t even know what it is. Which isn’t entirely their fault–the media hasn’t exactly been on the ball in climate coverage. So if you’d benefit from a brief but relatively thorough explanation of what the cap and trade system outlined in the clean energy bill, you can find it right after the ol’ jump….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Is Clean Energy Reform Dead in the Senate?
You’d be forgiven for thinking so, given the series of misleading articles proclaiming that’s the case that have arisen recently. Just last week, I looked at the awful Politico article that attempted to make news out of the fact that some Democrats who had never supported clean energy reform still weren’t supporting it now. Anyhow, the mood in the media has seemed to continued to (groundlessly) darken on the climate bill. And so, I’ll leave it to policy…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Blaming China for Copenhagen Won’t Help the Climate
The Copenhagen Accord was a deal and not a deal, and its real implications remain uncertain. Nonetheless, thanks to fly-on-the-wall accounts by participants like Ed Milliband and Mark Lynas (“How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room”), China’s been taking heavy blame for keeping the …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Could Our Stupidity Be Our Silver Lining?
With folks like this around, there’s plenty of low hanging fruit to tackle. (So to speak…) Image credit: Energy Wasting Day 2008
With arctic sea ice retreating at record rates, and various climate tipping points being identified by researchers, being environmentally aware can be a depressing business. Especially when you look at the incredible waste …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Letters From Copenhagen: “Never, Ever Drink Coca-Cola Again”
In an impromptu press conference, two Coca-Cola employees publicly denounced their employer at the Copenhagen Climate Co…Read the full story on TreeHugger
