July 17, 2011 – 4:02 pm
From the UK Telegraph by Andrew Gilligan, a peak at the future of Britain In the film Billy Elliot, a boy strives to be a dancer against the backdrop of the miners’ strike. Now, the place where they filmed it is the focus of another defining industrial struggle, with hundreds of thousands of jobs at […]
July 16, 2011 – 8:30 am
Funny how this news was lost in the shuffle Friday, and I had to go to a British newspaper to find out Republicans claimed to have struck a blow for freedom on Friday when the House of Representatives voted to strip all funding from government programmes promoting energy-saving lightbulbs. The measure, brought as an amendment […]
July 15, 2011 – 4:48 pm
Sometimes, the irony linked to the theory of unintended consequences decides to proclaim itself with a bullhorn A recently approved herbicide called Imprelis, widely used by landscapers because it was thought to be environmentally friendly, has emerged as the leading suspect in the deaths of thousands of Norway spruce, eastern white pine and other trees […]
July 13, 2011 – 7:56 am
That’s what uber GINK, Lisa Hymas, at Grist wants to know, and she is always good for an unhinged and humorous rant about reducing the Earth’s population of Homo Sapiens Contraception has long been the province of women. Isn’t it about time for men to get in on the game? Ever heard of a condom, […]
July 5, 2011 – 1:02 pm
Hey, it’s a spotted owl sighting! It has been two decades since the fate of a bashful bird that most people had never seen came to symbolize the bitter divide over whether to save or saw down the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest. Yet it was not until Thursday that the federal government offered […]
July 4, 2011 – 9:00 am
Treehugger has a rather interesting story about The Liberty Tree The story of America’s struggle for independence tells tale of heroic men and women united in their noble quest for freedom — but one of the most enduring figures at the center of that revolution was not a person at all. Years before the Founding […]
June 23, 2011 – 5:31 pm
You do have to truly love the hypocrisy: Environmentalists, liberal celebrities plan White House protest A group of environmentalists and liberal celebrities are organizing civil disobedience protests at the White House against a proposed oil pipeline — with the emphasis on “civil.†In an open letter, actor Danny Glover, activists Bill McKibben, James Hansen, David […]
June 23, 2011 – 6:47 am
Who knew that trying to get Other People to Do Something could be so stressful? Let’s face it: If you care about the environment, you’ve got a lot of reasons to be bummed out. Is the sorry state of the planet dragging you into the dumps? John Fraser, a psychologist, architect, and educator with the […]
June 15, 2011 – 8:59 am
Sad news for all of us Climate Realists, as we learn from Treehugger The vast majority of Americans now believe addressing global warming should be a top priority for Congress and the Obama administration, a new Yale survey reveals. A pretty stunning 71% of Americans now think that tackling climate change should be high on […]
June 13, 2011 – 7:24 am
It’s great that ThePolitico’s Darren Samualsohn is asking questions about Obama’s green jobs agenda, but, he forgot to ask a few others, such as “how many jobs did the green agenda cost?” We learned from Spain that for ever one created, two private sector jobs are lost. Also, how much do the ones actually created […]
