October 20, 2012 – 3:05 pm
Surprise! (CNS News) A new EPW Minority Report provides “A Look Ahead to EPA Regulations for 2013: Numerous Obama EPA Rules Placed On Hold until after the Election Spell Doom for Jobs and Economic Growth.†The report enumerates the slew of environmental regulations that the report says the Obama-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has delayed or […]
October 16, 2012 – 5:34 pm
What are we going to do with all these retired LCD TV’s? Treehugger discusses Researchers at Purdue University realized we were facing a major e-waste problem — 3 million tons of e-waste were generated in the U.S. in 2007 alone — one that was about to get worse as people began retiring LCD flat-screen TVs […]
October 13, 2012 – 12:55 pm
Healing the planet is hawd woik! (Climate Progress) Let’s be honest. Even those of us who actively follow environmental issues have a difficult time changing our behavior. I rarely unplug all my appliances, although I know they use energy even when they are off. Sometimes, I throw a few things in the wash instead of […]
September 25, 2012 – 8:44 am
The main problem with “green” is that it’s no longer about being environmentally friendly: it’s about globull warming, the climate change hoax, hotcoldwetdry. Every issue has been linked, no matter how commonsense, and consumers are constantly barraged with preachy advertisements and news reports. Oh, and they realize that there are a ton of scams, and […]
September 16, 2012 – 5:34 pm
For every action from those that are out to save Gaia comes an opposite action that leaves you scratching your head (Australian) THE “smart” gases created by scientists to help save the Earth’s ozone layer have turned out to have a devastating side effect: they have boosted global warming by up to 20 per cent. […]
September 15, 2012 – 9:09 am
Hey, can you guess who thinks that using food for fuel is a Bad Idea? The New York Times. Obviously, the ministers at the Central Department Of Environmental Truth feel differently. And, instead of going through the legislative branch, you know, that pesky creation of the Constitution given lawmaking ability, here comes another “rule” from […]
September 11, 2012 – 9:04 am
It’s interesting to note that every time there is a big storm that knocks out power, people immediately assault power companies for failing to spend oodles of money upgrading their infrastructure. Like just last year in New Jersey. This past July saw people and government freaking out on PepCo, a Maryland power company, along with […]
September 3, 2012 – 7:58 am
This is what modern Progressivism looks like (via The New Nostradamus of the North) (Spiegel Online) Now that 100-, 75- and 60-watt bulbs have already been eliminated, as of Sept. 1 the smaller 25- and 40-watt bulbs will also slowly disappear from the lives of 500 million Europeans — without any of those citizens having […]
August 26, 2012 – 3:39 pm
One of the main problems I have with terming things “green” is that it is no longer about the environment, but about reducing CO2, ie, the carbon footprint. That, and that the Warmists go way, way, way overboard. Here’s Grist In 2009, Seattle set out to to create the next generation of cutting-edge green buildings […]
August 20, 2012 – 9:20 am
Writing over at Wired, Matt Ridley exposes the constantly litany of enviroweenie/Warmist prognostications of doooooooom, along with other end of the world as we know it crazies (via Climate Depot) Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times When the sun rises on December 22, as it surely will, do not expect apologies […]