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- The next oil crisis: is your state immune or addicted?
- The NRDC has come out with a provocative ranking of American states. They say it's based on how independent or addicted the state's residents are to petroleum-dependent transportation. And which states are most or least vulnerable to the next oil price shock. The NRDC's ten most oil-vulnerable...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- How clean is that beach?
- NRDC has put together data from the EPA and tied it to specific locations, beaches near many of America's largest cities. Here's the full report. Both chemical and bacterial pollution along American beaches can be dealt with by various existing green technologies. It takes political will and...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House
- Some are fer it, some agin it. The White House seems pleased. Waxman and Markey still have their names on it. Greenpeace evironmentalists despise it, so does Dr. James Hansen we hear. Right wing groups like Heritage Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform are using words like...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- India and the planet's future
- NRDC's journal has article looking at the boom in alternative energy and water conservation efforts in India. Not only our most populous nation, India is front and center for some of the extreme changes being wrought by climate change. Worse drought. Worse monsoons. Never in the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Lunch in your cubicle and the ENVIRONMENT
- That vending machine snack and can of Coke has environmental implications beyond the mere manufacturing and delivery systen. And now the Department of Energy DOE is going after those inefficient, old-fashioned last steps on the food chain. VENDING MACHINES! There are no solar-powered, wind-driven, or...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Renewable energy: who's got it, who's getting it?
- The NRDC has just put online maps showing where the renewable enerrbgy rresources of the U.S. are. And each maps shows where there are facilities already useing those resources, or are in planning stage. Click here to check out wind, solar, and biomass resource maps for the U.S....
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?
- I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Let's play spin the bottle
- Everybody gets to put their spin on the safety or danger of the plastic bottles that line our shelves, fill our landfills and litter our lives. Just today the "New York Times" style section has a piece on the greenness of bringing your own water bottle with you. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
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- Apple deletes the US Chamber
- Is this man the only climate ally left for the US Chamber? Back in May I wrote about how the US Chamber was losing friends fast with its 'head in sand' position on climate change. Since then things have seriously started...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Less oil, less debt...so what's our next addiction?
- One environmental organization thinks it could be the rare earth elements needed to make high tech devices from batteries to LEDs. From MRI scanners to catalytic converters. Here's NRDC's look at the source of these materials and the environmental cost of exploiting them. Bet you can guess...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?
- In a dramatic, unprecedented proposal, the current White House is looking at an absolute fuel efficiency minimum for all new cars and light trucks in America. Shocked, I tell you, shocked. If Detroit weren't already numbed by bankruptcy, it would be shocked. But ocwed by their...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Intel still atop EPA green power list
- Noticed that Harry pointed to a new alternative energy list posted yesterday by the NRDC. Well, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just updated its quarterly reckoning of the top businesses, government agencies, universities, communities and so on that have made a substantial commitment to using alternative energy sources. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- You don't have to be a rocket scientist
- ...to know that rocket fuel ingredients are not the best chemicals to have in our drinking water, or baby formula. Now, I've sworn off baby formula, but I'm still hitting the water faucet with addictive regularlity. What's up? Actually, what's down, as in the ground...
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- The 2009 Green Wars Being Fought Now
- In Washington D.C. the stakes are high. The stakes are huge. The stakes are for a major porton of the cash that will go into the United States' mounting federal debt. That means big money. How much will Obama's version of the federal government put into...
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
- Say Something Nice About Bank of America
- OK, I will. This has nothing to do with the bruhaha over the sit-in by former workers at at shuttered factory in Chicago. Or the retaliation as the Illinois governor says the state will cease doing business with Bank of America. While the economic stories get nastier,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Beggars, and no longer choosers
- Detroit, its auto industry and its UAW find themselves facing a whole new era. A Congress that may NOT come across with dollars to keep the Detroit Dinosaurs (that's a management team not an NBA team) playing. And today a new powerful figure in charge of the House...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- 2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for debate nonetheless
- 2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for debate nonethelessjobsi ssee you are still no making an honest living!2 million jobs made how many will be put out of work 10 millionRE: 2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for dI don't...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- 2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for debate nonetheless
- The Natural Resources Defense Council and affiliated lobbying groups is urging lawmakers to bone up on a new report from the Political Economy Research Institute PERI that suggests ideas for a $100 billion, two-year economic stimulus program that it believes could create up to 2 million new jobs. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?
- I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Two radically opposed views of global warming bill: fighting it will bring health and welfare, or end our currently blessed state of being. You get to watch the battle.
- The US Senate is the first national battleground for an attempt to get the federal government to take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. We already know the attempt by more than a dozen states to raise auto emission standards was stopped by the EPA earlier this year. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
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