Posted January 4, 2012 by Deron Lovaas in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
The holidays finally provided a chance to catch up on some reading, including a remarkable book from 2006 called The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, by Marc Levinson. I figured this...continued→
Posted December 30, 2011 by Amrita Batra in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Climate An Urbanizing India Faces Natural Disaster Risk “The number of people exposed to natural disasters is expected to more than double to 1.5 billion by 2050, with 200 million of them in India, because of rapid urbanization and the...continued→
Posted December 30, 2011 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil
BP's newest PR salvo touting its Gulf cleanup hit a nerve with many residents still struggling to get their lives back (one ad captured this BP beach protest in the background). The oil behemoth's slickly produced pleas for Americans to “come on down” to the Gulf where the weather...continued→
Posted December 29, 2011 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
The current threat from Iran to block oil movements through the Strait of Hormuz has some Republicans calling for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Energy...continued→
Posted December 28, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Green Enterprise, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
Fossil fuel lobbyists and their allies in Congress continue to dispute the need to support development of more renewable energy in America. Never mind that more 90 percent of Americans say developing renewable energy should be a national priority. Never...continued→
Posted December 27, 2011 by David Goldstein in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, U.S. Law and Policy
Recent economic news is not encouraging. The New York Times reports that when it comes to recovery, “experts see a false dawn.” One particularly troubling area is housing, where a new report shows home sales were 4 percent lower this...continued→
Posted December 23, 2011 by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Americans want the U.S. to lead the world in renewable energy, but these are screwy times in our nation’s capital. Some people are trying to turn clean, renewable energy into something dirty. The fossil fuel industry and the radical right,...continued→
Posted December 23, 2011 by Sasha Lyutse in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
I turn 30 this weekend. That means that for my whole life, the corn ethanol industry has been receiving federal subsidies. From the Energy Tax Act of 1978, which gave ethanol its first tax exemption, to the American Jobs Creation...continued→
Posted December 23, 2011 by Josh Mogerman in Moving Beyond Oil
Channukah. Hannukah. However you spell it, we are now half-way through a holiday commemorating one day's worth of oil lasting for eight days. It is a pretty minor holiday in the Jewish calendar, but perhaps we should be making a bigger deal about...continued→
Posted December 23, 2011 by Rachel Fried in Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, U.S. Law and Policy
Believe it or not, it was a horse race that solidified my understanding of the inner workings of the United States government. As my American Politics professor once explained, horse race coverage refers to our penchant for covering politics as...continued→
