July 10, 2007: Caps on Carbon as a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy
David Morris discusses a state-based cap and share climate proposal that combines environmental and equity goals. A MN state task force must offer legislative recommendations by February 2008, broadcast on Air America radio.
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The shape of things to come: putting our labor in to growing our own food...
watch this beautiful YouTube video clip on the growing use of the scythe:
Government Report: Climate Change White Paper: Appropriate Roles for Different Levels of Government
(Feb. 25, 2008) - PDF file
Contact:
Committee on Energy and Commerce
2125 Rayburn House Office
Building, Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2927
Backyard answer to energy crisis
March 19, 2008
A return to 1950s suburbia may be the answer to our needs in a low-energy future, writes Fran Molloy.
Bugs for beating global warming
Will microorganisms help lead us to a green future? Scientists, and venture capitalists, hope so.
March 15, 2008
The Energy Challenge
Articles in this NY Times series will periodically examine the ways in which the world is, and is not, moving toward a more energy efficient, environmentally benign future. Published February 15, 2008 by The Brattleboro Reformer
The Energy Challenge
Articles in this NY Times series will periodically examine the ways in which the world is, and is not, moving toward a more energy efficient, environmentally benign future.
Big Push Against Warming
A Grass-Roots Teaching Effort Has Snowballed Across The U.S. Into A Massive Program About Climate Change At Month's End
By DAVID FUNKHOUSER | Courant Staff Writer
January 15, 2008
The nation's Top Reporters are ignoring humanity's TOP issue: global warming...
Now there's a lobby effort to pressure them to start focusing on the human race, NOT the horse race!
Young people are leading the way and they need the rest of us to join them.
MORE...
Pushing Efficiency -
Business groups say large CO2 cuts are manageable
Jeff Johnson
From one-third to one-half of projected U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could be eliminated with relatively small cost to the economy through prompt national action and heavy reliance on efficiency, says a report by two business research and consulting organizations. Scientific American Magazine - January 2008
A Solar Grand Plan
By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions
By Ken Zweibel, James Mason and Vasilis Fthenakis
Congress Spurs Growth of America’s Clean Energy Economy
Backgrounder prepared by the Apollo Alliance (PDF)
December 19, 2007
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 passed yesterday by the U.S. House of Representatives and last week by the Senate takes big strides toward building a new clean energy economy...
Silicon Valley THE NEW DAWN OF SOLAR
Popular Science Magazine OnlinePublished on December 19, 2007 by The Boston Globe
Going The Distance: Food Miles and Global Warming
by Deborah Zabarenko
Published on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 by Reuters
WASHINGTON - The U.S. local food movement — which used to be elite, expensive and mostly coastal — has gone mainstream, with a boost from environmentalists who reckon that eating what grows nearby cuts down on global warming. MORE...
Vegetarian Is the New Prius
By Kathy Freston, HuffingtonPost.com. - February 7, 2007.
Livestock destroy the environment, so fill your bowl with veggies instead of veal. MORE...
Meat Eating and Global Warming
(from International Vegetarian Union) Not So Fast
On meat eating and global warming
By Umbra Fisk, columnist for Grist Magazine (17 Sep 2007)
Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
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By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL for the NY Times
February 8, 2008
DER SPIEGEL 4/2008 - January 24, 2008 The Choice between Food and Fuel
Food prices are skyrocketing. Arable land is becoming scarce. And forests continue to disappear across the globe. The world must decide between affordable food and biofuels.
Biofuels 'crime against humanity'
By Grant Ferrett, BBC News (Oct. 27, 2007)
A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce biofuels as a replacement for petrol as a crime against humanity.
