If only there was a court to try the cases in…
So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement.
But 212 representatives voted no…
And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet.
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Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation
This talk is quite long…but quite good. Take a bit of your day and be inspired…

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…maybe they’d take away his parking space, too.
What is it with Republican Governors these days. Especially, Republican Governors with national aspirations. It’s almost as if they can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. Even members of their own party have noticed. And it seems as if they are trying to send a message…
The [...]

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Yesterday I had to swing by the  Post Office to drop off a couple of Netflix returns and ran into the local “teabagger” protest…All 100 of the…maybe. All I could do was shake my head and wonder what exactly they were protesting. Do they even know? Was it taxes? Was it paying for the roads [...]

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Just recently, the small-business boogeyman came up in the debate over the estate tax — specifically, whether it is unfair to impose a tax on estates in excess of $7 million per couple (the level this year) or whether the first $10 million of every estate should be exempt from taxation. Predictably, the advocates of [...]

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I have a confession to make…I just discovered Marion Nestle and her blog Food Politics. I know, I’m slow on the uptake sometimes.
I find that my feelings about food are becoming somewhat activistic…I am getting more upset by the industrialization of our food on a daily basis. So you can expect to see more of [...]

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WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Obama administration moved to block a mountaintop coal-mining project from going forward and said Tuesday it would scrutinize more than a hundred mining permits amid concern about the waste that is dumped into rivers and streams.
It was viewed as the first time in at least eight years the U.S. Environmental Protection [...]

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When I read this yesterday I wasn’t surprised.
Gov. Rick Perry today told the federal government that Texas doesn’t want $555 million to expand benefits for the unemployed in exchange for widening the program to include part-time workers.
The Legislature can decide to accept the money, but Perry said the state has repeatedly rejected the idea of [...]

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