If your home is like mine, your doorbell is electric. Why electric? Who knows. But from what I've been able to find with Google, electric doorbells started to become popular in the early 1900s. Back then, we probably didn't think much about … [Read more...]
Obama’s Legislative Record On the Environment w/update
Mark Longabaugh, senior vice president for political affairs at LCV, told Muckraker, via grist.org, that: Obama is "by far one of the most compelling and knowledgeable politicians on the environment I've ever sat in a room with... (snip) … [Read more...]
McCain’s Legislative Record On the Environment
First, what does his fellow Republicans say? Check out the video, it might surprise even the staunchest McCain supporter. Even Republicans don't know of anything he's done to help the environment or the energy situation in the … [Read more...]
The Giant Pool of Carbon Dioxide
There was a report about how the rate of CO2 emissions was increasing about 4.0% per year from 1960-1979, decreased to 1.3% per year from the 1980's to 1999, and in this decade (since 2000) has increased again to 4.0% per year. This … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Green Delegate Challenge
Working with the MA-based LiveCooler, a 501c3 non-profit, we can offset our DNC carbon footprint by donating $15 towards energy efficient CFL bulbs to be installed in the homes of low-income families. LiveCooler works with local non-profit … [Read more...]
Gas-Tax Holiday Roundly Rejected: “The dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long time”
Mayor Bloomberg: "It's about the dumbest thing I've heard in an awful long time, from an economic point of view," Bloomberg told reporters at City Hall. "We're trying to discourage people from driving and we're trying to end our energy … [Read more...]
“Gas Tax Holiday”: Clinton is going backwards on Climate Change Policy
What is going on? It feels like Clinton is giving in to the notion that in order to win the midwest we have to ease their pocketbooks. That's a perfectly respectable goal. But in economics you want to tax things that you want to … [Read more...]
Expanding Tropics
There is a circulation pattern in the tropics called the Hadley cell, and it is this circulation that this study is referring to specifically. The Hadley cell refers to the tendency of air to rise at the equator (the warmest part of the … [Read more...]
Breaking News: Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize
From the New York Times:Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations … [Read more...]
The bigger issue in NYC (not Iran)
The frenzy in NYC over the Iranian president's visit should not overshadow the critical week at the UN in discussions about how to move forward as the first cycle of the Kyoto Protocol ends.Clearly the US needs to adopt something like RGGI … [Read more...]
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