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What I Read in the Green New Deal for Public Housing Bill

December 22, 2019 By gmoke

The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act (these comments come from the draft https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/OCASNY_053_xml.pdf but the actual bill has now been filed at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: architecture, ecology, energy, energy efficiency, environment, green-jobs, GreenNewDeal, net zero energy, public-housing, renewables, solar, sustainability

A Deep Green Future for Boston

July 8, 2013 By John Connolly

Natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy demonstrate that climate change will be a very real priority for the next mayor of Boston. We need all Bostonians to be part of the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, transition to a clean … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: biking, boston, climate-change, energy efficiency, environment, global-warming, green-jobs, mayoral-race, waste reduction

Changing the World (Right Now)

September 24, 2010 By desa-vanlaarhoven

If you had a magic wand, and you could wave it and create a world full of light, love, justice and peace, when do you think you would choose to use it? Would you get around to it as soon as you were done with your education? Would you do it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: annie-leonard, anya-kamenetz, clean-energy, climate-change, connecting-for-change, green-economy, green-jobs, greg-mortenson, homesteading, marion-institute, new-england, sustainability, van-jones

Connecting for Change

September 10, 2010 By desa-vanlaarhoven

In the mythology of many of the native peoples on Earth, there is a prophesy that when the Earth is most in peril, a spider woman will weave a web connecting people with one another in order for them to do what has to be done to save the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: annie-leonard, arion-institute, connecting-for-change, earth, environment, green, green-jobs, greg-mortenson, homestead, sustainable, van-jones

CLIMATE CHANGE CANNOT WAIT

April 28, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund

The petitions, rallies, e-mails and letters from around the country are sending a loud and clear message of broad support. The NRDC Action Fund has worked tirelessly to urge the Senate to stand up for a strong clean energy and climate bill. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, green-jobs, national-security, nrdc-action-fund, president-obama, senate

Sarah Palin’s Right: You Should Run on Energy

April 19, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund

Palin's full of surprises, but this piece of campaign advice caught me off-guard. After all, a recent poll found that energy is the issue that inspires the most faith in Democratic lawmakers. Since President Obama made clean energy a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, drill-baby-drill, economic-recovery, energy-independence, green-jobs, national-security, nrdc-action-fund, sarah-palin

Why Climate Change Deniers Should Still Support Green Energy

February 22, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund

The senators claim that because there were some errors included in the IPCC's 2007 report -- for instance, how quickly the Himalayan glaciers might melt -- the entire phenomenon of climate change must now be questioned. I am not a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: american-clean-energy-and-security-act, barclay, barrasso, clean-energy, climate-change, dennis-mcginn, graham, green-jobs, inhofe, ipcc, kerry, leiberman, pentagon

POTUS Speak Up

January 26, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund

He will ascend the rostrum in front of federal government and the nation and proceed to tell us how our country is doing. Within the first five minutes of the speech, President Obama will say the health of our nation is strong - because … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: energy-policy, green-jobs, job-creation, nrdc, potus, scott-brown, state-of-the-union

Numbers Game

January 11, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund

I love that the president of the United States is asking us for our opinions. How refreshing is that? You can share your ideas by clicking here. I instinctively knew what I wanted to tell him, right away. In fact, it took much less time to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, green-jobs, green-news, job-creation, nrdc, ohio

Live-blogging the Green Jobs Forum

July 16, 2007 By David

OK, Mike Festa is starting things off.  Thanking Suffolk U. law school for donating the facilities for today's event.  And thanking other folks who made the event possible.Festa is now introducing Senator Ben Downing, who is in … [Read more...]

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