Al Gore talks climate, Tesla, and the Koch brothers in a new Politico interview | Grist

Al Gore talks climate, Tesla, and the Koch brothers in a new Politico interview | Grist 

Should have been President. Actually, was elected, and un-elected in shady chad and Supreme Court ass showing ways.

What grief we could have avoided and how much further along toward a better future... we would be... had he served his term(s) as President.

In Victory for Obama, Court Backs Rules for Coal Pollution - NYTimes.com

In Victory for Obama, Court Backs Rules for Coal Pollution - NYTimes.com 



This great news. And proper ruling. Nice.

The Time for Wind and Solar Energy Is Now | Huffington Post -- Elliott Negin

The Time for Wind and Solar Energy Is Now | Elliott Negin

3 Million Dollar Settlement to Texas Family Besieged by Fracking Ailments

Here The costs of fracking: uses way too much water, unknown chemicals are shot into the ground, results in flammable faucets, methane released to create more climate disruption, health impacts for innocent citizens during extraction, use of tap water, burning as a fuel, creation of geological fractures and earthquakes, lawsuits to settle the damages, oh my god. No more please.

Unbelievable. This has got to stop. It is just not worth it.

Vermont Set to Become 1st State to Require GMO Labeling

Vermont Set to Become 1st State to Require GMO Labeling 

This, good news! Good on Vermont to be the first.

Keystone report can't have it both ways, by Sheldon Whitehouse and Henry Waxman

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Thoughtful worldview, great art and progress

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"...great art had the potential to make a new world through the depth of its vision and the properties of its creation. Today, Shelley would be laughed out of the room. Lazy cynicism has replaced thoughtful conviction as the mark of an educated worldview."

From Sierra Rise: protect the irreplaceable Amazon and halt all plans for oil drilling!

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People + cancer = bad. The Amazon has also been called the planet's lungs. (Ok, the ocean and kelp and algae is the other lung). We would not do this to one of our lungs. Help with good deed here, sign & send in 30 seconds. >> For three decades, Texaco / Chevron dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste into the beautiful Ecuadorian Amazon. Thousands of people are still suffering a plague of deadly cancers and devastating birth defects. << We need to get off oil. This no longer can be allowed.

More thoughts on Keystone XL

Climate-protecting Obama green-lighting the Keystone XL pipeline would be like a farmer starting a prescribed burn on his field when it's already being consumed by wildfires. 

He said he wants to tell his kids he did all he could to stop climate change. He said he'd deny the Keystone XL if it contributes to climate change - and of course it does. 

There are only a few dozen permanent jobs in this for the U.S. The bulk of the tar sand gunk - that does not spill into U.S. communities on its way from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico - is slated for export anyway. No energy security here. It fouls Canadian watersheds and forests, and contributes to climate change.

There is no redeeming reason to allow this project to traverse U.S. soil. Obama and Kerry have got to say no to this finally, now.

Writers: Review of Keystone XL pipeline information shows it's not in the national interest

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Via CNN story highlights:

• Writers: Review of Keystone XL pipeline information shows it's not in the national interest

• They say tar sands oil spews 17% more greenhouse gas than crude oil refined in the U.S.
• Writers: Report acknowledges tar sands oil from Keystone could worsen climate change
• Oil companies will need even more pipelines to reach their goals, they say

What are You Doing? "U.N. Climate Panel: World Has Just 15 Years to Avoid Climate Catastrophe"

U.N. Climate Panel: World Has Just 15 Years to Avoid Climate Catastrophe 

Gone solar? Gone electric car? Support carbon caps and tax, support climate stabilization legislation?

Helping fight the Kochs, the horribly dirty and outdated coal industry? Etc.?

So use your roof - zero down, rooftop solar - http://content.sierraclub.org/solar/sungevity/?zip=90291&ref&e and http://www.solarcity.com/ Need to drive? Great new electric cars - http://www.ev-info.com/en/electric-cars-models.html and http://www.chevrolet.com/volt-electric-car.html and http://www.nissanusa.com/electric-cars/leaf/ And what else can I do? - http://colbyallerton.blogspot.com/2013/01/earth-is-full-so-what-can-i-do.html help improve your and our our path. Support carbon caps and taxes, support climate stabilization legislation, and support clean energy - https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=13143
Help fight the Kochs http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/we-denounce-the-koch and the horribly dirty and outdated coal industry. https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=12488&s_src=714BSCZZ37 Etc. Etc. Etc.

Wind Power Has Cut U.S. Emissions and Water Use

Wind Power Has Cut U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions By 4.4 Percent: Report

10 reasons Americans ignore climate disasters - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch

10 reasons Americans ignore climate disasters - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch 

Wow, is this sobering, and on-target. There are the conflicted, and there are the bad.