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February 02, 2009 04:32 PM EST --
How we handle the environment cannot be separated from how we handle the economy. Break down the economic stimulus package and it tells you a lot about our environmental future.
I’m using the . . .
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January 29, 2009 11:48 AM EST --
Obama is fast finding out that you can't negotiate with fanatics, such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and House Republicans.
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January 23, 2009 02:52 PM EST --
Obama’s Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, has ideas about how to handle our energy problems. Lots and lots of ideas. And he’s willing to work on all of them.
This points to a potential schizophrenia . . .
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January 19, 2009 08:51 PM EST --
My wife and I made it to the National Mall the day before the inauguration and I took a few photos:
This isn't a great batch of photos--I think these are the 3 best. They are . . .
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January 05, 2009 06:01 PM EST --
We need to move aggressively toward clean coal! We can do so by removing global warming gasses and storing them indefinitely. So argued a coal spokesman on a recent Diane Rehm show . . . .
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December 22, 2008 05:21 PM EST --
What kind of projects will the Obama administration be spending your tax money (or rather future tax money, since it’s all borrowed) on? Will it be directed toward conventional projects that harm . . .
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December 08, 2008 02:41 PM EST --
The U.S. government is paying big agribusiness to ruin the environment and the health of Americans. So says Michael Pollan, one of the foremost experts on food and where it comes from, who appeared . . .
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November 24, 2008 03:27 PM EST --
Automobiles, Innovation, and the Obama Economic Plan
The real action in automobile innovation has not been coming from the Big Three, according to a recent NPR Science Friday . Rather, small, . . .
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November 10, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
Upon swearing the oath of office on January 20, Obama will immediately face three major crises: The economy; the multiple wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and on terrorism; and the environment. Of the . . .
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November 06, 2008 05:10 PM EST --
According to today's Washington Post Obama's brain trust for economic issues includes people like Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin, holdovers from the Clinton administration who helped move . . .
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November 03, 2008 09:30 AM EST --
The Bush administration is in a last minute rush to cut out environmnental regulations: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081103/pl_nm/us_bush . There seems something undemocratic about this--true Bush . . .
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October 21, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
My wife and I are in the midst of doing something anti-environmental—putting up an addition to our house. By definition, any additional space added to a house is anti-environmental, as it means . . .
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October 06, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
“Laissez-faire, it's finished. The all-powerful market that is always right, it's finished," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, adding that we need "to rebuild the entire global . . .
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September 29, 2008 03:10 PM EDT --
A friend of mine thinks that McCain is like Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek and Obama is like Captain Picard in the Next Generation. I found this extremely insightful.
What do gatherites . . .
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September 17, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
The house passed an energy bill last night: http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/09/17.php#21306. I don't know all the details, but I know that it allows offshore drilling, extends renewable energy . . .
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September 15, 2008 05:44 PM EDT --
Energy independence and green energy are often referred to as though they are the same thing. However this is far from the truth. True, if we have 100 percent green energy we have energy independence, . . .
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September 01, 2008 09:58 PM EDT --
Gustav: A Warning of Worse to Come?
I was hoping for a respite from the hurly-burly of environmental politics, but Gustav has struck and I had better make at least some brief comments.
Although . . .
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August 18, 2008 01:43 PM EDT --
Unlike most environmentalists, I would support drilling for oil along America’s coastlines, as I’ve written before. However such drilling needs to be part of a comprehensive package including renewable . . .
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August 07, 2008 03:35 PM EDT --
I’ve just finished reading James Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World, which includes a powerful analysis of our environmental dangers along with a visionary approach to solving them. Unlike . . .
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July 19, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
Spend all you want, We'll print more!
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