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Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen: Green News Report
- Thursday, 02 February 2012 17:06
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Roger Shamel: the President and energy issues
- Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:57
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It's the morning after the President's State of the Union address – do we now have a better idea where he stands on climate change? I talked with two climate activists who give Obama a low grade, but not quite flunking since he did mention the word once, which is once more than last year! Green Front contributor, Roger Shamel, of the Global Warming Education Network (GWEN) and "Go The Limit" campaign, weighs in with a "D-" for the President on energy issues.
Peter Sinclair’s interview with Katherine Hayhoe
- Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:53
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Peter Sinclair of Climate Crocks, shares his candid opinion and talks about his interview with Katherine Hayhoe, the evangelical atmospheric scientist from Texas Tech who wrote the climate change chapter for climate flip-flopper, Newt Gingrich.
Auden Schendler: Getting Green Done
- Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:15
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Snow is coming to dry Colorado and California at last! Auden Schendler, VP of Sustainability at Aspen Ski Company and author of "Getting Green Done". Among other things we'll discuss his recent article on the slow and bumpy path to solving climate change.
Jamie Henn of 350.org on Keystone XL
- Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:15
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President Obama has put a hold on the Keystone XL pipeline, offering hope for an eventual stop to the misguided project: Jamie Henn, Communications Director of 350.org talks on today's announcement on Keystone deferral decision. Read below the message by Bill McKibben
Dear Friends,
We wanted to share with you the news: this afternoon the Obama Administration announced that they are denying the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
You did good work, against some of the longest possible odds. For years, the knock on the President Obama was that he backed down too easily in the face of opposition. Not here.
When Republicans in Congress forced the issue again by passing a 60-day time limit on the President's final decision, he stood strong and denied the permit. And that was despite the most explicit threats from Big Oil: that they would exact ‘huge political consequences’ if he did the right thing on Keystone. Make no mistake—this is a brave decision.
And make no mistake about this either—Big Oil will do everything it can to overturn that decision, because they are not used to losing.
They have one weapon—money. They’ve used it to buy the allegiance of many Representatives and Senators and now they’ll use Congress to try and get their dirty work done. That’s what happened when the President delayed the permit last November, and we should expect them to try again now.
That’s why we’re going to Congress and Big Oil, beginning next Tuesday the 24th. If you can join us, we’re meeting at noon on the West Lawn, and you should wear a referee’s shirt. We’re going to ‘blow the whistle’ on the corruption that passes for business as usual on Capitol Hill, where people take money from companies whose interests they vote on.
If this happened at the Super Bowl it would be a national scandal; we’ve got to make sure it’s seen that way in our political life too. We know it’s short notice, but we hope we can get at least 500 people there. Not to get arrested, at least not this time, but to make quite a noise.
If you can make it, click here to join the action in DC. If you can't make it (or even if you will be there) can you help us spread the word about the good news, and the action next week?
We’ll be fighting to prevent Keystone, but we’ll also be fighting to shut off the flow of handouts to the oil, gas, and coal industries, and to take away their right to use the atmosphere as an open sewer into which to dump their carbon for free. This industry, simply because it is rich, has been cosseted too long.
Time to fight back. What you’ve done these past eight months is quite amazing—and against all the odds. We’ve won no permanent victory (environmentalists never do) but we have shown that spirited people can bring science back to the fore.
Blocking one pipeline was never going to stop global warming—but it is a real start, one of the first times in the two-decade fight over climate change when the fossil fuel lobby has actually lost. Rest assured they’ll fight like heck—their world-record profits depend on it. We better fight just as hard, because the world depends on it.
Bill