Issues - Sustainability
Recent Articles About Sustainability
Switching to Renewable Energy Gets Easier
The More Things Change, The More Things Change
If you haven't read Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Climate Of Man" you really should. She de-wonkifies the dangerous concept of positive feedback loops and how they accelerate climate change.
Bush Urges
Action 'Now' on Energy
By Jim VandeHei and Justin Blum
The Washington Post
Thursday 21 April 2005: "President Bush said yesterday that his national energy policy would not lower gasoline prices anytime soon, but called on Congress to pass it by August to begin weaning the nation from imported oil and transitioning to alternative sources of power and fuel...."
Green States v. White House
by Jeff Rickert, TomPaine.com
"Why are states able to pass legislation that is good for the planet
and creates jobs, while Washington subsidizes rich polluters?"
Go Canada
by Andrew Aulisi and Jonathan Pershing, TomPaine.com
"If you want something to celebrate this Earth Day, turn to Ottowa,
not Washington."
Let The Sunshine In
by Joel Makower, TomPaine.com
"Think Earth Day is fast becoming a corporate marketing tool? It's a
sideshow to more sophisticated shareholder activism."