Good Jobs, Green Jobs national conference
I just arrived home from the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, and I’m trying to take a step back and put a context around the whole experience. I’ve got a wide-ranging set of impressions, and they...
View ArticleDK Greenroots: Adopt-a-Senator for ACES - Kay Hagan Knows Better, But We...
I decided to profile my senator, Kay Hagan (D-NC), after sifting through existing analyses of likely senate votes on the American Clean Energy and Security bill (ACES), the bill that would place a...
View ArticleWhat do we do when we see the deluge coming?
Twenty years ago my parents took their nest egg (attained back when nest eggs were attainable) and retired to a condo a half block from the ocean, in a well-heeled south Florida town. It’s the type of...
View ArticleRegulation, Jobs, and Memes Run Amok. Plus My New Favorite Pie Chart.
If you know me, you know what I lose the most sleep over: our lack of progress in changing over from dirty energy to clean energy fast enough to save my children's world from climate hell. You might...
View ArticleWhat do we do when we see the deluge coming? [Take two, updated]
[ For anyone keeping score at home, this is a repost of a piece I wrote back in January, edited and updated for this week’s Climate Change SOS blogathon. Thanks to PDNC and boatsie for allowing me...
View ArticleStop the Carbon, Stupid
[This diary was supposed to get written in November and talk about Bill McKibben’s “Do the Math” tour. I didn’t get it done in time, as I’d promised, so instead of finding your way to a presentation,...
View ArticlePay a Detroit Resident's Water Bill
At Netroots Nation this past weekend, we learned about the Motor City's decision to cut off the water of 300,000 residents who could not pay their bills, and we demonstrated downtown with some of them....
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Nuts and Bolts Carbon Policy: Some Initial Steps Under a Green New Deal
[Cross-posted at onthetopic.org/...]Alexander Hamilton, the founder of the American economic system, laid the foundation for government investment in new and important economic enterprise. He...
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