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Leaders to meet in summer for special climate change talks - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent.
Obama has reportedly sent out a call for another summit, not for the economy of the world, but the greening of it. According to the linked [...]

I found this via @sheagunther on twitter. It’s a link to a blogpost he did concerning the cost of Mountaintop Removal for the coal industry. If you didn’t know yet, the EPA recently released a halt to all permits for coal mining via mountaintop removal. Shortly following a coal industry uprising (and I’m sure a [...]

Facebook | Greenpeace USA’s Notes.
This is a Greenpeace USA Facebook note about the presence of global warming control in the budget. I don’t care if you are republican or democrat, whether you like Bush, Obama, Reagan, whoever. Read this note, and if you need to, go to www.coal-is-clean.com, to read more about global warming and [...]

Josh Dorner: Coal Industry Front Group CEO Refuses to Say Whether Burning Coal Causes Global Warming (VIDEO).
Watch the video in this Huffington Post article. It’s astounding that the front group for the Coal Industry still has the audacity to say that they do not know whether burning coal contributes to global warming. Are you kidding [...]

“First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully,” the memo says. “The current campaign against terrorism may require even broadened exercises of federal power domestically. Terrorists operate within the continental United States itself and escape detection by concealing themselves within the domestic society and economy.”
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Streetsblog » Bloomberg Puts Forward a Bold, Transformative New Vision for Broadway.
NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg is taking one of Manhattan’s most well-known streets and pulling cars out of the equation. It makes sense…going to NYC last fall, I observed the tight corners and crazy alignment of Broadway compared to the rest of the grid [...]

My friend Brad wrote me a note concerning my last post, commenting on my statement of, “Democracy seems to be a pretty popular trend that started about 233 years ago,” (2.24.2009). The primary point of the claim (correct me if I’m wrong Brad) was to educate me on the fact that America is not a [...]

There are problems.
• Mr. Quicksolve does not live here anymore. In fact, he is like George Kaplan in Hitchcock’s classic film North By Northwest: Mr. Quicksolve does not exist (and never did).
• Accepting a quick solution means that we are addressing symptoms not causes.
• Quick solutions do not work and often make things worse.
• Quick solutions take away needed [...]

Howard Dean: The Far Right’s All Out Offensive Against Medical Research.
Paul Peete: It’s Us Versus Them with the Stimulus
Robert J. Elisberg: A Rush to Bad Judgment
Here is an example of the typical partisan politics we keep seeing, especially in this Democrat-controlled term. As a once-Republican, I’m finding myself embarrassed and ashamed to have ever associated [...]