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I recently updated the design to my blog to be slightly more professional. It was simple and a little crass before, and I feel it’s much more readable and aesthetically pleasing at the same time now. I changed to a new theme today, and am deciding whether to keep it and morph it a little [...]

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 [...]

How to talk to a Climate Change Skeptic | Grist
This is amazing! I found this on Twitter via Treebanker (http://twitter.com/TreeBanker) and I have been searching for something like this for a quite a while. Thank you to Dan Tefft, aka Treebanker, for this. It reminds me of a question I asked acclaimed author Thomas Friedman [...]

We made it to the big city…kinda. Dublin is a lot smaller than I thought it would be. The maps make it look so big, but we get there, and what looks like a 20 minute walk turns out to be 5. It’s good, because Ryan and I walked the whole city today. There is [...]

Ok. I’m in Ireland for Spring Break. Arrived yesterday, am in Galway, and went to the Aran Isles today. Beautiful. Crap weather. Who could live in nothing but 40 degrees, rain, and wind constantly? gross.

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 [...]