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» Day 2 at Netroots Nation: Top 8 Quotes
Jul 24, 2010 - Click here for the original post. "Information system has taken a huge leap forward, but the wisdom system has not." - Van Jones, senior fellow at the Center For American Progress "These people are orcs and they are coming for you." - Van Jones "'Illegal immigrants'" has become the code…more
» Top 9 Quotes from First Day at NRN
Jul 23, 2010 - Click here for the original post. Had great first day at NRN. More to come on all of the below, but wanted to share in brief the best moments of my day. Top 9 quotes: "It's alright to have enemies. If you don't have people that don't like what you're…more
» Top Five Ways to Bring Accountability to Ocean Drilling
Jul 21, 2010 - Click here for the original post. Trying to answer the troubling questions about how the BP Oil Disaster was allowed to happen keeps turning up the same catastrophic mixture of lies, mismanagement, corner cutting, and recklessness. It's clear now that the oil companies know how to get oil from deep…more
» If I Could Drive Forever on Highway 99
Jul 20, 2010 - Click here for the original post. Hot, dry and dusty. That's Bakersfield, California. It's also home to the first solar thermal power plant in California in nearly two decades. And it's become somewhat of "Tigercomm West" - a satellite office of my employer. My colleague Mark Sokolove and I took…more
» Looking for the Public Outrage
Jul 14, 2010 - Click here for the original post. Monday's Washington Post piece, "Historic oil spill fails to produce gains for U.S. environmentalists" was right, but not complete. So far, the BP oil disaster has brought tar balls and Tony Hayward into the public arena, but it has not brought about the dramatic…more
» Big Oil Attacks Solar in CA
Jul 12, 2010 - Click here for the original post. A recent REW post by SolarFred highlights the latest legislative efforts by dirty energy lobbyists to stop the growth of solar, wind and clean energy industries that Americans favor by more than 90 percent. As SolarFred writes, Texas-based oil company Valero led a legislative…more
» Solar Around The Corner
Jun 29, 2010 - Click here for the original post. I guess the definition of "scaling" means that we start small. And that's what's going on with solar now in Tigercomm's neck of the woods. Today I just spotted solar trash compactors along the streets of Rosslyn, Virginia, around the corner from our office.…more
» Senator Byrd: His Legacy vs. His Vision
Jun 28, 2010 - Click here for the original post. Senator Robert Byrd passed away early this morning, just days after a study showing that coal is a money loser for his home state of West Virginia. The interests of the coal industry and the senator were intertwined for nearly all of Byrd's 51…more
» Stamping Out Dirty Fossil Fuels
Jun 24, 2010 - After 9/11, Americans were forced to recognize the reality of global terrorism - a reality that other countries had been wrestling with for decades. The BP oil disaster, which President Obama has likened to an environmental 9/11, is forcing us to recognize another painful reality with global implications - the…more
» A Coal-Lump in the Sky
Jun 16, 2010 - Click here for the original post. On the heels of President Obama's renewed call for clean energy technologies in last night's Oval Office speech, we're particularly baffled by this piece in The Examiner detailing how the US Air Force is now testing a coal-based jet fuel. What? This fuel is…more
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