John McCain Stumps on Climate from Stumptown, Oregon via It's Getting Hot In Here
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These Guys Are No Fossil Fools! Markey and Waxman Call for Ban on New Coal Plants via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Midwest Oil Refineries Gobble Up Canadian Tar Sands, Spew Greenhouse Gasses via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Bush Administration Proposes $10 Billion Christmas Present From Joe Taxpayer to Big Oil via It's Getting Hot In Here
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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: EPA Hides Behind Weakened Energy Bill to Deny California Tailpipe Standard Waiver via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Yuletide Gifts from Washington D.C.: Reflections on a Frustrating Week of Federal Energy, Climate Politics via It's Getting Hot In Here
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BaliBuzz: U.S. Finally Dragged Kicking And Screaming into UN Climate Deal via It's Getting Hot In Here
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BaliBuzz: U.S. Finally Dragged Kicking And Screaming into UN Climate Deal via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Billy Parish Tells Congress “This Young Generation is Ready to Carry Out a Historic Power Shift” via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Our Urgent Opportunity: Fighting for a Sustainable, Just, and Prosperous Future via It's Getting Hot In Here
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NWF Campaign Targets “Final 50″ House Lawmakers to Sponsor Global Warming Bills via It's Getting Hot In Here
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“Young Activists are Shifting the Power” Says Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Watch Out for the Echo-Boom: Why Politicians Had Better Start Paying Attention to the Millennial Generation via It's Getting Hot In Here
80 million teens and twenty-somethings are ready to make their mark on American politics. Is the growing youth climate movement - now poised to explode off campuses and into the nation’s capitol for Power Shift 2007, the first national youth climate summit - the vanguard of a new progressive, pro-environment youth political movement?
By 2010, another 17.3 million young Americans will come of age, swelling the already sizable ranks of voting-age “Millennials” – those teens and twenty-somethings coming to age in the early years of the 21st century. At 80 million strong, the Millennial generation outnumbers even the Baby Boomers by 3 million and represents the single-largest demographic age group in electoral politics, according to a recent Mother Jones article...
Generation Anything-But-Quiet: Just Wait for the Noise at Power Shift 2007! via It's Getting Hot In Here
The Youth Climate Movement is poised to explode off of campuses and into our nation’s capitol for PowerShift 2007, November 2nd-5th.
Thomas Friedman, the popular New York Times columnist, recently labeled teens and twenty-somethings coming to age in the early years of the 21st century the “Quiet Generation.” Accusing today’s young people of being “too quiet, too online for [their] own good, and for the country’s own good,” Friedman went on to say that today’s students and youth are “so much less radical and politically engaged than they need to be.” (See “‘Generation Q’ - the Quiet Americans,” New York Times, Oct. 10th, 2007)
Well, in two weeks, Mr. Friedman – and the rest of the nation – will hear what this young generation really sounds like,...
New Zealand Bans New Fossil Fuel Power Plants! via It's Getting Hot In Here
New Zealand electricity producers face a 10-year moratorium on all new gas- or coal-fired power plants to help the country reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The nation’s Prime Minister also commits to 90% renewable electricity by 2025.
Electricity producers in New Zealand are now barred from constructing any new fossil fuel power plants for the next ten years, according to Bloomberg.com.
New Zealand already produces about 70 percent of its power from non-polluting and renewable energy sources, including wind, hydro-electric and geothermal generators. New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Helen Clarke, recently announced intention to commit to 90% renewable electricity by 2025 and the government is blocking construction of new gas-fired power plants to speed investment in wind and... Attention Nordhaus and Schellenberger: Time to Call A Cease-Fire! via It's Getting Hot In Here
In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger released their provocative and much-discussed essay, “The Death of Environmentalism,” in which they criticized the environmental movements lack of progress towards global warming solutions and argued that a fundamental shift in philosophy, messaging and tactics was necessary to capture the American public’s interest and build a successful movement for climate solutions.
Now, the two “bad boys of environmentalism” are back with a new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility and they’re making waves again with their provocative and arguably inflammatory style.
In my opinion, “The Death of Environmentalism” presented a crucially important and valid... Report China to Share Burden of CO2 Emission Cuts via Earth Blog
UPDATE: Our hopes have been dashed as China has announced it has no plans to cap their carbon emissions but will instead seek to lower the carbon intensity [search] of its economy. This is the same lame U.S. policy. The number 1 and number 2 carbon polluters in the world are increasingly international pariah states.
Japanese media reports that China will soon commit to "participate proactively in talks on an international framework to fight global warming from 2013". This could include negotiated participation in mandatory greenhouse gas emission cuts including carbon dioxide. China will soon be the largest producer of greenhouse gases, yet China has not been obligated under Kyoto [search] to make carbon cuts. This was negotiated as a matter of equity, acknowledging that developed...
Carbon Tax Best Way to Set Price of Carbon via Earth Blog
In order to get on with major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, within both a still functional biosphere and viable capitalistic system, the price of emitting carbon must be set -- and quickly and accurately. There are two primary methods of doing so - the establishment of carbon markets [search] and the levying of carbon taxes [search]. The conservative newspaper Financial Times favors carbon taxes, as does Ecological Internet within our Lincoln Plan carbon tax campaign, and today ran an interesting series of articles which essentially find a carbon tax to be easier and more effective in pricing carbon. A recent report likens the individual market in carbon credits to "Offsetting Indulgences for your Climate Sins". The Financial Times was equally skeptical, as their investigation...