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Archive for 'Global Warming' Category

Fighting Big Oil’s marketing machine

Oct 11th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 4

It’s a Saturday and I don’t feel like doing any heavy lifting. Instead, I’m hoping I can make a point with the three video clips below.
The first is a piece by the American News Project that explains how Big Oil has borrowed a page out Big Tobacco’s playbook — use junk science and slick marketing [...]

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Setting our priorities — Putting energy at the top of the list

Oct 8th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 14

For me, the crystal-clear difference between Barack Obama and John McCain came down to one moment in Tuesday night’s debate — when Tom Brokaw asked the candidates to rank their priorities between health care, energy and reform of the social security and medicare systems.
McCain played it down the middle, saying all three issues were equally [...]

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Brother, can you spare some ice?

Sep 23rd, 2008 by Joe Newman | 154

This strange scene on the National Mall is one in a series of street art installations that have popped up around Washington, D.C. in recent weeks. I haven’t actually seen one in person but I was on the Metro the morning one of these sculptures shut down a station because officials thought it might be [...]

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Colbert vs. the Sierra Club

Jul 22nd, 2008 by Joe Newman | 203

This is a hilarious exchange between Stephen Colbert and Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, even if Colbert is able to get a little jab in there about Pope’s carbon footprint. It is also a great reminder that leaders in the green movement have to keep in mind that everything they do is going to [...]

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What universe is George Bush living in?

Jul 19th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 160

(Highlights from Al Gore’s speech on climate change last week in D.C.)
Isn’t it time we moved beyond the empty rhetoric of the Bush administration when it comes to solving global warming, humankind’s greatest challenge?  You know the George Bush I’m talking about, the one who tells the world that he’s committed to solving the climate [...]

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