Posted on October 12th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Congratulations on the Nobel Peace Prize!
Al Gore named co-winner of Nobel Peace Prize.
from Think Progress by Faiz
Early this morning, former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were named co-winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
I am getting my driver’s license soon, but I won’t have access to a car very often. I take the bus or walk most places, and I know my way around here pretty well. (Sometimes I get rides.)
But how cool will it be to google your bus route or your train route in bigger cities! [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2007 by Bryce McCloskey
German environment minister threatens fines for carmakers
The German car industry is in for a major wake-up call, according to German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel in an interview.
This article should really show us just how much we should be pushing ourselves to raise our standards of environmental friendliness. Here is Germany, a country famous for [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
It seems that George W is concerned about his legacy, and he is talking to a biographer named Robert Draper:
In book, Bush peeks ahead to his legacy
from Americas - International Herald Tribune
In an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, President George W. Bush daydreamed about the next [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
OK. Texas started. In addition to the ones mentioned here, there are also schools with some solar panels. Can the whole country do this? Can we do a better job at recycling at school? Can we turn in more work electronically and not on paper? Can they cut down on the AC sometimes? What’s happening [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
When I was in elementary school, I went to a really old school. It was OK, but not new. A lot of neighborhoods in my town had newer schools and I always thought it would be cool to go to one. Everything pretty and clean. But I just saw this in the [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
The people of West Virginia and their entire environment is in danger because of the coal industry. Encourage congress to subsidize solar and wind power instead of coal. Learn more about the problem here and learn what you can do.
Mountaintop removal mining is destroying Appalachia. Here you can see
the pictures that show how [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2007 by Emily Oppenheimer
It’s a common argument against organic development that organically grown and processed food is not suitable for the large scale consumption rate necessitated by the global population. According to new research coming out of the University of Michigan, though, this isn’t true. In fact, the research asserts that organic farming can yield up to three [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2007 by Aryeh
Why don’t we kill three birds with one stone, fix both our immigration woes, the bad economy of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico simultaneously, and stop the Mexican sweatshops with one, final motion? America should take initiative and set up an American Union, like the EU. We would be able to have smoother immigration talks, [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Aryeh wrote yesterday about how Obama supported liquefied coal, which is one of the most inefficient uses of fossil fuel yet invented, and about how this will cost him among environmentally-conscious voters.
There’s better news this week out of Texas. Yes, Texas. A $20 million dollar wind power research center will be built in [...]
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