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Coal Can't Buy Our Love

Editor's Note: Today's guest post comes to us from Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club National Coal Campaign Director If you watched the television ads before and after the last Presidential Debate, you probably noticed something.Coal. A lot of it. In an attempt to buy public approval and confuse ... keep reading

Written by Sierra Club yesterday, about Coal & Oil, Media, Politics

Slouching Toward Golgotha

By Peter Montague of Rachel’s Democracy & Health News [Rachel's introduction: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants." -- Al Gore]Most of my friends want to deny it, but the evidence is compelling: the ... keep reading

Written by Peter Montague this month, about Carbon Sequestration, Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Philosophy & Religion, Politics, Protest

Criminal Mastermind

  Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon. ... "If you're a young person looking at the future of ... keep reading

Written by Marc Roberts this month, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Politics, Protest

Friday Link Fest - Edition 63

  It's Friday Linkfest day so let's take a look at the green news week: Good News Drinking coffee can be good for the environment! Green, shade grown coffee actually buffers against climate change. Google plans to cut American reliance on fossil fuels by 2030. A study finds wind ... keep reading

Written by Alina Beloussova this month, about Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Green energy, Politics, Transport

First Samples of Algae Based Green-Crude Have Arrived

New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation has been working on technology to convert wild algae to next generation fuels and has recently produced the first samples of green-crude from a proprietary process that does not rely on genetically modified organisms. As we have covered previously on this site, algae based fuels ... keep reading

Written by Leslie Berliant this month, about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil

Sustainability Redefined

By Peter Montague of Rachel’s Democracy & Health News[Rachel's introduction: The 1987 definition of sustainability went like this: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." That was a fine definition, but now ... keep reading

Written by Peter Montague last month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Nuclear, Solar, War (1 comment)

Drilling for Oil is Not the Answer

By Jonathan G. Dorn, Earth Policy Institute With attention turning to the second round of the energy debate in the U.S. Senate, the Earth Policy Institute thought you might find useful a brief summary of the facts behind drilling, gasoline prices and America’s energy future.   Geological and economic ... keep reading

Written by Jonathan G. Dorn last month, about Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Economics, Energy Saving, Green energy, Politics, Transport (1 comment)

Friday Link Fest - Edition 62

  The Friday Linkfest is here so let's take a look at the green developments in the news this week. Good News The EU has banned mercury exports by any of its 27 countries starting from 2011, aiming to global supplies of the toxic metal. A newly approved agreement will ... keep reading

Written by Alina Beloussova last month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Education, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Health, Solar, Water

Tar Sands: The Sub-prime Lending Disaster of the Oil Industry

The environmental impact of extracting oil from tar sands has been catalogued before on Celsias. In his excellent article The Most Destructive Project on Earth: Alberta's Tar Sands, Jeremy Williams documented the ecological devastation caused in Alberta by the incessant greed for new sources of fossil fuels. Yet despite ... keep reading

Written by John P. last month, about Coal & Oil, Economics, Environmental Disasters, Industry, Politics

Green Jobs Now: Coming to a Town Near You

Anytown USA /rɪˈpʌb lɪk/ Pronunciation KeyRepublic [ri-puhb-lik] a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth. It seems as if ... keep reading

Written by Randyn Seibold last month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Education, Events, Green energy, Politics (1 comment)

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