Tag: news
member name: Ethan G.
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January 31, 2007 09:57 AM EST --
The first reaction to news of a grievous illness is often denial. We don’t want to face suffering, don’t want to go on a regime of healing, and certainly . . .
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December 08, 2007 05:15 PM EST --
A study by the Justice Policy Institute shows that, although blacks and whites possess and sell illegal drugs at about the same rate, blacks are ten times as likely to be sent to jail on drug charges ( . . .
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April 09, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Protestors are massing in San Francisco ( Yahoo ) after the Olympic torch was disrupted and had to be extinguished five times, before finally being carried by bus, in Paris. ( NPR ) I think this . . .
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January 29, 2009 11:48 AM EST --
Obama is fast finding out that you can't negotiate with fanatics, such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and House Republicans.
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May 08, 2008 12:49 PM EDT --
An article from Time attributes Hillary Clinton's virtually certain defeat to an overemphasis on experience in a change year, a failure to use the rules of the primary system as effectively as possible, . . .
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April 30, 2007 10:15 PM EDT --
I’ve long thought that the tendency to divide all political issues into “conservative” and “liberal,” and to then identify them with either the Republican or Democratic Party . . .
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February 14, 2007 09:54 PM EST --
Declaring the need for energy independence, President Bush has proposed a budget with funding for an array of programs [Advanced Energy Initiative] some of which have great promise. Yet from an environmental . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:25 PM EST --
We are living in a time of escalating extremes. Climate change devastation may be arriving faster than expected, but wondrous new technologies may allow us to stop the worst.
Global climate skeptics . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
The word is now out: many biofuels, such as corn ethanol, actually cause global warming according to two studies published in Science in February. Why? Their production leads to clearing of . . .
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May 05, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
Global warming is in the middle of a ten-year pause according to an article in Nature . Because this is a peer reviewed scientific article published in a major journal it must be taken . . .
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June 02, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
The U.S. Senate is debating a major environmental bill: The Climate Security Act. Unfortunately this bill is fatally flawed because it uses the convoluted, easily manipulated cap-and-trade process . . .
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September 15, 2008 05:44 PM EDT --
Energy independence and green energy are often referred to as though they are the same thing. However this is far from the truth. True, if we have 100 percent green energy we have energy independence, . . .
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June 17, 2008 09:07 AM EDT --
Renewable energy is expanding voraciously and will do so even faster, according to experts at a Worldwatch Institute panel ( Tipping Point ). Wind power is already in the midst of an explosion, . . .
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September 17, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
The house passed an energy bill last night: http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/09/17.php#21306. I don't know all the details, but I know that it allows offshore drilling, extends renewable energy . . .
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April 16, 2007 01:42 PM EDT --
The idea of a tax on activities that degrade the environment has been growing in recent years. Those who harm the environment that we all use would have to pay for the damage that they do. . . .
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November 03, 2008 09:30 AM EST --
The Bush administration is in a last minute rush to cut out environmnental regulations: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081103/pl_nm/us_bush . There seems something undemocratic about this--true Bush . . .
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June 05, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
The fight against cataclysmic global climate change and for energy independence has many fronts. Innovative technologies are being developed by businesses large and small. One such company . . .
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November 10, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
Upon swearing the oath of office on January 20, Obama will immediately face three major crises: The economy; the multiple wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and on terrorism; and the environment. Of the . . .
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August 07, 2008 03:35 PM EDT --
I’ve just finished reading James Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World, which includes a powerful analysis of our environmental dangers along with a visionary approach to solving them. Unlike . . .
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August 18, 2008 01:43 PM EDT --
Unlike most environmentalists, I would support drilling for oil along America’s coastlines, as I’ve written before. However such drilling needs to be part of a comprehensive package including renewable . . .
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