Archive for the ‘Business & Politics’ Category

• Obama may still buckle on Keystone

  So Keystone has become a high-stakes political chess game following the president’s decision to kill the project. This Talking Points Memo article says Republicans have no expectations of getting Obama to sign infrastructure legislation including a Keystone rider, but they’ll …

• David Attenborough asks corporations to protect wilderness from overpopulation

  Regular readers of Climate & Capitalism know that David Attenborough, in addition to making nature films, is a patron of Optimum Population Trust, a British outfit that, using the name Population Matters, promotes birth control for poor people and immigration …

• Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate

  We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly …

• Obama Keystone statement bodes ill for future of climate

  If President Obama’s thoroughly embarrassing stumbling-block posture at Durban left any doubt about the softness of his conviction on climate change, the Keystone decision has just nailed the notion. Yes, it’s great that the pipeline is dead, and everyone from …

• China’s green growth could create millions of businesses and jobs

  China is a controversial country. They have long been criticized for their dangerous levels of pollution, but they have also recently received praise for investing a great deal in renewable energy. However, the negative tides that blacken China’s reputation may …

• Will the 2012 Olympics Be Green, as Promised?

  The 2012 Olympics have been hyped for some time with officials promising some major green changes for the event. However, these promises may not be realized unless corporate sponsors are willing to step up to the plate and go green, …

• US media censor out BBC TV “Frozen Planet” series climate change episode

  It has been reported by the UK New Statesman that the US will not air the “On Thin Ice” seventh episode of David Attenborough’s “Frozen Planet” BBC TV series about wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctica. The censored out final …

• French energy giant EDF fined for spying on Greenpeace

  Today a French court fined the largely state-owned energy giant EDF for €1,5 million for spying on Greenpeace campaigners. The French court found that EDF, which is hoping to build four nuclear reactors in the UK, had hired the security …

• Occupy Earth: Nature is the 99%, too

  “Tearing apart wildlife habitat to make a profit and doing the same at a workplace are just considered the price of doing business. Clearcutting a forest and clearcutting a labor force are two sides of the same coin.”

• Controversial Pipeline Could Hurt Obama’s Hopes for Reelection

  President Obama may face a considerable amount of opposition from supporters if he moves forward in green lighting a pipeline that would run from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. Obama’s approval ratings have recently been on the decline, and with his …