Posts Tagged ‘environment’

• Ron Paul says "drill, baby drill" – bad idea says economists

  In a recent Feature, Al Jazeera English talked to five professional economists about their views on Ron Paul’s economic policies. One of the economic points discussed was Paul’s idea to lower the price of fuel. Ron Paul believes, just like …

• Hundreds of protesters called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies

  Yesterday hundreds of demonstrators dressed in referee uniforms called the US Congress to end the huge tax breaks and other subsidies to Big Oil and the fossil fuel industry. Bill McKibben, founder of the +350.org movement and one of the …

• Barack Obama hits "secretive oil billionaires" in first campaign ad

  This is the first advertisement from Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. The ad targets “secretive oil billionaires”, which is a clear response to the Koch brothers recent $6 million attack ads (http://bit.ly/xrdzBH). The advertisement is also touting the rapidly growing …

• Six reasons why the Keystone XL pipeline project should be rejected

  Sally Kohn has a good opinion piece on Fox News, of all places, where she lists six important reasons why the Keystone XL pipeline was a bad deal all along: 1. The Keystone XL pipeline would not reduce foreign oil …

• Meet Bill McKibben – the man who crushed the Keystone XL pipeline

  The Boston Globe has an interesting article about “the man who crushed the Keystone XL pipeline”. If you’ve been paying attention to energy and environmental issues lately you probably already know which person they are talking about. +Bill McKibben is …

• Top 10 Green Blog articles from 2011

  Here's the top 10 articles on Green Blog from 2011. The blog posts are ranked in terms of the total amount of traffic received during all of 2011. 1. The nuclear crisis in Japan 2011 started with a massive earthquake …

• Green Apps for the Tech Savvy

  Nowadays there’s an app for everything. There even happens to be many apps for the ecologically conscious, some of which are better than others. Let’s take a look at some green apps that are particularly useful and which you may …

• 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 …

• GOP Voted Over 100 Times to Stop Environmental Protection This Year

  The GOP is notorious for their reputation on denying climate change and other environmental issues even though the evidence continues to pile up that these are very real concerns. The Tea Party movement in the GOP continues to make this …

• US Chamber of Commerce Lobby’s For Tar Sand Pipeline

  The U.S Chamber of Commerce has launched a campaign to lobby for Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The Partnership to Fuel America is run out of the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, and seems positioned to be the …