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Blue Olives: Boy, You're Going to Carry That Weight
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Thursday, December 17, 2009. Boy, You're Going to Carry That Weight. Yesterday, our local paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Reported on a little skirmish. At the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen. Today there is no mention of this ruckus in the paper. Instead we get an article letting us know that Barack Obama, who arrives tomorrow, is the last hope for a meaningful set of agreements. Indeed, it would seem...Accor...
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Blue Olives: MIT Future of Solar Energy Study Launch Event
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Monday, May 18, 2015. MIT Future of Solar Energy Study Launch Event. The Future of Solar Energy Study Launch Event. Paris climate summit: Carbon pledges to fall short of warming goal, Stern warns. Divesting in Trustee Wussyness: College Campuses and Climate Change Action. What is the Role for Business in Addressing Climate Change? Take the time. Watch the launch event and download the PDF. Monday, May 18, 2015.
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Blue Olives: This Sucks
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Tuesday, February 02, 2010. Experts have been saying it's too late. To avoid climate change for some time. It's Groundhog Day, for goodness sake! Is kind of obvious then. Janos Pasztor, the UN Secretary-General's point person on climate change, has come out with the not so surprising statement that:. In the words of Ross Perot, I hear a giant sucking sound. Who the heck is in charge here anyway? Wild Violet on-line qu...
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Blue Olives: Short-Sighted Buffoonery: Send me in coach!
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Tuesday, March 02, 2010. Short-Sighted Buffoonery: Send me in coach! I'm fighting mad. You should be too. Personally, I've been on the sidelines way too long and I'm itching to get back in the game. Yesterday, I listened to the news that President Obama is authorizing $54 billion in loan guarantees for the nuclear power. Industry. Now, I'm not going to argue against nuclear power. What I am going to say is that we nee...
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Blue Olives: Looking for a Way Forward: The Obama Administration Stumbles Some on Climate Change
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Friday, June 06, 2014. Looking for a Way Forward: The Obama Administration Stumbles Some on Climate Change. What kind of world do you want? This blog went dark more than three years ago when I finally understood that: 1) the Obama administration and Congress were absolutely not going to deal with climate change; 2) the American people were absolutely not going to deal with climate change either. For future power gener...
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Blue Olives: Plastic Gyrations: Science Stirring Up Plastic Soup
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Plastic Gyrations: Science Stirring Up Plastic Soup. It's been described as "plastic soup" in a bowl twice the size of Texas and 30 feet deep. Or how about a three-story Walmart streaming from the border of Mexico up along the Rockies and out to California all the way up to Canada? And to the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. To learn about this awesome manmade miasma. Of course, if.
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Blue Olives: Can Measurement Save the World?
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Monday, December 27, 2010. Can Measurement Save the World? Photo Source: Boston Globe (Creative Commons registered). To folks like me (I coordinate Philadelphia's recycling efforts) is not so much the discount coupons you get for recycling but the fact that they weigh how much material you put out on. The street every week. If ever there was a reason to recycle it would be to beat my family average weekly rate of ...
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Blue Olives: Why Green Jobs Don't Count
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Saturday, March 13, 2010. Why Green Jobs Don't Count. Efforts to modernize technology and establish a more democratic and benign form of productive capitalism. Have been in the pipeline since at least the early 1960s. Indeed, "green jobs" should not be something special; they should simply be "good jobs". Specifically designed to create fair, apples-to-apples comparative evaluations of financial systems. Moving fr...
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Blue Olives: The Path to Green
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Friday, February 17, 2006. The Path to Green. A January 23rd article by Usha Lee McFarling in the LA Times, "Studies Support Emissions Plans" gives the lie to the notion that mitigation of greenhouse gases will be bad for the economy. This is an extremely important issue. One study produced by the Center for Clean Air Policy. Another study performed by the California Climate Center at Berkeley. Why is this important?
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Blue Olives: Divesting in Trustee Wussyness: College Campuses and Climate Change Action — davidbiddle.net
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Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Divesting in Trustee Wussyness: College Campuses and Climate Change Action — davidbiddle.net. Divesting in Trustee Wussyness: College Campuses and Climate Change Action — davidbiddle.net. A few weeks ago. The Board of Managers voted down that option just days later. What I also reported on in that essay was that this is just the beginning of campus actions to divest in. Wednesday, May 13, 2015.
