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Alberta Tar Sands – Pressure is Building
May 19, 2009 5 min. read

I touched on the massive oil prospecting and processing operations in Alberta here in February, and here a while back.  (For a characteristically articulate and comprehensive overview, you can’t beat Betsy Kolbert’s “New Yorker” article, Unconventional Crude.) StatoilHydro, the Norwegian state oil and gas company, one of the biggest in the world, has a big […]

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Islands
March 24, 2009 3 min. read

Maldives – This island nation, about a thousand miles southwest of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, has declared its intention to become the world’s first carbon-neutral country.  President Mohamed Nasheed made the announcement after a screening of the new climate change film, “The Age of Stupid.”  President Nasheed has also said that he will […]

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More on Obama's Team
March 18, 2009 3 min. read

There really is a Murderer’s Row of environmentalists, renewable energy advocates and all-purpose rainbow warriors coming into the Obama administration and springing into action. The three newest additions to the team are very strong.  Gina McCarthy is Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).  The “Hartford Courant” reports here that McCarthy is being […]

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Elizabeth Kolbert on Where We Are Today
March 15, 2009 2 min. read

You can’t praise Betsy Kolbert enough, in my opinion.  She has been the must lucid, grounded, smart and committed journalist writing about climate change for several years.  In The War on Rachel Carson here from a couple of years ago, I wrote “Nota Bene –   I put Betsy Kolbert in a class with Rachel Carson.  […]

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