New Transit Projects for 2011 A comprehensive list of transit projects scheduled to start construction or open in 2011. “Streetcar lines dominate the nation’s new transit construction landscape, but this year only light and commuter rail lines will open for…
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Turns 50 Soon: Help Make it a National Monument
Any time Republicans gain power, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is in a little more threat. Some Alaskan conservationists are looking to change that with a push to protect ANWR indefinitely (or as close to indefinitely as possible). The…
October Top News: Giant Penguins, Solar Planes that Fly for Years, Europe’s Clean Energy Progress, Obama’s Clean Energy Push, Peak Oil/Peak Coal/Peak Etc.
Wow, it’s harder to pick out the “must-share” news stories than I realized. Well, here are the news stories I wrote about in the past week or so that I thought it would be a crime not to mention here…
Do You Know Your Representatives in Congress?
There are a lot of ways you can throw the blame after the horrible death of a comprehensive climate change and clean energy bill, and the seeming death of a national Renewable Energy Standard (RES). You can blame: the Republican party…
Top Environmental Stories of the Year, Other than BP Oil Spill (7 Green Bloggers)
Biggest environmental story of the year? Ask 7 green bloggers and you get 7 different (but good) answers. We’re a little more than halfway through the year and I decided to ask 7 leading green bloggers what they thought was…
2.5 to 3.6 Million Jobs Created or Saved by Recovery Act, Many in Clean Energy
A new report out by the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), analyzing the economic and job creation impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), finds that the ARRA saved or created millions of jobs. Additionally, one of the areas where…
Japanese Whalers Making Big Money on Illegal Whale Meat
The BP oil spill may have killed a baby whale, but there are much bigger problems for endangered whalesaround the world. Japanese, Norwegian and Icelandic whalers have been whaling unsustainably and illegally for years despite an international moratorium on whaling. Rather than…
Japanese Whalers Making Big Money on Illegal Whale Meat
The BP oil spill may have killed a baby whale, but there are much bigger problems for endangered whales around the world. Japanese, Norwegian and Icelandic whalers have been whaling unsustainably and illegally for years despite an international moratorium on…
700 Naked People in France for Climate Change Action
700 people stripped naked in French vineyards this week. Why? To try to influence world leaders to do more regarding climate change.
Obama’s Grandma — Gets Solar Panels on her Kenyan Home from Greenpeace
Greenpeace’s “Solar Generation” activists installed solar panels on President Obama’s Grandmother’s house in Kenya last week.