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The real reason the military is going green

By Staff Reports | June 8, 2012

Air Force cargo planes

Retired Brig. Gen. Steven Anderson calls himself  “an accidental environmentalist.” His epiphany about climate change started with a tactical problem. In 2006 and 2007, when he served as the military’s chief logistician in Iraq, he coordinated the transport of millions of gallons of fuel across the country to power everything from vehicles to the large compressors used to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: clean energy, clean energy hawks, climate change, energy policy, peak oil, US military

For casino economist the house always Wynns

By Lindsay Curren | July 22, 2011

Casino

Americans are some of the hardest working people in the Western industrialized world. Even when we're not working we're working, as so many willingly becomes slaves to the communications devices and handheld phones that they originally got to make their lives more flexible. We may even click here and learn how to gamble on the things. We're a nation of workaholics, so afraid … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: activism, clean energy, clean energy hawks, climate change, communication, jobs, local economy

Shin bone’s connected to the ankle bone

By Vicki Lipski | March 8, 2011

smog

As global warming and its attendant effects unfold, self-castigation has become an art form. Why, oh why, are we so damnably human, seems to run the lament. Greedy, stupid, fat and lazy; we saw it coming, yet all we did was bury our heads in the sand. While a year ago the rending of clothes and the gnashing of teeth was sufficient, it now seems we're satisfied with nothing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: activism, clean energy hawks, global climate disruption, pollution

US military plans for Arctic melting

By Erik Curren | January 10, 2011

USS Scranton breaking through Arctic ice.

As civilian Washington, with climate skeptics in the ascendant, continues to bicker about how-real and how-bad, the military has once again shown that, when it comes to global warming, it's a much more reality-based organization than Congress. The new House wasted no time to start moving backwards on climate. In just one example, Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, who in December … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Arctic, clean energy hawks, US military

Locals going loco

By Staff Reports | December 1, 2010

This synthetic carnival villa is probably not what the Lorax meant when he warned against biggering and biggering."

I live in New Hampshire. If Democratic Governor John Lynch and the COO of the state’s largest utility corporation, Gary Long, prevail, we’ll soon commence a $1.1 billion construction project to upgrade a transmission line that will bring power from Quebec’s elaborate network of hydroelectric dams to New England electricity markets. The project, dubbed The Northern Pass, will be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: clean energy hawks, conservation, Dec 2010, energy policy, global climate disruption, relocalization

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