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Ecology is turning me into a conservative

By Erik Curren | December 12, 2012

Edmund Burke

“Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food,” advises Michael Pollan, author of foodie blockbuster The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Who knows what hidden dangers newfangled and untested foods like margarine, energy drinks or Tofurkey might pose to our health? Now, that’s conservative. And I don’t mean conservative like the GOP leadership in Congress or the Koch … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: climate change, conservatives, Edmund Burke, peak oil, Progress, Progressive, Protect The Planet, Real Conservative

Don’t alienate conservatives, says Hopkins

By Erik Curren | July 19, 2011

Rob Hopkins and carrot lady

"Transition is much more powerful for not being explicitly political," Rob Hopkins told a conference call of Americans involved in Transition groups and interested in the movement. "It's better when Transition avoids associating itself with either the left or the right." Hopkins thinks that Transitioners should "fly under the radar" on political controversies. Even more, to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: activism, conservatives, David Cameron, Republicans, Rob Hopkins, Totnes, Transition US, United Kingdom

Atlas bombed: Right-wing think tanks betray ignorance on energy

By Erik Curren | May 16, 2011

Atlas Shrugged movie still

I want to get this review out fast, because, by the time you read it, Atlas Shrugged: Part I, which came out in mid-April, may already have left the theaters. Critics have roundly panned the movie version of free-market goddess Ayn Rand's 1957 novel for weak acting by B-list actors and a script with dialogue so wooden it could only have been phoned in from the men's room at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films Tagged With: Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Cato Institute, conservatives, FreedomWorks, high speed rail, Reason Foundation, Tea Party

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