PACKAGE CONTAINS OVER 60 BILLION IN DIRECT SPENDING ON GREEN INITIATIVES AND ANOTHER 20 BILLION EARMARKED FOR GREEN TAX INCENTIVES
The final stimulus package, which President Obama is expected to sign into law today, President’s Day, contains many victories for beleaguered environmentalists, not the least of which is a reported $6o billion allocated for direct spending […]

BUT DID THE RULING COME IN TIME TO SAVE THE POLAR BEAR?
Well, the good news, if you can call it that, is that the polar bear got finally some protection from the Bush Administration last week. The bad news is that in typical George Bush fashion, the ruling granting endangered species protection to the polar […]

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER HOW TO GROW PORK, CHICKEN, AND BEEF THROUGH CELL CULTURE IN VATS
Wouldn’t it be kinda nifty if it were possible to have all of the pork, chicken, and beef that anyone would ever want to chow down on, without the environmental and ethical consequences created by the outdated and barbaric process of raising […]

CORPORATIONS FIGHT TOUGHER SMOG RULES IN SPITE OF WHAT IT WILL MEAN TO THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM CONDITIONS EITHER CAUSED BY OR GREATLY AGGRAVATED BY THE POLLUTION IN THE AIR THAT THEY BREATHE
While most of America is caught-up this week bickering over who is best qualified to answer the phone at 3 AM, those lobbying […]

FOX & FRIENDS PROMOTES GLOBAL WARMING DENIERS
You would think that in this day and age it is pretty much accepted fact that global warming is real and more than likely here to stay. So how then can Fox and its morning show, Fox and Friends, justify its endorsement of a so-called “Environmental Conference”, currently taking […]

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN, THERE IS NOTHING NEW HERE, JUST MORE OF THE SAME PRO-CORPORATION NONSENSE THAT THE PARTY IS FAMOUS FOR
After years of denying the existence of Global Warming, a move seems to be underway by the current crop of Republican presidential candidates to break with tradition and not only recognize […]

PER ONE DELEGATE, “WE COULD HAVE ANOTHER 20 YEARS OF TALKING ABOUT TALKING. WE NEED TO START DECIDING ABOUT DOING.”
President Bush’s call for each country to decide for itself how to rein in pollution, and his refusal to embrace mandatory measures, set the United States apart from most of the world community this past week […]

HAS COMMON SENSE HAS FINALLY PREVAILED AMONG A GROUP THAT FOR THE PAST THIRTY YEARS HAS EMBRACED IDEOLOGIES AND POLITICIANS DETERMINED TO DESTROY OUR MOST PRECIOUS NATURAL RESOURCES?
In the interest of complete disclosure, I must admit to a certain cynicism regarding the rush by evangelical Christians to embrace all things green. But then, this […]

GROWING UP, I WAS TAUGHT THAT IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERY GENERATION TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR THOSE WHO WILL FOLLOW
Oh Joy, another hot and muggy New York type of day! The sort of day so unpleasant that the mere act of leaving one’s air-conditioned bubble can be traumatizing […]

IT IS GOOD TO SEE THAT THE USA DOES NOT OWN THE MARKET ON CRACKPOTS
The floods that have devastated swathes of England are God’s judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society, according to senior Church of England bishops.
One diocesan bishop has even claimed that laws that have undermined […]