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 […]

FRIENDS, THE TIME FOR SERIOUS ACTION IS NOW

The bad news – and to be honest, what else is there when people in the know gather to discuss the environment - is that while millions of us have been working hard to reduce our carbon footprint, eat healthy, and lead environmentally sustainable lives, there are many […]

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 […]

HANDLERS CITE POTENTIAL CONFLICTS WITH THE PRESIDENTS OWN CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL WARMING LATER THIS WEEK AS THE REASON

When dozens of world’s most powerful leaders sat down at the UN this past Monday to consider ways of combating Global Warming, George Bush, the president of one of the world’s most prolific polluter nations, was nowhere to […]

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 […]

ONCE AGAIN SCIENCE TRIUMPHS OVER SUPERSTITION
In the what if department, could any of the more devote of our readers explain to me how this tooth can be one million years old when we are told again and again that the world is only six thousand years old? Is the good book wrong or […]

THE MEASURE ALSO WOULD REQUIRE AMERICANS TO USE 36 BILLION GALLONS WORTH OF RENEWABLE FUELS BY 2022.
It was with a certain amount of chagrin that I posted this latest drivel from the boys and girls at the helm of this crazy nation. Seriously my friends, who do they think that […]

‘UNPRECEDENTED EFFORT TO STRANGLE CLEAN ENERGY’ UNDERWAY
Currently there is wending it’s way through Congress, a new bill, introduced by the Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Democrat Nick Rahall of West Virginia, which would “essentially outlaw the generation of electricity from new wind power plants in the United States and even phase out […]