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Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman has two recent NYT op-ed pieces, It's Easy Being Green and Cassandras of Climate. Krugman points out that the reason we (the whole world, but most clearly the ...

I've pretty much given up on the mega-corporate media as sources of objective information with one exception -- they do report objectively on the subjective. They trumpet conventional attitudes and ...

A new, significant and potentially very useful report makes reference to an aquarium full of hamsters connected to rudimentary motors producing a lot of frantic running, a lot of sweat and heat but ...

Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a representative of the Bipartisan Policy Center (who? should I trust anyone whose first name claims to be "bipartisan"? is this like some ...

When you've got a personality like mine, you get used to being alone. A lot. (Actually, it's kind of peaceful, once you get used to it.) A recent iteration of solitude came as a result of charter ...

Okay, maybe it's just me. (Mrs. R. tells me it often is.) But a recent item I received from Environmental Leader (a business-focused environmental newsletter) kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Not ...

So, today's the day after P-Day. As in "Plan Day." As in "Climate Action Plan due date." For charter signatories of the Presidents Climate Commitment, yesterday was the ...

This morning, I awoke to the voice of Steven Chu on NPR. I'll want to go back and listen to the piece again this evening -- any pronouncement to the media (national media, particularly) by any ...

There are, I'm sure we can all agree, at least enough stories in the general media about how the economy's doing. It's an easy story for today's journalists to put together (statistics are published ...

I've been keeping a low profile for the past couple of weeks, because I've been involved with people from across campus getting Greenback's Climate Action Plan ready to submit. The Climate Action ...