Environment News

• Bikes and Streetcars Under Threat As The Suburban Car Loving Politicians Fight Back September 9, 2010
  Google the phrase "war on cars" and you will find that across North America, people are using the phrase to defend the happy motorized way of life. As one blog put it: Hiding behind the veil of environmentalism and "sustainability," a small number of activists are having a big influence on tax policy, urban planning, and government regula […]
• Could We Still Get a National Renewable Energy Standard This Year? September 9, 2010
  Image via Red, Green, and Blue What just a year ago seemed to be a weak alternative or a mere support beam to good carbon-reducing energy policy is now a pie-in-the-sky longshot. Pricing carbon emissions was the bedrock of the climate bill that passed the House of Representatives last year, and the Renewable Energy Standard that required utilities to get a p […]
• Mass Mobilization, Direct Action Needed Locally & Nationally to Stop Climate Change September 9, 2010
  photo: Takver via flickr Bill McKibben and friends are in a biodiesel van making the symbolic journey to the White House from the Maine college where Jimmy Carter's solar water heating panel has been residing for the past three decades, ultimately pressing the President to install donated solar PV panels, all as part of an effort to reinvigorate the env […]