Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
When rumors began swirling around the green blogosphere, first at Greendig, that Van Jones would be named Green Czar (a story they later pulled back from a bit, awaiting an official announcement), then at Grist, and WSJ’s Environmental Capital, I was immediately reminded of what our very own David Anderson, founder of Green Options Media, wrote back in October.
Do you drink raw milk? Unless you milk your own cow, the answer is probably no since the sale of raw milk is illegal in about half of the United States. Ron Paul would like to change that law.
Cadbury’s, the firm which makes Diary Milk, Britain’s highest-selling chocolate has said that it wants the bar to be Fairtrade certified by the autumn of this year.
The increased investments must reach the start up companies producing second and third generation biofuels. While investing billions in the sector it must be ensured that the food crops are not diverted to meet the extra 5 percent demand.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a group of young Europeans at the European Parliament in Brussels today that the global economic downturn provided a fresh new opportunity.
The United States needs to act proactively and pass a climate policy as soon as possible in order to pressurize developing nations to agree to mandatory emission cuts under the next international climate treaty.
The Clean Coal discussion is not as simple as anyone (on either side of the propaganda machine) wants to make it out to be. To quote Bruce Niles from the Sierra Club: “Clean Coal means different things to different people.” If clean coal is what the coal industry wants, it’s already here. Environmental scientists agree that Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) has some potential to make coal cleaner. But that nuance is lost in this discussion.
How will the market for ‘green products’ be affected by this recession?
Al Gore has thrown his weight behind a new social venture to secure the .eco domain name. By financing “groundbreaking environmental initiatives that have a real, positive impact on our environment,” Dot Eco LLC claims the new .eco domain will be more than just a label.
The optimistic are calling it Gordbama, in the same vein as Brangelina: a relationship not between two of the world’s most beautiful people but between two heavyweight intellectuals … but can it save the planet?
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