Published on May 9th, 2008
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We learned it in Kindergarten–”If you make a mess, CLEAN IT UP!”
Especially if that mess is the gasoline additive MTBE, a possible carcinogen that has leaked into our groundwater. It’s been around since 1979 (ironically, when I was in kindergarten) and is now banned in 23 states, and has not been used by oil companies since 2006.
For more on the 423 million dollar law suit requiring Big Oil to pay big money, check out this article in Grist–after you take a peek my cartoon, of course…
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Published on May 3rd, 2008
HG Wells said, “When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the human race.” I agree.
Hate rising gas prices? Ride your bike! In cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam they seem to outnumber cars. Portland and Chicago are catching up. People of all ages, all over the world ride them daily to school, work, the store, a friend’s house…
It’s THE #1 solution to rising gas prices, yet our fearless leader won’t even mention it.
Stupid, weak, bicycle lobbying groups…
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Published on April 25th, 2008
Melting ice makes life difficult for those who live on it. Just ask the Polar Bear. There are endless signs of the reality of climate change (global warming). Few more definitive than the plight of the polar bear.
There’s great info in this Treehugger article by our very own Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, and the NRDC has created polarbearSOS.org so you can get involved and stay informed about the reality of climate change as it relates to the polar bear.
Life as they once new it, is ending. And they never had the opportunity to see it coming…
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Published on April 19th, 2008
The National Resource Defense Council keeps a Bush Record here. I was reading the section on National Forests and Roadless Areas and was relieved to think his reign of environmental destruction will soon come to an end.
Then I thought–damn, he did a lot of damage in 8 years!!!
Then I thought of this…
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Published on April 11th, 2008
…while Mother Nature plays the streets for chump change.
Even in this economic down turn, oil companies are still making record profits!
Is it sad that I dream of a day when we are exploited by the renewable energy industry?
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Published on April 6th, 2008
This cartoon popped in my head after reading colleague Tim Hurst’s article “Feds Issue Waiver of Environmental Rules for Border Fence” in Red Green and Blue last week.
Other motivation for this cartoon comes from the historical (and current) treatment of native Americans, and this unsourced quote from MAD Magazine: “The suburbs are where they cut down all the trees and then name the streets after them!”
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Published on March 29th, 2008
Both of our “green” democratic candidates were recently heard stumping for “clean” coal technologies! I have two big problems with this: 1. There is no such thing as “clean” coal (see #2), And, 2. We are decades away from clean “coal” technology being widely deployed anyway. In the same amount of time we could deploy an arsenal of solar and wind farms that could give us a similar amount of electricity without the mercury, carbon, and particulate pollution. All the while, keeping our mountains in tact!
“Clean” Coal is a joke — so this cartoon pretty much writes itself…
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Published on March 22nd, 2008
This cartoon was inspired by Bush’s recent intervention to weaken limits of smog-forming ozone in our air.
John Walke, the Clean Air director for the National Resources Defense Council, called the intervention an “unprecedented and unlawful act of political interference”.
With all due respect Mr. Walke, after the past 7 years unprecedented and unlawful moves seem to be the norm.
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Published on March 15th, 2008
Editor’s note: Political cartoons are a staple of editorial pages and other websites focused on politics, and we’re delighted to bring you the first of our own series of cartoons from our own “Mean Joe Green” Mohr.
Of course, we greenies would love a presidential candidate that took a strong-handed, common sense approach to addressing the myriad of environmental issues facing the planet, and did so with the energy and intensity it deserves.
We don’t.
But we do have these three…
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