When many people think of New Year’s resolutions, they brainstorm ways to improve themselves for the year ahead. What if we expanded those aspirations to include resolutions that benefit our communities, society and the planet, too? By Viniece Jennings, Agnes Scott College The Conversation It might not be a typical approach, but it can […]
Recent revelations about the speed and scale of nature’s decline are hard to truly comprehend. Not since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago has the diversity and abundance of life on Earth plunged so precipitously. David R Boyd, University of British Columbia The Conversation For decades, governments have signed treaties and made pledges to […]
Led by the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), a millennial-founded and driven group which empowers conservatives to re-engage on environmental conversations, 41 state college Republican chairmen signed a letter encouraging conservative action on clean energy and environmental issues. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News “A conservative approach to renewable energy, land conservation, sportsmen’s rights, and our agricultural system will allow America […]
Residents of New York state need not worry, there will be no fracking in New York. The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) banned the practice by issuing the final document needed to ban the practice. The state DEC has studied the controversial practice for seven years leading up to yesterday’s ban of high-volume […]
The important question going into this year’s State of the Union is, Will any of this matter? Will any of the proposals President Obama brings to the table tonight move forward, or will the GOP and their Tea Party hard-liners successfully continue to stand athward history, howling STOP! With both the House and Senate tied […]
We’ve got the streaming video for Tonigh’s State of the Union by President Obama, coming to you live at 9 pm Eastern/ 6 pm Pacific. Stay tuned for all the coverage…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5djtYZuqz_8&feature=share
Earth Day 1970 (Pogo via Walt Kelley) (Earth Day 1970 by Robert Leydenfrost, via Click Americana) ->Next Poster For the past 15 years, RedGREENandBlue has been bringing you the best of climate change and clean energy stories from the full spectrum, from progressive to conservative. Unfortunately, with the coronavirus meltdown, we lost our primary funding […]
Mitt Romney, the uneasy frontrunner in the Republican Presidential race, has a problem. He used to be a sane conservative who cared about people and the planet. And no matter how much he tries to act like a raving loony today, his past actions continue to bite him in the ass.
Well, he talked the talk. But when it comes to the environment, will President Obama be able to walk the walk? His jobs plan won’t do as much for the environment as earlier programs like tax credits for home solar and wind power installations.
Some of you sincerely believe that the only solution to our economic challenges is to simply cut most government spending and eliminate most government regulations.
…We shouldn’t be in a race to the bottom, where we try to offer the cheapest labor and the worst pollution standards. America should be in a race to the top. And I believe that’s a race we can win.
Bill McKibben may say he’s not going to attack President Obama, but other environmental activists aren’t being so shy.
At the Huffington Post, actor/director/activist Robert Redford asks, Is the Obama Administration Putting Corporate Profits Above Public Health?
When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I came out, it was two weeks after a mid-term election in which the forces of environmental good got a drubbing at the hands of the rich and powerful. Have things changed at all in the months since then? Not so much. So… what lessons can we take from Harry Potter and his intrepid bunch as they battle the ultimate in slimy evil overlords?
From our sister site, Planetsave, a great rundown of some of the weirder news of the week at the crossroads of politics and the environment…
This will be tricky… there’s a law on the books the prevents the dissemination of election results before all the polls are closed, and Canada is a biiig country.
Polls have closed in Newfoundland, but they won’t close in BC until 10 pm Eastern time. So we’ll report what we can as things trickle in.
More of our State of the Union Coverage: Environmental State of the Union The GOP SOTU Response: To Win The Future, We Must Return to the Past Here is the full text of President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union. Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the Union Address […]