Category Archives: advocacy

endorsement of a cause or action, especially the act of pleading or arguing for it

Coaltopia

The major problem is encouraging greater use of a product that, in the future, is leading to the end of life on this planet as we know it.

Why climate change doesn’t spark moral outrage, and how it could

“unlike financial fraud or terrorist attacks,” (the Robber Barons, which decide what and what is not terrorism, want you to believe that “climate change does not register, emotionally, as a wrong that demands to be righted.”

The Food Stamp Nation

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Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather.

Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C., “Smoking Causes Cancer. Carbon Pollution Causes Extreme Weather. “It really doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.” We dump billions of tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere each year. As a result, the concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by 40%. Excess carbon [...]

New York’s Energy Highway

The Grid is critical to the development of more clean energy.

NREL Study Shows 80 Percent Renewables Possible By 2050

“Getting to 80 percent renewables efficiently suggests the need for construction of 110-190 million miles of new transmission and 47-80,000 miles of new intertie capacity across the three interconnections. This would cost anywhere from $6.4 to $8.4 billion annually. However, this is in line with recent annual investments of $2 billion to $9 billion annually from 1995-2008. So, the new infrastructure demands are well in line with our national trajectory.”

“The Future We Want”

“pleading for the rights of her generation and of generations to come.”

300,000 in Quebec demonstrate against climate change

People demonstrated peacefully with a strong message: “We are the citizens and this is our land. We get to decide what to do.”

A Shared Concern with Declining Himalayan Glaciers

Praful Bidwai gives a wakeup call.

Home Rule Democracy? Whiskey Tango Frack?

“Fracking? It’s all about water,” states the author, Ellen Cantarow

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