A Climate Plan for the New Administration
Obama has said he plans to move forward with legislation to address global warming. But he needn't wait to get started. Laws already on the books provide authority for swift Presidential action.
I recently tried out the Voltaic generator bag, a laptop bag with a solar panel on one side. Let me ask you this at the outset: Do you have roof access?
Obama has said he plans to move forward with legislation to address global warming. But he needn't wait to get started. Laws already on the books provide authority for swift Presidential action.
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles. They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. And, well, now they're coming to a school system (maybe) near you.
Recent callers to the Corrugated Packaging Council's recycling information line were greeted with a pleasant "Hey there, sexy guy," and offered a variety of, well, eager conversationalists.
Based on the outcome of the last international agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, we shouldn't wait around for an international treaty to save the day.
The Times defined Carol Browner as "an acolyte of former Vice President Al Gore." The Clinton administration paid little attention to environmental issues and accomplished less.
Many families now find themselves trapped in a cycle of debt that virtually renders them the indentured servants of commercial banks that engage in a form of legalized usury.
Yes, Hanukkah candles drip. There are always distractions from every family ritual, but try to "be in the moment." Don't slip into "freak-out" mode just because something isn't going as planned.
There has been an effort to minimize the importance of a new congressional report about the probabilities of another catastrophic domestic terrorist attack.
Going through the insult of chemotherapy is bad enough. But discovering that it could be undermined by a hazard the FDA refuses to regulate makes it worse.
In an extraordinary press conference yesterday, Obama conveyed a sense that our new government is about to lead us out of our long and hapless wanderings in the desert of fossil fuel enslavement.
Reduced consumption has sent the price of oil plummeting from record highs. In other words, energy efficiency is the gift that keeps on giving.
Chu represents the essence of Obama's approach. He's someone with the intelligence and empiricism to see that the status quo is unacceptable and that radical change is the only sensible -- pragmatic -- response.