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Morgan Freeman on Disaster Preparedness

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 08.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Hurricanes, Fema, Natural Disasters, Morgan Freeman, Environment, Grenada, Coastal Flooding, Hurricane Katrina, Sierra Club, Batman, Green News

Sierra spoke with Freeman about PlanIt Now, a nonprofit he founded after Hurricane Ivan hit Grenada in 2004 that works to help people in the Gulf Coast and Caribbean ready their families and businesses for big storms.

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Sierra Club RAW: Bachmann Drilling Overdrive (And Other Assorted Idiocy)

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota personifies just how haywire House conservatives have gone lately, particularly on energy issues.

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"No Comment" from McCain on Bush's Evisceration of Endangered Species Act

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Bruce Babbitt, John McCain, War on the West. Dirk Kempthorne, George W. Bush, League of Conservation Voters, Department of Interior, Jim Leach Obama, Clear Skies, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Richard Pombo, Lincoln Chaffee, Jim Leach, Endangered Species, Sierra Club, Endangered Species Act, Green News

While environmentalists and the public at large have been almost singularly focused on energy issues when it comes to the environment and the presiden...

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Something Is Rotten at the EPA

Javier Sierra | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Latinos, Energy, Gas Prices, Environmental Protection Agency, Javier Sierra, Epa, Environment, Stephen Johnson, Renewable Energy, Henry Waxman, Hispanics, Sierra Club, Global Warming, Green News

The EPA is charged with keeping our communities safe from environmental degradation, something we Latinos know first hand. Sixty-six percent of us live dangerously close to a toxic site.

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Sierra Club RAW: Last Week's Campaign McMeltdown

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Green

Read More: John Mccain Sturgis, John McCain, Enrico Fermi Generating Station, Nuclear Power, Mccain Gaffes, No Nukes Campaign, China Syndrome, Sierra Club, Move On, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Meltdown, Exxonmccain, Green News

The McCain campaign visited the Enrico Fermi nuclear generating station in Michigan -- the site of a 1966 partial meltdown that resulted in the coining of the phrase "China Syndrome."

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Green Edge 6: The Case for Organic Cotton

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Pesticide Action Network, Iseal, Green, Organic Exchange, Environmental Protection Administration, Organic Cotton, Ifoam, Organic, Barack Obama, Helvetas, Naturland, Ioas, Sierra Club, Green News

At the Organic World Congress in Modena, two researchers for the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), Alexandra Perschau and Damien Sanfilippo, list the pr...

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Sierra Club RAW: John McCain, Big Oil's Bestie as Record Profits (and Campaign Cash) Roll In

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, John McCain, Big Oil, Exxon Mobil, Oil Profits, Obama, Sierra Club, Business News

After hitting a real gusher of campaign cash from Big Oil, what does McCain propose to do about high gas prices and obscene oil company profits? Why, he wants to give Big Oil a Texas-sized tax cut.

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A Drilled Reputation

Javier Sierra | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Gas Prices, Mccain Energy Policy, Sierra Club, Global Warming, Offshore Drilling, Green News

The environmental movement calls on McCain to support the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008, which would repeal subsidies from Big Oil and increase funding for renewables, efficiency and conservation.

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Sierra Club RAW: McCain's Greatest Energy Misses Summer Tour

Josh Dorner | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: John McCain, Big Oil, Sierra Club, Exxon Mobil, Offshore Drilling, Green News

Since McCain has already taken his misbegotten road show to the sites of some our nation's greatest energy misses, we wonder if maybe next he'll stop by Three Mile Island?

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Stephen Colbert Rails On Treehuggers--Especially Carl Pope

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert and Carl Pope, The Colbert Report, Environment, Carl Pope, Colbert Report, Sierra Club, Green News

"Have you ever gone all the way with a tree?" . . . one of several hard-hitting, inappropriate and consistently hilarious questions Stephen Colbert throws at Huffington Post Green's star blogger and Sierra Club executive director, Carl Pope. Colbert aired an interview with Pope this past Monday night, during his sidesplitting fake-news show, "The Colbert Report."

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Styrofoam Statue Of Liberty Draws Outrage From Environmentalists

Earthfirst | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Statue of Liberty, Waste, Styrofoam, Pollution, Sierra Club, Green News

Perhaps it's a fitting tribute to a country that wore the 'Biggest Polluter' crown for so long: a 130-foot, 50,000-lb replica of the Statue of Liberty...

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Airtime in Cleveland

Carl Pope | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: United Steelworkers Endorse Obama, Sierra Club, Cleveland, Barack Obama, Politics News

If Obama were in the White House there wouldn't be any doubt that we would be pushing wind, solar, and a host of new energy technologies to the forefront.

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Carl Pope, Van Jones Discuss What Drives Green Revolution

bravenation.com | Posted 06.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Carl Pope, Green Living, Green for All, Sierra Club, Van Jones, Green News

In any other profession, Carl Pope might be considered a "company man." He has worked loyally and tirelessly in the name of the Sierra Club for thirt...

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McCain on the Plane

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, Bill Scher, John McCain, Environment, Carl Pope, Sierra Club, Global Warming, Oil Companies, Cindy McCain, John McCain Environmental Policy, Politics News

When the Senate is about to vote on a provision affecting the oil companies, John McCain has a certain favorite place he loves to be: his wife's private jet.

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A Good Day for the Critters

Carl Pope | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Tejon Ranch, Wilderness, Sierra Club, Home News

The past few days have seen two dramatic victories for wild places and wildlife. Both are a tribute to the grassroots efforts of Sierra Club volunteer...

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One Dozen Governments Will Fall

Anya Kamenetz | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Global Warming, Environmentalism, Sierra Club, Finance, Investment Banks, Presidential Politics, Climate Change, Politics News

There's such a frustrating gap with global warming between what's available and possible and what we are actually acting on. And the cost of acting is far less than the cost of inaction, even in strict money terms.

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Green Livelihoods and the Planet's Future

Carl Pope | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: India, Sierra Club, Ipcc, Global Warming, Climate Change, Bombay, Politics News

The Sierra Club has announced its first major overseas initiative -- a $100,000 prize to be given annually in India to the grassroots organization that does the best work developing and creating green livelihoods.

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A Green Deal?

Carl Pope | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sierra Club, Green Jobs, Climate Change, Global Warming, Blue-Green Alliance, Pittsburgh, Environment, Environmentalism, Politics News

The press still doesn't get it. They continue to cover the Blue-Green Alliance as if it were a brand new idea. But that's fine -- as long as they think our story is a new one, they'll keep telling it for us.

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A Tax to Remember

Carl Pope | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: State Parks, Education, Leave No Child, New Mexico, Taxes, Leave No Child Inside, TV Tax, Environment, Environmentalism, Video Game Tax, Environmental Alliance of New Mexico, Obesity, Sierra Club, Childhood Obesity, Politics News

A coalition in NM has a new strategy to help get American kids back outdoors: a one-percent sales tax on TV and video games to fund outdoor education programs.

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Death By a Thousand Paper Cuts

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.29.2007 | Business

Read More: China Products, Outsourcing, Dumping, Chinese Paper Companies, Outsourcing to China, United Steelworkers, Vinson & Elkins, Imports, International Trade Commission, Sierra Club, Paper Companies, Newpage Corp, Itc, Business News

Apparently the Bush administration and the ITC have never conceived of what America will be like when all her paper mills are silent, when she's unable to make anything anymore because everything is made in China.

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Chaparral & Global Warming Footnotes

Chris McGowan | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics

Read More: Santa Anas, Wildfires, Sierra Club, Al Gore, Chaparral, John Muir, Global Warming, Politics News

On October 24, I published the blog Global Warming Not Behind SoCal Fires. Many readers disagreed passionately, and I found myself, a card-carrying Si...

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Raising the Bar

Carl Pope | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Salt Lake City, Seattle, Transit, Global Warming, Cement Global Warming, Seattle Global Warming, Global Warming Amendments, New Highways, Sierra Club, Seattle Highways, Politics News

Voters are waking up, and new polling indicates that Washington state may score another first: turning down a roads proposal because of its impact on global warming.

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Brighter Skies in New Mexico

Carl Pope | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: New Mexico Solar Power, Pete Domenici, Domenici, New Mexico, Sierra Club, Solar Power, Sierra Club Solar Power, Politics News

The New Mexico license plate features a sun, so it's ironic that the single biggest obstacle to more support for solar energy has been Senator Pete Domenici.

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