Everyone with lungs should be in support of the Sierra Club and what they’ve done with their campaign called “Beyond Coal,” which has brought the awareness of the issue to tens of millions of Americans who otherwise would have been …
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More About the Fits and Starts in Electric Transportation
An esteemed colleague comments on my post called Fits and Starts in Electric Transportation: I hope we can agree Craig that the only long term solution is to have electrified transportation powered by renewable energy. I choose to be a part of …
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Gratitude for Holiday Gifts to Our Environment
Here’s a beautiful piece on environmentalism – climate change in particular – written within the context of holiday gifts. The author, Rebecca Solnit, celebrates the gifts we received, like the Sierra Club’s success with its Beyond Coal campaign, which, she …
Tomorrow’s U.S. Election Actually Does Matter
I don’t know how many readers are in the Sierra Club’s email database. If you are, you just saw this come across the wire: Tuesday will be the single most decisive day for America’s environment for years — perhaps ever. …
A Changing Ethos: What Happens When It's Cool To Be Green?
My friend Tom Konrad of AltEnergyStocks.com responds to my piece earlier today on the effectiveness of the Sierra Club’s attack on coal. He writes: While I strongly support the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign, and feel it has made a …
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Environmental Groups Are Often Quite Effective
One of the things that gives me hope for the world is that the protests of individuals and groups have the potential to be extremely effective. For example, what the Sierra Club has done with coal is amazing to me. …
Energy Policy and the Skyrocketing Rates of Certain Childhood Diseases
Over the years, I’ve learned that the most productive way to deal with climate change deniers is to point out that global warming is only one of half-a-dozen reasons to knock off our dependence on coal and oil. “Just pick …
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U.S. Carbon Emissions Have Fallen Sharply
Earth Policy Institute’s Lester R. Brown credits the Sierra Club and other activist groups for creating the conditions under which U.S. carbon emissions have fallen precipitously over the last couple of years – largely due to our new-found distaste for …
