The executive energy on the environment may be one of the biggest silver linings of the gridlock in Congress. Yesterday, Obama announced plans to to ban commercial fishing and drilling in an vast area of the Pacific, a move that would double the amount of the world’s protected ocean: The area covered by the proposal would bring the Pacific Remote Islands … Continue reading Obama’s Second Term Green Revolution
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The photo of the Iranian men wearing green hijabs to honor Majid Tavakoli made me think of the great Middle English epic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Drum's pitch for the climate bill: [H]ere's what I think is the overriding reason to support W-M despite its flaws: even if it's weak, and even if the rest of the world doesn't join in immediately, it starts to align incentives in the United States in favor of inventing and deploying green technologies. (Ditto for … Continue reading The Other Green Revolution
Tonight @ 23:00 Karoubi will meet his supporters in Tajrish square/Tehran. CONFIRMED BY BBC PERSIAN, PLEASE TELL EVERYONE TO JOIN THEM: MOUSAVI, KAROUBI & KHATAMI WILL BE AT THE PROTEST.www.presstv.ir is DOWN by u'r Denial of service attacks. Many other governmental sites are down too. Everybody in office is happy about this Former president khatami … Continue reading Tweets From the Green Revolution: A Turning Tide?
This is not the first time I have heard this:Hospitals around Tehran are surrounded by security forces who refuse to let those with injuries pass, humanity at its worst Friend: 17 y/o killed infront of me couldn't get to him in time guards beating us up went to hospital but he stopped moving
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My Father has a truck load of ballot boxes that were to be burned in the back of his truck.
i eats some pills and wanna sleep and i scared that if they can find me …i going…thx for your supports….
typing as fastest as I can in bth English&Farsi,Still we need outside help,I really don't want to be captured by Ansar
Once again I thank everyone in the world. No matter if Ahmadi stays or not, I'm proud to have clasped such supportive hands.
URGENT JUST IN, there r TANKS in front of the interior ministry of tehran in valiasr st. & fatemi CAREFUL
I can't find my friends on streets.
Rasht, glass splinters on the streets, riot police not hesitating to beat men, women and even kids
From Enghelab Sq friend just call me, Police & unknown forces beating everybody for no apparent reason!
Correction, no bus burned, but three cars.
dawn is breaking. can hear prayers from mosques.
Part 1 is already legislated. And it was a bigger deal than some of us realized: With all the billions and trillions Washington is allotting to this or that ailing bank or insurance company these days, it's important to have some perspective on how big a figure $38 billion really is when you're talking about … Continue reading Obama’s Stealth Green Revolution
Yesterday’s big news was the release of a remarkable document detailing the deliberations so far of the Synod on the Family, a gathering of Roman Catholic bishops called by Pope Francis to grapple with issues such as homosexuality and divorce and remarriage among church members. My take (that it’s a truly BFD that I didn’t … Continue reading Yes, This Is A Pastoral Revolution, Ctd
Jim Manzi recently repeated his belief that government-funded innovation is the best weapon we have against climate change. Chait accused Manzi and his ilk of being all talk. Samuel Thernstrom of the Energy Innovation Reform Project sticks up for Manzi: It is true that one of the unfortunate costs of the Obama administration’s ill-advised investments in Solyndra and other bad bets in their effort … Continue reading Which Party Will Lead The Energy Revolution? Ctd
Jim Manzi recently praised America’s innovation-heavy approach to climate change. Chait admits that the “embrace of new environmental technology does represent genuine differentiation from the mindless scientific denialism and reflexive sneering at green energy that is the mainstream Republican position.” But he claims that Manzi and other reform conservatives, aka “reformicons,” lack a coherent agenda: In a 2007 National Review cover story, … Continue reading Which Party Will Lead The Energy Revolution?
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