Our Dying Forests

by hold tight

Subhankar Banerjee has a post up on Huffington Post in support of Barbara Boxer's re-election campaign in California. (See Dante Atkins' front page story about her debate with Carly Fiorina last week.)
Banerjee's post is a good one, but the best part was sending us to his new website.

After the U.S. Senate killed the climate bill in late July, many of us were disappointed (but not surprised). We pointed our fingers to what went wrong and why our climate movement failed, but then we got to work to figure out how to move forward. Just a few days ago I founded ClimateStoryTellers.org that you can check out.

What a gifted writer! And what a story he has brought together about our dying forests, both here in North America and around the world.

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"Renewing a" misguided "commitment"?

by A Siegel

Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced a $50 billion investment in the nation's transportation infrastructure with an infrastructure investment bank to come to support future investments. There is much of value to this program, from the very simple reality that there is a huge back-log of investment requirements to repair the nation's infrastructure (let alone bring it to the 21st century) to the nearer term value of providing employment to people across the country.  Our roads are in lousy condition with too large a number of dangerous bridges. Our airports can be better.   Our rail system is a shadow of what it could and should be.   In other words, at least on first glance, needed investment with shorter and longer term benefits.

One small item, however, set the alarm bells ringing:

ROADS: Rebuild 150,000 miles of  roads – renewing our commitment to the backbone of our transportation  system;

Take a look at this.  The first item is focused on our road network with a dedication to "renewing our commitment to the backbone of our transportation  system."

Considering the damage that our addiction to oil does our economy, health, security, environment, etc ..., should we "renewing our commitment"?

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Congressional Candidates’ Views on Clean Energy, Climate Change: FL-24

by NRDCActionFund

Originally posted on The MarkUp.

This is the tenth article in a continuing series by the NRDC Action Fund on the environmental stances of candidates in key races around the country.

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Help Obama put solar (back) on the White House

by Bill McKibben

Amid the heated rhetoric about the administration that’s dominating the site at the moment, here’s a potential chance to help with a very concrete project.

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BP Catastrophe Liveblog Mothership: 105

by Gulf Watchers

Please rec the new Mothership #106 here. This one has expired.
The current ROV DIARY: Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #366 - Waiting for the Kill - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - peraspera

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PLEASE visit Pam LaPier's diary to find out how you can help the Gulf now and in the future. We don't have to be idle! And thanks to Crashing Vor and Pam LaPier for working on this!

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