]> http://www.greenedia.com/latest Green Politics Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/190223?rsstype=latest&cid=54 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel did not indicate that new housing plans in East Jerusalem would be canceled.... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:40:33 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/190223?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/190227?rsstype=latest&cid=54 A disputed plantation is owned by the extended family of a presidential candidate, Benigno Aquino III, whose mother started a land reform program.... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:10:19 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/190227?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/190229?rsstype=latest&cid=54 American officials have expressed concern privately that even a fair election might be made to appear unfair because of the slow vote count.... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:26:59 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/business-of-green/190229?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190110?rsstype=latest&cid=54 NRDC is working to get better protection for polar bears at the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES or the Convention ). For background on the Convention and what is at... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:59:43 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190110?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190037?rsstype=latest&cid=54 Another op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg, another Gish Gallup of non-stop disinformation. The good news is that the task of debunking the Septical Environmentalist (sic), has been made easier by the publication of whole book dedicated to that tedious task, T... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:48:30 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190037?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190050?rsstype=latest&cid=54 Doesn't it seem like President Obama was just elected? Well, he was, but alas there is no offseason in politics. The 2010 mid-terms are heating up and California Republican candidate Carly Fiorina is wasting no time going after Senator Barbara Boxer.... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:57:16 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190050?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/joel-makower-two-steps-forward/189873?rsstype=latest&cid=54 I've had the good fortune to view the world through a Japanese lens over the past 10 days specifically, the worlds of green business and clean technology, about which I've come to Japan to speak.My host is the U.S. State Department, whose Office ... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:09:33 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/joel-makower-two-steps-forward/189873?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190038?rsstype=latest&cid=54 Another vote, another win for the conservative majority on Texas' State Board of Education.Science is in a street fight with anti-science, as Nature has argued. Now the forces of the dark ages are taking on the Enlightenment itself.As the NYT repor... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:35:57 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190038?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190039?rsstype=latest&cid=54 I have been very critical of the scientist at the center of the email maelstrom (e-mailstrom?) Phil Jones for adopting the Tiger Woods approach to media relations (see With science journalism basically going out of existence, how ... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:12:03 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190039?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/190165?rsstype=latest&cid=54 A new Gallup poll shows that compared to three years ago, twice as many Americans believe that global warming's consequences are exaggerated.And in just the last year, there has been an increase in skepticism from 41% to 48%.The chart above shows a n... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:06:01 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/190165?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189728?rsstype=latest&cid=54 A good friend asked me the title question for this blog during the week. The question intrigued me enough to encourage some digging and computations. I would be interested in any questions that you have about the assumptions.Based on reading a number... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:15:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189728?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190056?rsstype=latest&cid=54 HVAC heat exchanger corrosion associated with Chinese drywall presence. Image credit:ChineseDrywall.comThis headline is certainly the meta-story that hovers above the request by Florida's Republican Governor for Federal money to cover the cost of re-... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:44:59 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190056?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190040?rsstype=latest&cid=54 You can't save daylight by moving around the hands on your clock, of course. So daylight saving time remains as absurdly named as it ever was.The general pointlessness of DST was the subject of a Rachel Maddow interview Friday (video below) with the ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:44:57 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190040?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190041?rsstype=latest&cid=54 Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) wants to pay for nuclear loan guarantees and clean energy incentives in exchange for one of our most precious natural treasures, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Kristen Miller of the Alaska Wilderness League has the ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:16:19 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190041?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-congress/189920?rsstype=latest&cid=54 One of Congress's most notoriously hawkish duos, Sen. John McCain [R, AZ] and Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT], recently introduced legislation in response to President Obama's decision to try Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day airplane bomber... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:03:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-congress/189920?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189729?rsstype=latest&cid=54 As a sworn defender of the Constitution of the United States, I believe in the importance of making decisions at the right level. Our Constitution does a wonderful job of assigning limited powers to the federal government while reserving the remainin... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:44:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/189729?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/real-climate/190030?rsstype=latest&cid=54 A letter from a reader (reproduced with permission):Dear RealClimate team:I have a background in biology and studied at post-grad level in the area of philosophy of science. For the last few years, I have been working on a book about the logic of arg... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:25 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/real-climate/190030?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190204?rsstype=latest&cid=54 (A quick little Friday afternoon note.)Discussion of planetary boundaries is pretty surreal everywhere these days, but in the United States, the disconnect between reality and rhetoric has reached what I think are pretty stunning proportions. Nowhere... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:55:18 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190204?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190063?rsstype=latest&cid=54 Image via SF GateOver at the San Francisco Chronicle, Dr. Peter Gleick, the president of the Pacific Institute has come up with the most believable argument against global warming that I've yet encountered. And so, I'll close out my Friday by sharing... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:09:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190063?rsstype=latest&cid=54 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-411/190194?rsstype=latest&cid=54 China's growing economic power is a growing concern for many Americans. Can the U.S. continue to compete with China in the global marketplace?In a new piece for Reuters, EDF President Fred Krupp says yes through the power of comprehensive cli... 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