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The Green Skeptic is a blog devoted to challenging assumptions about how we live on the earth and protect our environment. We have four focus areas: global climate change, social entrepreneurs, microfinance, and clean tech innovations.
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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeFor Canadian Thanksgiving (and because I'm busy with consulting work today and it's a holiday here in the States), I'm going to reblog one of my favorites Canadians Ty
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Can't you understand what's happening here? George Bailey says in It's a Wonderful Life, as the crowd gathers in the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan to make a run on their accounts. Don't you s
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We don't just need a bailout. We need a buildup, Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times last month. We need to get back to making stuff, based on real engineering not just financial engineerin
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Steve Rayner, climate policy expert and lead author of The Wrong Trousers: Radically Rethinking Climate Policy (PDF), is featured in this month's Wired Magazine. He's on the 2008 Smart List: 15 Peop
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Reggie Jackson may have been Mr. October, but there's a new RGGI in town.The states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) recently announced that the auctioning of carbon diox
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Image via WikiIt's bad enough they pimped affordable housing and encouraged lending institutions to give excessive mortgages to people who couldn't afford them.Then they played partisan politics with
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Image via WikipediaToday is Monday, September 29, 2008, a day that will live, well, infamy is not harsh enough for it...the bottom fell out and the Dow dropped to 10,365.45, -777.68 (or -6.98 percent
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Image via WikipediaVan Jones is one of my heroes, as readers of The Green Skeptic know. He has done some remarkable things at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and now is trying to focus attenti
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Image via WikipediaLate Tuesday afternoon the Senate voted to extend renewable energy tax credits for the wind and solar industries. The final tally: 92-3; a surprising slam dunk.Surprising because th
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Tonight, I was asked what does the New Green Economy look like?My answer was in part that last week the old economy finaly died after an incredible run.Now it is time for an economy that is built on s
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