boston.com - 11/30/2008
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The worldwide economic crisis is prompting a growing number of countries to back away from pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions and invest in clean energy, just a week before the start of talks in Poland on a new worldwide climate change treaty. In the United States, some business groups are ...
boston.com - 12/2/2008
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Jim Martin, the Democrat vying for the US
Senate seat in Georgia, posed with rappers (from left)...
T.I., Young Jeezy, and Ludacris during a campaign rally in Atlanta. Jim Martin, the Democrat vying for the US Senate seat in Georgia, posed with rappers ...
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Georgia Senate race tests Obama - The Boston Globe
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No Dark Cloud without a Darker Lining
Daily Kos —
... The economic crisis is not a reason to back off from daring changes in environmental regulations. This is the time to demand a fundamentally new game. ...
Tackling Major Problems Simultaneously Via "A Big Plan"
Open Left - Front Page —
... of the problems listed above. How about a nation connected by high speed electric rail? Joe Biden is for it. How about downtowns accessible by rail, by bike, by foot but not accessible by car (helps with fitness too)? How about an auto industry that begins to phase out gas-powered cars and is required to immediately increase production of electric cars? We're paying for that industry's survival anyway. What else? Please put some bones on this "green new deal" in comments.
Obama's Version of a "Green New Deal" Emerging
Open Left - Front Page —
... for this may be hard to come by when companies are struggling to survive. Still, the arguments in favor seem to be winning so far. Here's some great material on the emerging "Green New Deal": United Nations Environment Programme New Economics Foundation Newsweek 1 Newsweek 2 The Nation The Economist (a very skeptical take) Jon Taplan triplepundit IHT Boston Globe Spiegel Plenty Gristmill Incidentally, the ...
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