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Climate Change Isn't Just About Energy; It's About National Priorities - Truthout - All Articles

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Alaska Natives are in danger and need to be relocated due to warming Arctic weather, but the US government is dragging its feet.

Polls show conservatives on average are much more likely to doubt the existence of anthropogenic, or human-influenced, climate changes, a stance that usually means opposition to regulatory action on greenhouse gas emissions.

Brian Baird: “This is not government mind control” - Grist Magazine

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Representative Baird. There aren’t many psychologists in Congress (though many members could probably use one), so Rep. Brian Baird (D) brings a unique perspective. He has a PhD in clinical psychology and published two books in the field before coming to D.C. to deal with dysfunctions of a different sort. He has represented Washington’s 3rd congressional district for 12 years, but after this year, he’s calling it quits and heading back home. Before he retires, he hopes to help his colleagues understand the critical role that human behavior can play in reducing energy use. To change the way Americans use energy, he argues, we need to better understand how they make decisions. Hint: It’s not just about money. I chatted ...

The 1,000 Day Siege of Gaza - Common Dreams: Views

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by Ann Wright

This week marked 1,000 days of an Israeli and international siege on Gaza - 1,000 days of an open air prison where "inmates," the civilian Palestinian population of 1.5 million, cannot leave or enter at will - by land, sea or air, the tiny area known as the Gaza Strip.

Obama and the Denial of Genocide - Common Dreams: Views

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by Stephen Zunes

The Obama administration, citing its relations with Turkey, has pledged to block the passage in the full House of Representatives of a resolution passed this past Thursday by the Foreign Relations Committee acknowledging the 1915 genocide by the Ottoman Empire of a 1.5 million Armenians. Even though the Obama administration previously refused to acknowledge and even worked to suppress well-documented evidence of recent war crimes by Israel, another key Middle Eastern ally, few believed that the administr

NDP MPs block anti-free speech resolution - rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

murray dobbin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

On Thursday, a number of NDP MPs denied the unanimous consent of the House of Commons required to hear a motion from a Conservative back-bencher which would have condemned Israeli Apartheid Week. Risking the wrath of the vicious and well-funded Zionist lobby in Canada took courage as that lobby has managed to cow Michael Ignatieff and Liberals who run for cover whenever they are called upon to act with integrity on the Palestinian issue. No Liberals denied unanimous consent. read ...

Las Vegas condo foreclosures - WireTap Magazine

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Las Vegas homes for sale - Las Vegas Foreclosures - Las Vegas condo foreclosures

Palo Alto Foreclosures - WireTap Magazine

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

How to find the best deal Part 1.

Las Vegas foreclosures have steadily increased over the past 2 years. More than 58,000 Las Vegas properties received a foreclosure filing during on the 2 quarters of 2009, that’s a 22 percent increase from the prior previous six months and over 50% percent increase from the 2 quarters of of 2009.

Andy Kroll: Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

Andy Kroll — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

With easy credit and the buy-now-pay-tomorrow culture that it spawned in the dustbin of history, the Ponzis and pyramid schemes of the past decade can be seen for what they really were.

Harry Reid, the New Public Lands Enemy No. 1 - NewWest.Net Politics

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

UPDATED Friday, March 12, 1 pm: I used this headline once before when writing about Mark Rey, former Bush Administration Undersecretary of Agriculture and boss of the Forest Service. Prior to Rey’s Reign of Terror, California Republican Congressmen Richard Pombo held the honor of being the biggest enemy of public lands. Voters booted him in 2006, but he’s back, running for Congress again this year. Now, we have a new Public Lands Enemy No. 1, none other than current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

4th Annual Green Building Survey - Resource Efficiency | GreenBiz.com

GreenerBuildings Staff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

This survey of more than 1,600 design and construction professionals in the U.S. charts their latest perceptions and practices regarding green building -- and compares them to attitudes and activities before and during the Great Recession.

Robert Gibbs: Health Care Will Be 'Law Of The Land' Next Week; Axelrod To GOP: 'Make My Day' - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

Alexander Belenky — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The White House is beginning its final push on health care this week, with senior adviser David Axelrod and press secretary Robert Gibbs making the...

Support for Green Building, LEED Slip Slightly But Remain Strong Despite Downturn - Energy & Climate | Greenbiz.com

GreenerBuildings Staff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Support for green construction and LEED certification dipped slightly in 2009 but remains strong across the past three years despite the recession, according to the latest green building survey by Allen Matkins, Constructive Technologies Group and the Green Building Insider.

Zero Net Energy Live/Work Showcase Opens Doors to Public - Energy & Climate | Greenbiz.com

GreenerBuildings Staff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A LEED-Platinum rated zero net energy live/work unit opens its doors to the public today before a deal closes to buy the unique property near the Oakland Estuary.

Dodd May Toughen CFPA In Financial Regulatory Reform Bill - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

Arthur Delaney — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

To consumer advocates, it's essential that an agency charged with protecting borrowers is able not just to write rules for industries that extend credit, but...

Jene Newsome Discharged: Rapid City Police Told Air Force That Sergeant Was Lesbian - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

T.J. Ortenzi — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable...

Eco-Dentists Aim to Clean and Green - GreenBiz.com

GreenBiz Staff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

With 500 members in 42 states and 11 countries, the Eco-Dentistry Association has launched a certification program for green dental practices and named its two inaugural recipients.

14 dead, 27,000 homeless in Madagascar storm - The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Environment News

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Antananarivo - A storm on Madagascar left 14 people dead, 27,000 homeless and thousands of houses damaged after ravaging the tropical island, national television reported Saturday. The region around the town of Mananjary was hit the hardest on Friday...

UN Appeal for Haitian Quake Relief Only Half Funded - Common Dreams: Headlines

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Two months after the ruinous January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations' $1.44 billion revised humanitarian appeal for the country is only 49 percent funded, UN officials said today.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, says humanitarian work is picking up speed, but emergency shelter and sanitation are still urgently needed ahead of the rainy season. Steady rains could come as soon as the end of March, and hurricane season starts in June.

Robert Rubin Should Be Doing Hard Labor: Instead He's Trying to Resurrect Himself - AlterNet.org: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Robert Rubin put in place all the pieces that set up the economy for the disaster that we are now living through. Why can't he get off the stage?

UN Appeal for Haitian Quake Relief Only Half Funded - ENS

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

UN Appeal for Haitian Quake Relief Only Half Funded

Chicken vs Egg: Does Suburban Sprawl Represent the Free Market or Over-Regulation? Neither. - TreeHugger

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The notion appeals especially to people who like to think they'll be in charge after the revolution. They would apparently love nothing more than for the population to be confined to Soviet-style concrete-block high-rises and be forced to take state-run streetcars to their little jobs at the ...

Will London 2012 Be The Greenest Olympics? - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Katherine Goldstein — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Vancouver was praised for hosting the "greenest Olympics ever" with LEED certified buildings, the use of recaptured gas and the construction of a hydrogen highway....

Eco-Dentists Aim to Clean and Green - Resource Efficiency | GreenBiz.com

GreenBiz Staff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

With 500 members in 42 states and 11 countries, the Eco-Dentistry Association has launched a certification program for green dental practices and named its two inaugural recipients.

Dems Confident That Senate Parliamentarian Was 'Misinterpreted' On Reconciliation - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

Sam Stein — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Congressional Democrats are confident that reports of a largely damaging ruling by the Senate parliamentarian with respect to passing health care reform were either overplayed...

Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era - Truthout.com

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade -- call it the Ponzi Era -- has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast wave of financial fraud swelled in the first years of the new century. Then, in 2008, with the subprime mortgage collapse, it crashed on the shore as a full-scale global economic meltdown. As that wave receded, it left hundreds of Ponzi and pyramid schemes, as well as other get-rich-quick rackets that helped fuel our recent economic frenzy, flopping on the beach. read ...