City Councilman, Staunton, Virginia
“Do you work on Wall Street?” asks the interviewer with MoveOn.org. “I do,” answers a man in a suit, his face blurred out by the camera. It turns out that he’s a lawyer. Q. Are you afraid of being seen at the march? A. I wouldn’t really like my colleagues to see me here. Q. [...]
People who care about climate change and peak oil have long despaired of convincing their national governments to take decisive action or even, in some cases, to acknowledge that there’s a problem. Now, the world’s democracies seem to be losing the confidence of their citizens to deal with the economic crisis too. Following on the [...]
September 11 anniversary, meet Obama’s jobs speech. First attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, meet worst economy since the Great Depression. Day of rememberance, meet forgettable presidential address. A few bold gestures, but no FDR or JFK moment. And nothing on the energy crisis that caused the recession in the first place. Occasion for [...]
I’m their target audience. I already care about climate change. And I don’t like Big Oil. Yet, it took Bill McKibben and more than 150 other activists getting arrested at the White House for me to finally care about the tar sands pipeline. Before that, I had five reasons to leave this particular issue to somebody [...]
Today’s energy crunch is starting to look more and more like the energy crisis of the late 1970s. But if President Obama doesn’t want to end up like Jimmy Carter, maybe he should consider actually taking a page out of Carter’s playbook and start leveling with the American public about energy. After the anniversary of [...]
If you agree with Gore Vidal that “only corporate America enjoys representation by the Congresses and presidents that it pays for,” then your average July 4th quote is going to ring pretty hollow. “My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue” or “And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m [...]
Could Rob Hopkins become the US right wing’s next Van Jones? Could the Post Carbon Institute become the next ACORN? Thanks to Rob Hopkins for sending around a silly Tea Party video attacking the Transition movement. It features Rob himself along with PCI as part of a United Nations plot to “take away your land.” [...]
Normally I don’t pass along really blatant partisan propaganda. But because I think Big Oil’s control over Washington is the biggest barrier America faces to enacting a sensible energy policy in the face of peak oil and climate change, I found the R-Oil Wedding campaign from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee just too good to [...]
With the death of Osama bin Laden, can America now face threats to our future more dangerous than al Qaeda — peak oil and climate change? After the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush called for the American people to show our unity with each other and our defiance of terrorists who would target the American [...]
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