EnviroMentalog

This weekend someone brought to my attention a new innovative idea involving multi-billion dollar corporations. It is called BICEP, Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy. The founding members of this venture are Levi Strauss & Co., Nike, Starbucks, Sun Microsystems and Timberland. Most of the founding members and other members are all companies that [...]

Dr. James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is none too pleased with the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. On The Huffington Post yesterday, he wrote:

“For all its ‘green’ aura, Waxman-Markey locks in fossil fuel business-as-usual and garlands it with a Ponzi-like ‘cap-and-trade’ scheme.”

Read the full post here [...]

Uh Oh. It’s been approximately 170 days since W left town, and while he will never be known as an “environmental president,” perhaps we are only now starting to feel the effects of his legacy. Last week the US Supreme Court, led by Bush appointees Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justice Samuel [...]

If you haven’t seen Food Inc. yet- run, don’t walk to go see it! This film explores not just the “disgusting” factor of agribusiness but all the other more sinister sides to it as well. Factory farming deals in illegal immigration, bullying, scare tactics, and major public health issues.
I don’t want to ruin the [...]