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The Attacks on Climate Science Education Are Picking Up Steam | Chris Mooney

16 Aug 201120 Aug 2011
The Attacks on Climate Science Education Are Picking Up Steam And I thought teaching about human evolution was fraught with peril.  Now this... What’s currently seeping into classrooms across the…
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Plan B Updates – 99: A Fifty Million Dollar Tipping Point? | EPI

10 Aug 201110 Aug 2011
A bright  bit of happy news burning through the sooty smokestack emissions: At a press conference on July 21, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he was contributing $50 million…
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Thirsty for Answers

2 Aug 20112 Aug 2011
NRDC: Thirsty for Answers: Preparing for the Water-related Impacts of Climate Change in American Cities Heard about this during an episode on the Diane Rehm Show on adaptation to climate change.…
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Could a carbon tax help solve our budget woes? | Grist

29 Jul 20118 Aug 2011
Could a carbon tax help solve our budget woes? | Grist. Again, it's time to start taking this seriously, as a potential solution for multiple problems.  See my previous post…
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Twelve year old Severn Suzuki speaking at the UN Earth Summit (1992) « Critical Docs

20 Jul 201120 Jul 2011
Came across this on a kind-of wikiwalk... just... wow.  It's still mostly in "Litany" mode, but I think this is getting at what I meant by the way the stories…
Culture Change…

Strategies for Changing the Story

15 Jul 201115 Jul 2011
or, "What neuroscience can tell us about political strategies." A post a while back by Kitchenmudge got me interested in some discussions about brain differences, and how these might just point…
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Dreams and Dreamers, Big Lies and Deep Lies

24 Jun 2011
Watching Van Jones makes me simultaneously angry and delighted (rebuildthedream.com).  To be more clear, he gets me in touch with my rage by clearly articulating some of the fundamental problems…

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