Climate SOS Tour: Blog Post #2

Sep 7th, 2009 in Featured Articles, Newswire, Tour Blog Climate SOS Tour, Day 2, Montana:  Seattle Team Reports from the Rails Climate SOS Team Leader Duff Badgley left Seattle via train and on Sunday night posted this blog as his train travelled towards North Dakota where he will meet up with the Massachusetts Team members.  They will meet with North Dakota Senators Dorgan and Conrad’s staffers on Tuesday in Bismarck Duff writes from the Montana prairie 9/6/09:  No cell reception in Montana today, after I moved from the mountains to the plains. No email, no press contacts, no website tending, no organizing…not unwelcome after the mad dash to get...

Seattle Copenhagen! Patrick Bond

Sep 6th, 2009 in Featured Articles, Newswire http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/3974 6 September 2009 ‘Seattle’ Copenhagen, as Africans demand reparations By Patrick Bond Here’s a fairly simple choice: the Global North would pay hard-hit Global South sites to deal with climate crisis either through complicated, corrupt, controversial ‘Clean Development Mechanism’ (CDM) projects with plenty of damaging side effects to communities, or instead pay through other mechanisms that must provide financing quickly, transparently and decisively, to achieve genuine income compensation plus renewable energy to the...

Climate SOS Tour Blog Post #1

Sep 5th, 2009 in Featured Articles, Newswire, Tour Blog The methane news in the MIT paper yesterday terrifies. Methane is likely escaping from the sea floor at a rate 1 million times faster than previously thought. One million times! What are we going to do? Are we going to let Big Oil, Big Coal and Corrupt Big Greens give us cap-and-trade and business-as-usual? If you are among those of us who shout “NO!”, then join our Tour blog. Help us KILL THE BILL in the senate where cap-and-trade is spawning under Barbara Boxer and John Kerry. The Climate SOS Tour to KILL THE BILL reaches Minot, ND tomorrow night (9/6), then gathers in Bismarck, ND...

NRDC vs WeACT on carbon markets and ACESA

Aug 26th, 2009 in Featured Articles This radio interview debate between Dan Lashoff from NRDC and Cecil Corbin Marks is interesting. Cecil provides some interesting comments on the (dis)function of market approaches. LISTEN: 2009_08_03 Dan Lashof Cecil Corbin-Mark host Tammy bang Luu Download this audio file Download this audio file Labor/Community Strategy Center Debate Air Date:  08/03/2009           Segment Host:  Tammy Bang Luu Obama’s landmark federal climate bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), passed the House at the end of June. As the bill has progressed, the debate among...

ClimateSOS membership GROWING!

Aug 25th, 2009 in Featured Articles More and more organizations and individuals are joining ClimateSOS to oppose the ACESA climate bill’s false solutions.  We encourage you to do the same- click HERE to sign on! CLIMATE SOS NETWORK MEMBERS Beehive Design Collective Biofuelwatch Climate Change Action Group of CNY Coalition For A Safe Environment Eco-Justice Collaborative Ecolaw Massachusetts Enviro Show Energy Justice Network Global Justice Ecology Project Green Delaware Indigenous Environmental Network Institute for Local Self-Reliance Institute for Social Ecology Jamaica Plain Greenhouse Little Village Environmental Justice...