Caulking Our Way to Economic Prosperity » The Foundry

[green collar jobs activist Van Jones] “You can employ a lot of people very quickly with off-the-shelf technology like caulk guns,” said Jones, founder of Green for All, an economic development group.” This isn’t George Jetson stuff.”

American Thinker Blog: Global Warming is For Dummies

You know those yellow-jacketed Insert Subject Here for Dummies guides that are omnipresent in bookstores? Well, there is a new one coming out: Global Warming for Dummies. A well-established publishing franchise has staked its reputation on the work of warmist fanatics.

The book is co-authored by two radical environmentalists. True believers. The authors are Elizabeth May and Zoe Caron. May is a Green Party leader in Canada and Caron is on the board of directors for Canada's Sierra Club.

May once asserted that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's position on environmental policies was "as a grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis."

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Hit the Brakes: U.S. Auto Sales Keep Tumbling in December, Even Hybrids

At Ford, SUVs were the worst-performing division in December, and sales were even lower than in November. GM car sales fell 25%, while light-truck sales dropped 35%. At Honda, truck sales fell 40% in December, while car sales fell just 30%.

But the same dismal economy spells even worse news for more expensive, fuel-efficient hybrid cars. Honda sold just over 1,000 hybrids in December, a 69% decline, while sales of the iconic Toyota Prius tumbled 45% last month. If shouldering the extra upfront costs for a hybrid was already a stretch with pricey gasoline, cheap gas seems to make it a no-brainer, for now at least.