Heliogenic Climate Change: Carbon capture boondoggle in Germany

What this article doesn't mention is that the concentrating, condensing, compressing, cooling, trucking, and pumping consumes half the energy and doubles the cost of electricity produced by the plant and deprives the biosphere of a vital resource, a triple waste...

Congress Gets to Work on Stimulating Green Jobs, Doling Out Energy Dollars

As it stands, most of the $70 billion to $80 billion directed in the stimulus toward the energy sector will go toward green jobs, taking the form of either direct spending, loan guarantees or tax breaks. But what will those jobs will look like? And how far will they go toward both righting the economy and abetting global warming?

During last week's State of Green Business Forum, a common chorus about green jobs was the uncertainty over what makes a job green. For example: does the truck driver delivering PV panels have a green job?

General Motors to slash 10,000 salaried jobs | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner, who was meeting with congressional leaders in Washington about global warming legislation, said the announcement is “indicative of the kind of things we need to do to get this viability plan in shape and respond to these tough market conditions.”

Brainstorm is Toast - Steve Duin - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com

For the past 12 years, BrainstormNW has published in Oregon and been read by thousands of well-educated, active, thoughtful citizens. We, of course, are a niche magazine, not a newspaper. Did we have a message, a slant, like the Aurora of 1798? Yes. For 12 years we have sounded the alarm that Oregon's business climate was rapidly cooling. We have made the case that our planet was just as likely to be cooling and that the global warming fanatics were just that, con artists seeking power and financial gain.