NZ electricity usage for Earth Hour « Samuel Dennis

Whale Oil has obtained the New Zealand power usage data for the Earth Hour Saturday and the previous Saturday (LW in the graph).

There is very little difference between the two Saturdays, but there was slightly MORE electricity used during Earth Hour than the same hour the previous week.

The Pickens army descends on Washington | GreenDig.net

When I met Pickens a few weeks ago at the ECO:nomics summit (you can read my encounter here) I was surprised by a couple of things. First, he is very aware of the climate problem and thinks it is absolutely the 2nd most important problem we face.

Hurray for Hollywood?: Waxman Wants More Aggressive Emissions Reductions Than President Obama | CleanBeta

The leader of a key Congressional committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), is backing climate-change legislation with more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets than comparable proposals by President Barack Obama, according to Reuters.

Henry Waxman: Information from Answers.com

He serves the cities of West Hollywood, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, and parts of the city of Los Angeles.