Environmentalists need a new president | Grist

It pains me to say it, but success will require a new president -- and that means that after the midterm elections, we need to start looking for a primary challenger who has the heart and soul required to save the planet from catastrophe and rescue American from its economic morass -- even as we throw ourselves into grassroots action to do what we can to save the planet despite the president’s interference.

Twitter / David Roberts

You know what the world needs now? Another green conference where a bunch of wonks, execs, & NGO reps agree that we need a carbon price.

Twitter / David Roberts

According to independent analyses, Bingama's RES wouldn't induce *any* renewables deployment over/above business-as-usual.

Snow-hit Southland farmers call for government help | New Zealand

Tens of thousands of lambs have died over the past five days after snow and bitterly cold weather swept over the south, attracting animal welfare concerns that ewes and their offspring may have died because of a lack of shelter or food.

But Federated Farmers' adverse events spokesman, Southland sheep and beef farmer David Rose, said many farmers had pushed back lambing from late winter into spring to reduce risk.
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"The spring storm of 2010 is frankly the worst in a generation," said Rose. "The last big dump of snow we had was 14 years ago in the winter of 1996, while the last time we had anything this severe was 38 years ago, in 1972".