Thursday, November 18, 2010

Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser won’t have kids for green reasons [VIDEO] | Grist
Actor Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Pete Campbell on Mad Men, tells MSNBC, "I've been a vegetarian for four years and I have chosen not to have children also, which are both green choices in my life."
News of cap and trade’s demise may have been exaggerated | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
“They don’t have the numbers, but the administration is working hard on imposing cap and trade through regulation,” Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe told The Daily Caller.

The senator predicts Carol Browner, President Obama’s climate change czar, will circumvent Congress and use executive branch regulatory power to implement cap and trade.
Poor nations say rich fail on climate aid pledge | Energy & Oil | Reuters
Poor nations suspect that rich nations, facing budget cuts at home, are simply relabelling many old projects as new.
CBC News - Consumer Life - Consumerism causes climate change: poll
Seventy per cent of those polled said military spending should be redirected toward reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. And 80 per cent said the federal government should create "green" jobs — employment for workers no longer engaged in mining fossil fuels.

The survey also indicated 77 per cent of Canadians believe a tribunal should be established to penalize countries whose economic actions damage or threaten the environment.
Homeless Shelters Prepare for Cold Snap | KEZI
EUGENE, Ore. -- A group of dedicated volunteers doesn't want another homeless person to die from sleeping in the cold. Egan Warming Center organizers say they're preparing for when the thermostat drops to 28 degrees.

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