Abbott pounces on Flannery's flannel | Australian Climate Madness

...you have to feel a bit sorry for poor old Greg and Julia, they brought Flannery in as Climate Commissioner because they thought he'd give them what they wanted, and already he's become an embarrassment. Oops.

BBC News - UK rejects EU call for city centre ban on petrol cars

The UK has rejected proposals from the EU which call for a ban on petrol and diesel cars from city centres by 2050.

How to queer ecology and the environmental movement | Grist

Our popular culture often falsely concludes that truth is the foundation of science. Throughout modern history, however, the greatest scientists have tried to tell us over and over again what is really the foundation, well-spring, and unending constant of science: mystery. Queer ecology is a reminder that what we don't know about the living world will always be far greater than what we do know -- and it is an entreaty to act according to that most basic of truths.

OPINION: Preaching to the Green Choir: A Dead End: Cleantech News and Analysis «

Adopt a list of “off limits” marketing messages and images. We should try to develop messaging by first taking the iconography of the “choir” off the table.
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* Little girls in cotton print dresses blowing on dandelions in fields of tall grass
* Al Gore (no disrespect to Al, but he clearly is not a mainstream marketing image).