Friday, August 19, 2011

Love affair with the automobile | Autonet.ca
There are those who would have us go on a blind date with their vision of re-engineering our way of life, our society and our needs. Politicians posture (the car is an easy target). There are those who wail about the environmental footprint while ignoring the impact of their own pet people-moving systems.

Some would even see us imitate the Amish and return to horse and buggy without considering how to dispose of horse manure, horse urine and dead horses.
Concern cooling : Canada : Canoe TV
Are Canadians done caring about climate change? Tom Harris and Charles Adler take a closer look at what recent poll numbers show.
Caring less about the climate? : Canada : Canoe TV
New polls show Canadians are less concerned about climate change, but does that mean it should fall of politicians' radars as well?
Corbett quietly turning off the lights on renewable energy
[Pennsylvania] Quietly but systematically, the administration has all but shut down the state Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Energy and Technology Deployment -- the state's primary energy office -- and removed directors and reassigned staff in the Office of Energy Management in the Department of General Services and the Governor's Green Government Council.

It has also forbidden state executive agencies from signing contracts that support clean energy supply.
Still feeling green - BostonHerald.com
With this week’s bankruptcy filing, the great Evergreen Solar experiment is now officially a staggering failure, but the fantasy that the state can buy new jobs with a fat investment of taxpayer cash may live on.
UK inflation: No room for dogma in these hard times | Mail Online
Families are suffering real hardship. Businesses are fighting for their very existence. Ministers must drop their dogma about global warming and give the country a break.

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