Monday, August 03, 2009

Climate Parasite Quote of the Day « Green Hell Blog
By lobbying for the America-hating, economy-killing Waxman-Markey bill simply to make money, Doerr and Immelt are not businessmen so much as they are thieving parasites. They want a federal law which would enable them to sponge-off taxpayers and rip-off consumers. By forcing Americans to pay more for energy and to reduce their standard of living, Doerr and Immelt will destroy not build America.
Hill Heat : Senate Watch: Barrasso, Baucus, Bond, Cardin, Corker, Johanns, Landrieu, Lautenberg, McCain
Billings Gazette Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., calls it a ‘job-killer’ that would result in “stripping red, white and blue jobs, and then subsidizing a few green jobs in their place.”
Ecosystem service stacking: Can money grow on trees (and more)? « Common Tragedies
Future commodity traders may look back on June 26, 2009 as the day that the Congress officially backed ecosystem service markets as the prominent vehicle of environmental conservation in the 21st Century.
Twitter / Daniel McConnell [Trying to get through the Northwest Passage, west to east]
Ocean Watch is leaving Tuk today. Looks like we've got 200 nm or so of open navigating. [then what?]
Here's Tuktoyaktuk on a Google map.

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