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March of the Elites: Why Grassroots Can't Save the Climate

July 6, 2011 by Alex Trembath
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The campaign to avert cataclysmic climate change soldiers on. Despite an aggressive global economic crisis that unequivocally stole some wind from the sails of climate action, the movement lingers, organizing marches and rallies for the coming climate revolution. But action on the climate-energy front will not occur at the grassroots... [read more]

What Can the US Do in 10 Years?

July 21, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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By Morgan Goodwin. Cross-posted from actionfactorydc.blogspot.comI was one of 7 Astronauts who stood up in today's EPW senate hearing to deliver an unmistakable message to our senators, both allies and obstructionists: be as bold as the Apollo mission. Fully clad in space suits complete with the NASA logo, the Avaaz Action Factory... [read more]

Apollo, Forty Years Later

July 15, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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I couldn't let the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing pass by without comment, and not just because of what that event meant to a space-obsessed 11-year-old in 1969. Aside from numerous calls for an Apollo program for energy, or the periodic allusions to energy and climate change as the equivalent of the space program for our... [read more]