tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132068012024-03-13T23:20:00.431-04:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-67233938285381792692008-01-13T14:31:00.000-05:002008-01-13T14:50:47.009-05:00

I'm a bit late posting about John Kerry's endorsement of Barack Obama for President (yeah, I've been neglecting this blog lately), so I'll just cross-post here what I just posted in a comment at KerryVision - some thoughts on what is so great about this endorsement, to me. This comment is inspired by Kerry's appearance on ABC's This Week this morning (video available at ABC now - hat tip,

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-10601325255923531382007-09-08T09:35:00.000-04:002007-09-08T10:29:24.525-04:00

Bill Summary and Status on thomas.loc.govhttp://action.defenders.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=24... Email from Defenders of Wildlife:Dear Wildlife Supporter,Across the world, illegal logging, driven by the demand for cheap wood products, is destroying vital habitat for tigers, jaguars, orangutans and other wildlife… and driving some of the planet’s most beloved wildlife to the brink of

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-23544741331212608992007-08-06T20:09:00.000-04:002007-08-06T20:35:21.400-04:00

This weekend I was looking through my CD collection for something to listen to that I hadn't heard in awhile, something rockin'. I saw Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust in the stack and thought, yup that's it, and popped it in the player. That album rocks alright, but it also brings home just how badly things have unraveled since that CD came out. "How can we dance when our beds are burning,"

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-73390809831572930582007-08-03T13:10:00.001-04:002007-08-03T13:12:39.294-04:00

From Dick Polman's American Debate (emphasis added):Expect in the days ahead to hear a surge of rhetoric about the need forlong-term thinking (before the Minnesota incident is largely forgotten, at least outside of Minnesota). For instance, the American Society of Civil Engineers is telling the politicians that we need to spend $9.4 billion a year over the next 20 years to repair our deficient

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-8087315978809656732007-07-08T22:38:00.001-04:002007-07-08T22:40:56.102-04:00

That what this item at OpenCongress seems to be suggesting:Health care reform is abuzz, in presidential politics, in the movies, and, most immediately, in Congress.It's perfect timing. The initial 10-year authorization of one of the government's biggest health care initiatives, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, is scheduled to run out on September 30th, and Congress has

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-33291909716116186742007-07-07T16:33:00.001-04:002007-07-07T17:35:57.106-04:00

I ran across this blog post by Jon Udell on del.icio.us and I think Udell and Willinsky are on to something here:...these are only views of data. There’s no analysis and interpretation, no statistical rigor. Since most ordinary citizens lack the expertise to engage at that level, are governments that publish raw data simply asking for trouble? Will bogus interpretations by unqualified observers

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-83022218878903747452007-07-07T12:56:00.001-04:002007-07-07T12:58:54.487-04:00

The fossil fuel industry won't like to hear this:Within five years, solar power will be cheap enough to compete with carbon-generated electricity, even in Britain, Scandinavia or upper Siberia. In a decade, the cost may have fallen so dramatically that solar cells could undercut oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by up to half. Technology is leaping ahead of a stale political debate about fossil

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-75956385261517560542007-07-04T21:57:00.001-04:002007-07-04T22:16:15.808-04:00

KerryVision:Today, July 4, is the day we say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" and begin to report news that has an impact on our daily lives. So, on our nation's 231st birthday, we celebrate our own. We celebrate the American patriot whose vision and values most closely match our own: John Kerry.Nicely done site, good video work. I do, um, know some of the folk involved, and they were nice enough to include

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-60675705031228045342007-06-08T19:28:00.000-04:002007-06-08T20:43:30.057-04:00

From IPS News, we learn that Plan Colombia isn't even reducing the supply of cocaine:COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: 'There Are No Plants or Animals Left'By Constanza VieiraCredit: Acción EcológicaBOGOTA, Jun 6 (IPS) - A new U.S. government report acknowledges that coca crops expanded last year in Colombia, despite the heavy herbicide spraying carried out under Plan Colombia, which has been loudly protested

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-35988855952189972862007-06-06T22:58:00.000-04:002007-06-06T22:50:31.369-04:00

Monday night I enjoyed a wonderful evening at the Philadelphia Free Library, where John and Teresa Kerry gave a talk on their new book, This Moment on Earth. Before the show, waiting in line for about an hour before doors opened, I had a great conversation with three local women who were quite excited for this opportunity to hear the Kerrys speak about their book.As we waited, and chatted about

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-38353999756891885522007-05-08T21:12:00.001-04:002007-05-08T21:14:33.707-04:00

maybe too good to be true? I hope not..it does sound promising. I hope we hear more about this.Charcoal from biowaste may remove carbon from atmosphere, on global scale Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia - As delegates met in Bangkok this week to debate climate change solutions contained in the IPCC's latest report, one technology not mentioned in the draft report was being closely examined at

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-57131589478527406872007-04-30T19:16:00.001-04:002007-04-30T21:03:52.088-04:00

When Meredith Efken approached me in March with the suggestion that we do a "blog tour" to promote Teresa Heinz Kerry's upcoming Pittsburgh conference on Women's Health and the Environment, I had no idea what a blog tour was. To make it more intriguing, I learned from Meredith that a "blog tour" is something more and more book authors are doing to promote their newly released books - but Meredith

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-14793432817125014522007-04-29T10:03:00.000-04:002007-04-29T11:33:28.125-04:00

No, I'm not talking about the Iraq Civil War.I'm talking about THIS.Life came unglued for Bernie Ellis on the day drug agents raided his farm like it was the fortified villa of a South American cocaine kingpin. Ellis was bush-hogging around his berry patches when two helicopters swept low over the treetops. Then, rumbling in on four-wheelers, came 10 officers of the Tennessee Marijuana

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-92203110216106923762007-04-23T14:04:00.000-04:002007-04-23T14:20:39.308-04:00

I'm back home after attending the Women's Health and the Environment Conference in Pittsburgh on Friday (Apr 20) and then taking advantage of the great weather to visit with family in West Virginia. The conference was excellent - I quasi-live-blogged it at The Democratic Daily (quasi because my own laptop isn't aircard-enabled so I had to bum keyboard time from someone who was), and several

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-48917513168934945122007-04-19T23:57:00.000-04:002007-04-20T00:06:02.947-04:00

I'm in Pittsburgh this weekend, looking forward to attending the Women's Health and Environment Conference.If the tech gods and goddesses smile on us, we'll be liveblogging the conference, at The Democratic Daily, Democracy Cell Project, and perhaps Dailykos and Democratic Underground.Democratic Daily is also the conference day stop on the blog tour. You can check out all the blog tour stops here.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-59050680495885864602007-04-03T21:51:00.000-04:002007-04-03T22:13:51.050-04:00

From Environment News Service: The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously upheld a federal program designed to clean up the nation's oldest coal-fired power plants, vacating a lower court ruling that has derailed major air pollution enforcement efforts against Duke Energy and other utilities.The court rejected a ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found Duke Energy did not violate

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-12072221716169681102007-04-03T21:36:00.000-04:002007-04-03T21:50:31.445-04:00

Yesterday in "Massachusetts v. EPA" the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the EPA can't duck their duty to regulate CO2 based on the flimsy excuse that they were trying to use, that the Clean Air Act doesn't tell them they can. Of course, while the EPA is under Bush or any other Republican administration, they will probably continue to duck their duty anyway, but they'll have to come up with a

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-36211094844489252582007-03-26T23:32:00.001-04:002007-03-26T23:36:23.434-04:00

Via IPS News Agency, Stephen Leahy warns of some unintended consequences that can occur with the rush to biofuels: Biofuels Boom Spurring DeforestationBROOKLIN, Canada, Mar 21 (IPS/IFEJ) - Nearly 40,000 hectares of forest vanish every day, driven by the world's growing hunger for timber, pulp and paper, and ironically, new biofuels and carbon credits designed to protect the environment.The irony

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-16541221497395471722007-03-25T21:01:00.000-04:002007-03-25T22:22:47.883-04:00

That's the name of the new book by John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry, which is officially "released" as of tomorrow, but has already been out on bookstore shelves in some places. I was lucky and was able to pick up my copy on March 19th. So I am almost done reading it. Well, the first time through, that is - this is the kind of book I'll be reading at least once more pretty quickly.The subtitle

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-71609232006934363372007-02-16T11:22:00.000-05:002007-03-25T22:06:07.944-04:00

Yesterday, Senators Kerry and Dorgan introduced S.606 (authored by Dorgan, according to WaPo) at a press conference. According to the Boston Herald, the bill would:Punish war profiteers and set penalties of 20 years in prison and $1 millionin fines for profiteering. Cracking down on corporate cheats and restore a rule that prohibits awardingfederal contracts to companies that exhibit a pattern of

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-1167787119175277022007-01-02T20:09:00.000-05:002007-01-02T20:20:24.093-05:00

I just had to steal that headline from this article by Steve Benen at Washington Monthly:IF A MILITARY TIMES POLL FALLS IN A FOREST.... Following up on an item from the weekend, the Military Times newspapers published a massive new poll after questioning 6,000 randomly selected active-duty members of the Armed Forces. The results ran counter to much of the conventional wisdom -- barely one in

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-1166845886070724072006-12-22T22:32:00.000-05:002006-12-22T23:07:53.223-05:00

Here is an interesting article from IPS News, A Bridge Over Troubled Waters:UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 (IPS) - Key political figures from the West and the Muslim world, as well as the outgoing U.N. chief Kofi Annan, urged the international community Monday to seriously examine ways to promote greater dialogue among civilisations and cultures."It is not enough to publish an insightful report, and

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-1166387772325982142006-12-17T15:36:00.000-05:002006-12-17T15:40:50.253-05:00

Daniel Schrag, a climate scientist from Harvard, gives some insight in today's Boston Globe into the cravenness of the ideologues running Washington the last two years:Yet I am an optimist because I believe we can fix the climate change problem. We can deploy the technologies to meet our energy needs while slashing carbon emissions: plug-in hybrids, windmills, carbon sequestration for coal plants

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-1166334683500292692006-12-17T00:48:00.001-05:002006-12-17T00:51:23.500-05:00

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1568495,00.htmlMy Person of the YearTo help us make this year's selection, TIME asked people who have been featured in the magazine for their 2006 nominations. A sampling:Posted Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006John Kerry, presidential contender in 2004, is the junior U.S. Senator from MassachusettsI nominate the veterans who ran for Congress for their guts,

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206801.post-1166325874699010422006-12-16T21:37:00.000-05:002006-12-16T22:30:34.776-05:00

I was there! Like last year. This year was every bit as cool, but I'll have to admit, there's just not as much I can write, because this year I knew how cool it would be. But, I couldn't move on to posting other stuff until I said something about the birthday party. First off let me say that, Senator Kerry was just as great as ever, but Teresa stole my heart this year. Last year I'd been too shy

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2