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Entries from December 2007

Cool Music: Failure

December 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Stuck on You

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Tags: Culture

Cool Music: Michael Jackson

December 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Start your day off right.

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Tags: Culture

Gelbspan and Rogers: Forward Together

December 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Ross Gelbspan has a pessimistic view of the future complete with widespread food shortages, droughts and strife driven by intense and dramatic climate change. In other words–a lot more of what we’re already seeing.
He rejects calls for massive, risky and ill-advised geoengineering projects to control global warming while fully acknowledging the limitations of [...]

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Tags: Culture · Politics

Leadership and Savvy in California

December 21st, 2007 · No Comments

CA will sue the EPA over it’s decision to block stat-based efforts to curb global warming pollution.
“I am extremely disappointed by EPA’s decision to block the will of millions of people in California and 16 other states who want us to take tough action against global warming,” [CA Governor Arnold] Schwarzenegger said in a statement.
“I [...]

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Tags: Politics

EPA Rejects State-based Emissions Restrictions

December 19th, 2007 · No Comments

How surprising:
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson rejected California’s request for a waiver from the federal government to impose tough tailpipe emissions standards. The other states were poised to impose similar restrictions if California were granted the waiver.
The states represent nearly half the U.S. population, and their laws would effectively require automakers to cut [...]

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Tags: Business