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  • Review of Brenda Boardman’s Fixing Fuel Poverty

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2010-09-02

    Brenda Boardman continues to do pioneering work in the field of fuel poverty in Britain.

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  • The Recession is Over, Now I Start the Depression

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2010-09-02

    Over the past two years economic pundits have said we are in a recession, defined flippantly as starting when your neighbor loses his job. Certainly today, with US unemployment at around 10%, and Canadian unemployment in the high single digits, you may know people who have lost their jobs. A depression is said to be signaled when you lose your own job. That is where I am today.

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  • It's the Feelgood Hit of the Summer (in Arts and Culture)

    Syndicated from The Tyee on Thu, 2010-09-02

    And it's not what you think it is.

    »  Read more | 89 reads «

  • Green Wizardry: A response to Rob Hopkins

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-09-01

    Rob Hopkins' critique of the "Green Wizards" project explored in recent Archdruid Report posts raises challenging questions: some of them about the project in question, others about the relationship between differing efforts to respond to a challenging future. The Archdruid offers his take on both subjects.

    »  Read more | 122 reads «

  • Climate - Sept 2

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-09-01

    - Bill McKibben on David Letterman: "Thanks for scaring the crap out of me, Bill!"
    - Bjørn Lomborg's about face on climate
    - The Lomborg Deception
    - Poorer nations hit with 'exorbitant' consultancy fees for carbon offset projects
    - The Coming Flood of Climate Refugees
    - At a climate camp convergence and protest in Quebec

    »  Read more | 182 reads «

  • How much proof do the global warming deniers need?

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Wed, 2010-09-01

    Johann Hari: How much proof do the global warming deniers need?

    Everything the climate scientists said would happen - with their pesky graphs and studies and computers - is coming to pass. This is proving the hottest year ever

    Friday, 27 August 2010

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  • West Moberly says Site C would power tar sands not homes

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Wed, 2010-09-01

    West Moberly says Site C would power tar sands not homes

    Monday, 30 August 2010

    Amid a bevy of resource projects in northeast B.C., the West Moberly First Nation claims the province is green-washing its Site C hydroelectric project.

    “It’s not clean and it’s not green,” West Moberly Chief Roland Willson told BIV in a recent interview.

    »  Read more | 127 reads «

  • Protecting the Tar Sands, Protecting Capitalism

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Wed, 2010-09-01

    Whatever It Takes:
    Protecting the Tar Sands, Protecting Capitalism
    Ryan Katz-Rosene

    »  Read more | 105 reads «

  • September 27, 1962: Tar Sand Project Approval Starts New Era For Canadian Oil

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Wed, 2010-09-01

    September 27, 1962
    Tar Sand Project Approval Starts New Era For Canadian Oil

    BY: CARL O. NICKLE, Publisher of the Daily Oil Bulletin & Oil In Canada

    »  Read more | 112 reads «

  • Overworked and Underpaid? Productivity Increases, But Wage Growth Declines

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-09-01
    by Akito Yoshikane

    As Labor Day approaches, many Americans are breathing a sigh of relief for the extra day off. On a day that celebrates unions and the eight-hour work day, many workers are feeling like their hard work isn’t exactly paying off the way it used to.

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  • Judge Rules Against US Government on Oil Drilling

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-09-01

    HOUSTON - A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the U.S. government's request to dismiss an industry lawsuit challenging its deepwater oil and gas drilling moratorium, dealing another blow to the Obama administration.

    »  Read more | 156 reads «

  • CCPA Saskatchewan presents Trevor Herriot

    Syndicated from CCPA on Wed, 2010-09-01

    Join us on October 15th and 16th for a special evening with Trevor Herriot. A renowned prairie naturalist, essayist and commentator, Trevor will discuss the intersection of culture and nature on the northern Great Plains in his talk entitled "All Flesh is Grass: Toward a Re-Engagement with the Prairie."  Please come out to on

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  • Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us

    Syndicated from Slashdot on Wed, 2010-09-01

    sanermind writes "Sensing Senators don't have the stomach to try and pass a stand-alone bill in broad daylight that would give the President the power to shut down the Internet in a national emergency, the Senate is considering attaching the Internet Kill Switch bill as a rider to other legislation that would have bi-partisan support."

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  • German military study warns of a potentially drastic oil crisis

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-09-01

    A study by a German military think tank has analyzed how "peak oil" might change the global economy. The internal draft document -- leaked on the Internet -- shows for the first time how carefully the German government has considered a potential energy crisis. (excerpts)
    Update: English translation of table of contents and lead paragraphs.

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  • Afghan War Unwinnable Quagmire, Ex-CIA Man Says

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-09-01
    by Dylan Welch

    THE war in Afghanistan is an unwinnable quagmire and poor US intelligence is leading to the deaths of Australian soldiers, a visiting former CIA officer says.

    »  Read more | 93 reads «