And the Winners are...

Environmental Defense has announced the winners (and looser) of it's Globies: 2007 Global Warming Globie Awards. A surprise winner of local mover and a shaker on the climate change front was our own hometown hero: Mayor Greg Nickels. No surprise was the two winners of best villian was Senator James Inhofe and ExxonMobil. Check out all the winners on their site.


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Urge your Representative to Support Renewable Energy

A new bill has been introduced in the congress calling for 20% of energy from utililities to come from renewable sources. By using Solar, wind, geothermal and energy from crops we could reduce our use of fossil fuels and reduce our carbon emissions that cause global warming.

The Union of Concerned Scientists have a easy to fill out form to ask your congressman or woman to vote for it. So what are you waiting for? Ask them!


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Global warming heats up in Washington

Washington state politicians tackled climate change with increased gusto today.
From the state to the local level, calls were made for various solutions including conservation, emission caps and plugin-hybrids.

They have some catch up to do with their sister states, California and Oregon. There is talk of a Carbon trading system that between Oregon and Washington . The governor, Gregoire called for the tripling funding for clean energy jobs. There is a comparison of the efforts of the three states.

For the full story: Plans to combat global warming heat up


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Battle of the hybrids

In this corner, the sleek new Civic Hybrid. In the other corner, the iconic
Toyota Prius. Which one is for you? Check out the Seattle Times comparison review of these two heavy weights on nwautos.com

Also take a look at their new fuel economy guide. Which lists the top fuel efficient cars and trucks.

Full disclosure: I work for nwautos.com so of course I want to give them
props for moving in a green direction.


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David Attenbourough - The Truth about Global Warming

Alright, you don't want to watch a whole movie to get the 411 on how we are effecting climate change. Here watch this:



See earlier post for the full video

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Fox news sees the light on climate change

What!!! I must be dreaming. Fox news just released a poll: Most Americans Believe in Global Warming.

"When those who believe in global warming are asked what they think is the main cause of the situation, there is widespread belief that human behavior — such as driving and burning too much fossil fuel like coal and oil — is a contributor to the problem. Four in ten Americans say people are to blame outright (41 percent) and another 38 percent think it is a combination of human action and normal climate patterns. Few believe that global warming is an entirely natural occurrence (14 percent)."

The tide is really starting to turn when Fox is talking about global warming as reality.

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Recap of the week

Worldchanging.com has a great overview of the Climate Change 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Now that 90% of two thousand world scientists agree we can get on with implementing solutions to this problem.

But wait, think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is offering a $10,000 bribe reward to any scientist that disagrees. They are financed by ExxonMobil.

On the positive side there is a note about BP and the University of California sweet deal: $500 million biofuels development grant

An of course Walmart, who is now going for the gold with 100% renewable energy, zero waster and sustainable products. If they can see the light, there's hope after all.