Tag: Obama administration
Am I an activist for caring about my grandchildren’s future? I guess I am
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – I have long admired James Hansen as a person who cares for the future of all that we share our fragile planet with. The answers to all of the significant challenges we face in the imminent future is in OUR hands.
We need to accept this moral responsibility. The following article [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: activism, activist, activists, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, coal, glacial melt, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, Oil Industry, Tipping Points, United States
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It’s Not a Democracy Unless We Call It Our Own — 6 Ways to Make It Happen
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – We have long promoted that one voice can make a difference when added to by another. In this excellent article Jim Hightower presents a sound case for joint action. WE CAN get a movement going – TOGETHER – also see ‘Coalition of the Willing’ here
Let the ideas percolate up from [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General.
Tags: activism, activists, Climate Change, global warming, Obama administration, stop climate change
Comments: 1
A message from Obama
Today we received a message from the Obama Administration that the Foundation was asked to share with you. As regular visitors to the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation will know, we are bi-partisan when it comes to issues of politics. We endorse no political party or position. We do endorse CHANGE from the polluting ways of the [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: Obama administration, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, United States
Comments: 1
US oil tax quadrupled to pay for spills – So who will now pay – YOU – Get ready at the gas pump!
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment – If the costs go up for the oil companies, will they take it on the chin, or will they pass it down the line to the end user? – Get ready at the pump.
It’s now time to change the charter of the Corporation. WHO should PAY?
The US House of Representatives [...]
Posted: May 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: #BREAKING NEWS, Obama administration, oil, Oil drilling, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, United States
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The vast scope of the oil spill and the even greater scope of the vested interests collusion.
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Posted: May 19th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: Obama administration, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, Politics, pollution
Comments: 1
Shell’s Alaska Oil Drilling Plan Draws New Scrutiny
ANCHORAGE — An ambitious plan to drill for oil off the northwest coast of Alaska has been moving ahead despite the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but the project is now facing new questions from federal regulators.
Led by Shell Oil, the project has not been formally halted and could still begin exploratory drilling as [...]
Posted: May 8th, 2010 under Climate Politics, General, Nature.
Tags: Alaska, arctic, global warming, Ice free Arctic, Obama administration, Oil drilling, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, pollution
Comments: 2
New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF – New York Times
The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.
The cancer panel is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday, warning that [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Green Living.
Tags: Bishphenol A (BPA), carcinogenic poisoning, carcinogens, Obama administration, plastics, toxic chemicals
Comments: 3
BP’s Oil Disaster: The Numbers Will Shock You
The following in-depth article from Alternet has been reproduced here in full by the Foundation, as it details the intricate web of BP control in the US.
At best 20% of the oil spill may be recoverable. Though we don’t yet know the full extent of the disaster, one thing is for sure: regulatory failures paved [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: major polluters, Obama administration, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, pollution
Comments: 4
EPA Confirms Climate IS Changing
In another display of the sea change that has occurred at the US Environmental Protection Agency under the current administration, a new report was issued yesterday regarding indicators of climate change. The report, entitled “Climate Change Indicators in the United States,” measures 24 separate indicators showing how climate change affects the health and environment of [...]
Posted: May 2nd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, arctic, Climate Change, glacial melt, global warming, Obama administration, sea level rise, stop climate change, United States
Comments: 2
De Boer: EU 2020 climate targets ‘a piece of cake’
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said the EU has failed to convince the developing world that it is serious about global warming.
Speaking in an unusually candid manner during a European Parliament hearing on Wednesday (14 April), De Boer said the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: China, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, Kyoto, Obama administration, United Nations, World News
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