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Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Mayor Tim Davlin spoke to the new Cool Cities Advisory Council Wednesday and said he wants to see Springfield ranked as a top environmental city.NRDC recognized Springfield earlier this month as one of only 22 "2010 Smarter Cities" leading the way on clea...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Since I've written about the Murkowski resolution before, I want to take a moment to express how happy I am that Alaska Senator Lisa Mukowski lost her race for re-election this week. The campaign cash she took for being the fossil fuel industry's lap dog...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The two issues don't have much in common. But advocates of the anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 in California and opponents of the Muslim cultural center have at least one thing in common: they spread fear, prejudice and hate.Hate spreads when released. ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I just saw an attack ad by Mark Kirk for US Senate. It started out with the announcer saying in an incredulous tone that "Alexi Gannoulias is only 34 years old!" She then lets out a little dismissive laugh. I realize that young people don't vote in lar...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I had several people suggest I show the documentary Fuel at Springfield's environmental film festival. I didn't want to include it without having the chance to watch it first. Several reviews claim he overstated the case for bio-fuels and had to make cha...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I was glad to read that the Obama administration will support passing climate change legislation later this year in a lame duck session of Congress. Anti-science Republican Congressman Mike Pence responded by expressing his outrage that Congress might de...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The Department of Energy (DOE) finally followed through on repeated attempts to abandon FutureGen due to dramatically escalating costs. The replacement is a plan to have taxpayers subsidize the cost of retrofitting old coal plants with expensive, unprove...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The Sierra Club Sangamon Valley Group is starting a political fund! It will be the only non-partisan political fund devoted exclusively to increasing the political power of the environment in central Illinois. The money will be used to help Sierra Club ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
You know those Appalachian hills that have inspired countless songs about their beauty and history Rand Paul, the tea party Republican running for US Senator from Kentucky, thinks they get better after you blow them up for a little coal. I'm not kiddin...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
A new report by the Government Accountability Office is a warning to clean coal advocates and central Illinois electricity customers. They found that stakeholders, including experts inside the coal industry, believe carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I appreciate all the work John Kerry has done in support of passing a climate change and green jobs bill in the Senate. I'm glad he pledged to keep fighting for it even though a major cap-and-trade bill probably won't pass this year.That being said, I'm ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I just read Ninety-Three. Hugo's ode to nature in the face of an outdoor execution leapt at me.
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. She overwhelms man b...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I have to thank Jim Leach for his facebook page. Thanks to his page I'm now aware that the Republican candidate for Secretary of State is an off-the-wall tea party, talk radio bot well outside the mainstream of Illinois politics. Jim posted a status upd...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
One of the best things the Illinois General Assembly did this year was to pass bills in support of solar energy including one that adds more solar power to the renewable energy portfolio standard. The standard requires utilities to gradually increase the...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Droidfriend: A Droid phone which becomes the main object of its owner's affection.Used in a sentence: My girlfriend keeps ignoring me to play with her new Droid phone and I don't like that she giggles when it vibrates.
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I wish that headline were about Illinois but it's happening in Colorado.
Vestas Wind Systems said Tuesday it will hire more than 1,000 people at three Colorado plants that manufacture wind turbine components after receiving a surge of orders for the ele...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I've been casually following the Kentucky U.S. Senate election since it's one of a few Republican seats Democrats could win this year. The latest I've heard is the back and forth about federal earmarks. Republican Rand Paul wants to eliminate earmarks c...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Fit Club South is hosting the public July 24th to show off their new solar panels. They're doing a rooftop tour and presentation on the benefits of solar power, plus a bicycle prize drawing. I believe they're the first local business to install commerci...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I just did a google news search on Obama and the Blagojevich trial. I quickly found half a dozen articles suggesting improper action or negative "involvement" by Barack Obama in the appointment of his US Senate seat. News coverage from the start has inc...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Earlier this month I wrote about Obama's veto threat against the Murkowski resolution. Murkowski would have removed the EPA's authority to regulate global warming pollution from large new sources like coal power plants. Thankfully, the resolution failed...
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