Local greenhouse gas factory

I shot this snapshot at the 5 Corners intersection in Essex Junction, Vt., yesterday. It's a casebook study on the carbon pollution of the great American motor vehicle. Pollute, pollute, pollute . . .

Audubon Society forest in S.C. sells carboon credits

Some PR came out of the package described in this article. But this alone is hardly going to make a difference. Raising money was the gambit anyway.

Cuts in carbon emissions won't stop climate from changing

It's too far gone for any reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to make any substantial difference at this point. And still, Americans keep on motoring across a landscape that's increasingly comfortable for cars, not humans who cycle or walk. Read this op-ed for the decisive finding on where the world is right now.

Crude oil and New York State's capital city

The neanderthal U.S. petroleum biz keeps on trucking, even if it is by rail more than tractor-trailer and tanker. And most folks forget this little fact: It takes burning the fossil fuel to get the tanker full of fossil fueld to the marketplace where other people then burn fossil fuel in order to buy more fossil fuel. Fossil fuel = greenhouse gas. Duh. Read about the ongoing debacle of America's new energy transportation network.

Obama's Keystone decision: Just say NO, Mr. President

This NY Times op-ed I just read spells out - quite clearly - why the president should just say no to the monster we know as the Keystone XL pipeline. So, Mr. President, just say no