For the past few weeks news sources have talked about the dangerous influence alternative fuels have on our cost of food.

There was an interesting piece in the Fashion section of the NYTimes this Sunday that is a little weird but it gets into some pretty fun stuff. The piece follows a kid from Brooklyn who is hell bent on becoming an organic farmer. Trucker hats, Carhartts, and Pabst were the fashion but now some are putting the heart behind the fashion and finding the funk in farming.

"If we don't fix global warming now, there may not be any America as we know it left. There may not be hospitable places left for our children and our grandchildren to live." - Jotham Stein, (D-IL).

The automobile industry is investing "way north" of one million dollars to gin up grass roots opposition to the Senate proposals for moving automobile fuel standards to 35 miles by 2020.

First, a rant: most members of Congress are either lawyers or businesspeople. They know what “fiduciary responsibility” is. It means reading and understanding each and every bill that they vote upon.

Congress has not met this duty for a long time. Instead . . .

Cross-posted from Ecotality Blog.

China’s Yellow River, commonly referred to as the Cradle of Chinese Civilization is the 2^nd longest river in China and the 7^th longest in the world. It’s also an industrial dumping ground and is fast turning into an environmental nightmare. Here’s a photo taken on November 21, 2006 of a section of the Yellow River in Lanzhou, the capitol of northwest China’s Gansu Province.

A day after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases, President Bush said he thought that the measures he'd taken so far were sufficient. Mr. Bush made it clear in remarks on Tuesday that he thought his proposal to increase automobile fuel efficiency was sufficient for the moment; he gave no indication he would ask the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate emissions of heat-trapping gases.

The Declaration of Independence guarantees us certain unalienable rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which have been recognized by the US Supreme Court.

Crossposted at Dkos

Ok, like I did with Kucinich earlier I am going to lay out all the candidates plans via there website information and or speeches pertaining to such

Since diving into the deep end when it comes to energy issues, almost every day sees new fascinating concepts, approaches, and technologies.  Fascinating ... exciting ... even hope inspiring at times.  And, as well, as the passion builds, so many of these are truly 'Energy COOL'.  

This is the fourth of a new series, renamed Energy COOL energy, where we can share some of the exciting things that are going on in the energy world. Today's forcus, an innovative business model for improving city transportation and getting people into bicycles ...

One of the world's largest advertising firm, JC Decaux, has developed a new approach to increasing bicycle use in major cities. Cyclocity is spreading like wildfire.