Posted in Solutions, tagged climate change, CO2, conservation, Dumb as we wanna be, energy crisis, gas tax holiday, Global warming, Hillary Clinton's gas tax holiday, political brownout, Robert Reich, Thomas Friedman on April 30, 2008 | 11 Comments »
First was this picture in the San Francisco Chronicle, of a ‘Pray-in at San Francisco gas station asks God to lower prices’. I almost choked!
Then came Hillary Clinton and John McCain’s joint request for a “gas tax holiday“:
Hillary will impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies and use the money to temporarily suspend the [...]
Posted in Blogging, tagged climage change debate, collaboration, collective intelligence, global warming debate, MIT Collective Intelligence Lab, science, technology, Web 2.0 on April 29, 2008 | 20 Comments »
The folks at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence think they have a better way to organize the creation and consumption of content around complex topics such as global warming. Their new Collaboratorium project aims to fix what they perceive as wrong with current Web collaboration tools such as forums, blogs, emails, IM, and wikis.
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Posted in Green Psychology, Not So Green Exposure, tagged climate protection, consumption, economics, environmental economics, green living, new economic order, San Francisco Chronicle, sustainability on April 28, 2008 | 37 Comments »
It is happening finally. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, ‘Dollar’s Fall Forces New Standard of Frugality‘ amidst Americans. I could not be more pleased. ‘Squeezed by food and energy prices, tight credit, stagnant incomes and falling home and stock values, many consumers are throttling back.’
‘Ins and Outs of New Economic [...]
Posted in Blogging, Green Girl Wannabe, tagged climate change, CO2, Global warming, green blog, green living, Green Psychology on April 27, 2008 | 39 Comments »
Tonight I am feeling impatient, and tired of ‘just’ writing. I want to step into action, and shake things up. This is a recurrent feeling I have. How can I best help bring about some of the changes that we keep discussing and advocating in this blog?
Tonight, I am feeling powerless, and I don’t like [...]
Posted in Consumer Research, tagged access to water, carbon footprint, climate change, environmental education, Gallup, Global warming, green living, recycling on April 26, 2008 | 11 Comments »
As of late, Gallup has been a great source of important climate related behavioral data. Here is the third survey in the series, this time taking a look at differences between top polluting nations:
These are global numbers. Equally relevant are per capita footprints – latest, 2006 data from Footprint Network:
United States 9.6
China 1.6 (and [...]
Posted in Green Girl Wannabe, Social Networks, tagged climate change solutions, consciousness, global warming solutions, green living, mind shift, Nudge, Robert Redford, sustainable lifestyle on April 25, 2008 | 12 Comments »
“Want to bike or drive?‘” Prad was testing my green-ness once more. For a moment, I wavered. The easy way with the car tempting me. And the pressure to get to the gym quick, so that I could get back to my day of work. “It won’t take us much more time. And it’s sixty [...]
Posted in Activism, tagged Activism, Bush administration, climate change censorship, EPA, Galileo, science facts misrepresentation, Union of Concerned Scientists on April 24, 2008 | 14 Comments »
You would think we live in Galileo’s times again. The Union of Concerned Scientists just released a study exposing widespread manipulation of scientific findings and intimidation of EPA scientists by the Bush administration. Among the UCS report’s top findings:
- 889 scientists (60 percent) said they had personally experienced at least one instance of political [...]
Posted in Consumer Research, tagged climate behavior research, Climate Research, environmental psychology, Gallup Survey, Global warming, green living, Green Psychology, recycling, sustainability, women and climate change on April 24, 2008 | 25 Comments »
Another recent Gallup survey completes and confirms what we already know from the other Gallup survey and other research.
There is a core group of people, about 30% who are deeply committed to making environmental changes. As Kyle emphasized in one of his earlier comments here, these are the people we need to work [...]
Posted in Activism, tagged Al Gore, climate change, conservationist, E2, Earth Day, eco-hero, environment, environmental activist, environmental solutions, Global warming, global warming solutions, inconvenient truth, NRDC, Robert Redford, water crisis on April 23, 2008 | 16 Comments »
All the Earth Day circus put me in no mood to celebrate. Still, last night I attended an Earth Day event, sponsored by E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), two organizations that I am very proud to support. Robert Redford was the main speaker. He was one of my idols, growing up, [...]
Posted in Blogging, tagged Earth Day, environment, green blog, Times, top eco blogs, top green blogs on April 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
To all of you who are contributing to the La Marguerite blog, you should be proud. La Marguerite was just listed as one of the “Ten Eco Blogs for Earth Day” by the London Times Online:
No Impact Man
The Daily Green
Conscious Consuming
Inhabitat
The Alternative Consumer
Life Goggles
La Marguerite
Ecology and Policy
Globalisation and the Environment
Climate Progress
I am going [...]
