msnbc.msn.com - 12/16/2008
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Transcript of the Dec. 7, 2008 broadcast of NBC's 'Meet the Press,' featuring President-elect Barack Obama.
npr.org - 12/18/2008
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npr.org —
And Food Morning Edition , December 18, 2008
When President-elect Barack Obama nominated former Iowa Gov. Tom
Vilsack as his secretary of agriculture, he praised Vilsack's knowledge of both agriculture and energy. But author Michael Pollan says the ...
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Michael Pollan On Vilsack, Agriculture — And Food
blogs.sciencemag.org - 12/18/2008
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John Holdren Credit: AAAS Strong indications are that
President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to
be the president's science adviser. A top adviser to the Obama campaign and international expert on energy and climate, Holdren ...
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Sources: John Holdren to be Nominated as Obama's Science ...
time.com - 12/12/2008
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time.com —
When the presidential campaigns began, greens might have
thought they'd win either way: Both Barack Obama and
John McCain were on record supporting strong action on climate change and McCain could even point to his co-sponsorship of one of the first ...
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1. Election of Barack Obama - Top 10 Green Stories
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... This is what I've been trying to get at as long as I've been writing about Obama: he understands, in a way many of his contemporaries still do not, that we're witnessing "a convergence between circumstances and agenda," as he put it on Meet the Press last week. When it comes to the climate crisis, the financial crisis, or the healthcare crisis, the facts demand bold action, and that means a bias toward "variability, initiative, innovation, departure from routine, experimentation," in pragmatist John Dewey's words. It means activist government. ...
Progressivism is pragmatism: Obama says “the facts demand bold action.”
Climate Progress —
... : [Chu’s] appointment should send a signal to all that my Administration will value science, we will make decisions based on the facts, and we understand that the facts demand bold action . This is what I’ve been trying to get at as long as I’ve been writing about Obama: he understands, in a way many of his contemporaries still do not, that we’re witnessing “a convergence between circumstances and agenda,” as he put it on ...
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