nytimes.com - 1/12/2009
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Last week President-elect Barack Obama was asked to respond to critics who say that his stimulus plan won’t do enough to help the economy. Mr. Obama answered that he wants to hear ideas about “how to spend money efficiently and effectively to jump-start the economy.” O.K., I’ll bite although ...
guardian.co.uk - 1/18/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
Guardian: Barack Obama has only four years to
save the world. That is the stark assessment of...
Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change ...
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President 'has four years to save Earth'
redgreenandblue.org - 1/14/2009
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redgreenandblue.org —
This is a guest post by Caitlin Sislin,
a public interest environmental attorney in Oakland, California and...
founder of the Transformative Advocacy program of Women’s Earth Alliance . Barack Obama is committed to slowing and reversing climate ...
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Obama’s Inauguration Will Be the Greenest Ever
climateprogress.org - 1/9/2009
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climateprogress.org —
We don’t have a lot of details on
the stimulus, but what is starting to come out...
is distinctly unimpressive on the clean energy side. Yes, it is a big deal that Obama said yesterday: “We will double the production of alternative energy ...
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Senate Dems unhappy with level of energy funds in Obama ...
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Ray LaHood and Changing our Thinking About Transportation
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... , a new national coalition of smart growth, transit and good government groups, has already put forward an alternative list of $33 billion worth of shovel-ready but environmentally-friendly transportation infrastructure projects, and is lobbying for $100 billion in total investment in transit and other climate-friendly solutions. What's more, we should be more worried about spending the money right than spending it quickly: as Paul Krugman said in a recent column , "Why does the time frame have to be short? ...Right now the investment portion of the Obama plan is limited by a ...
On Obama's Stimulus: Don't Look Back, Forge Ahead to a New Century of Prosperity
WattHead - Energy News and Commentary —
... Krugman has taken great pains with his columns recently to explain why a stimulus package on the order of a trillion dollars or more is called for, and why the numbers Obama is talking about now are not close to sufficient. But where Krugman sees economic under reach, his fellow Friday Times columnist David Brooks sees political ...
Obama Stimulus: For Clean Energy, a Patchwork of Investments
WattHead - Energy News and Commentary —
... So given the risks of not doing enough, why does the Recovery and Reinvestment plan attempt to address just half of expected losses in economic production? Or as Krugman is left wondering, "Why isn't Mr. Obama trying to do more?" ...
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