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The Ethicurean: All hail the new Eater in Chief
Climate Progress: President Obama’s call to action on energy and climate: “Each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.”
Grist - the Latest from Grist: 'The ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet'
All hail the new Eater in Chief
The Ethicurean —
We may not have gotten the Farmer in Chief we were dreaming for, but I am cautiously hopeful that the 44th president of the United States is going to move us a little closer to a sane food system. That’s despite the fact that the inauguration speech delivered by President Barrack Hussein Obama — oh how I love typing those four words — didn’t mention food or farming at all, except in the context of biofuels and developing countries:
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new ...
President Obama’s call to action on energy and climate: “Each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.”
Climate Progress —
Barack Obama Considering that this was an inaugural address, a speech whose aims are primarily rhetorical and visionary, our 44th president devoted more of his remarks to clean energy and global warming than anyone could have expected. Yet it may be these muscular and optimistic lines that offer the greatest encouragement to the nation and the world: Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage. ...
'The ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet'
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
By Joseph Romm Considering that this was an inaugural address, a speech whose aims are primarily rhetorical and visionary, our 44th president devoted more of his remarks to clean energy and global warming than anyone could have expected. Yet it may be these muscular and optimistic lines that offer the greatest encouragement to the nation and the world: Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions -- who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to ...
