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On 2009-11-03 BenJervey posted
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Long November

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  • on November 3, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Long November

The United States will come under some serious heat this month, but the climate drama won’t be taking place at United Nations talks.

With more than a month to go before the Copenhagen climate talks, the press are practically tripping themselves to write off the talks as a failure. Now, I’m not here to blow sunshine and tell you that all’s going great here in Barcelona, and that we’re well on our way to a fair, ambitious, and binding…

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On 2009-10-27 BenJervey posted
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The Global Climate Movement Comes of Age

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  • on October 27, 2009 at 1:28 pm

The Global Climate Movement Comes of Age

The global grassroots climate movement is finally here, and huge.

Climate activists have been waiting two long decades to see what a global climate movement would look like. As of last Saturday, we know. And as movement mentor and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben wrote in an email after watching photos of grassroots actions around the world projecting from the giant, iconic screens of Times Square, “it looked diverse and creative and beautiful.”

Diverse? There were events on every continent…

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On 2009-10-20 BenJervey posted
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Paying Our Climate Debts

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  • on October 20, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Paying Our Climate Debts

The United States and other industrialized countries have to face up to historical responsibility.

When it comes to climate change, the burden of historical responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of the developed West. There’s no avoiding the fact that industrialized nations, which have grown economies, developed infrastructure, and generated great wealth by burning fossil fuels, have also affected countries throughout the developing world. The impacts of climate change aren’t some future threat—they are happening now, damaging…

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On 2009-10-13 BenJervey posted
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Testing Obama’s Medal

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Testing Obama’s Medal

How Obama can overcome incredulous reactions and truly earn his Nobel Peace Prize in Copenhagen.

They’re still scraping jaws off the floors of the U.N. center in Bangkok. For it was at the tail end of the last day of the two-week session of climate change talks, during which the United States stood tall and stubborn as the biggest obstacle to an international agreement to be achieved Copenhagen, that word of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize buzzed…

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On October 8, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Project: Islands for Islands

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can GOOD contractors apply? 

On October 6, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Fighting Over Cop15 Before Cop15 Even Starts

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Nice analysis, Siobhan.  The reality on the ground here in Bangkok (which you can follow along through my work w/ TckTckTck’s Adopt-a-negotiator project here) is that nothing at all will get done before we put some numbers on the table.  And nobody in the international community is going to trust our numbers unless they’re backed by something resembling a concrete domestic plan.  If our bill does “pale in comparison to what the UN is calling for” in terms of emissions targets (which is will), there will still be a decent shot at a treaty–it’s just that we’ll have to give up more on other points (finance for mitigation and adaptation costs abroad, tech transfer assistance, etc).  If we don’t have anything from back home, there’s really no hope for any treaty.  Also–we don’t need a bill to be passed and signed by the President (realistically, we’ve known for 10 months now that nothing would ever be signed by Obama by COP15), but it has to take shape, be relatively strong, and look like a pretty strong bet at getting turned into law.  Again–more here!

On 2009-10-06 BenJervey posted
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The Best Possible Deal at COP15 Starts at Home

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The Best Possible Deal at COP15 Starts at Home

America can make or break the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen—depending on what happens in Washington.

I’m getting a lot of emails here in Bangkok—where I’m currently tracking the U.N. climate treaty negotiations for TckTckTck’s Adopt a Negotiator project—from folks back home wondering what they can do to help secure a deal. How can concerned citizens back on the home-front possibly impact the high-level diplomatic talks on the other side of the globe? The answer, it turns…

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On 2009-09-30 BenJervey posted
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Taking Climate Change to School

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Taking Climate Change to School

The Alliance for Climate Education teaches the reality of climate change to our nation’s children—with ease.

Not long ago, I wrote that “the kids are alright.” I was talking about the incredible force that the youth climate movement has become over the past couple of years, taking advantage of the web’s networking potential and bringing together like-minded thinkers and activists, often culminating in good old-fashioned, on-the-ground mobilization.

But the youth climate movement is still limited, in its size,…

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On 2009-09-15 BenJervey posted
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Van, Again the Man

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Van, Again the Man

How Glenn Beck and Fox News may have just unleashed progressives’ greatest hope.

The wingnuts won’t have Van Jones to kick around anymore. Victim of a month-long, flagrantly dishonest smear campaign orchestrated by Glenn Beck at Fox News, Jones resigned last Saturday—as you’ve surely heard—from his post as the White House’s special adviser for green jobs, enterprise, and innovation.

Thank you, Glenn Beck, for giving us Van Jones back.

Like many folks who’ve long admired Jones’s work, upon first…

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On 2009-09-10 BenJervey posted
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Countdown to Copenhagen

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  • on September 10, 2009 at 12:43 pm

Countdown to Copenhagen

Crucial stepping stones on the pathway to a climate pact.

There are plenty of folks who are calling December’s climate treaty summit in Copenhagen “the most important meeting in the history of the world.” You can include me in those ranks (though it’s actually called the 15th Conference of the Parties, or, more simply, COP15). In the now dwindling weeks leading up to these talks, the world will bear witness to a truly unprecedented run of…

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On 2009-11-03 BenJervey posted
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Long November

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Long November

The United States will come under some serious heat this month, but the climate drama won’t be taking place at United Nations talks.

With more than a month to go before the Copenhagen climate talks, the press are practically tripping themselves to write off the talks as a failure. Now, I’m not here to blow sunshine and tell you that all’s going great here in Barcelona, and that we’re well on our way to a fair, ambitious, and binding…

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On 2009-10-27 BenJervey posted
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The Global Climate Movement Comes of Age

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  • on October 27, 2009 at 1:28 pm

The Global Climate Movement Comes of Age

The global grassroots climate movement is finally here, and huge.

Climate activists have been waiting two long decades to see what a global climate movement would look like. As of last Saturday, we know. And as movement mentor and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben wrote in an email after watching photos of grassroots actions around the world projecting from the giant, iconic screens of Times Square, “it looked diverse and creative and beautiful.”

Diverse? There were events on every continent…

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On 2009-10-20 BenJervey posted
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Paying Our Climate Debts

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  • on October 20, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Paying Our Climate Debts

The United States and other industrialized countries have to face up to historical responsibility.

When it comes to climate change, the burden of historical responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of the developed West. There’s no avoiding the fact that industrialized nations, which have grown economies, developed infrastructure, and generated great wealth by burning fossil fuels, have also affected countries throughout the developing world. The impacts of climate change aren’t some future threat—they are happening now, damaging…

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On 2009-10-13 BenJervey posted
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Testing Obama’s Medal

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Testing Obama’s Medal

How Obama can overcome incredulous reactions and truly earn his Nobel Peace Prize in Copenhagen.

They’re still scraping jaws off the floors of the U.N. center in Bangkok. For it was at the tail end of the last day of the two-week session of climate change talks, during which the United States stood tall and stubborn as the biggest obstacle to an international agreement to be achieved Copenhagen, that word of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize buzzed…

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On 2009-10-06 BenJervey posted
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The Best Possible Deal at COP15 Starts at Home

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The Best Possible Deal at COP15 Starts at Home

America can make or break the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen—depending on what happens in Washington.

I’m getting a lot of emails here in Bangkok—where I’m currently tracking the U.N. climate treaty negotiations for TckTckTck’s Adopt a Negotiator project—from folks back home wondering what they can do to help secure a deal. How can concerned citizens back on the home-front possibly impact the high-level diplomatic talks on the other side of the globe? The answer, it turns…

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On 2009-09-30 BenJervey posted
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Taking Climate Change to School

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Taking Climate Change to School

The Alliance for Climate Education teaches the reality of climate change to our nation’s children—with ease.

Not long ago, I wrote that “the kids are alright.” I was talking about the incredible force that the youth climate movement has become over the past couple of years, taking advantage of the web’s networking potential and bringing together like-minded thinkers and activists, often culminating in good old-fashioned, on-the-ground mobilization.

But the youth climate movement is still limited, in its size,…

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On 2009-09-15 BenJervey posted
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Van, Again the Man

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  • on September 15, 2009 at 11:37 am

Van, Again the Man

How Glenn Beck and Fox News may have just unleashed progressives’ greatest hope.

The wingnuts won’t have Van Jones to kick around anymore. Victim of a month-long, flagrantly dishonest smear campaign orchestrated by Glenn Beck at Fox News, Jones resigned last Saturday—as you’ve surely heard—from his post as the White House’s special adviser for green jobs, enterprise, and innovation.

Thank you, Glenn Beck, for giving us Van Jones back.

Like many folks who’ve long admired Jones’s work, upon first…

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Countdown to Copenhagen

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  • on September 10, 2009 at 12:43 pm

Countdown to Copenhagen

Crucial stepping stones on the pathway to a climate pact.

There are plenty of folks who are calling December’s climate treaty summit in Copenhagen “the most important meeting in the history of the world.” You can include me in those ranks (though it’s actually called the 15th Conference of the Parties, or, more simply, COP15). In the now dwindling weeks leading up to these talks, the world will bear witness to a truly unprecedented run of…

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On 2009-08-24 BenJervey posted
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T.G.I.Thursday

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  • on August 24, 2009 at 3:40 pm

T.G.I.Thursday

An energy- and money-saving solution that pretty much everyone can get behind: three-day weekends.

Workers of the world, unite in giving Utah a round of applause. The Beehive State has made Thursday the new Friday, and by proving the benefits of this condensed calendar, Utah has brought us all closer to the dream of a shortened workweek.

A year ago, Republican Governor Jon Hunstman announced the Working 4 Utah initiative, essentially putting 17,000 of the state’s 24,000 executive…

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The Tortoise and the Hair-raising Threat

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The Tortoise and the Hair-raising Threat

To save our planet we’ll have to make sacrifices—and they might include the sage grouse and the desert tortoise.

An old buddy of mine is a wind power developer out West. As he cruises around Colorado and Wyoming scouting the steppe for promising sites, he has run into an unlikely adversary—the sage grouse, a chicken-like bird who’s resident in the very same broad, sagebrush-spotted, wind-battered ridges that make wind developers drool. I’ve been getting a kick…

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On October 8, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Project: Islands for Islands

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can GOOD contractors apply? 

On October 6, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Fighting Over Cop15 Before Cop15 Even Starts

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Nice analysis, Siobhan.  The reality on the ground here in Bangkok (which you can follow along through my work w/ TckTckTck’s Adopt-a-negotiator project here) is that nothing at all will get done before we put some numbers on the table.  And nobody in the international community is going to trust our numbers unless they’re backed by something resembling a concrete domestic plan.  If our bill does “pale in comparison to what the UN is calling for” in terms of emissions targets (which is will), there will still be a decent shot at a treaty–it’s just that we’ll have to give up more on other points (finance for mitigation and adaptation costs abroad, tech transfer assistance, etc).  If we don’t have anything from back home, there’s really no hope for any treaty.  Also–we don’t need a bill to be passed and signed by the President (realistically, we’ve known for 10 months now that nothing would ever be signed by Obama by COP15), but it has to take shape, be relatively strong, and look like a pretty strong bet at getting turned into law.  Again–more here!

On September 3, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Feuding French Mayors Fight over Road Rules, Chaos Ensues

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Reminds me of that old Dr. Seuss story about the Zax.

On August 12, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

The Tortoise and the Hair-raising Threat

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–EnviroDuck-Thanks for this. I hadn’t seen this report.  I will definitely be reading it and passing it along to my Wyoming wind contacts for their take.  –Jnavarro-  I very much appreciate your thoughtful comment.  These are all very good points that need to be made and heard, and I wish I had more space in this piece to lay out a stronger case for working together to come up with the best, most suitable compromises.  I certainly don’t mean to imply that it’s an absolute either/or.  But I do feel strongly that there will need to be *some* sacrifices for the sake of saving everything.  —

ekw39710: Ultimately, I agree with you on pretty much every individual point.  And given the space restraints of the article, I wasn’t able to get too deep into these points.  Believe me, I’d much rather not oversimplify, but it’s a very complex issue that can’t be comprehensively covered in 700 words.  I am looking for an outlet to do a much longer, more thorough piece on this issue.  But the point of this piece was really to serve as a wake-up call above all else.  I understand the hard work being done by Wildlands Conservancy in order to bring stakeholders together and find common ground and compromise to see these things get built.  But I am–above all else right now–a climate realist.  And the reality coming out of the climate science community right now is so dire, so severe, that really any delay at all means more pain and suffering.  We are on a track to real “hell and high water”–and the best chance we have at saving the lives of hundreds of millions (not to mention the existence of hundreds of thousands of species) is to build as much clean energy capacity as quickly as possible.  I would love nothing more than to find good common ground solutions for every potential clean energy location, but the past two years have shown that these things take a lot of time.  I know you’re working overtime already on this–and bless you for it–but we need this clean energy online as soon as possible.  Every habitat is at stake.

On July 29, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

“Cash for Clunkers” Is Here. Any Takers?

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As the law wound up being writter, I can’t any longer support the Cash-for-Clunkers program.  A nice idea with great promise, that was horribly undermined by a couple of Michigan-based reps who paired down the actual fuel efficiency benefits of the program to a laughable level.  Too bad.  To Bill’s comment above, though–the traded in cars are destroyed.  They are not resold.  Please read the actual rules (and read about all the protections the government is putting in place to avoid something like that happening, as it did in Germany).  Cash for clunkers is well worth plenty of criticism as it is now written, but Bill’s argument is no place to start.

On July 15, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Nuclear Waste

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Travis– Appreciate the comments.  We seem to agree that cost is the main concern.  I’m a little confused by your other arguments though.  I didn’t purposefully “ignore” the costs of pollution/depletion/human life when considering expense–when space allows I’m always happy to point out the hidden costs of fossil fuel-based energy.  But I was comparing expense of nuclear to the expense of other clean energy sources and to efficiency (really the most important element of it all), so pollution/depletion/human life is really a threat concentrated on the nuclear side, and falls into that “knee-jerk” anti-nuke argument that I wanted to avoid.  We disagree entirely that other renewables are “alternate sources…complimentary to a primary energy source.”   I spend a lot of time reading studies and talking to energy experts about this stuff, and there’s plenty of level-headed confidence that with 1/2 the proposed investment in nuclear, we could quickly (5-10 years) scale solar and wind to baseload capabilities.  Storage and transmission are the only things holding big wind and CSP back from providing round-the-clock baseload power.  Which is a challenge, to be sure, but by most reports, it’ll cost less to advance storage and transmission to where they’d need to be than it would be to build all those nuclear plants.   As for fusion/fission–yes, it was a boneheaded mistake.  I’ve been spending a lot of time reading about (and planning a hopeful research visit to) the fascinating ITER project and the tokamak reactor so I’ve had fusion on the mind.  No excuse, but an explanation.  I agree completely that we need more research on this front and I do expect to see great advances.  Hopefully we’ll be spreading more awareness w/ a piece on ITER sometime in the future.  

On July 15, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Nuclear Waste

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Thanks, Bill–Silly mistake.  Cooper–t’s my opinion, but I feel that we couldn’t claim true energy
independence if we relied heavily on resources from anywhere overseas.  Besides, after Australia, the world’s largest uranium supplies are in Kazakhstan, Russia, and South Africa, none of which really fit the “stable Western democracy” conditions you set.  THS– I don’t have an advanced physics degrees, but I have done considerable research into the economics of nuclear vs. other supplies.  The nuclear industry doesn’t even hide the fact that it’s incredibly expensive to bring new nuclear online.  It’s simple math–per kilowatt produced, nuclear is the most expensive low-carbon energy source besides carbon capture and sequestration (which has never proven itself at a large scale). 

On July 15, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Fighting Global Warming with Pavement

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Some early reports suggest that visibility is the biggest holdup to this.  “Cool pavements” will probably be tested in some urban settings within a few years, to help mitigate the urban heat island effect.  See also: white roofs. 

On July 14, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Nuclear Waste

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I couldn’t find numbers from the EIA (Energy Information Administration) as to where exactly we import our uranium from and in what amounts, but we do only have 6% of the world’s supply, and you can see who has the rest here:  http://www.energy.eu/stats/energy-uranium-proved-reserves.html

On July 2, 2009 BenJervey Discussed

Mountaintop Removal Must End

  • and said:

Dave–Thanks so much for the clarification.  An important distinction, but–as you say–the result is the same, and it goes to show what a lack of foresight can go into the planning and “construction” of these impoundments.

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