My presidency will mark a new chapter in the Federal role in fighting climate change.

a high-level meeting between governmental “climate leaders” and to conclude a cooperative Summit Declaration on climate solutions... [and] to discuss the outlook for a comprehensive global agreement on climate solutions that prevents the world passing the “tipping point” as described by the IPCC.

Bring your favorite no-coal chant, noise makers and energy.

Two highly reactive chemicals in a common plastic can leak from disposable lab equipment and skew the outcome of life science research, according to an article published Thursday in the journal Science.

19 cities in the world with
20 million people in the
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Tap water is making a comeback. That’s bad news for PepsiCo’s profits. The company, which makes Pepsi, Doritos and Quaker Oats cereal, announced on Tuesday that its quarterly earnings were down 10 percent in part because of declines in sales of soda and bottled water in the United States.

...this is not the time for corporations to cut back

Our agenda puts the interests of America’s farmers, families and communities ahead of the fast-food industry’s. For that industry and its apologists to imply that it is somehow more “populist” or egalitarian to hand our food dollars to Burger King or General Mills than to support a struggling local farmer is absurd. Yes, sun food costs more, but the reasons why it does only undercut the charge of elitism: cheap food is only cheap because of government handouts and regulatory indulgence (both of which we will end), not to mention the exploitation of workers, animals and the environment on which its putative “economies” depend.

Cheap food is food dishonestly priced — it is in fact unconscionably expensive.

The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.... [A]s forests decline, nature stops providing services which it used to provide essentially for free. So the human economy either has to provide them instead, perhaps through building reservoirs, building facilities to sequester carbon dioxide, or farming foods that were once naturally available. Or we have to do without them; either way, there is a financial cost.... "It's not only greater but it's also continuous, it's been happening every year, year after year," study leader Pavan Sukhdev told BBC News. "So whereas Wall Street by various calculations has to date lost, within the financial sector, $1-$1.5 trillion, the reality is that at today's rate we are losing natural capital at least between $2-$5 trillion every year."

It’s time to vote. Yes — in the elections in November — but not only that. I’m talking about the voting you do every day. Every time you drop a dollar, yen, mark, yuan, frank, rial or pound on the shop counter or wire it through cyberspace, you’re voting.

The X PRIZE Foundation (http://www.xprize.org ) is looking for your crazy green ideas to become the next X PRIZE. So with the help of Prize Capital we’ve created the $25,000 “What’s your crazy green idea?” Video Contest to find out what crazy ideas are out there that could become breakthroughs.

The rules are simple.
1. Submit a 2 minute video to this group by October 31, 2008 explaining what you think should be the next Energy and Environment X PRIZE: http://www.youtube.com/groups_addvideos
2. We'll post the three most viable ideas to http://www.xprize.org on November 15.
3. The public will be given two weeks to vote for the winner on http://www.xprize.org
The most creative, revolutionary idea and video will receive $25,000 and could become the next great X PRIZE!