Category Archives: Politics

Put Your Money Where Your Life Is

Manzanita Community Garden in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. Photo by Billkaisere via flickr.

This post was originally published on the United Nations Environmental Programme’s WED (World Environment Day) Voices page. “World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action,” held on June 5. In 2010, Tuesday Phillips won their first-annual national blogging competition and travelled with the UN to Rwanda to cover WED events.

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Hank D and the Bee: A Bunch of Hot Air

More on Fox spinning the wind turbine (and Bullies).

From Treehugger: Wind Farms Cause Global Warming, Fox News Says
From Care2: Bully: The Movie and the Movement

Follow the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons.

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Obama’s Blackness Increasing America’s Redness?

More on the President’s blackness

From We Are the Respectable Negroes: Fear of a Black President? Love of the Confederacy? Explaining the Tea Party GOP and the “Southern Religion”
From MotherJones: 109 things President Obama currently is or recently has been engaged in a war against (according to conservative pundits, lazy headline writers, and Google trawling
From the New Yorker: Covert Operations–The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.
From Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet

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Revolutionary Testimony by Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel Speaker, Lee Brain

Photo by Wyatt Wellman via flickr

Although it is already a month and a half old, this video of Lee Brain’s testimony to the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Committee in Canada is circulating around social media sites.  This proposed project would consist of two separate pipelines running east-to-west and west-to-east; one pipeline would transport natural gas and the other oil.  At least 61 First Nations oppose the project, which would cross through much of their traditional lands and endanger salmon habitat.

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How to Lose Friends Yet Influence Elections


The next edition of this board game hopefully won’t have that card included…

More on Citizens United and Super PACs

From HuffPo: Citizens United and Contributions to Super PACs: A Little History Is in Order
From Salon: The hard truth about Citizens United
From Open Secrets: Super PACs (full breakdown)

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Chemical Contamination at Safe Levels in Dimock, PA

Photo by rocketjim54 via flickr

The EPA released controversial findings from incomplete tests on wells from the rural town of Dimock, Pennsylvania on March 15. These findings indicate that the 11 wells that were tested did not contain levels of methane and other chemicals that would be dangerous to human health. However, the findings do show that the well water tested from these homes does, indeed, contain contaminants.

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Five Fascinating Facts About Rick Santorum

Photo by markn3tel via flickr

“We were put on this earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the earth, to use it wisely but for our benefit, not the earth’s benefit. We are intelligent beings … we should not let the vagaries of nature destroy what we have helped to create.”

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Pennsylvania Residents Just Got Fracked

Photo by Joelk75 via flickr

Pennsylvania Governor, Tom Corbett, recently signed HB 1950 into law, which allows counties the freedom to charge natural gas companies “impact fees” to drill inside their boundaries. What Governor Corbett won’t tell you is that the law also robs residents of their political voice and silences potentially damning medical evidence against the fracking process.

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“America Will do What’s Right…”


Inspired by the 70 year-old Winston Churchill quote: “In the long run, Americans will always do the right thing — after exploring all other alternatives.”

Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon page

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Defense Energy Project

Photo by L.C.Nøttaasen via flickr

TreeHugger.com’s Brian Merchant, MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan, and NASA’s James Hansen recently discussed an economic strategy to reduce carbon emissions and inspire Green innovation. It’s called the Defense Energy Project, and it simultaneously diagnoses the systemic causes of our addiction to fossil fuels – especially oil – and provides rational, market-driven solutions.

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