Scenes from historic PowerShift09, now in Washington D.C.!
February 27, 2009
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Call for Civil Disobedience Against Coal Power!
February 26, 2009
Yes! Magazine call for civil disobedience.
The White House is blogging about Green Jobs and PowerShift09 this weekend!
February 26, 2009
White House Blog
Obama’s State of the Economy Calls for an End to Direct Payments to Agribusiness!
February 24, 2009
Obama’s speech tonight was great as usual. He focused on his three priorities–renewable energy, health care, and education—in that order. Whatever differences I may have with some of Obama’s policy priorities, I applaud him that he seems to always be making renewable energy number 1!
My main disagreement is related to his emphasis on reviving consumption. [...]
Technical article on the key issues regarding bank nationalization– especially the issues of bond holders taking a hair cut!
February 24, 2009
While this article is technical, it is very helpful in better understanding the issues at play as we consider bank nationalization. I like the authors’ recommendations at the end about eventually selling cleaned-up assets to strong, solvent community banks near to where assets are located. These community banks would also in the best position to [...]
Nationalizing the banks and the road toward Local Living Economies
February 24, 2009
nationalization banks
President Obama in my hometown! The foreclosure crisis here and dreams of a green future…
February 18, 2009
Today Obama visited my hometown in Phoenix, AZ to unveil his mortgage foreclosure plan. He couldn’t have picked a better location! Right here in the downtown Phoenix historic neighborhood I grew up in, we are deep in the foreclosure crisis. My neighborhood was a poor Mexican-American neighborhood during my childhood, and until [...]
