Dubya Bush - NOT!

President Obama telling the American people how it's going to be. Clean energy; Green jobs; energy security. Quite a good start. Before you know it they'll acknowledge Peak Oil and the problems that agriculture will have supplying enough food in future and Bob'll be our Uncle - we'll be on the way to sustainability!

Climate catastrophe - scientists finally can tell it like it is

A few days ago the USA passed the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, which this recent letter (link below) from 20 leading scientists refers to. Just read the language they are finally able to use, now they don't have to diplomatically water it down to catch the ear of "Dubya" Bush. It starts off "Strong leadership by the United States will be required to move the nations of the world away from what scientists increasingly recognize as a rapidly developing global climatic catastrophe."

An open letter to President Obama and Members of Congress

Obama socks it to the American public

Released on Tuesday by Obama's administration was a document that gave me more hope that humanity will do the decent thing and that environmental sense just might come to pass. Here is the NBC report on it. The climate deniers won't be happy at some of the language and ideas put to the American people... Originally this video had a commercial that prefaced it - it was one for a massive greenhouse-gases-responsible beef-burger - there was a certain irony about it!

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A good start for President Obama

Back in January, President Obama gave this address on the economy, energy climate and sustainability (yes, he mentioned the magic word!). What he proposes is a snowball which is relatively small potatoes (I just can't help mixing metaphors!) compared with what we have to do to save everybody's skins but if Obama sets it rolling we just might be able to add "the sustainability extras" to the snowball to get it up to a suitable size as it starts to gather speed and the electorate starts to see that altering the way we do things will not be a disaster but just possibly we might end up in a nicer situation.