“[Jon] Powers also leads the interagency Steering Committee on Federal Sustainability, which includes a “sustainability officer” from every executive agency in the government.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Sustainability
Obama’s Agenda 21 point man: Obscure White House sustainability chief wields vast powers
Posted in 44, Sustainability
Boy Scouts require new ‘Sustainability’ merit badge for Eagle rank
What’s the new motto? “Be Pre-Scared”? Continue reading
Posted in Agenda 21, Sustainability
Gorbachev urges “sustainable perestroika” to save Earth; “All that has been done is too late, and it’s not enough”
He urged governments to use his policies of “perestroika” (restructuring) and “glasnost” (openness) — which ushered in democratic changes that led against his will to the collapse of the Soviet Union — to address climate change and overconsumption of resources. Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
BP says oil & gas are the new ‘sustainable’ future; Selling wind business, Exited solar in 2011
Time for a new logo? Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Admitted: Sustainable Development = Marxism
The New Statesman’s John Gray makes the admission. Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability, The Comrades
Washington DC aspires to be ‘greenest’ city in the US — but goal is threatened by the sequester
If DC’s “sustainability” funding is being cut, it must not be that important in the first place. Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Al Gore’s ‘sustainable capitalism’ is DOA
Paul Farrell takes apart Al Gore’s new book.!–more–>
Posted in Sustainability
Environmental Sustainability Is Not a Job Killer
Examples? Okay… example? Anyone? Hello? Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Animal rights and climate change in LA
Los Angeles City Council recently adopted a resolution declaring all Mondays as Meatless Mondays in support of comprehensive sustainability efforts…. Continue reading
Posted in Animal rights, Climate Change, Sustainability
Patrick Moore on the facts and fiction of climate change
Patrick Moore on the Facts and Fiction of Climate Change
Thursday, August 9, 2012 – Joseph Cotto, Washington Times
“I fear the irrational policies of extreme environmentalists far more than a warmer climate on this relatively cold planet (14.5 C global average temperature today compared with 25C during the Greenhouse Ages.” Continue reading
EDITORIAL: Unsustainable investments
Democrats look to divert more money to liberal causes Continue reading
Posted in CSR, Economics, Sustainability
Alex Epstein: The Globavore’s Achievement — A Review of ‘The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet’
“When reading this book, I had two feelings that I often have when reading Desrochers and Shimizu’s work–’Why was I never taught this?’ and ‘Everybody need to know this!’ …. The Locavore’s Dilemma will give you an appreciation of the unappreciated glory that is capitalist agriculture, which is responsible for the fact that you are alive, will live a long time, and in greater health than nearly anyone in history.” Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Anti capitalism, Environmentalism, Food miscellany, Green hell, Sustainability
Tagged food superstition
Timothy Devinney: What we really care about, and how to lift sustainability’s real appeal
Harrumph! “Sustainability” is a term devoid of any real meaning. What people basically want is to improve their lot and hopefully that of others too (as long as it isn’t personally detrimental to do so). Another problem with polling, especially on touchy-feely nonsense like the environment and sustainability is “contingent valuation” – what people say they would sacrifice for X is significantly different from what they are really willing to pay. Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax, Environmentalism, Green hell, Sustainability
Tagged anti development, carbon scam, carbon tax, greenie obstructionists
Resolutions Made at Rio+20 Should not be Taken as a Sign of Progress
Really? I thought the mealy-mouthed empty nonsense a great improvement over previous efforts. Definite progress. Continue reading
Tim van Gelder: Sustainability demands public wisdom
Sigh… Actually Tim, Australia is still pretty much a blank sheet, waiting for us to terraform into an environment that suits us better. Once we have done so we can sustain anything we want. There is nothing magical about the way it was before we started improving it any more than there is some special quality about its previous desperately unproductive state.
We were a country of nation builders but constant white-anting by the green left has eroded us to a collection of effete worriers, too uncertain to manage a trip to the corner store. That’s not ‘public wisdom’ but societal sabotage. Continue reading
Going It Alone After the Rio Circus
The works starts now, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said at the conclusion of the summit on sustainable development in Rio last week. This was about the only UN statement that civil society groups seem to agree with. It is on the precise task at hand that they differ. Continue reading
Posted in Agenda 21, Green hell, Sustainability, UN
Tagged global governance, greenie obstructionists, hatred of humans, insane greens, misanthropy
Government Playing With Fire: Localism Act Is Used Against Locals
Wind farm developers are using the Coalition’s new planning laws to challenge a local ban on building turbines next to houses, documents reveal. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Property rights, Sustainability
Tagged government subsidies, Wind power
Teach an Industry How to Fish and Maybe It Will Survive
Most of the news about the world’s oceans is a litany of gloom: rising water temperatures, acidification, bleached coral reefs, tons of Japanese tsunami trash drifting toward North America’s west coast. So it is worth noting when something good is happening with the seas. Continue reading
How much does “green” cost, group asks retailers
Retailers over the past decade have worked to reduce the environmental cost of the products they sell and the stores they sell them in. Now, a conservative, free-market think tank is questioning the financial cost of being “green.” Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Environmentalism, Sustainability
Lorne Gunter: World Cooling To Global Warming
As the climate-change theory crumbles, expect its supporters to be more vocal in its defence, more insistent that the science is ironclad. Like the cultish followers of any faddish religion when it nears the end of its fashionableness, they will proclaim their views even more vociferously and denounce more forcefully all those who disagree. But increasingly, their warnings of impending doom and their character attacks on their opponents will be performed before empty houses, as in Rio. Continue reading
