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I think Bill may be a bit confused about Apple’s success…

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With ‘clean coal’ and nuclear power likely to play a larger-than-expected role in climate change legislation, are we heading for an iceberg? Literally, no–they’re all melting. Figuratively, maybe…

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It’s true! According to the very intelligent folks at CO2isgreen, who have direct ties to Oil and Coal industry big wigs, more CO2 is better for us!

The Oil and Coal industries both have unlimited amounts of money, the bulk of which–I am certain–goes to research and development to make this world a better, cleaner place. So if they start a campaign called CO2isgreen with ads stating well-researched facts such as, “Higher CO2 levels than we have today would help the earth’s ecosystems…” and “more CO2 results in a ‘greener’ earth.” then, doggummit, I believe them (and I’m sure Bill McKibben does as well)!

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Can “We the People” who got us into this mess be counted on to get us out of it?

…not looking good.

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Given the recent track record of Bonner and Associates (fake letter writing, fake health care opponents, phony “FACES” of Coal…) this tactic may very well be next.

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I guess I’m on a pole dancing kick this week. But, my (very short) post on nude pole dancing on the subway inspired thoughts of how renewable energy needs to get a little “sexier”.

This should do the trick…

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Sens. Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), Carl Levin (Mich.), Robert Casey (Penn.), Arlen Specter (Penn.), Robert Byrd (W.Va.), Jay Rockefeller (W.Va.), Evan Bayh (Ind.), Russell Feingold (Wis.), and Al Franken (Minn.) signed the letter saying a climate bill should “include provisions to maintain a level playing field for American manufacturing.”

A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD?!?!? Big Coal is complaining (to their senators apparently) that they are concerned about a level playing field. That is HILARIOUS!

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If the coal industry’s ringtone didn’t kill the hopes and dreams of the renewable energy revolution, this certainly will.

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This is another  in our series of environmentally focused cartoons we are featuring from Seppo Leinonen a cartoonist from Finland. I met Seppo through Twitter @sepponet and loved his business oriented green cartoons - I think you will too!

Rules for Participation:
1. Look at the cartoon below.
2. Think of a caption to accompany the cartoon.
3. Post your caption in the comments section.

The winning caption will be published (with author’s name as posted in comment section) in Red Green and Blue sometime next week.

Enjoy!
-MJG

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Plan A is our present course: more oil drilling, more growth, more carbon dioxide emissions, more consumption, more of a gap between the haves and have-nots. Plan B suggests that we can shop our way out of climate change and peak oil, if only we consume “green” products and services. But Plan C advocates a drastic reduction in consumption as the necessary ingredient for a sustainable, equitable world. Replacing competition with cooperation and materialism with meaningful human relationships, Plan C makes an appealing case for unique places where neighbors care for each other and communities work cohesively to achieve a common wealth that has little to do with money.

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Republican Congressman Joe Barton believes wind turbines may slow down the wind, thereby heating up the globe!

How do these people get elected?! graduate college?! graduate high school?! get through the day?!

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/03/mjg-58-limbaugh-oreilly-hannity-and-beck-wear-speedos-to-fight-global-warming/feed/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/04/mean-joe-green-53-the-lights-are-on-but-nobodys-home/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/04/mean-joe-green-53-the-lights-are-on-but-nobodys-home/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:36:14 +0000 Joe Mohr http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/04/mean-joe-green-53-the-lights-are-on-but-nobodys-home/ Recent Anti-Coal Rally in Washington Being Called the Largest Anti-Coal Action Ever in the U.S.

I’m all about activism and rallying in support of renewable energy, but we MUST NOT forget the importance of conservation. Afterall, WE are the ones creating the need for coal-fired power plants.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/04/mean-joe-green-53-the-lights-are-on-but-nobodys-home/feed/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/13/mean-joe-green-51-the-new-face-of-the-energy-industry-fat-cats/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/13/mean-joe-green-51-the-new-face-of-the-energy-industry-fat-cats/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:03:03 +0000 Joe Mohr http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/13/mean-joe-green-51-the-new-face-of-the-energy-industry-fat-cats/ The times are-a-changing. On the way out are the days of big oil and coal fat cats running ruining the energy policy of our  great nation.

Putting profit above all else, these clowns have dirtied our nation’s air and water and have stood in the way of energy and fuel-related progress for decades.

With $62.2 billion in the latest version of the Economic Stimulus Package going to environmental initiatives, said fat cats will surely live a comfortable existence as they ease into their “golden years”, but the new energy czars will be leading the way deriving energy and fuel from such sources as; wind, solar, waves, algae, cellulosic ethanol, and much more…

…Leading our great nation to a clean, energy independent future!

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0 House Republicans voted for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act last week.

0.

Could it be that if the Democrats fix the amazing mess we are in then the Republican Party–long known for being the party to trust when it came to all-things-money–will be left without a strength???

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