Green Options » Nixon http://greenoptions.com/tag/nixon Posts tagged 'Nixon' Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:25:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Pickens: ‘I’m for Anything American’ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/28/pickens-im-for-anything-american/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/28/pickens-im-for-anything-american/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:25:55 +0000 Jennifer Kho http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/28/pickens-im-for-anything-american/

The Clean-Tech Investor Summit is over and the participants have gone home, taking with them impressions about the current state of affairs and forecasts for the year ahead.

Arguably the most memorable speech was one by T. Boone Pickens, oil-magnate-turned-clean-energy advocate, on Wednesday. In a speech peppered with anecdotes about politicians and Pickens’ trademark frankness, he called for the audience to press the Obama administration – as well as their state and local lawmakers – to take real steps toward more energy independence.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/28/pickens-im-for-anything-american/feed/ Is Earth Day a Communist Plot? http://ecoscraps.com/2008/04/29/is-earth-day-a-communist-plot/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/04/29/is-earth-day-a-communist-plot/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:50:05 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecoscraps.com/2008/04/29/is-earth-day-a-communist-plot/ earthDid you know that Earth Day is also Lenin’s birthday? According to some sources, the choice of April 22 in 1970 as the first Earth Day was intentional as it was also the 100th birthday celebration of Lenin. According to Leftbooks.com, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported:

When Earth Day started in 1970, one of Georgia’s leading politicians tried to warn President Nixon, state governors and other national leaders that it was a Communist plot in disguise.

Others view the choice of April 22 to celebrate Earth Day as a distraction from this birthday celebrated in other parts of the world.

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