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Copenhagen Out of the Frying Pan
I walked into the alternative to the Climate Conference, ”Klimaforum09,” with a specific question I wanted answered: "In what practical way can the activists here be successful in the effort to avoid catastrophic...
A coalition of insurance industry groups called "Get Health Reform Right," led by Blue Cross Blue Shield and including America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Benefits Council and others, has been caught tricking Facebook users into sending...
World Nuclear News, a pro-nuclear website run by the World Nuclear Association, is upbeat about the draft "Danish text" climate change agreement. The text, which was secretly drafted by the governments of the U.K., the U.S., Denmark and Australia, has...
Tom Harris, the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition and a former PR executive with the High Park Group, was one of the organisers of the Copenhagen Climate Challenge as an alternative to COP15 conference. The conference...
I am pleased to welcome Alex Carlin, the Director of The Leo J. and Celia Carlin Fund and organizer of 100 Miles of Mirrors, who is guest-blogging for the Center for Media and Democracy from the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen. This is the first...
