Opinion Forum

Environmental Writing 2011

May 27th, 2011

By Jan Barry From Agent Orange’s insidious grasp out of the past of the war in Vietnam to current health concerns of many residents of Ramapo River communities, to the potential future effects of global climate change, 11 student-reporters at Ramapo College of New Jersey dug into a wide array of ecological issues in the […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: Agent Orange, climate change, Earth, environment, projects, students
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The Obama-Gaia Energy Partnership

April 9th, 2011

By Dan Miller The community organizer in chief does what he does best. Years ago, a Venezuelan acquaintance told me a story: Venezuelans and Germans had a rowing race. The German crew had ten oarsmen and one leader who shouted commands; the Venezuelan crew had one oarsman and ten shouters. Surprisingly, the German crew won […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Brazil, climate, drilling, employment, energy, environment, Gaia, oil, satire
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Fires, Cars: More Deadly Than Nuclear Power!

April 1st, 2011

By Dan Miller We must stop using them lest intelligent life on Earth be further endangered! The extraordinarily powerful magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan were truly terrible — many lives were lost and there was great destruction. President Obama’s heart went out to the people of Japan and he did his presidential best: […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: cars, earthquake, environment, fires, Japan, nuclear power, satire, tsunami
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A Dolt on the Volt

January 29th, 2011

By Tom Carter Gene Weingarten wrote a very funny satirical article in The Washington Post today about the Chevrolet Volt. That’s the “volt” referred to in the title; Weingarten is the “dolt,” by his own admission. Like most people, I suppose, I didn’t know much about the Volt before I read Weingarten’s article. From what […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Chevrolet, cost, energy, environment, incentive, performance, subsidy, Volt
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The True Face of the Eco-Fascists

October 9th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last weekend, an environmentalist group wanted to stir up some enthusiasm for a program called 10:10, the objective of which is to reduce one’s “carbon footprint” by 10% by the end of 2010. To do so, they made a movie in which those who were less than enthusiastic about this objective were […]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: 10:10, children, environment, environmentalist, green, killing, video, violence
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