President Obama put a focus on the economical challenges the United States faces – and how he would solve them if he were to be elected for a new four-year period as the President. The unemployment rate is now at 8.5 percent. Never before has a president been re-elected with unemployment rates this high. After [...]
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Immediately following Obama’s official thumbs down on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline proposal, media, businesspeople, politicians and the public on both sides of the political coin began sounding off about the rights and wrongs and pros and cons of the decision. As a Greener Ideal reader I can take a swing in the dark at the [...]
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Once on the brink of extinction, one of the United States’ most revered national symbols, the bald eagle is thriving again. During the 1980’s there was only one nesting bald eagle pair in Southern New Jersey. Nevertheless, with the ban on the pesticide DDT that led to the sharp decline of the eagle’s population, along [...]
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Today a poll was released indicating that 84% of Florida voters support a bill which would see that the fines paid by BP for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill would be spent on Gulf Restoration. Additionally, the results of the poll indicated that 74% of voters would be likely to support political candidates who [...]
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A recent feature on the residents of Port Arthur, Texas have found that the small town has some of the dirtiest air in the United States due to the concentration of oil refineries. As Texas has been under the control of Governor Rick Perry for almost 11 years, many are saying that the blame for [...]
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In a recent interview on Fox, Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich had to backpedal on his stance on climate change – a topic which was spurred by his appearance in a commercial with then-Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi urging Americans to take action against climate change. The commercial, which you can watch below, was part of [...]
Read more →This morning in his weekly address, President Obama announced a stronger push towards clean energy in order to reduce the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, and to allow Americans to “out-innovate and out-compete the rest of the world.” The President’s announcement came from the Allison Transmission plant in Indianapolis where hybrid technology for fuel [...]
Read more →The State of California has just announced that over the past 6 months, it has saved enough energy to power 2,000 homes for a year. The energy savings are a result of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signing legislation in September of last year, which overall was intended to keep a handle on California State IT services, [...]
Read more →Hot on the heels of Power Shift 2011, a group of 5,000 activists are planning to rally for action on climate change and clean energy at the White House in Washington D.C., tomorrow morning (April 18) at 10 am. Rally at the White House for the Planet The rally is being led up by Richard [...]
Read more →The United States of America decided to give Planet Earth an early Christmas present yesterday by hammering BP and five other businesses involved in the Gulf Oil Spill with a multi-billion dollar civil lawsuit. In addition to restoring my faith in humanity, President Obama and others in his administration have set a precedent for corporate [...]
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