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Guess

… Davis Guggenheim, executive producer and director of An Inconvenient Truth. Congrats, messrs. Guggenheim and Gore. Well played.

Funny

Gore just appeared on stage with Leo DiCaprio. They discussed how the ceremony has gone green, and how everyone has a role to play in fighting climate change. DiCaprio kept […]

That awful song, too

It won’t be long now until we find out whether Gore’s movie gets an Oscar. Rumor on the street has it the man "some bloggers" apparently call the "Goreacle" will […]

Pelosi hears from enviros on climate change legislation

Last Wednesday, Speaker Pelosi held a roundtable discussion on climate change in San Francisco, followed by a press conference.

She said -- no news here -- that she's determined to introduce an energy and climate package on July 4th, (energy) Independence Day. In preparation, she's instructed relevant committee chairs to move their bits of legislation through their committees by early June.

She got a lot of advice -- some of it, given that this is the environmental community, conflicting.

How do you choose yours?

I had nightmares after reading Nicolas Kristof's gruesome description of the Guinea worm -- a two-foot worm that eats through people and pops out of their bodies in the most unpleasant places -- in his editorial on Jimmy Carter's work to eradicate the disease. Beside the sleepless night, the article helped to solidify two things for me.

This is huge

Holy sh*t! This is huge: Under a proposed $45 billion buyout by a team of private equity firms, the TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that has long been the bane […]

Taking pointers from Schwarzenegger on talking about global warming.

Not only is Schwarzenegger leading California to many firsts in climate policy, he's also leading the way when it comes to talking about global warming.

Any savvy politician knows you can't get policy on the books without first winning over your colleagues and constituents. And Arnie is surely one of the savviest politicos around. Here's how he's doing it:

First, he taps into Californian pride and shared American values, stressing leadership, innovation, and a call to make history:

With love

Dear Tom Vilsack, Why did you tempt us with your progressive energy plan (PDF) and then turn your back on us so quickly? Sure, you had no chance of winning, […]

Fun with evolutionary psychology

Let me enthusiastically recommend this essay on The Oil Drum by Nate Hagens. It’s about human beings’ discount rate, its evolutionary origins, and its implications for climate change and peak […]

The pre-Oscar buzz is green, all green

Anyone who sneaks a guilty peek at Access Hollywood or Extra after dinner knows that it is officially Party Week in Hollywood. Everybody and her over-pedigreed dog is in town, boozing and schmoozing it up before the Academy Awards on Sunday. So when I scored an invite to the Global Green pre-Oscar party, I was pretty pumped.

This is the third year the organization has thrown the blowout, complete with a plethora of hybrids and alternative energy vehicles in the parking lot, chic sustainable building materials on display inside, and a long list of big names in attendance. Among the biggest: Petra Nemcova and James Blunt, Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson, Orlando Bloom and his new spiky haircut, and Oscar nominees and event co-chairs Leonardo DiCaprio and Penelope Cruz.

Unfortunately, I and the rest of the print media were stationed in front of the fans on the street and after a looong line of photographers. So many of the stars didn't stop to chat, either because they were suffering from sheer media fatigue or because they mistook us for a gaggle of screaming autograph seekers. (I'm sure my shrill cries of "Orlando! I want to ask you about the environment!" didn't help.)