Photo from Streetsblog.
Well, he might not have said that exactly, but pretty much. And boy have the blogs reacted.
Streetsblog sets the stage:
It’s now or never for congestion pricing, the MTA, and maybe even the city itself, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this morning.
Speaking before a sold-out crowd at the Battery Park City Ritz-Carlton, Bloomberg and […]
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A recent Environmental Defense spot in support of congestion pricing. Ethan at Green Brooklyn has all the deets about a road trip to Albany tomorrow to show constituent support for CP:
If there was ever a time that Albany legislators and state officials needed to hear the message of congestion pricing and better transportation service in […]
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Posted in Climate Change, Events, Politics on Mar 17th, 2008
From the New York Academy of Sciences:
Carbon Management: Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Speakers: Rick Duke, NRDC; Marco Castaldi, Columbia University; Vasilis Fthenakis, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University; Moderator: Drew Shindell, NASA
Sponsored by: Green Science and Environmental Systems, a PS&E program
Sponsored by: Green Sciences and Environmental Systems, a PS&E program & Environmental Sciences Section
This meeting […]
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Posted in Climate Change, Politics on Mar 14th, 2008
Our new political action committee — and its eye-catching Web site — will spread the message that the best way to fight climate change is to elect the right leaders. [WhatisNewYorkWaitingFor.com]
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Posted in Climate Change, Miscellany on Mar 12th, 2008
Gotta say, I pretty much agree with the planet on this one:
THE planet Earth has dismissed claims it is in danger from global warming, stressing the worst that could happen is the extinction of the human race.
The Earth spoke out after a series of books, television programmes and environmental campaigns urged people to do everything […]
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We don’t make secret our support of congestion pricing. Not do we keep quiet our frustration with local politicians who fail to see the bigger picture. It was with some dismay, then, that we read the results of this Times survey late last week, showing the Bloomberg and CP supporters have […]
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Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Miscellany on Mar 7th, 2008
Pretty hilarious commercial parody of the ubiquitous “clean coal” ads that’ve dominated our political coverage. And set here in NYC.
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Posted in Climate Change on Mar 7th, 2008
The Times’ City Room blog was first with the results of a Columbia and Yale Universities study on public perspective on global warming of those of us in the five boroughs. Are we hopelessly aloof or Woody Allen-level neurotic? It’s well worth reading Sewell Chan’s whole post, but here are some telling […]
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Local citizen gardens/horticulturalists/observant people can help this massive crowdsourcing project that aims to gather data on climate change nationwide.
Join us in collecting important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering in your area through Project BudBurst! This national field campaign targets native tree and flower species across the country. With your help, […]
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Posted in Climate Change on Mar 6th, 2008
I don’t care to give too much ink (err…pixels? bandwidth?) to the Conference of Denial that took place in Manhattan earlier this week. But intrepid TitanTV reporter Morgan Jones braved the disinformation circus, and his video provides some laughs:
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