Global Warming

I’ve always respected Thomas Friedman. He's smart as a whip, but he's recently become too conservative for my taste. When he says all trade is good trade, and he’d support any free trade agreement without even reading it, he’s gone too far for my tastes. But he’s also a big advocate for alternative energy and a huge critic of the White House inaction on global warming.

Over the weekend, on the Tim Russert show, he went so far as to say that “green” is the new red, white and blue, and the most patriotic thing anyone can do.”

I guess I need to be a fan again. For a price, you can check out his New York Times columns here.

He's also hosting a good documentary on the Discovery channel called Addicted to Oil. It will be rebroadcast on August 14th at 8:00 and 11:00 pm and on August 20th at 7:00 am.

I just saw Al Gore’s movie. I know why he named it An Inconvenient Truth. Because much of what we can and must do is in fact inconvenient. The movie left me deeply saddened and depressed since so much of what I can and must do I have left undone. I have been complacent, left this challenge in the hands of others, and failed to take adequate responsibility for my own actions. That is now over. While I can say I already knew much of what Gore had to say, seeing all the facts and implications assembled together in such a powerful way has moved me to commit to the actions I have left undone.

This is a fantastic and terribly important movie. If you haven’t seen it, please go.

Okay, so there’s no film at 11. But we do have the run-down on some key bits of news that rumbled across our radar over the weekend. In this case, that would include some new research saying our tiny exposures to pollution are starting to add up, the first review of President Gore’s (sorry.. did we say that out loud?) summer blockbuster, glowing praise for (really) Wal-Mart, and more.

The world spins on and the news stops for no one. Here’s the latest word on reporters not reporting, beasts going bye-bye, happy food, and more…

Stop the presses and stand up for what’s right! Here’s the day’s look at what’s going down all around the home world…

Seth Godin suggests we change the name of global warming to "Atmosphere cancer" or "Pollution death" - Wow, where was he when we needed him – 5 or 10 years ago!

This supposedly helpful and thoughtful “marketing” insight is both overly simplistic and borders on being stupid & trite!