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As CP reported earlier this month, Glenn Beck is out at Fox News thanks to shrinking ratings and growing disconnect from reality. Now Brad Johnson reports at ThinkProgress that Beck can’t leave fast enough to stop the crazy. The good news is that Brad also has a clip of Van Jones. Today, lame-duck Fox News host Glenn Beck equated the 10,000 youth climate activists who participated in the Power Shift conference this weekend with dangerous “radicals” who want to kill their parents [or who are being told to "kill their parents" or who tell each other to "kill their parents" -- as usual, it's hard to tell what Beck is saying]. At Power Shift, climate leaders Van Jones and Al Gore exhorted the mostly college-age participants to engage with the older generations by asking moral questions about American values, just as young people did during the Jim Crow era. Beck falsely claimed the advice was to “not to listen to your parents!” Continuing further, Beck said these are “the same radicals” who talked about “kill[ing] the parents”: The more things change, you see, the more they stay the same. These radicals are the same radicals that used to tell each other in the 1960s, “Don’t trust anybody over thirty. Don’t trust your parents!” Bill Ayers said, “ Kill the parents! Kill your parents !” Watch it: During his attack, Beck interrupted a clip of Van Jones’ keynote address , which began, “When your uncle Joe, who loves Fox News, starts talking to you, and starts dominating the discussion . . . ” Beck then broke in, “Listen to what he’s saying
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Beck: Youth climate activists are being organized by the same 1960s “radicals” who said “kill the parents”
by Christopher Mims. Here’s a crazy idea: apply the same incentives that have made Germany the world leader in rooftop solar power to a place that is actually sunny. Also, use the power generated from these panels to zero out the electricity costs of people in low-income housing, so the city has more money for education. Those are the suggestions of a new study from the Los Angeles Business Council, which argues that just sticking solar panels on commercial buildings and multi-family dwellings could generate enough power for 30,000 homes. Extending the program to individual homeowners, the study’s authors estimate, could easily double that.
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Los Angeles to slather its rooftops with solar panels
In January of this year, the
Thinking about doing some renovations around the house to make it more energy efficient? Increase insulation levels? Put in more efficient windows? Maybe even install a white roof ? All of these things will help… but if you live in a car-oriented suburb, it turns out there may be one action you can take that will produce more bang for the buck than all of these options… and that’s moving. OK, that’s probably a bit of a stretch, but Kaid Benfield at the NRDC’s Switchboard blog highlighted a new report from Jonathan Rose Companies and the EPA that shows, in terms of total energy use, a transit-oriented home, or one “…within a quarter to a half a mile of a transit stop,” likely produces the greatest energy savings for a home… more than lots of green features in a home in a car-focused development. The report, Location Efficiency and Housing Type – Boiling it Down to BTUs , looked at total energy consumption: not just electricity and gas used in the home itself, but also transportation energy.
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What Makes Housing Really Green? Location, Location, Location…
Brands are well-aware that women make 85% of consumer purchasing decisions. Moms, in particular, are targeted by companies wanting them to spend their family budget on their products. Although many moms have always been discriminating, concerned and vocal consumers, they now have a new forum in which to express their approval or disdain for businesses and their
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Brands Court the Considerable Influence of Mommy Bloggers
