Coral Gables Environment, Politics and Government
February 3, 2011 Leave a comment
ProPublica recently published a report that challenged assertions that natural gas was much cleaner than coal. Reporter Abrahm Lustgarten found out that “gas may be as little as 25 percent cleaner than coal, or perhaps even less.”
via Abrahm Lustgarten Answers the Question, “How Clean Is Natural Gas?” – ProPublica.
January 25, 2011 Leave a comment
The departure of Carol Browner is explained simply–the utter failure of the climate change policy of the Obama administration. The US, and especially Florida and Coral Gables, will certainly pay a high price for the lack of a response to global warming, sea rise, weather pattern changes, effects on agriculture, etc.
the catastrophic failure of the administration to pass a climate bill — heck, the failure to even get a vote in the Senate or one…speech from the President on the gravest threat to the health and well-being of our children and future generations — must have taken its toll. And that’s without factoring in months and months of dealing with the BP oil disaster or the prospect of two years of a hostile House of climate zombies.
via Breaking: Carol Browner, Obama’s energy and climate ‘czar’, to leave White House « Climate Progress.
January 12, 2011 Leave a comment
“We are going to have a challenging time in terms of getting adequate resources for the Everglades, and we are going to have a collective responsibility to develop a strategy to get those new leaders educated about the Everglades,” Graham said.
Graham said Florida’s primary economic issue was saving the Everglades, which supplies water for a large percentage of the state’s residents and provides hundreds of jobs through some restoration projects already in place.
Funding from the federal government is key, he said, cautioning environmentalists to correct anyone who labels Everglades funding as an earmark.
via Obstacles ahead for Everglades? Graham sees political hurdles to restoration.
December 16, 2010 Leave a comment
The future incorporates serious doubts about the future of this planet, climate change, destruction of our environment and biological diversity, let alone war and terrorism on a grand scale. The thought that because our lives got better in this short time span of 50 years is no assurance that it will be repeated in the future.
Just because Coral Gables has prospered along with the growth of Miami and South Florida in the past is no certainty that it will continue to prosper in the years ahead.
The economic road ahead is not certain at all.
Coral Gables has had weak governments in the past, but the margin of error is in the future is too small to have weak managers and city leaders who are more attuned to a few developers and labor interests, than the common taxpayer,
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
– Stephen Jay Gould
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