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Brune - who has written 8 posts on Rainforest Action Network Blog.
He's a Yankees fan. 'Nuf said.
The horn blasted right outside the window where we slept early this morning. “Wake up, losers!” two miners yelled from their pickup truck, gunning the engine. “Wake up! Time to get a job! Better yet, time to get the f*** out of town!” Ah, yes. Mornings in the coal fields of West Virginia. For wake-up [...]
Continue reading...By Brune, August 21 2008
In the end, climate change made us quit. On most days, we’re like any other card-carrying, food-conscious environmentalists. My wife and I shop at our local natural grocery store, dutifully selecting locally grown, organic produce. We planted fruit trees a few years ago, our summer vegetable garden is thriving, and we generally do what we [...]
Continue reading...By Brune, August 14 2008
These days, you’ll find more images of windmills and solar panels in political campaign ads than pictures of cute babies and American flags. Why, then, is it so hard to pass a simple bill promoting solar power? It couldn’t be the influence of the coal industry, could it? The good folks at Appalachian Voices and [...]
Continue reading...By Brune, July 29 2008
Looking for a little good news? Try this: earlier this month, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the largest forest conservation deal in Canadian history, and set a historic precedent for the rights of Indigenous people at the same time. On July 14th, the Ontario government agreed to prohibit development on at least half of the [...]
Continue reading...By Brune, July 23 2008
What a difference a weekend makes. Late last week, John McCain supported Al Gore’s call for a nationwide commitment to a ten-year clean energy revolution by declaring, “If the vice president says it’s doable, I believe it’s doable.” In the hopes for a grand, bipartisan climate and energy deal in Congress, one might thought this [...]
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I don’t actually know how cage wrestling works in the United States, not being a big fan of the World Wrestling Federation myself. But I think how it works is they set up a big cage in the ring and the object is to prevent your opponent from escaping, and whoever can escape first wins.
Continue reading...By Brune, July 19 2006
“What was it like to live during the war?” When I was growing up, I used to ask my grandparents that question all the time. All four of my grandparents were young children when World War I started; they were young parents at the beginning of World War II. As a child, I just couldn’t [...]
Continue reading...By Brune, March 28 2006
The latest issue of Time magazine should be a wakeup call for leaders in this country. It’s a special report on global warming with a headline, “Be Worried. Be Very Worried.” The cover story by Jeffrey Kluger describes how there is no doubt among scientists and independent policymakers that climate change is real, “..in the [...]
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By Brune, June 24 2009
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