Don’t Burn For Me, Patagonia

Apr 22, 2010 No Comments by Leon Kaye

In one of its clumsier PR campaigns, Greenpeace Argentina decided to place an ad in the Washington Post while Argentinean President Cristina Kirchner was in town. The advocacy group is livid over the plans to build a coal power plant in Patagonia.

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The Hypocrisy Over Coal

Apr 13, 2010 No Comments by Leon Kaye

Last week the World Bank voted to loan Eskom, a South African energy producer, US$3.75 billion to build a new coal power plant. Politicians in the UK and my beloved USA went ballistic. They howled that it was a tragedy for the World Bank to sabotage the work that has been done at ameliorating climate change.

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LA: Off coal by 2020?

Mar 15, 2010 No Comments by Leon Kaye

LA’s mayor’s about to announce that all of LA will be off coal by 2020. A press conference will start soon!

Okay, sorry. That blurb from my Blackberry was more appropriate for a Twitter Post, but I was at JETRO’s (Japan External Trade Organization) Greening the City event in downtown LA this afternoon when one of the [...]

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