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Exciting News: All levels of government are implementing sustainable solutions

Last week, the town of Woodstock, NY took the bold step of passing a resolution to reduce net carbon emissions to zero within 10 years. This resolution comes on the heels of what is now widely considered to be the possible threat of global climate change. Of course, it’s easy to dismiss this resolution as alternative nonsense, since the name "Woodstock" conjures up all kinds of familiar counterculture imagery thanks to this lovely Upstate New York town’s wild reputation in the 1960s and ’70s. However, Woodstock has already taken action by installing a solar-heating system with over 100 photovoltaic panels atop its Town Hall building...

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Perhaps it's due to my own naiveté but I was truly surprised by the amount of responses I received to last week's newsletter regarding the homes owned by President Bush and former Vice President Gore. It was as if the election of 2000 was being fought over all over again. And by that, I mean before the actual election results and recall. Let me explain. First, last week's column was really only about two houses owned by two very powerful people. The idea was to point out the IRONY of the situation, and how the public and personal personas don't always connect...

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Talk about ironies. How is it that former Vice President and Academy Award-winner Al Gore has a house in Nashville which is not exactly "environmentally friendly," while President George W. Bush has a house in Crawford, Texas which is? Consider this: Mr. Gore's mansion and guest house together consume more electricity every month than the average American household spends in a year, according to the Nashville Electric Service. Most Americans don’t own mansions, so this really is an unfair comparison. And it has been stated by Mr. Gore's spokespeople that his residence is "carbon neutral" because its use of carbon-based energy, like coal-fired plants and natural gas, is offset by more fuel-efficient energy. And Mr. Gore’s mansion is currently going through a rehabilitation...

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In order to continue an open dialogue in the climate change arena, I recently picked up the book 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism' (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2007), authored by Christopher C. Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, described on its website as a "nonprofit public policy organization dedicated to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government". Horner has been making the talk show rounds touting his book...

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