Archive - Feb 23, 2009

There is a firestorm a brewing in the American public over sloppy journalism that propagates myths, not facts. Journalism as we know it is losing audience share daily and the economic crisis has exacerbated an already crumbling infrastructure of the fourth estate. But maybe part of the reason that the public has turned away from newspapers is because we can't always believe what we read in the paper. Some wounds are self-inflicted. Washington institution columnist George Will hit a new low when he skipped the fact-checking and wrote an op-ed titled Dark Green Doomsayers, syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group on February 15. Will propagated many a myth passing his opinions off as unsubstantiated "fact"--and his editors did not check the facts, either.

Designing a winning logo: $250. Solving the climate crisis: Priceless.

Last Thursday, we launched the Climate Precinct Captains program -- and now we're looking for a logo to represent it. We thought about hiring a graphic designer to do it, but we thought we'd go to you because no one knows better than you do what being a CPC and being a part of this movement is all about! Submit a logo design to the contest and learn more about what we're looking for in a winning design today. To learn more about being a CPC, click here.

This is going to be a great week for important steps toward solving the climate crisis. Starting with this summit of climate leaders and ending with Power Shift '09!

Some big energy policy movers and shakers are gathering for a forum called "National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy" at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. The half-day event will be streamed live online from 10 AM-12:30 PM: