Blog & news round-up 3/12: Battling banners, India joins the accord, and a climate champ looks to Stallone for inspiration

Coming off the week of the successful 72 Hours for Clean American Power campaign, we continue our work to protect the Clean Air Act and get the Senate going on climate legislation. 1Sky ally Greenpeace floated a banner to show polluter-lawmaker relationships while Senator Inhofe flies the flag of Dirty Coal. India officially joined the Copenhagen Accord... conditionally. That, Green Patriot Posters, and a climate champ Senator tells scientist to learn from Sylvester Stallone below.

Two posts appeared on the Huffington Post this week about banners hanging in the Senate office buildings. The first was from 1Sky ally Greenpeace. Greenpeace activists deployed a floating banner highlighting PolluterHarmony, the polluter-lawmaker matchmaking service, and "[Senator Lisa] Murkowski's close relationship with dirty energy interests."

On the other side of things, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and his staff continue to provide ad space for Dirty Coal in the Senate Environment and Public Works committee windows. The "We Support Coal" shirt (seen above) has been hanging in their window despite calls from West Virginia coalfield residents to take it down. As described in the article, this coal ad illustrates Inhofe's antiquated and misguided (at best) positions on climate change and America's energy future.

The Greenpeace activists were arrested for their efforts while Inhofe continues to lead the climate denial charge in the Senate. We'll let you decide which banner is more worthy of getting the boot.

India formally backed the Copenhagen Accord this week, becoming the last major emitter to do so. It is good to see all the major emitters officially associating with the accord, however this doesn't signal the end of anything. As Treehugger's coverage explains, there were three conditions under which India is participating, essentially emphasizing that this accord is non-binding and that there is still work to do.

Rather than an infographic, this week we'd like to share another kind of image. We know from the last fall's Make Art for Climate campaign that climate activists are incredibly creative. Osocio, a blog focusing on creative nonprofit campaigns, featured Green Patriot Posters, a campaign channeling the creative energy of the environmental movement, and a theme fitting in well with this year's Earth Day Revolution. The posters cover a variety of environmental issues and vary in style, but all express a particular viewpoint. Below are two that say something about what we're working for in the climate movement.

We have a short video this week, with a good message from a good senator. Climate Progress posted a brief walk-and-talk interview with Senator Jay Inslee (D-WA) about the need to make good science-based climate policy pronto. Inslee's message to scientists? Channel your inner Rambo and be vocal about the reality of our situation.

Good advice for us all. Have a good weekend and take some time to channel your own inner Rambo of climate advocacy.