Guest Columnist Michael Diamond, Co-President of SPEAR Response to “A Little Bit of Common Sense” Reinvest Vanderbilt is happy to see debate developing on campus around the issue of energy investments in Vanderbilt’s endowment. As such, we welcome the Torch’s entry into this debate in the editorial of the February 2013 issue of the Vanderbilt [...]
Well, it looks like we need more Change, and not for the better. President Obama made some progress in his quest to save the world by having his climate change bill (also called the POS bill) pass the House of Representatives. Did the Democrats forget that we’re in a recession? This isn’t exactly the best [...]
Today’s Earth Day, so I think this exclusive look at how the environmental lobby gets its message to kids is important to see: In other environmental news, John McCormack, a CN alum and the deputy online editor for the Weekly Standard, has done all the legwork on cap-and-trade, and he says Republican cost estimates are [...]
So is the title of a new documentary by an Irish former left-wing journalist couple, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. The filmmakers were a featured panel yesterday, and it was one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking events at CPAC. Ann and Phelim were great in their presentation, offering some background to their film and [...]
So let me get this straight. At the end of March, Nashville will be one of the cities across the country who will celebrate Earth Hour, which will somehow let people know about global warming if we haven’t heard about it yet. Nashville will turn off all of its non-essential lights (I guess this includes [...]
I seem to be answering a lot of questions in my blog post titles today. The question comes from Jay Nordlinger at NRO’s Corner blog. He’s at Davos, the site of the World Economic Forum right now (Vandy alum and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is currently featured on the Web site), and spoke with Czech [...]
We’ve been silent here on the TVA sludge mess in East Tennessee, mainly due to other distractions (a la Barack Obama), but this story from today’s Tennessean gives us a good perspective on the issue as it stands. In short, a TVA dike near Harriman broke two and half weeks ago, spilling tons of coal [...]
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