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Because the man's predictably racist, transphobic, and otherwise thoughtless. Jacoby's column today suggests that the recent Waxman-Markey environmental protection act is a bad idea, because there is some doubt that global warming is as influenced by man's actions as it would seem. Climate change may not be a crisis of the proportions that some have suggested. But we clearly have a finite supply of many energy-creating natural resources, and there's nothing wrong with using these conservatively, rather than liberally (as ironic as that terminology may be), and with exploring renewable energy options. We've been an industrialized world for barely 100 year: what happens in the next 100 years, when we may use more fuel than in the past 10? Many developing countries, China and India in particular, are industrializing rapidly, and creating pollution and depleting resources in the process. Obama's prudent approach is smarter than Jacoby's bitter, reactionary rhetoric, and taking steps to better understand and mitigate our impact on the environment is better than denying it altogether. Jacoby consistently persists in exactly the types of gross generalizations for which he criticizes others, making him a hypocrite at worst and a sensationalist at best. This is not the type of "reporting" that will save the Globe.

Like a teenager with a new LiveJournal, MSG Entertainment's 2009 Speaker Series is starting to ask itself the big questions: Why am I here? What do I want to be? Does anybody love me?

As you can see, Oliver Morton’s Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet is not a typical science book. We attended Morton’s keynote address to the Fourth Conference on Clean Energy two weeks ago, remarking then that we found the speech “inspiring.” (We also said that this piece would appear on Bostonist last week, but were beset by delays caused by the holiday and runaway FedEx trucks.*) Given 400 pages to expand on that speech, Morton keeps up the same optimistic tone throughout, capturing both hope for the planet’s future and the joy of scientific discovery.

A classic salesman whose talents have been honed by his experience in the software industry, Agassi’s primary focus is customer convenience. “An electric vehicle was the name that was invented when we asked people to give up something from their car,” he explained. “You don’t need so fast: 28 mph is good, right? You don’t need all those seats: 2 is enough. It doesn’t need to look normal: 3 wheels!” Instead of trending toward the bizarre, Better Place hopes to give its consumers “a better car.”

With these inspiring words, Oliver Morton closed his keynote address at the Fourth Conference on Clean Energy, which Bostonist was fortunate enough to be invited to yesterday morning. Morton, the author of the recently released Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (stay tuned next week for a review and perhaps an interview!) shared his belief that photosynthesis has the potential to inspire new sources of energy in the 21st century.

The Sustainable Endowments Institute, which is based in Cambridge, has published its second annual College Sustainability Report Card. The Institute issues grades for schools in several green-friendly fields: Administration, Climate Change & Energy, Food & Recycling, Green Building, Transportation, Endowment Transparency, Investment Priorities, and Shareholder Engagement. The endowment and investment fields are crucial to the report because they indicate whether or not a school is putting its money where its mouth is and investing in...

By now you're probably either planning your strategy for Saturday's WBOS EarthFest or figuring out how to avoid Storrow Drive like the plague over the course of the weekend. With predictions of weather in the low 80s and partly cloudy skies, it appears that the folks over at BOS have picked themselves a beaut of a day to devote to free music and environmental friendliness at the Hatch Shell.