Breaking

After much blog-fueled speculation yesterday, it's now confirmed that "author and activist Van Jones will be a special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation in the Obama administration." [AP]

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Too Few Shades of Green

Environmental organizations have long been criticized for lack of diversity, "and have faced criticism for focusing more on protecting resources than protecting people."  Over the past couple decades, change has been "slow to come," but now "many environmentalists say they feel pressure to diversify the movement further, both in membership and at higher levels of leadership."   [New York Times]

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House of Cards

With a nod to the Heartland Institute's "Deniers" Conference, George Monbiot breaks down the world's top ten worst climate criminals, in playing card form.  [Guardian]

The Changing Climate From Clinton to Obama

Two of the most prominent voices in the climate conversation now belong to Bill Clinton and, of course, Al Gore.  So why didn't anything get done when these two were in office?  Carol Browner, who sat atop Clinton's EPA and now works as special climate and energy advisor to Obama, explains what's changed over the past eight years. The short version: "the science has just become incredibly clear."  [U.S. News and World Report] 

Two Decades of Toxicity

Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez spill, parts of Alaska's Prince William Sound are still "nearly as toxic as it was the first few weeks after the spill.”  So says a new report by the "Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council," which goes on to claim that "[a]t this rate, the remaining oil will take decades and possibly centuries to disappear entirely."  [Greenspace- Los Angeles Times] 

Fun Reads

A chimpanzee in a swedish zoo has "planned" stone-throwing attacks on visitors.  Santino, an adult male, "collected and stored stones that he would later use as missiles."  [BBC]

Sorry you missed the Wall Street Journal's Eco:nomics conference last week?  Don't be, says Dave Roberts.  [Gristmill]