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Our headline story: Can a quiet electric car and a Cape Cod Curmudgeon peacefully co-exist? Although we like to focus on business and law, sometimes a side trip is amusingly informative.

By Rita Watson

With the failure of the agreement between the world’s major industrial nations and emerging powers, the question is, “Now what?”

Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (MIT Panel video with Professor Adil Najam is on this site). While there appears to be universal concern about climate change, some question the urgency and others question the methods.

Cape Wind visionary James Gordon:
by Rita Watson

Although seeing windmills five miles off-shore will be a strain for the naked eye, sculptures in motion are poised to dot the seascape of Nantucket creating new energy sources. Cape Wind, slated to become the first offshore wind farm in the United States, achieved a stunning victory recently by overcoming all regulatory barriers to the project in Massachusetts.

Ed Begley, Jr., the Tinseltown guru of green, is returning to Animal Radio this week-end to talk “Greening Pets.” But here is a look at life with Ed during a visit from West Wing actor Bradley Whitford on Living With Ed. Now take note of the chair, it will become one of our green features.

AMERICA HAS FALLEN in love with green. We are enamored with the words “energy-efficient,” “renewable” and “sustainable.” Rachel Carson, who sounded the environmental alarm with her book Silent Spring, in 1962, must be thinking, “It’s about time.”

I talked about the new global consciousness with Professor Adil Najam, one of the climate-change scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. (See below for the video from The MIT Panel on Climate Change)