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Josh Marks is a clean energy blogger and environmental journalist who was inspired to start blogging about climate disruption after ditching his car and choosing to live a low carbon life by walking, biking and taking public transportation in Los Angeles. Josh founded a blog called Green SoCal while living in L.A., and then Green D.C. when he moved to Washington, D.C. Both blogs focused on regional energy and environmental issues. Most recently, Josh retired his two blogs and started a new blog called Green Center, and then renamed it Green Forward. The blog examines solutions to global climate disruption, environmental conservation, renewable energy security and the transition to a sustainable economy.

Recent Comments by Joshua Marks

• "Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI) says nothing of the consequences to global climate change of exporting natural gas to other countries. The United States"
  Prosperity at Home And Strengthened Allies Abroad – A Global Perspective on Natural Gas Exports
• "Amazed to see all the pro-coal comments here. As if there isn't a 97 percent scientific consensus that man-made global warming is real and that we mus"
  The Economic Impacts of Eliminating Coal from Our Energy Portfolio
• "What about the climate change impact of keeping coal in our energy portfolio at the expense of renewable power that could provide nearly all of the na"
  The Economic Impacts of Eliminating Coal from Our Energy Portfolio
• ""Game over."  James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists on the consequences of processing the Canadian tar sands oil"
  The Keystone Pipeline Controversy: What’s Really At Stake?
• "Here is my take on the climate discourse"
  The State and Stakes of the Climate Discourse
• "The EPA's new power plant emission rules are a victory for clean air and climate change action and a fatal blow to King Coal. It signals the beginning"
  Impact of EPA’s Proposed Greenhouse Gas Rules
• "Why are we propping up a mature industry like big oil when we just ended subsidies for corn-based ethanol and don't do nearly enough to incentivize re"
  Tax Breaks for Oil Companies
• " "A long-term Republican budget plan released this week by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin calls for drastic cuts in federal spending on"
  Discussion Catalyst: Solar
• " There are serious setbacks to nuclear power that might make it more worthwhile to invest in safer renewable energy sources such as solar, win"
  Discussion Catalyst: Nuclear Energy
• " That's because uranium is needed for nuclear power and uranium is a finite resource. There will be peak uranium just as there will be peak oi"
  Discussion Catalyst: Nuclear Energy