U.S. Marines, the Pakistani military the UN and NGO's are desperately trying to get food and aid to flood victims but the Indus river has taken a new channel, the water is still rising and the it's one foot from cutting off a the Indus highway and number of towns.
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They mindlessly deny the science of climate change.
Their stupid is contagious.
And if they win, humanity loses.
I'm tracking Climate Zombies: every Republican candidate for House, Senate, and Governor who claims that global warming is a hoax, doubts the science of climate change, and wants a new Dark Ages for America.
Amid their enthusiastic embrace of western consumer 
technologies, increasingly affluent Chinese are leaving one appliance behind: clothes dryers. According to Washington Post front-page reporting,
For reasons practical as well as cultural, most Chinese consumers simply don't like clothes dryers. Don't want them. Don't trust them. Won't buy them. And even when they have them around, won't use them.
Business interests complain, in the article, that the dryer market isn't "fully developed". A PRC domestic brand "stopped producing dryers since last year because they don't sell." The only people in China interested in dryers seem to be foreigners and Chinese who have lived overseas.
This is, evidently, something bad.
Today I begin a new job, as leader of NRDC’s new sustainable communities initiative. It’s really more an evolution of my old job, since for a decade and a half I have already been all about advocating a positive vision for environmentally responsible placemaking. But NRDC, a large organization with many facets and issues, has this summer for the first time elevated the topic to the status of one of our six institutional priorities for the next five years. That’s a big deal for us, and I could not be more pleased.
Great news from The Atlantic-
White House Agrees to Talk About Solar Panels on the Roof
Environmentalist Bill McKibben has been campaigning for the last few weeks to get solar panels put back on the roof of the White House.
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From a press release this morning:
McKibben has been in back and forth negotiations with the White House for the last 48 hours to push for them to accept the panel and show they have a plan to get solar back on the White House roof -- a California solar company, Sungevity, has already offered to install a new set for free. As of Thursday morning the Administration has offered to meet with McKibben and his team and says they are discussing the proposal to put solar back on the White House roof.
The Environmental Protection Agency is in the middle of a series of public hearings at sites around the country to gather input on new protections from toxic coal ash. This week's blog post comes from Sierra Club Apprentice Jenny Kordick.
Please rec the new Mothership #108 here. This one has expired.
The current ROV DIARY: Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #369 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe -Tomtech
The digest of diaries is here
Rules of the Road
PLEASE visit Pam LaPier's diary to find out how you can help the Gulf now and in the future. We don't have to be idle! And thanks to Crashing Vor and Pam LaPier for working on this!