Have a Facebook? Want to Take Revenge?

by joelado

Revenge for the Gulf oil spill and the Exxon Valdez, our involvement in middle eastern wars and all the other crap that comes with petroleum oil can only be gotten one way.  That way is to stop using oil. So if you have a Facebook account and you want to take revenge, one way you can do it, which will only take a few clicks on a mouse, is to help promote the movie “Revenge of the Electric Car” the new documentary from Chris Paine director of “Who Killed the Electric Car? To do this you have to click on this link http://www.facebook.com/... .  Once at the “Revenge of the Electric Car” Facebook page go to the top of the page and click the thumbs up like button. Once 10,000 people say they like the Facebook page we will all be able to see the trailer, and the promotion for the movie begins in earnest. If you really want to take revenge you will tell all your Facebook friends about the movie by clicking the “Suggest to Friends” button on the left of the Revenge page. There are other things you can do as well such as register and purchase an electric car or a Volt and say goodbye to your contribution to all that mess caused by oil.

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live from cancun: heads in the sand: earthship friday

by eKos

Welcome to the eKos Earthship, your one-stop-shop for green diaries and series.

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Tonight's editor: boatsie reporting live from  Canunmesse

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Wintertime

by epjmcginley

The eagles are above in the trees and the sky. The clouds hang so low that they collect on the lenses of your sunglasses if you walk briskly enough. The forest is brilliant with Lichen and Moss. Colonies of green climb the trunks of the trees. The ground still erupting in mushrooms here and there, even as the buds are now set on the branches.

Today I started pruning the fruit trees behind the bakery, an annual privilege that I am granted this year as I was last. It is always more fun to prune a tree the year after you pruned it first. Invariably that encounter was spent correcting the branches that got away, and visualizing growth to look forward to. The second year, the tree has responded to your call, and it is your turn again. This is a lovely game to play with an old apple tree. The patterns of the individual distinctly respond to the cuts of the previous year, and so the interaction is unique. Every tree a different tendency; a novel predilection.

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Gulf Watchers Block Party---Duende; Say what????

by Phil S 33

Another Friday night; another exciting(?) GW Block Party.
This is where we gather as a community; and relax, and tell stories, or poke some fun, or even get downright cerebral at times. (of course, there are several here who can do that---I am not one of them)

Tonight for your pleasure, I offer up a challenge for those that love to
debate issues on which there may be two sides....depending on one's perspective.

Pull up a chair, get closer to your laptop; grab the extra glass of wine----and follow me for an interesting adventure....

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Schwarzenegger's Abysmal Environmental Legacy

by Dan Bacher

The Myth of the 'Jolly Green Giant' Exposed  

Political leaders, NGO representatives and the corporate media have incessantly greenwashed the deplorable environmental legacy of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a series of photo opportunities, press releases, news conferences and awards ceremonies over the past several months. This disgusting campaign by the Governor and his collaborators to portray Schwarzenegger as the "Jolly Green Giant" is bound to get even worse as Schwarzenegger prepares to leave office.

On December 2, Schwarzenegger accepted an award from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld for his "environmental leadership."  

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Top Down solutions, and other such myths

by jamess

Imagine you just moved into a New Place to live -- and after a week or so you realize that the place is very drafty and cold.  Brrrr!

What do you do?

If you're of the school of thought that "Top Down" Investments are the Laissez faire way to fix things

-- you do nothing except crank up the Thermostat and starting paying the higher Utility Bills  (ie. just keep throwing more money at it.)

If you're of the school of thought that "Bottom Up" Investments are the best way to "permanently" solve most any problem

-- you weather strip your windows, you insulate your attic etc.  (ie. you invest in things that actually address the problem and help it to be minimized, AND its continual costs.)

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PS. "Bottom Up" Investments actually Help to put other People to work too ... instead of just throwing that Cash --  "Out the the Window" !

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gender in cancun

by boatsie

For many women living in the Cook Islands, collecting yellow land snails to make jewelry and other handicrafts is their sole source of income.  Recent extensive dry spells have made these shells more difficult to find.

"Sometimes we will spend weeks on end to fill an empty can which we used to fill within a few hours," says Tangiruaine Ngaruaine. "At the beginning of this year, it was truly tough because there was hardly any rain. Whatever I make from selling these shells is my 'income' and it has been my only source of income."

Ngaruaine's story is represented here at COP16 by Ulamila Wragg, one of an expanding number of women participating in official UNFCCC climate negotiations.

Wragg is here at COP16 an an official delegate for the Cook Islands, one of the women delegates funded and trained by the Women's Development Fund to represent female voices, particularly those of women who are disproportionately impacted by the impacts of climate change in least developed countries.

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Urgent Action for CA's Green Chemistry Standards

by Colleen Fernald

Hello everyone,

All personal care, and cleaning products, etc. end up in our bodies, down the drain, in the air, and in the soil. What's on the label of the products you purchase? Can you trust them to be safe for all they touch?

Please see this important story from the San Fransisco Chronicle today.

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Our Orwellian Nightmare: Coal's Low Carbon Pitch

by Mary Anne Hitt

This week, I'm happy to introduce Justin Guay of the Sierra Club's International Climate Program, who is in Cancun at the international climate negotiations, and who draws our attention in this post to a little-known problem that could spur coal development around the world:

In Cancun all eyes are on climate finance and the role it will play in delivering progress on the international stage. Yet lurking beneath the surface lies a fatal incoherency in energy sector lending that has enabled coal to pass itself off as a low carbon option for developing countries.

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Weekly Mulch: If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the U.S.

by The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger

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FL Water Manager's Still Don't Like Everglades Restoration

by JDWolverton

The fight over Florida's Everglades is decades old. Among the multiple ongoing law suits concerning Everglades restoration, the Miccosukee suit got some uneven results. It is a complex issue that too few people really understand. All of Florida plus our tourists have a dog in this race, but maybe 1 in 20 are paying attention.

Most Floridians moved here long after the beginning of the battle over The River of Grass, better known as the Everglades. Newbie Floridians generally have no use for gators other than the Gainesville variety and they have no clue that the Everglades (gators and all) is key to a healthy Florida environment.

Giving into pro-business interests leads to more and more expensive water for all Floridians, but the average Floridian won't care about the Everglades until they get their first $150 a month water bill (sewage will be extra).

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US Green Energy Fail

by Steven D

Here's we in the United States should be doing now to keep up with the rest of the world's investment in research and development of green energy technologies:

The United States needs to more than triple its spending on energy research, development and demonstration projects, from about $5 billion now to $16 billion, and should review  national energy policy every four years, an advisory group of scientists and engineers said in a report to President Obama this week.

The US is falling behind almost every other major developed country in the world.  Look at this chart from 2007 that shows R & D spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product:

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Gulf Watchers Friday - Drop Back and Punt - BP Catastrophe AUV #435

by Lorinda Pike

You are in the current Gulf Watchers BP Catastrophe - AUV #435. AUV #434 is here.

Bookmark this link to find the latest Gulf Watchers diaries.

Please RECOMMEND THIS DIARY, the motherships have been discontinued.

Gulf Watchers Diary Schedule
Monday - evening drive time
Wednesday - morning
Friday - morning
Friday Block Party - evening
Sunday - morning

Part one of the digest of diaries is here and part two is here.

Please be kind to kossacks with bandwidth issues. Please do not post images or videos. Again, many thanks for this.

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The Earth is our Grandma

by Unenergy

Below is an extract from a movie I watched a while back which had a pretty powerful monologue at the end. Many people have likely forgotten or not seen this movie, and I have linked to it at the end with a video of the dialog, but it is as relevant today as it was back in 1994. To think that 16 years ago the same things were being warned about which we have seen over and over again, makes one wonder about the intelligence of man.

I'd like to start off by saying thank you to all the brothers and sisters that've come here today representing this cause.
       
I've been asked by Mr. Ittok and the Tribal Council to speak to you and the members of the press about the injustice that's been brought against us by some government officials and big business.

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The Tantra of Climate Change: Keep Holding Back

by greenmedia

Cross-posted to Green Media News.

Let's face it - Climate Change talk is boring. Most people just don't get excited talking about things like "MRV" (the monitoring, reporting, verifying and reducing of greenhouse gas emissions across geo-political borders) and those who aren't on the front lines of the climate change action movement generally don't have the attention span to focus on serious talk like this... well at least, not when "Dancing with the Stars" is on.

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