The sky is bleeding too... {eKos Earthship Wednesday}

by eKos

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

Tonight's editor: LaughingPlanet

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As the Earth bleeds her millions of years-old fluids a mile beneath the the ocean, scary events are taking place up above as well. Acid rain, once considered a problem solved, has returned in a new and nefarious way due to our ongoing unsustainability.

Our current ways of doing things DO. NOT. WORK.

Without sudden and aggressive action, expect lots more blowback from mother nature on increasingly devastating scales. Over 97% of scientists agree.

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Beneath the fold you will find news and notes, community announcements, and our eco-diary roundup.

All views expressed by today's editor do not necessarily represent those of eKos or eKos listed diarists.

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Ohio Coal Plant Linked to $30m in Annual Economic Damage

by Bruce Nilles

This post was co-written by Nachy Kanfer, Associate Field Organizer for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign in Ohio. We regularly dispute Big Coal when they say coal is not bad for the environment - now we have another example of how this dirty, outdated power source is costing jobs and damaging the economy in one state. The Sierra Club just co-released a report showing that the Bay Shore coal-fired power plant in Oregon, Ohio, causes nearly $30 million in damages to the state's economy every year.

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