Green Living Q & A

is this list Stimilous? or Pork?

Its all in the bill… what do you think?

• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wild land fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations
The amtrack is my personal favorite… think that would be there if Biden wasnt in the picture?
How about …
246 million tax break for Hollywood movie investors in big budget movie projects over an 11-year period…

What has OBAMA done for you not to like him?

The most important thing that OBAMA and his administration has done negatively…. is passing the so-called ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE, also known as the STIMULUS BILL 787 Billion dollars of taxpayer money filled with all sorts of earmarked “pet projects” to reserve misapproriated huge amounts of money over a period of time for careless spending that doesn’t help the country or the American people. What does it sound like? A scam, you’re right. A method of telling you one thing and doing another, the old switch-a-roo. Filling the cookie jar with hard cold cash and being able to take from it at any time for by politicians unaccountably. We are talking almost a Trillion dollars passed overnight without any argument or question. HOW ABOUT tax breaks, tax cuts, business incentives, to natuarlly boost the economy to have more money in circulation in the people’s pockets???

NEWS FLASH…. the stimulus didn’t work, I could of told you that a long time ago!!!! BECAUSE this is just a small list of where the money is going …..

$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaking ship.
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which already has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

This one issue alone should of been enough for the people to recognize exactly what he’s trying to do to all of us intentionally…. BANKRUPT THE U.S.A and keep the people down and out waiting for infaltion to hit while the democrats and republicans keep arguing and complaining (divided and conquered) while they the scumbag politicans laugh all the way to the bank with our money!!! It is the TRUTH…. www.readthestimulus.org

IT SEEMS TO BE ALL TOO LATE, WE’VE BEEN HAD and people still support him, WHY? WHY? WHY? Ask yourself, what is he doing, what is his plan, what is the underlying hidden agenda to his actions and behavior? It’s obvious, it stinks, and something is seriously wrong!!!
Billed Credit Card for generations and generations to come… and that’s okay? How fast was the Stimulus Bill passed? And why didn’t anybody in Congress read the bill? Why wasn’t there any media coverage pertaining to the bill? Why isn’t OBAMA (on the campaign trail once again) reviewing how much of a good job the Stimulus Bill has done for the economy? I am sure that this will be all EXPOSED and a hot topic during election what he and his administration has done to the people and the country!

Have you seen the pork that has been identified in the stimulus bill?

• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.

• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.

• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.

• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).

• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.

• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.

• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.

• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.

• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.

• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.

• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.

• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.

• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”

• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.

• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.

• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.

• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.

• $500 million for state and local fire stations.

• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.

• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.

• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.

• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.

• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

• $850 million for Amtrak.

• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.

• $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.

• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.

• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations

Would someone explain to me on a line by line basis how these items stimulate the economy? Funny thing is the SCHIP bill that just passed is funded by tax increases on smokers. But this bill has $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.” So how can we pay for SCHIP if we are going to get smokers to quit?

How will you tell YOUR senator to vote?

Obama says we will not survive if this isn’t passed…
“You will all be reposnsible!”
–Barak Obama

$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.

• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.

•$650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.

•$88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).

•$448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.

•$248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.

•$600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.

•$400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.

•$1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.

•$125 million for the Washington sewer system.

•$150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.

•$1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.

$75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”

•$200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.

•$75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.

•$25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.

•$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

•$10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

•$6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.

•$500 million for state and local fire stations.

•$650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

•$1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.

•$88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.

•$412 million for CDC buildings and property.

•$500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.

•$160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

•$5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

•$850 million for Amtrak.

•$100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.

•$75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.

•$110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.

•$200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

What political party do you belong to?

The most important thing that OBAMA and his administration has done negatively…. is passing the so-called ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE, also known as the STIMULUS BILL 787 Billion dollars of taxpayer money filled with all sorts of earmarked “pet projects” to reserve misapproriated huge amounts of money over a period of time for careless spending that doesn’t help the country or the American people. What does it sound like? A scam, you’re right. A method of telling you one thing and doing another, the old switch-a-roo. Filling the cookie jar with hard cold cash and being able to take from it at any time for by politicians unaccountably. We are talking almost a Trillion dollars passed overnight without any argument or question. HOW ABOUT tax breaks, tax cuts, business incentives, to natuarlly boost the economy to have more money in circulation in the people’s pockets???

NEWS FLASH…. the stimulus didn’t work, I could of told you that a long time ago!!!! BECAUSE this is just a small list of where the money is going …..

$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaking ship.
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which already has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

This one issue alone should of been enough for the people to recognize exactly what he’s trying to do to all of us intentionally…. BANKRUPT THE U.S.A and keep the people down and out waiting for infaltion to hit while the democrats and republicans keep arguing and complaining (divided and conquered) while they the scumbag politicans laugh all the way to the bank with our money!!! It is the TRUTH…. www.readthestimulus.org

IT SEEMS TO BE ALL TOO LATE, WE’VE BEEN HAD and people still support him, WHY? WHY? WHY? Ask yourself, what is he doing, what is his plan, what is the underlying hidden agenda to his actions and behavior? It’s obvious, it stinks, and something is seriously wrong!!!
How do we REALLY know where all of this money is going and if it is being spent on what they say they are going to spend it on? C’mon I’d like to see their billing statements and records of the STIMULUS BILL, the IRS looks at all of my earnings through my taxes, every penny!

Is lightning the largest and most abundance amount of renewable energy for Earth?

Lightning and thunderstorms occur all around the world. Some areas receive denser volumes of lightning than other parts of the world. From what I know, in the large bodies of ocean, there are usually strong winds and storms that gives off an abundance and nearly constant amount of lightning in the air.

Here is my suggestions and questions:

Construct a large ship with conductive material & technology to withstand and insulate high amounts of heat energy to boil h2o into steam, and then further powering and spinning a turbine to generate electricity off shore back into our power grid with power lines.

Nuclear power plants also contain rods that can withstand high temperatures of heat to generate large amount of electrical energy. Is it possible to divert and spread the enormous heat of lightning onto a piece of conductive material, making it extremely hot to boil water into steam to power a turbine?

Advantages for implications:
A ship is able to move around the bodies of water to capture an optimized amount of lightning.
Using mother nature to produce energy is a clean and renewable method, no risk of nuclear melt down.
A large scale production of ships with platforms that can turn this idea into reality may possibly solve the world‘s energy crisis.

What kind of material can withstand heat damages from lightning strikes? Can franklin’s kite transfer the electric current of lightning from one point or location and out to another point with the use of rods? Since we can already manipulate the climate to produce artificial rain and thunder storms, can we turn this idea into efficient way to generate electricity by following a nuclear power plants model?

I know there are a lot of things to consider like the cost to implement, safety of the ship from disaster and terrorist, and even the amount of lightning strikes that occur. I would like to receive your feedback, especially from scientist who have studied this subject. What are the flaws and problems that arise?
The suns surface temperature is 4600 Celsius.

The temperature of a lightning in mid air is ten times hotter than that. The sunlight is heat that is absorbed and captured over a period of time to consistently turn water into steam.
It is not tiny when the strike of one lightning is ten times hotter than the sun. On top of that, my idea is not to transform the energy of electricity from lightning DC directly into AC into our power grid. Nuclear power plants do not work that way either.

How can a Renewable Resource such as Solar Energy be used to reduce the world’s dependency on Fossil Fuels?

And alleviate the world‘s energy crisis?

What is the best renewable energy?

The world is rapidly changing and our dependence on the earths fossil fuels are diminishing. As we turn to alternative methods of energy, what is proving to be the best renewable power source?. Examples of renewable energy are Tidal Power, Wave Power and Solar Power.

1.What energy sources, if any, cannot be traced to sunlight falling on the earth?

2. What are some of the disadvantages that have kept renewable energy sources from supplying more than a small fraction of the world‘s energy?
3. when two objects attract each other electrically, must both of them be charged?
4. When two objects repel each other electrically, must both of them be charged?
5. What reasons might be there for the universal belief among scientists that there are only two kinds of electric charge?

Please help me with this…..i badly needed your help.
If possible please answer all the questions with explanations..
May God bless us all. Happy New Year

help with my renewable energy poster?

I’m making a renewable energy poster, and I want to work on it and finish it this weekend. I already have an idea of how to draw it out, and what goes where, but I would like some help with these areas:

– a simple definition of Clean/Renewable Energy
– why using that type of energy is good
– three facts on wind power, solar power and bio fuel power.

Also, what do you think of my slogan; “Cleaner Energy for a Cleaner World“?

Please go all out in your answers. I’ve done a lot of research into the area, but I can’t seem to condense everything so that it can go onto a poster and not be too overwhelming for the reader…especially since I found out the posters are going to be made into a calendar for 2011. Thanks! 🙂

is our food production system sustainable?

i have a case study to do and i cant find anything about an argument for our food production system being sustainable. HELP!

Is Sushi a Sustainable Food?

I am throwing a party for my 13th Birthday and i want to make it as sustainable as possible ,I’m of food first on the list of sustainable things, is Sushi sustainable?

What is the the best food to eat before a run?

I heard bananas were good are there other foods that are more sustainable?

What are some unsustainable food companies?

All of the food companies/brands that I research are going sustainable so I am having a hard time finding ones that aren’t yet.
Thank you Chase! You made some excellent points and I will look up YUM to see what I can find.

Why do we grow a lot of our food in Califorina?

I mean it NEVER rains here so we take large amounts of water from other places to water the very hot and dry landscape.

Why do it when it’s not sustainable in a place where there is little amounts of water, it doesn’t rain, and it gets really hot???

Wouldn’t it be better to grow more food in America indoors in tall buildings????

According to the Dept of Energy, 0bama’s 20 billion spent on “green jobs” has cost $5 million ?

for each permanent job. Do you think we should continue wasting taxpayer money to support an industry that is not ready for such massive taxpayer spending?
Wouldn’t it be better to put some scientists together with a small manufacturing company to work on producing viable energy alternatives, before wasting so much money on companies that are going bankrupt or moving overseas to produce their product once the taxpayers have gotten them started?

What will be the most needed jobs in the new eco-economy?

What careers / job skills will be most needed as it becomes clearer every day that we need to find alternative energy sources & a solution to global climate change? As a follow up, what companies today are leading the efforts to accomplish these goals?

“Alternative Energy”?

Why are so many on the right against forms of energy other than oil? They say it will destroy our economy; that makes no sense. Oil may be a cash cow for some but anyone who has studied business knows that the cash cow is the 3rd of 4 stages in a product life cycle. Developing new energy sources is one of the BEST things we can do as Americans. It will develop new industries, new jobs, grow our economy in something other than the “service sector”, grow our own energy independence, wrestle back some of our financial future from China, and help to break the need for us to be jerked around in the middle east. This is all good stuff. Why do so many on the right badmouth alternative energy development? It doesn’t make sense why so many want to stay on the oil teat.

Will Environmentalism be less of a concern to Americans as environmentally-hazardous jobs get shipped overseas?

Since a lot of the industrial, manufacturing, and mining jobs are being outsourced to places like China and Latin America, doesn’t that mean there’ll be less industrial emissions on American soil?

Also, as fuel efficiency increases and alternative–energy are poised to enter the market, doesn’t this mean there should be far less carbon produced on US roads and highways?

So do you think environmentalism will become more of a concern for, say, China and Guatemala, than the United States?

Which 1 is it???!!! will alternative energy hurt or help the economy and why??!!?

Some say it will help the economy because it creates jobs and indirect monetary interaction by loans and increase activity in local stores and less reliance and spending on foreign fuels. but others say that it will harm the economy long term by displacing the jobs of oil companies, which I guess there is a lot that it connected ( lots of products have ingredients derived from oil). And some other arguments but I forget…. So what will alternative energy REALLY do to the economy?? …..now, I do realize I’m giving off the impression that I am incredibly ignorant about the topic, AND yes, I admit that I don’t have a deep understanding of the topic and I’m trying to correct it right now.

What is the best online dating site for eco-friendly singles?

Looking for a decent honest site where I can meet green eco–friendly singles like me.

What are some ways to make my school eco friendly?

My friend and I are running for co-prez and we want to make our school eco friendly. We already have low-flush toilets and recycling bins. What else? 10 POINT TO BEST ANSWER! Thanks.

How are eco-friendly detergents better for the enviroment?

Compared to those which are no eco–friendly ?

Do you have any of the old fashioned eco friendly skills?

A lot of the skills that used to be used are very eco friendly. Do you have any of these eco friendly skills? Do you still use them?

I am thinking about the old skills which used things they had to hand, because they grew locally or used recycled materials such as:
bottling, jam making and preserving
willow items, baskets, lampshades
coppicing, drystone walling
curing meats and skins
making home prepartions for toiletries, medicines
making carts, buggies, trailers,
making own gardening implements/tools
bee keeping, making beeswax products
rag rug making, darning – who can darn now?

Any other old fashioned eco friendly skills you have?

What are some ways for home RENTERS to be eco-friendly without making permanent modifications to the house?

I rent a house and want to implement some energy-saving or eco–friendly options in my home life, but I won’t be here long enough to bother the landlord with making permanent modifications.

Also, I’m pretty broke. Anybody have any ideas?

Why is Obama having Napolitano claim climate change is the greatest risk we face in America?

And it’s just weird to hear Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, describe her department’s focus on environmental justice and climate adaptation. (Audio, our transcript):
So as we look at climate change, the climate change that we are in, and think about the environmental phenomenon that is happening in the course of our own lives, we translate that into increased drought. We translate that into increased likelihood of wildfires, particularly catastrophic fires in the West, we translate that into more category four and five hurricanes, and that affects communities around the gulf but also up and down the Atlantic seaboard and the Pacific as well, and other natural occurrences that are affected by changes in climate.

Changes in climate really translate into huge environmental changes that have impacts on communities and also on national security, because they raise not only the issues of making sure that we are taking into account and caring for the most at-risk populations, but that we are also looking at and planning for the potentiality of mass migrations, demographic changes, patterns, concentrations of economic assets, population growth in different areas, deteriorating infrastructure. All of this gets knit together under this umbrella of climate change and environmental adaptation.

That’s an expansive, expensive agenda, isn’t it? We thought Congress formed the Department of Homeland Security to more effectively address imminent threats to the American people, priorities like fighting terrorism, controlling our borders, and handling security at our ports and airports. Turns out the Department is instead working on EVERYTHING!

http://shopfloor.org/2010/12/if-jobs-are-the-priority-whats-environmental-justice/16902

http://shopfloor.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Napolitano-at-Environmental-Justice-Conference.pdf

Somebody could translate it into Spanish? 10 points + 5 stars?

Cheryl: So, Nick, you’ve worked as an environmental scientist in Australia.

Nick: Yeah, I have. I worked in my hometown in Tasmania, and in Tasmania, there’s many environmental issues, particularly involving logging of native forests there.

Cheryl: Oh, logging.

Nick: Yeah, logging.

Cheryl: I recently heard about logging problems in Brazil, I mean Belize in Central America. But what kind of logging issues do you have in Tasmania?

Nick: So, in Tasmania, there’s some very old forests, maybe hundreds of thousands of years old, and some companies are destroying them, clear-filling the forest, parts of the forest there.

Cheryl: Really! What are the companies using the forests for?

Nick: To make paper actually. To make wood chips, and then turn wood chips into paper.

Cheryl: So, there all paper companies?

Nick: Mm, paper companies.

Cheryl: Oh, really.

Nick: Or paper companies in the end. So initially, loggers, the people which log, go in, they take the trees, they take the trees to big industry, which then break them to wood chips, then make them into paper. And my job was to try to find out how we could minimize the destructiveness of that operation.

Cheryl: So what kind of destructiveness would the impact of having deforestation in Tassie …?

Nick: In Tassie?

Cheryl: Well, like many animals die obviously, and much biodiversity is taken away, but there’s ways to change that process and make it better, so some solutions are instead of clear-filling, just destroying the entire forest section, just take sections out of the forests. Make the forests look like, maybe a checkerboard, so you only take patches of forests, small patches and hopefully don’t kill too many animals in the process.

Cheryl: But wouldn’t that still destroy a percentage of wildlife living in those patches?

Nick: Yes, yeah, it will but we still use paper everywhere in the world, so if we use paper, well, the trees need to come from somewhere, so we need to get the practice possible.

Cheryl: Mm, I see.

Nick: So, it’s a bit of give-and-take.

Cheryl: We can’t stop using paper right?

Nick: Oh, I think we should stop using paper. I think we can, but at this stage it’s difficult maybe.

Who are the real anagonists in the political life of America today?

Is it really a political war between cons and libs or have the neocons managed to get us to fight with each other and ignore the real threat that they pose to our civil liberties, economic and environmental health….real conservatives and liberals have both evolved as time goes by, sometimes I have agreed more with conservatives on some issues, sometimes more with liberals…for instance, I thought Clinton should have been removed from office, not because of his affair, but because he lied to a grand jury….all my life I have respected the position of conservatives whether I agree or not, argue strongly, then go have a beet together, but lately the atmosphere has been poisoned.

Does this surprise anyone concerning Obama?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20100121/pl_bloomberg/a8uii1bcrdmy

Let’s be real, Obama never had a real job in his life, never had to work for a living and no wonder investors don’t trust him on his ability to handle the issues of America. Dana once said that Obama was the best environmental president ever. Wow, Obama most likely never once considered the environment or ever walked in the wilderness in his entire life yet a liberal thinks he is an environmentalist. Lot’s of Wilderness areas in Chicago I hear.
Beren, the climate hoax is a political issue. Where have you been?

Do you support “America’s Climate Security Act of 2007?”?

S. 2191 was introduced Oct. 18th by Senators Lieberman and Warner, who are Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, of the Senate Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection.

A key supporter of the bill, Environmental Defense, issued a statement saying that the bill would require that covered sectors, about 80% of the U.S. economy, reduce emissions by 15% below 2005 levels in 2020, a “strong target” that they say “helps put the U.S. on the path to much deeper reductions by the middle of the century.”

The bill also has support from the National Wildlife Federation, Exelon Corporation, PGE Corp; Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies.

http://lieberman.senate.gov/documents/acsabill.pdf

Why don’t we live in a resource based economy?

A resource-based economy would replace the need for the current monetary economy, which is “scarcity-oriented” or “scarcity-based”. Resource-Based Economy is a system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude.

Modern society has access to highly advanced technology and can make available food, clothing, housing and medical care; update our educational system; and develop a limitless supply of renewable, non-contaminating energy. By supplying an efficiently designed economy, everyone can enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities of a high technological society.

A resource-based economy would utilize existing resources from the land and sea, physical equipment, industrial plants, etc. to enhance the lives of the total population. In an economy based on resources rather than money, we could easily produce all of the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all.

Should we be moving towards a resource based economy? If not why not? Can we get away from the scarcity based economy we are currently in and take a great leap forward towards a resource based economy? If we can, how will it happen? If we can’t, why not?

What do you think of the venus project?

It’s useless to criticize the culture without providing alternatives. The Venus Project proposes plans for social change that work toward a peaceful and sustainable global civilization. It outlines an alternative social design where human rights are not just paper proclamations, but a way of life. The Venus Project has a vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know to achieve a sustainable world civilization. It calls for a scientific redesign of our culture in which war, poverty, hunger, debt, and unnecessary human, suffering are viewed as not only avoidable, but unacceptable. Anything less will result in a disastrous continuation of the problems inherent in today’s world.

Simply stated, a resource-based economy focuses on resources rather than money, and provides an equitable distribution thereof in a humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which goods and services are available without the use of money, credit, barter, debt, or servitude.

The first objective is to eliminate scarcity. A resource-based economy overcomes scarcity by using renewable sources of energy, plus computerized automated manufacturing and inventory. It would design safe energy-efficient cities with advanced transportation systems, and would provide universal health care and more relevant education.
The aim of this new social design is to encourage an incentive system based on human and environmental concerns, and to avoid the shallow and self-centered goals of individual wealth, property, and power. These new incentives would help people evolve self-fulfillment and creativity, both materially and spiritually.

Does this make you made Republicans!?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/11/MNI6116RIU.DTL&type=printable

Senate Democrats pushed a vote Tuesday on a bill to impose a windfall profits tax of 25 percent on the major oil companies, the proceeds going to subsidize new renewable energy. The bill’s sponsors said it is obscene that Exxon Mobil Corp. and other oil companies are making the largest profits in history while consumers are suffering.

But Republicans countered that imposing a punitive tax would only discourage oil companies from new oil exploration. The measure failed on a 51-43 vote, falling nine votes short of the 60 needed to break a potential filibuster.

Republicans also blocked debate on a measure to extend tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. The bill failed on a 50-44 vote; GOP senators opposed the bill because it would have raised taxes on hedge-fund managers to pay for the tax credits.

Does this not just scream oil for the oil gods to you!!!
Republican plan

Arctic drilling: Open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling.

Coastal drilling: Allow states to approve drilling for oil and natural gas off their coasts.

Encourage refineries: Offer incentives to oil companies to build new refineries.

More tax breaks: Create new tax breaks to speed the development of coal-to-liquid fuels.

Nothing about trying to find ways to remove ourselves from oil at all!!! Its all about the oil baby!!!

These are the reason I am an independent voter!!! As you can see these people in office have sold off their souls a long time ago and should be removed!!!
Error in question, not made its MAD!!!!
fouro33

Sorry, I am not going to buy into the whole supply and demand crap they are spiting out at us. Its one thing to make a buck and its another thing to make a buck off the backs of your fellow man!!

Should a group of people be allowed to control all aspects of a company. I think that falls under the laws of monopoly of which is against the law if I am not correct!

Have you ever see the movie a Beautiful Mind.

I dont think anybody in American minds profit!! Then again people in American do mind when they are being ran blantly over by the government and these companies.
Robert J

If they are just pandering for vote then why dont they pony up and show it down their throats.

As far as the companies goes they are getting any and everything they want from the government. I dont forsee them leaving any time soon even if things did change.

Could you commit on the other information please as well?
Brotherj

Maybe somebody should pony up the government and to the big oil companies. Maybe somebody should put their money where there mouth is. Why not pony up to them because you willing to settle for what they give you then change to make things better.

If this is the case they when everything keeps going to hell, you can say to the man on top can I please have a scrap of that bread and part of the meat because I am unable to buy gas to get to my job. Sounds like you sold yourself short sir!
Derail

Sometimes changes comes at a cost, American Revolution! We need to better our way of life and staying with the oil GODS is not one of them. We can either fall behind in the world or move forward to stay on top. I for one wound like to say that this country is still first place in 10 years.
Vote_usa

Point well made their sir and I do enjoy the fact that you understand how most think these two parties work on different side! In fact they work together for the better of themselves.

You point shows that we need more parties in office!

Are Republicans in Congress more concerned with Hedge Fund Profits than developing alternatives to Oil?

Republicans also blocked debate on a measure to extend tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. The bill failed on a 50-44 vote; GOP senators opposed the bill because it would have raised taxes on hedge-fund managers to pay for the tax credits.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/11/MNI6116RIU.DTL

Blood and Gore. Can you believe that Al Gore’s carbon credit trading company has that name?

You people are being led like sheep to the slaughterhouse with Al Gore’s mindless carbon nonsense:

The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade
by Deborah Corey Barnes

10/03/2007

Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain?

Earlier this year Gore experienced a notable public relations debacle. The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a state think tank, revealed that he was an energy hog. Public records show that Gore’s Nashville mansion used in one month more than twice the electricity the typical American household uses in a year: His average monthly electric bill was more than $1,359. Moreover, Gore’s household energy use increased after An Inconvenient Truth, his film about global warming, was released to ecstatic reviews.

Never mind that the scientific community is divided over what causes global warming, how bad it is and how to deal with it. Gore plays Chicken Little to the media’s applause, insisting that the world is warming dangerously and that he has the solution.

The ‘Cap-and-Trade’ System

To resolve the “climate crisis,” Gore wants to put a cap on the production of greenhouse gases. He calls for an immediate freeze on U.S. emissions, a ban on new coal-fired power plants, tough new fuel-economy and energy-efficiency standards, renewable energy mandates, carbon taxes and mandatory targets and timetables for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Those emissions consist mostly of carbon dioxide (CO2), the byproduct of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas, which supply 85% of all U.S. energy. Gore’s blueprint to save the planet moves the United States towards a command economy in which government regulators hold sway over what kinds and amounts of energy will be made available to the private sector. His principal regulatory tool is what’s called carbon-credit trading.

Under a so-called “cap-and-trade” system, government places a ceiling or “cap” on private-sector emissions of CO2 and other “greenhouse gases.” Each sector, industry or business is allocated a fixed quantity of carbon credits that allow it to emit specific quantities of greenhouse gases. As an example, one tradable carbon credit might permit the emission of one ton of CO2. If a business emits more tons of CO2 than its supply of credits allows, it has the option to buy surplus credits from other firms — or it will have to pay a fine in proportion to the amount of the excess emission. By contrast, businesses that emit less than their allocation can sell their excess credits.

This system, which may sound market-friendly, is something only a bureaucrat could dream up. The twist is that the carbon market exists only because the government’s imposition of a cap creates an artificial scarcity in the right to produce energy. In a cap-and-trade system, buyers will purchase their offsets from a broker or through an electronic trading platform. In Europe, carbon trading is already a reality. Since 2005, carbon offsets have been traded electronically on the European Climate Exchange (ECX).

Most carbon cap-and-trade programs also allow regulated entities to earn credits by taking actions that supposedly reduce emissions outside of the firm’s facilities or operations. In one popular version of the carbon-offset concept, firms earn credits by buying seedling trees for planting in less-developed countries. Supporters claim the CO2 intake of the trees will balance out the carbon emissions of the sponsoring firm’s industrial activity. Despite its public relations value, scientists scoff at the notion that it’s possible to plant enough trees to balance out man’s production of CO2. But carbon-offset projects are popular in the environmentalist community.

More Chances to Cheat

However, the most radical environmentalists reject cap-and-trade. They say it allows polluters to continue to pollute by purchasing carbon credits. That is true but irrelevant. A ton of CO2 emitted in Beijing has the same climatologic effect as a ton emitted in New York. The real problem is that every country’s government has an incentive to cheat on behalf of its domestic producers. This has been the European Union’s (EU) experience with the Emissions Trading System (ETS) that the EU established to implement the Kyoto Protocol. In just about every EU country except Britain, the credits allowed exceed the corresponding tons of emissions.

Carbon offsets provide even more opportunities to cheat. For example, some aluminum com

You say Obama is making promises he cant keep but mccain isnt making promises at all?

He says vote for me because he was a POW. He says hes for energy independence but is in bed with oil companies. News flash to you republicans we will never get alternative energy if we continue to drill because alternative energy is competition for the oil companies. Nobody who works for the oil companies would create competition for them. Do you people really think john mccain will bring about energy independence? Do you even care? John mccain stands for nothing he will not fix anything.

do you agree with out President that nuclear energy is a safe and green alternative to coal?

http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/18-Jun-2011/US-orders-news-blackout-over-crippled-Nebraska-Nuclear-Plant-report

Did you read this news item: The Green Bubble is about to Burst?

The temperature trend used by the IPCC (the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to support their conclusion about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is likely to turn out to be fake.

By S. Fred Singer at American Thinker

EXCERPTS:
The situation will become clear once Virginia’s attorney general, Kenneth Cuccinelli, obtains information now buried in e-mails at the University of Virginia. Or Hearings on Climategate by the U.S. Congress may uncover the “smoking gun” that demonstrates that the warming trend used by the IPCC does not really exist….

Once the public accepts these scientific conclusions, it should have immense consequences for policy. It will mean that the impact of rising CO2 levels is negligibly small, as has already been concluded by the NIPCC (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change), a group of scientists skeptical of the U.N.-supported IPCC. It would also mean that wind energy, solar energy, and other “non-carbon” energy sources are not needed and are in fact counterproductive.

One may expect a huge outcry and serious and protracted opposition from those who have built their careers on global warming hype and who have made investments in alternative energy or are looking for immense profits from carbon trading.

The Green Bubble is about to Burst

I read a news about the risks of biofuel energy in yahoo and searched for the subject, wherefore a big list of sources were shown but I could not open most of the sources (saying, ”sorry, your page is not available”). The one I could open read as above!

We know for long that a dichotomy of ideas existed among scientists about the ”global warming” phenomenon. Particularly the UN’s steps to restrain the use of carbon emitting (fossil fuels) energy had raised controversy about the road blocks for industrial progress of developing nations.

In the US however, the taxation policy involved in the use of petro fuel also generated much antagonism to the GW theory! Now what do you feel about the emerging revelation? Conversion of large scale food crop area to biofuel yielding plants is feared in Europe! Some articles claim that the bio fuels would not solve carbon emission rates, but increase it!

What are your thoughts on this news?

when, and by how much, will uncle sam tax you for energy you do NOT use?

reading along, trying to get a grip on what legislation will pass the senate (cap & trade bill passed by the house of reps already at the urging of mr. obama, who refuses to consider offshore drilling for oil until our alternate energy is good enough…), i came across a news article about the state of missouri and how its governor is proudly announcing a new cost to consumers of energy in MO which, he claims, will end up costing missouri businesses and citizens less than what they will be charged… huh, you say? me too:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1307200.html

how is it that government gets away with making us pay more now and promises that we will recoup those costs in the future? have you ever had any new tax recouped to you? what was it, a tax credit? what good does a tax CREDIT do for you if you go broker every day?

how about the taxes charged on toll roads? that’s a great example! when toll roads were built, everyone paid a toll to use them, supposedly a temporary tax only until the road was finished. but the crooked politicians NEVER stopped, but they did increase, the amount of the tolls that were paid. the tolls are a TAX.

inflation, especially to those of you without a job, is also a TAX. now the governor of MO says that the new energy-conservation tax must be charged NOW and that it will get “recouped” back to businesses, which are going to have to lay more workers off because of the increase that they will pay to the utility companies. when the workers are laid off, how will the utility bills at home be paid?

politicians in DC are getting quite excited learning about the governor of missouri’s ideas to help utility company contain costs, but when our president took the oath, he told us that we’d have to wait 8 months to learn if offshore drilling for oil would be allowed, since, he said, he wants rigs (which take about 2 years each to build) to be powered entirely by alternate forms of energy themselves! i have not heard a peep out of obama lately or within the 8 weeks after he gained the office of president, about offshore oil drilling. huh! the chinese are drilling for it off of cuba, which is actually part of our own eastern continental shelf. oh, yeah, but they are communists (as though that makes any difference)…???

democrats in the house, who control the house, say that cap & trade will only cost the consumer about $100 a year, but republicans say that it will cost (initially) somewhere around $770 per year and more than that, since alternative energy forms and “green industry” is certainly NOT in place now. we really have a long way to go on that. so who cares if the united states becomes the *shining example* of countries that are ahead of the game of conventional energy consumption?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/26/house-passes-milestone-energy-climate-change/

i say, who cares, since if these increased costs (taxes) are going to put you out of a job, how will the federal government pay for more research and implementation of this foreseen, but not yet concrete, plan to run entirely on the new green energy? if you are out of a job, you will not pay income taxes, will you? and won’t you cut back on what you spend in the general marketplace? so, it is another domino effect, just like when the housing bubble broke. do you realize how many small companies have gone under after that? in chicago, i see more and more and more small businesses closing their doors, leaving their storefronts vacant. it is happening here ALL OVER our city of about 2.5 million people! and, it is happening ALL OVER all of the big cities and everywhere in our country, isn’t it?

so, do you think that we will have no federal taxation to offset research and development, as well as implementation of perfected green energy machines? how so?

what will you tell your senator? what will you do to prevent the house of reps and your state’s politicians from pulling the wool out from under you?

How excited are you that Heinz invented a new ketchup packet?

I don’t know why they have been wasting time on alternative energy and stuff like that while we were stuck with those crappy old ketchup packets. I am glad they got their priorities straight and I can die happy now

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_heinz_ketchup

How is drinking from a straw related to sustainable development?

This is an essay that I have to answer in our English class. I really need it before september 18 so please if you have any idea please do answer! Thanks! =D

What is Canada’s role in sustainable development projects?

I need to study for my Biology test (grade 12) and I can’t seem to find this information anywhere.
If someone could give me a link or something helpful, that would be great.
Thank you!

Is ecotourism a form of sustainable development?

My teacher’s notes say so but Google says ecotourism may not necessarily be sustainable tourism. Can you clarify it pls I have an exam in 1 week!

How is a drinking straw connected to sustainable development?

my english professor asked us to do an essay on this.
please help me.

What is an example of a country with sustainable development?

Please help. And please give an explanation of why.

Sources are asked for, but I don’t really care if you have them.

It’s ok to wear leather if I’m raw vegan?

Eco friendly shoes and clothing are sometimes much more expensive and I think the leather can be used since in the end it is of no use, all wasted.

Agree or disagree and why?

Thank you!

I’m looking for eco-friendly events;?

ones that are similar to Earth Hour, One Day Without Shoes, etc.. where they have dates in which you take action around your community. Earth Hour was March 27, 2010 and One Day Without Shoes is April 8th.

Any events like this would be helpful, as I have to make a promotion poster for a Digital Image and Design class.

TIA!

What would go well with these Keds Green Label shoes?

These are the shoes:
http://www.kedsgoesgreen.com

I’m looking for your style recommendations – hopefully other eco–friendly shirts, jeans, etc. It is important that they are 100% organic cotton (like the shoes). Thanks 🙂

I have no idea what shoes to wear?

I’m going for and eco–friendly look. I have a white lose shirt with cropped jeans, but i have no idea what kind and color shoes to wear with it. i’m in a major fashion crisis.

I was reading a rolling stones magazine in the june 2007 issue with the police on the front. There was an ad..

that had some eco–friendly shoes that didn’t look so bad, under it it said made from Tires and 2 other things but i don’t remember what they were.