Green Living Q & A

Hey, does anyone know where I could buy a new eco-friendly bedroom set for no more than $500.00?

I’m looking for one in an asian style or antique european. I have very little money and I can’t be driving to people’s homes to look at furniture being sold in the newspaper because I don’t have a car… but I desperately need to get my home and life organized and so I need furniture to do that. I can’t have goodwill bring anything in because the last time I tried that they were so astonished by my home; my mom is a pack-rat… and I am not going through that again! Lastly, I would just really prefer it to be eco–friendly because I care about the environment and I have also read that eco–friendly furniture is better for your health. Please help… Thank you!

Is it possible to buy eco-friendly wooden furniture for the garden?

Eco friendly furniture?

How does economical friendly furniture relate to/impact on your personal life?

How does it relate to/impact on the society?

eco friendly kids furniture store?

i’m coming up with an eco friendly kids furniture store for a school project, and need help with a store name or buzz words??

Where can I find eco friendly furniture in Mumbai/Pune?

For e.g Cane, Banana Leaf Furniture.

is it a good idea that our government should increase incentives for companies that use alternative energy?

do you know the costs for a company to remodel their company to be using alternative energy?

Why would alternative energy companies need tax credits if their technology was superior?

Re: this Yahoo article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080831/ap_on_go_co/disappearing_tax_breaks

It always amazes me that companies which have been developing alternative energy technologies for OVER 25 YEARS, with tax credits and other government subsidies to make them a low-cost technologically superior reality, continue to demand special breaks and considerations even though they STILL have not proven to deliver on their promise.

If I had created the ultimate alternative energy, lets say, a Mr. Fusion thing like in the fictional “Back to Future” series, which takes garbage or any other material, and it produces a waste by-product of water, and it only cost $1000 to manufacturer with a retail price well under a few thousand, there would be no need to get government subsidies because myself and my investors would be gazillionaires within 2 years!

The issue is, and remains, that every single alternative energy idea that we’ve been pursuing for the past 25 YEARS, including wind, solar, and ethanol, have not caught on because they are PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE.

And the excuse is always, “Yeah, but we need more money to make it cheaper.” Nonsense. If, after 25 YEARS, you still haven’t figured out a way to improve the technology, IT’S A DEAD END.

This is because the alternative energy debate is fundamentally flawed. Every single alternative was missing, from the very beginning, the very essential element to make it practical and successful.

“Can we find an alternative energy resource that is less polluting, more abundant, and SIGNIFICANTLY AND SUBSTANTIALLY CHEAPER than existing resources?”

Consider PC technology. It was IMMEDIATELY substantially cheaper than its mainframe alternatives. This is why it took off as a computing power alternative. No government tax credits were needed. No subsidizing was required. Competitors popped up left and right to invest heavilly in making it better and better.

And in the same period of time that we have been pursuing these alternative energies, PC technology has evolved enormously.

And if we were still using computers with 256Kb of memory and floppy disks and dot matrix printers, and it turns out they were more expensive than mainframe computers, do you think ANYONE would be saying, “All IBM, Apple, Dell, HP, Intel and AMD need is more money from the government.” ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Innovation is wonderful. But it has to be practical.

Any alternative energy source MUST be a substantially CHEAPER alternative FIRST and FOREMOST. Otherwise, we can throw trillions into the technology and it will never be accepted.

Private funding has already grown weary of the failures of these alternative energies to deliver on their promises.

Meanwhile, there are newer alternative energy ideas such as Fusion and Hydrogen that show great promise… but they are now in their infancy of development. In the meantime, we should take advantage of the cheaper resources we ALREADY have, and use those as a cost/value challenge for viable alternative energies.

Or should we continue to pursue and fund alternatives that no one will want to pay for?

Have oil companies been in denial for a long time about alternative and renewable energy?

There has been the technology around for a while now that could of helped our dependence on forgien oil. It seems to me many oil companies have resisted because of possible competition from new alternative energy companies. Let me put it this way, if there is only on way to power your car those companies that sell it have you by the gonads. I along with oil man T. Boone Pickens feel that peak oil is for real and needs to be addressed. If you look up his name on the internet you can pull up his plan for the future. I am impressed that an oil man has finally came to his senses. He wants to replace our electrical power we get from natural gas with wind power and inturn take the natural gas and use it to power our cars. This would be used in some cars and gas in others. This is not a cure all but it would help us for at least 20 years. THis would lower the cost to run our cars and also buy us time to come up with new types of energy. This should be at the top of our list in this election.

Alternative energy companies hiring?

Hi

Im graduating with a BS mech engineering in June and want to get into alt energy field

Which companies are hiring (wind, solar, tidal, hydro…) and is it a competitive market to get into?

Willing to relocate

Thanks

If I started an alternative energy company, would I make a profit?

I want to start an alternative energy company, that makes bio fuels, windmills and solar panels. Will I make money or loss money?

Climate change is an environmental issue in the news almost daily. Air pollution impacts us on a global level.?

Climate change is an environmental issue in the news almost daily. Air pollution impacts us on a global level. What are the implications of global warming? And, do you feel the efforts to improve air quality are worth the economic costs?

What will it take to properly inform actors and other celebrities about environmental issues?

Leonardo DiCaprio and other celebrities work for, found, and fund various environmental charities, often without examining contradictory evidence produced by credible and reputable scientists. How can we be sure that the opinion they are pumping out to us is founded in reason and an honest examination of the facts instead of popular environmental hysteria such as that found here on Yahoo Answers?

Why are people who spent childhood on a farm or near nature much less militant on environmental issues?

It seems many people who spent childhood in the city far removed from nature just seem to go berserk on certain issues regarding nature as they grow into maturity, tending to lean toward extreme and unrealistic notions.

Many of these opinions seem to have little foundation in reality. For example, very few outspoken activists grew up close to nature, or had parents who worked in the natural resources business.

Whereas, those who grew up in rural or natural settings, experienced nature as a child and have more experience with nature and things of the wild seem to be more grounded and comfortable in the world. What do they know that the rest of us don’t? Can someone explain this?

Why are people to gullible when it comes to environmental issues like global warming?

If you do a little research, you’ll find enough information to see that global warming is a questionable theory, not a FACT of impending doom! The evidence points to the sun as being a more probable culprit to the NORMAL temperature fluctuations….

Are people so desperate to feel good about themselves that they think replacing a light bulb will save us all?

People like Al Gore are simply playing on your emotions to take money out of your pockets! His movie has made more money for Paramount than any other movie! Plan on more global warming propaganda movies….

What happenened to the doomsayers in the 50’s and 60’s claiming that an Ice Age was coming? Only 40-50 years later, we’re going to die because it’s too hot?!?!?!

I’m all for conservation, but it needs to be done with FACTS!

Please people. Get a grip on reality and wake up from the brainwashing….

What are some imperative and current issues in politics?

Hey everyone,

I have a paper that I need to start soon and for it, I need to look at a current and imperative issue in politics. I need to develop a thesis analyzing how the thinkers we have studied Plato, Rousseau, Karl Marx and Carl Schmitt would have thought about it.

I was hoping to stay away from US, environmental or economic politics since they are such broad topics and concern myself more with global or humanitarian issues.

Anyone have recommendation of a current issue in politics?

Thanks!

How does solar Energy compare to other alternative energy sources?

Is it better or worse than majority of the other alternative energy sources? If so why?

How do companies emit greenhouse gases / how can alternative energy be applied?

I was recently discussing with someone the possibility of the government installing a cap-and-trade system on American companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I said that would be a baby step in the right direction, however I think we need a stricter solution, such as the development and eventually mandated uses of alternative energy (solar power, wind and tide energy, for example) instead. However, I was wondering if this is even applicable to the topic at hand? What processes exactly do happen within companies to emit so much greenhouse gas? And, could alternative energy even be substituted for the original methods of production?

What would be a simple alternative energy school project?

For some dumb reason I thought a class called “Alternative Energy Today” wasn’t going to be about actually making something. Have any ideas for a project that involves reusable energy? Simplist one gets best answer.

Is alternative energy a pipe dream in the short run?

Should the citizens of the united states demand the government provide energy by any means until the technology and the hardware for alternative energy are ready?

I am not saying alternative sources of energy will not happen, of course they will, but we need energy now.

Get the electricity any way we can and phase out fossil fuels as alternative energy comes available.

What are some new and potentially useful alternative energy sources?

I’m looking for something besides the usual fuel cells, solar collectors, photovoltaic cells, waste-to-energy, hydro-electric, etc. I think I read somewhere about harnessing body heat for energy. Anyone know anything about that or can give me some links on that or on other developing technologies for alternative sources of energy away from gasoline and natural gas?
Wind mills is included in the “etc.”.

What are the effects of the film on today’s society ?

I wrote an introduction for essay and could you tell me whether its fine ?

It is certainly true that there are many things affecting the global society, mainly starvation in Africa, environmental issues such as global warming and water pollution, and the influence of the film industries in the mass production of movies. It is obvious that the media is influencing and affecting our lives, as they are shot in locations across the world, and these films are persistently viewed by many people. The popularity of motion films is increasing everyday, as more people who are interested in them, which can be good or bad, as films can promote a certain ideology in a positive way or negative way. In this essay the effects of films in today’s society are examined in depth.

Do celebrities actually help address social and environmental issues?

Clearly we see celebrities speaking out about various social and environmental problems plaguing the world. But have the really done anything to help solve the problems. What initiatives has Leonardo DiCaprio spearheaded to address global warming. Or other celebrities who show up in commercials or in Africa concerning the AIDS epidemic. I for one would like to see them set an example, such as donating the many millions they bring in toward research, or perhaps making sacrifices they propose the public should make.

World history help?! Urgent.?

– What were some causes for all the political and economic turmoil in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century?

– Describe the roots,conflicts, and temporary peace times of the Israeli-Arab situation?

– Describe the career of Nelson Mandela?

– What are some of the major health and environmental issues plaguing Africa today?

Serious answers only. Please. & Thank you<3333

Sub-Saharan Africa’s political situation can be described by which of these statements?

-Most poor people live in urban areas.

-People depend heavily on the land for survival.

-Poor people spend lots of time on environmental issues.

-Survival needs come before sustainability.

(More than one is correct)
-Conflict is contained within political borders.

-Government systems lack capacity.

-People have a greater voice in the government.

-Political instability is uncommon.

(More than one is correct)
Just Ignore the first 4 choices, i was reading from the wrong section lol

How is population linked to the 2010 south african world cup?

Well for geography the homework was to write a short paragraph about :
Physical and human interactions- where i wrote about how you order tickets online now and not at stands so people are loosing their jobs
Environmental issues– how many people fly over and its yeah 😛
Development in South Africa– how it is making the country look better

but the fourth one is population and i cant link it D: can you just give me a few points please 🙂

LOADS OF THANKS AND HUGS!!!

Is John Mccain practicing the “Audacity of Hope”?

With the Mccain campaign’s recent push to connect Obama with “terrorist” Ayers and re-visit any Muslim connections, however tacit and tenuous, Obama has had in the past It would appear to me that Mccain himself is actually practicing “audacity of hope” that Obama has become so famous for.

Does anyone think that is being audacious in hoping that these desparate tactics will provide him the voter support he needs appear to be a viable candidate in this election, let alone give him any chance of being elected?

The entire Republican machinery has handled Mccain and Palin so poorly in terms of creating a viable and sustainable brand that the American people can stand cleanly behind and feel confident in that now it truly does look like Mccain is grasping at straws. Does anyone else agree?

Finally, at first I held a great deal of animosity towards Sarah Palin because of the vitriolic way she entered this race attacking Obama as if he was the anti-christ incarnate. Now I feel only waves of sympathy for her. I know that she thinks she understands what shes gotten herself into but the truth is after this election, at best she will be consigned to some nominal position in the Republican party serving some fringe, fear mongering faction. She nor her children will have any chance at normalcy and I believe she will become a caricatured footnote in history. I’d love to hear others views on this.

So the Mccain camp is audaciously discreditting Obama in hopes that it will save his chances for the whitehouse. Am I incorrect in this?

I need help on my essay based on green power(non viable energy sources for the future)?

My essay is based on the following questions and so far I have….
1. What is “green power”?
2. Do you believe that we need to find alternate, environmentally friendly energy sources?
3. How many possible “green power” options did you find in your research?
4. What were the options you found?
5. Are any of these options being used today?
6. Which, if any, do you feel are viable energy sources for the future? Why?
7. Which, if any, do you feel are not viable energy sources for the future? Why?

1. What is “green power”?

Green Power is a method to make and also help the Earth be a better place to live in. It is without a doubt the highest environmental benefit. We have to take very good of the earth and use the resources the earth gives us. Simply by doing that we are creating green power. Green Power is made possible by using natural resources that are renwable in order to create more engery. All being done without polluting and hazardous technologies. That can polute the earth and damge it in the end. A few examples of green power energy is solar,wind,and water. Those energy example are not only helpful abundant energy sources to the earth but very concvient because they are the top three the earth acutally provides for us. They are energy sources that are replenished at a sustainable rate by natural processe and will never run out if we take good care of the earth. It is very important to support green power because not only does make the Earth a better place for us to live in but also for out grandchildren and great grandchildren. Not keeping the earth in its top shape can destroy the earth everybody and everything in it. By creating green power we prevent global warming something that is already occuring. Also at the same time of making green power come to action we are contrbuting to cleaner air and water.

2. Do you believe that we need to find alternate, environmentally friendly energy sources

I dinitely think we need to find alternate environmental friendly energy sources. It could all help stop global warming. We do already have environmental energy source but the effciency and percentage of installtions must go up, and soon. The quick and most simple soultion is by using renewable energy. The planet gives us so much flowing water, it gives off so much solar energy and strong winds that we need to put it all in energy effect. I diffently thing we need to lower down the use of propane coal that only seems to pollute the earth. Instead use the abundant and free to use these friendly environmental energy sources that we are naturally provided with. Not only use these energy sources but convert them and use them in an eco friendly way the will not hurt our earth. everyone as an individual or even as a community need to show that this can be done and put words and imagination to action.

I have beed doing research and have found numerouse green power options. Ive gotten as far to 12 and as more research i did the number went up. If every contributed to to green power the options could go up endlessly. Solar is an energy that has been given to us for billions of years. Solar can generate electricity in several ways it can convert light to electricity. Solar can heat water to create steam, which turns turbines to generate electricity. One simple way an individual can alternate from propane oil to solar and use the friendly engery source by driving an eco-friendly car. The car can get its energy from solar and that person itself help stop polluting . Wind is also another environmental friends energy source is wind it can be harnessed to generate electricity using wind turbines of many different sizes and applications. Many farmers use this enegy with putting thier windmills to work. Water can be used as hydropower turbines to generate electricity. As waves go up and down it gets the turbine to generate electricity. When the ocean water moves up and down and the energy is captured it spins a turbine that can power a generator.

4. What were the options you found?
sun
wind
water
earth
tide
waves
oceans
renewable energy
biofuel
uranium
coal
natural gas
oil
tires
biomass

5. Are any of these options being used today?

yes world wide

6. Which, if any, do you feel are viable energy sources for the future? Why?

I need help on question 6 and 7

Am I going about the right way on this???
Help please this is my final paper with this class and Im trying to score 100
p.s its my ruft draft so ignore the grammer or wrong spelling

how can i finish this letter politely? emergency help! thanks?

MAY 9 2011
Stephen Chu
US Energy Secretary
blank(my name)
blank(my school)
Greetings Mr. Steven Chu

I am a freshman in ………….. Recently, I have studied energy sources that are sustainable and renewable. I have a project that is talking about renewable energy and I have to send three sources energy that I think it is good for the future to you. The purpose is for you to consider about my 3 options.
The first option is solar energy. This type of energy source can produce electricity by sunlight and the solar panel. We can use it in many ways such as heat the house, convert sunlight into electricity, heat fluid, and heat water. If we compare this to fuel, coal and gas, solar power is better because it does not cause any pollution, we can use it again and again. It works without any sound. It doesn’t pollute the air at all. When we install it at home, it doesn’t cause any impact to the environment. Anyway there are some problems in this energy. Solar panel is very costly, some low economic countries or families can’t afford to buy solar panels. The second impact is that it can only produce energy in the day time and sunlight is not stable.
Second option is tidal power, it is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into electricity or other useful form of power. Tides are caused by the gravitational of moon, sun and the rotation of the earth. Tidal power can give energy to us for billions of years because moon and sun might not vanish. When tidal power is working, we may able to control the level of storms and tsunamis. It can generate a high amount of electricity with 80% more than coal or oil. The concerns of tidal power are the availability of tidal energy and the complicated ocean life. We can only have tidal energy in the areas that have strong tidal waves which some areas don’t even have ocean. The blades of turbine frames can injure or kill animal in the water and the population of fishes can reduce.
Wind power is also a renewable energy source. Most wind energy comes from turbines that can be as tall as a 20-story building and have three 200-foot-long (60-meter-long) blades. The wind spins the blades and turns a shaft connected to a generator that produces electricity. It is the same as other clean energy; it doesn’t produce air or water pollution. Since the wind is free, the operation doesn’t need any money. Wind energy produces no byproduct that can cause global warming. We still have some problems with wind power. The turbines can damage by thunderstorm because they are too tall. It can also kill the birds that intentionally fly through the blades.

HELP ME WITH THIS. 😉

The European Union the superpower of the 21st century, the European Century?

What do you think?

An extract from an article by Mark Leonard, from the Irish Times Newspaper from 2005.

For all the talk of the American Empire, the past two years have been more about the limits of American power. Its economic lead over Europe is disappearing (in 1950 its GDP per capita was twice that of Western Europe, while today it is almost the same size), while the political price for saying no to the superpower has never been lower (as Germany, France, Mexico, Turkey and Chile found over Iraq). In fact, the US leads the world in only two ways: it has the biggest army in the world, and the most popular “popular culture”. But the combined might of the US military could do nothing to stop 9/11 or halt terrorism in Iraq, and the more America’s presence around the world becomes militarised, the less attractive the American way of life becomes.

Meanwhile, across the pond, Europeans – often by accident – have been developing a new kind of power that cannot be measured in terms of military budgets or smart-missile technology. It works in the long term, and is about reshaping the world rather than winning short-term tussles. And when we stop looking at the world through American eyes, we can see that each element of European “weakness” is in fact a facet of its extraordinary transformative power.

In just 50 years, Europeans have made war between European powers unthinkable; European economies have closed the gap with the US; and Europe has brought successive waves of countries out of dictatorship and into democracy. If you look at a map of the world, you can see a zone of peace spreading like a blue oil slick – from the west coast of Ireland to the eastern Mediterranean; from the Arctic Circle to the Straits of Gibraltar – sucking in new members in its wake. Around the 450 million (as of 2009 it’s 500 million) citizens of the EU, there are another 1.5 billion people who depend completely on an EU that is their biggest trade partner and their biggest source of credit, foreign investment, and aid. These two billion people (one-third of the world’s population) live in the “Eurosphere”: Europe’s zone of influence, which is gradually being transformed by the European project and adopting European ways of doing things.

Europe’s power is easy to miss. Europe doesn’t flaunt its strength or talk about a “single sustainable model of progress” as America does. Instead, like an “invisible hand”, it operates through the shell of traditional political structures. The Dail, Irish law courts, and Irish civil servants are still here, but they have all become agents of the European Union, implementing European law. This is no accident. By creating standards that are implemented through national institutions, Europe can take over the world without becoming a target for hostility. The same is true of European troops abroad who often serve under UN or NATO flags rather than the European one.

While every US company, embassy and military base is a terrorist target, Europe’s invisibility allows it to spread its influence without provocation. The fact that Europe does not have one leader, but rather a network of centres of power united by common policies and goals, means it can expand to accommodate ever-greater numbers of countries without compromising their independence, while continuing to provide its members with the benefits of being part of the largest market in the world.

Europeans are not interested in classic geo-politics when they talk to other countries: instead, they use the law to change them from within. Instead of talking about the war on terror or the balance of power, they look at what kind of government they have. What values underpin the state? What are its constitutional and regulatory frameworks?
Europe’s obsession with legal frameworks means it can transform the countries it comes into contact with, instead of just skimming the surface. The US might have changed the regime in Afghanistan, but Europe is changing all of Polish society, from its economic policies and property laws to its treatment of minorities and what gets served on the nation’s tables. The lonely superpower can bribe, bully, or impose its will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its potency wanes. The strength of the EU, conversely, is broad and deep: once sucked into its sphere of influence, countries are changed forever.

I Need Help on my Geography Homework!!!!?

1.
Even without climate change issues, buildings built on permafrost have potential structural issues because:
A. buildings generate heat which can cause some of the ice in the permafrost to melt
B. buildings sway and create cracks in the ice
C. the weight of the building is dangerous to permafrost
D. the permafrost moves and shifts the building

2.
Which of the following is true about the events in Yugoslavia?
A. As communism began to fail, more non-communist leaders were elected.
B. With new non-communist leaders, each ethnic group began to assert itself.
C. Ethnic fighting and tensions turned to crisis level as the Serbian minority took over.
D. all of the above are true

3.
The Ring of Fire is where:
A. 75% of the earth’s volcanoes can be found.
B. volcanic ash is volatile and subject to flash fires.
C. tectonic plates collide and create new mountains.
D. thunderstorms cause flash fires.

4.
Which of these is true about the Himalayan Mountains?
A. This immense mountain range began to form between 40 and 50 million years ago.
B. This mountain range formed when two large landmasses, India and Eurasia, driven by plate movement, collided.
C. Both A and B are true.
D. Neither A nor B are true about the Himalayas.

5.
The Japan Current is also known as the Kuroshio Current.
A. true
B. false

6.
Which of the following bodies of water is integral to the Great Barrier Reef?
A. The Southern Ocean
B. The Coral Sea
C. The Tasman Sea
D. The Gulf of Carpentaria

7.
“Big Spenders” in the tourist industry of Southeast Asia often want air conditioned hotels with English-speaking staff and imported food from their home country.
A. true
B. false

8.
If earthquakes occur below or close to the ocean, they may trigger:
A. tidal waves – also known as tsunami
B. volcanic eruptions
C. massive thunderstorms because of the drop in pressure
D. a rise in the riverbanks

9.
Swidden agriculture is:
A. the new style agriculture borrowed from Sweden
B. a successful approach to government owned land and farms
C. a slash-and-burn style of agriculture still in common practice in many parts of Southeast Asia
D. the preferred method for sustainable farming in Southeast Asia

10.
Which of the following is NOT part of the Western Africa region?
A. Botswana
B. Cape Verde
C. Mali
D. Senegal

I need information on ECO FRIENDLY CARS?

I have to write an essay (400 words) for a project on ”ECO FRIENDLY CARS”… I need to write about its advantages and need for the betterment of the environment.
Please help!
lol.

Why does the Republicans and Fox news hate eco-friendly cars?

Don’t they know we will have to make changes in the auto industry.

How much does GM spend on R&D for eco-friendly cars?

What about ford? Toyota?

Will Eco-Friendly or “Green” cars ever be more powerful, and faster than “normal” non eco-friendly cars?

Basically, I want to know if petrol heads hate eco–friendly cars, or if they have the potential to be better than what we have currently, as well as fuel efficient

What are the most eco-friendly cars on the US market?

Is a renewable electricity standard better than nothing?

In the wake of the US Congress’ failure to pass a carbon cap and trade system, there are discussions to basically settle for a renewable electricity standard. A renewable electricity standard would mandate that a given share of an electric company’s production come from renewable source, and would involve the trading of renewable energy credits.

There are two main problems with this approach – namely that it focuses only on the energy sector (about 40% of US GHG emissions), and it’s a much more expensive way to reduce CO2 emissions than a cap and trade system.

Some have argued that a renewable electricity standard is better than nothing, because at least it represents a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Others have argued that if such a standard is implemented, Congress will view it as their response to climate change, and so it will take even longer to get a carbon pricing mechanism in place. But apparently even though it’s more expensive and less effective than a carbon cap and trade system, a renewable electricity standard is less objectionable to Republicans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-stavins/renewable-irony_b_788046.html

What do you think – is a renewable electricity standard better than nothing, or would it do more harm than good by delaying real comprehensive climate legislation?
Eric – I believe electricity is one of the more expensive areas to reduce GHG emissions because coal is so (artificially) cheap. Since cap and trade reduces GHG emissions in other sectors as well as electricity, overall it’s cheaper.

I need to prepare report on carbon credits. Can anyone recommend me to a study/link that I can access online?

Specifically, I need information on how to calculate carbon credits for the oil and gas, power, and transportation industries. For example, how much energy do we need to generate from a renewable energy-based power plant (geothermal, solar, hydro, etc.) to offset the GHG emissions of a coal-fired power plant? Or how many trees do we need to offset the GHG emissions from a oil and gas field? Are there global standards to quantify carbon credits? Appreciate any help.

John MC Cain filibustered wind energy in 2007, how can he now say he will support it?

2007: McCain Opposed Legislation Extending The Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit; Recent Study Concluded More than 116,000 Jobs Could be Lost If the Tax Credit is Not Extended. John McCain supported the filibuster of the 2007 energy bill that included an extension of the production tax credit to 2011. While McCain missed the vote to on the bill, according to his staff he did, in fact, support the continuing the filibuster, which eventually killed the bill. In its place, Congress passed another version of the legislation that did not include an extension of the tax credit. A 2008 economic study by Navigant Consulting found that “over 116,000 U.S. jobs and nearly $19 billion in U.S. investment could be lost in just one year if renewable energy tax credits are not renewed by Congress… The study concluded that over 76,000 jobs are put at risk in the wind industry, and approximately 40,000 jobs in the solar industry.” [HR 6, Vote 425, 12/13/07; Forbes, 12/13/07; U.S. News & World Report, 12/14/07; American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association press release, 2/4/08] Are any as concerned as I am over this seeming contradiction? Why are you — Why not?

income from renewable energy?

I was going to use $400,000 on solar and wind power for pass income. However the electric company only gives credits for excess power to the grid. How can I utilize the excess power for passive income?

How many kWh will 1 ton of woodchips produce when co fired in a modern gas or coal cogen plant?

I am trying to determine how many renewable energy credits can be generated from a massive amount of waste wood and whether its economically feasible to move the mountain of wood waste to a cogen power plant

833.33 cents per home for years of free wind energy sounds pretty good to me. How about you?

This is actually an anti-green power article run by ABC complaining that 30% of the wind turbines are made in China. At this price I do not really care that much. The electricity will be made and used here and it is cheap.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/obama-stimulus-money-spent-overseas/story?id=10002592

The program has already spent $2 billion, funding enough projects to power 2.4 million homes. Any wind farm created in the U.S. is eligible for stimulus money to put up wind turbines, regardless of where those massive structures are made. Each turbine costs about $3 million, and reaches 40 stories into the sky.

A minimum of 70 percent of each wind turbine […] will be wholly manufactured in the United States and made entirely of American steel. It is incorrect to assume that the hundreds of additional jobs created aside from the direct construction and operation of the Texas plant would be outside the U.S.,” said Cappy McGarr, managing partner for the U.S. Renewable Energy Group.

The frustrated senators are concerned, though, that some of the money is also paying for manufacturing jobs in China, and they are pushing a bill requiring that stimulus projects create jobs in the United States. They want the wind energy program stopped before the Chinese turbine manufacturers can collect any money.
These are already built at this price.

In Texas Bill White from Houston is running for govenor against Rick Perry the incumbent. Who wins?

White is a very strong candidate. He made the City of Houston, the largest electricity user in the region, the nation’s #1 public purchaser of renewable energy. During his tenure at City Hall, Bill White cut the city’s energy use by six percent, despite double-digit growth in Houston’s population and thousands of new jobs. White required annual performance reviews of city employees, established performance-based pay programs, and was willing to ask low performers to improve or leave. He established a program to permanently recycle hundreds of thousands of tons of yard waste, reducing landfill costs to taxpayers. Bill White understands that keeping young people in school requires both publicly funded programs and the involvement of civic, business, and religious leaders at all levels of government.

Perry is the longest serving governor and won’t debate or take questions from the media. He has friends running the Teachers Retirement Fund who make millions in investment fees and the School Book Board that recommends altering history to make the chuch more important. Then another friend got millions from the Emerging Technology Fund on appealing to Gov. Perry, after he was originally turned down. Do you think he has been in office so long he doesn’t think all this political corruption matters to the voters?
As an independent voter I found Bill White when I was fed up with Perry’s cronies on the School Book Board who said the Civil War had slaves fighting for the Union and omitted Jefferson as a writer of the constitution instead of bettering our students knowledge.

Houston voters returned White to office with re-election margins of 91% and 86%.
Bill White’s proven track record with law enforcement, earned him the support of sheriffs responsible for 98% of Texans living in counties along the border.

The JFK Profiles in Courage Award is presented to two elected public officials each year. White was chosen for welcoming 150,000 hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees to the city despite complaints that the newcomers were a drain on local resources. He immediately helped establish emergency shelters and fostered creation of programs to help those who chose to stay in Houston find housing and jobs.

Anybody out there using a solar heated stirling engine to generate residential electricity?

I am a general contractor in Texas, I am currently designing a environmentally friendly home for myself and young family to live in. I am viewing my options on electricity generation, i.e PV with battery and invertor, bio diesel generators, solar powered stirling engine, possibly offsetting solar power with wind. I have a design for a trombe wall which will help cool the house in the summer and heat it in the winter. Solar powered H2O heaters are a no brainer, My brother in the UK has one and has an abundant amount of hot H20. The cooling system will probably encompass geo-thermal energy, again a lot of systems available, unfortunately for the masses these systems are more expensive than traditional energy sucking compressors and heat exchangers. Hopefully by the time I invest in renewable energy for my home the government will offer more than a $2000.00 TAX credit toward the investment.
If so please forward me details.

The very conservative and oil man T.Bone Pickens is advocating and pushing renewable energies such as?

solar and wind power. This man is as Republican as you can get and from Texas, so you know he was a Bush supporter. Now he is advocating what President Carter did 30 years ago. Does it really take this long for the GOP and conservatives to finally wake up?

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nvedukat… Carter had a solar energy program and even had solar panals placed on the White House. Reagan dismantled the program and then took the solar panals off the White House. perhaps you should read some history.
Suthrn, I know he has a vested interest in this. That wasn’t my point. But there are many small companies in the country that have already started their solar energy business’ and they are already doing very very well economically. They are even on the stock market and that has been a very strong sector. As far as I’m concerned I don’t care if he has heavy investments in it or not. As long as we can clearly get off oil with our energy needs and with our transportation needs, I don’t care. The economy will be better and so will our planet.
Thom…. liberals don’t think alternatives will get us off oil completely. Why do you think we advocate electric/gasoline plug in hybrids that get 180 miles per gallon and not bio fuels such as ethanol.

Which Candidate Has An Illegal Alien Policy?

The U.S. doesn’t have an unlimited energy and water resources…The water source that supplies Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa and parts of Texas is not a renewable resource.

Neither Mc Cain nor Obama has mentioned anything about what we’re to do with the illegal aliens in the U.S.

What’s with that?

What Do U think Green Party works to oppose US-Mexico border wall?

While many in the Green Party focus on border walls as overseas injustices, the Arizona Greens and other southwestern states GP members have taken a stand against the U.S. border wall now spanning California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. In addition to the wall’s assault on the environment, immigrant rights, and democratic processes, the most overlooked concern is its impact on indigenous peoples within U.S. borders.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the leadership of Secretary Janet Napolitano has continued construction, “to secure our borders and reduce illegal immigration,” the DHS website states. Yet continued seizure of land, obstruction of ceremonial pathways, and militarization of the region are devastating native nations located along the international boundary zone from California through Texas.

Arizona Green Party co-chairs Claudia Ellquist and Angel Torres submitted additional language for the Green Party Platform in the section on Immigration in 2007.

“We demand an immediate end to policies designed to force undocumented border crossers into areas where environmental conditions mean dramatically increased risk of permanent injury or death, and mean greater degradation of fragile environments, and the cutting off of corridors needed by wildlife for migration within their habitat. For these reasons we specifically oppose the walling off of both traditional urban crossing areas and of wilderness areas,” the submission recommends.

“We demand recognition of sovereignty in determining independent status of their members by indigenous nations whose people would otherwise be separated by the border demarcations of more recent nations.” The border has obstructed indigenous familial and societal relationships for generations, a problem that the wall has exacerbated.

Relative to egregious Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and citizenship initiatives, the border wall has remained a low visibility issue in national debates on immigration reform. While no-wall activism, border-crossing, environmental issues and local economies take center stage, concerns of indigenous people are marginalized.

Green Party works to oppose US-Mexico border wall

What impact does illegals have on the environmental issues from carbon foot prints to trash left behind, why it is none of this get indicated ?

how long can employer withhold promise check?

My husband along with the entire company that he works for recieved raises in January. They have not recieved any of it in their checks so far. The employer keeps telling them “next pay period” and then they have some excuse for not doing it. The employer told them they would give them back pay all the way till Jan 1.
This is a company of about 100 people. A chemical company that is small, but well known in the community offering services to other bigger chemical companies.
This company has already been in hot water either beginning of the year or December (can’t remember right now). They were in trouble for environmental issues.
So can they do keep doing this? It is May and they still haven’t gotten their raises or their “back up check”.
With them being already in hot water you would think they wouldn’t do this. Which to me may make it seem easier to report.
Can I report this maybe even anonymously?
WHO would I report this situation too?
I’m in Texas.
well that is BS. I think that is completely unethical to sit there and lie and say here is your raise-oh but you can’t have it yet-maybe next time–oh you can’t have it again–maybe next time–you you can’t have it again—-maybe next time. BS

What ever happened to environmental modification { EnMod } ?

After 3 weeks of research into Environmental modification or EnMod I found many things suprising and thought I would share and see what is you take on this – Environmental modification or EnMod was researched in the beginning of the 1970s and portions of the U.S. government and/or military viewed weather and climate modification research as having transitioned from the “basic research” stage to the “operational” stage. Experiments were occurring – or had occurred – in 22 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Italy, France, South Africa, Congo and the U.S.S.R. Airborne seeding programs were undertaken to combat drought in the Philippines, Okinawa, Africa and Texas. Fog clearing had become a standard operation at airports, as had hailstorm abatement, which had been proven successful in several parts of the world. Forest fire control had been carried out in Alaska and watershed seeding was widely practiced, while lake storm snow redistribution was under extensive investigation. By 1973 there were over 700 degreed scientists and engineers in the U.S. whose major occupation was environmental modification (EnMod).

And then it all changed. In 1978 The United States became a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (EnMod Convention or ENMOD for short). The EnMod Convention prohibits the use of techniques that would have widespread, long-lasting or severe effects through deliberate manipulation of natural processes and cause such phenomena as earthquakes, tidal waves and changes in climate and weather patterns.

Independent journalist Keith Harmon Snow wrote a massive report entitled: “Out of the Blue: Black Programs, Space Drones & The Unveiling of U.S. Military Offensives in Weather as a Weapon.” In it he tells us: “In 1976, U.S. government officials outlined 50 experimental projects and 20 actual pilot programs costing upwards of $100 million over the next eight years. It was an explosive subject, up [through] the 1970s but, after 1977, EnMod interest seemed to disappear almost overnight. In other words, after decades of intense research and development, after billions of dollars of investment, after major institutions and governmental bodies were created and charged with oversight of EnMod and its many peripheral issues, and after the entire reorganization of the U.S. Government to channel and guide and map out the future of this new and promising military and civilian ‘technology’ – said to be more important than the atom bomb – everything stopped.
Or did it?
It was as if a huge curtain fell over the subject as all research, all institutional interests, huge salaries and thousands of jobs – vanished. And the mass media stopped reporting anything and everything as if struck by plague. That – sudden and total silence – is perhaps the most telling and suspicious indication of the secrecy and denial that the EnMod arena was shackled with. Today it is almost as if it never happened.”

Could it be that the US government said, “Oh gee, we can’t do that any more” and just gave up on military EnMod – or did the whole program go “black”?

A social conservative would most likely favor which of the following policies?

A. national health insurance
B. tougher government regulations against sexually explicit programming on cable television
C. a reduction in defense spending
D. an affirmative action plan to increase the number of minority students in medical school

Which of the following groups is most supportive of the Texas Democratic party?
A. non-Hispanic whites
B. African-Americans
C. Latinos
D. none of the above-there is no difference among the three groups

Social conservatives active in the Texas Republican party would be more likely to stress which of the following issue positions?
A. opposition to a state income tax
B. support for abortion rights
C. support for tougher environmental regulations
D. opposition to government regulation of private schools

Ok im not gonna lie these are from my quiz ive answered all xcept these .. im lost i dnt get it :S
some one can help plzz :S

Would you vote for Al Gore if he ran for President in 2008?

I am an America-loving liberal democrat in Texas and I really want to see regime change here in the USA. I feel that Bushco has corrupted our government and run our country into the ground by allowing high gas prices, the erosion of our good alliances and reputation with other countries, and political scandals left and right.

However, I don’t think Hillary Clinton is the right choice for President because she vacilates too much in her opinions and seems to try too hard to appeal to the middle of the road people who tend to know nothing about real issues that affect them every day.

I think Al Gore is primed to take our country back to the success of the nineties and lead the way in environmental reform and alternative energy sourcing – two of the LARGEST coming problems. If you can’t see them as real problems baring down on us then you are BLIND. Osama is not the threat, disappearing oil and rising temperatures are, and Al Gore is prepared to handle all three.