Focus on what Family?

I’m just going to rip the text of this WP story: Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson and other conservative Christian leaders are calling for the National Association of Evangelicals to silence or fire an official who has urged evangelicals to take global warming seriously. In a letter this week to the board …

Dealing with a not so distant risk

As my previous post stated, we are all causing massive changes to the earth by producing green house gasses and eradicating carbon absorbers. Skeptics, Grist has done a great job rounding up the usual suspects if you want to know more about certain points. The question is, what to do about it all? Running through …

“A moderate and distant risk”

“Most Americans believe global warming is real but a moderate and distant risk. While they strongly support policies like investing in renewable energy, higher fuel economy standards and international treaties, they strongly oppose carbon taxes on energy sources that put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.” Titled Americans Believe Global Warming Is Real, Want Action, But …

CO2 round-up

The NYTimes has a good article about California’s push to produce 25% carbon dioxide by 2020. They are attacking the problem several different ways: – No longer buying dirty electricity – all those coal plants out of state are no longer a way to get around California’s regulations. – Continuing pollution regulations for transport – …

GreenBuilt

It is almost that time of year again, The GreenBuilt Tour 2006 is set for September 16-17. The tour features 14 sites of varying shades of green. Some sites are almost self contained and built green from the ground up with straw bales or adobe. Other sites are water friendly landscaping and some solar panels. …