Tag: environment
All the articles with the tag "environment".
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 silen…
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…
"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…
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 c…
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 f…
Calgary sprawl
(This is an older post that I never got around to publishing) I certainly can't fault Jim Kunstler's view of recent development in Calgary - "..archetypal city of immense glass boxes in a sterilized c…
US Energy
Looks like Rita did a number on the Gulf oil : Hurricane Rita has caused more damage to oil rigs than any other storm in history and will force companies to delay drilling for oil in the US and as far…
Enviro & Government
- This really sucks - Million Solar Roofs Bill Dies in California Assembly - This bill had bi-partisan support until Assembly Democrats added union-sponsored amendments, including a provision that req…
Linkery
As Oso mentioned in a comment bellow, Kamp Kanuckistan (representing the "stateless state" of the Free United Cartel of Kanuckistan) will be at 5:20 on Fetish at Burning Man this year, and will featur…
Misc links
Some interesting news: World's largest solar installation to use Stirling engine technology . 20-year purchase agreement between Southern California Edison and Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. will resul…