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  Not a typical Alaskan

  I wanted to respond to some comments posted as "Typical Alaskans" back in Dec.  Sorry I've been off line for a while.  Anyway, I'd like to let folks know that I don't think there are any typical Alaskans at least not like reported in that comment.  In fact we have a very healthy environmental movement in the state.  We support a conservation foundation to raise and support that movement.  We are no more in control of what our state officals say and do, than we in are control of what Bush and the other scrubs are up to.  I move here 30 years ago for the sole purpose of protecting Alaska and helped to draft and pass the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, where we set up this horrible battle.  We do receive a permanent fund dividend (PFD), not from the oil companies, but from the state.  It is funded from oil revenues, but that is money that doesn't go into building roads, subsidizing mines or other bad things.  We set the fund up by constitutional amendment.  Think about the state you live in, what if they had set up a fund like that using funds that come to the state from the sale of public resources.  I suspect that we would have lower level of poverty in the country.  I understand that the PFD is misunderstood, but that is not what is fueling this fight.  It is the greed of the oil companies that own our government and the national government.  They are the ones who made more in profits in one quarter than the Alaska State Annual Budget.  Now if you want to get woundup about something.  Think about a state with $28 Billion in the bank, refusing to fund the needs of small rural villages and forcing one third of its cities into bankrupcy.  

  roland from Alaska

  roland from Alaska

  On Sen. Ted Stevens: Crybaby posted 3 years, 10 months ago 7 Responses

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  Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

  I wanted to respond to some comments posted as "Typical Alaskans" back in Dec.  Sorry I've been off line for a while.  Anyway, I'd like to let folks know that I don't think there are any typical Alaskans at least not like reported in that comment.  In fact we have a very healthy environmental movement in the state.  We support a conservation foundation to raise and support that movement.  We are no more in control of what our state officals say and do, than we in are control of what Bush and the other scrubs are up to.  I move here 30 years ago for the sole purpose of protecting Alaska and helped to draft and pass the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, where we set up this horrible battle.  We do receive a permanent fund dividend (PFD), not from the oil companies, but from the state.  It is funded from oil revenues, but that is money that doesn't go into building roads, subsidizing mines or other bad things.  We set the fund up by constitutional amendment.  Think about the state you live in, what if they had set up a fund like that using funds that come to the state from the sale of public resources.  I suspect that we would have lower level of poverty in the country.  I understand that the PFD is misunderstood, but that is not what is fueling this fight.  It is the greed of the oil companies that own our government and the national government.  They are the ones who made more in profits in one quarter than the Alaska State Annual Budget.  Now if you want to get woundup about something.  Think about a state with $28 Billion in the bank, refusing to fund the needs of small rural villages and forcing one third of its cities into bankrupcy.  
  

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  On Logically, Bush could just decree it. posted 3 years, 10 months ago 1 Response

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  AZWAC

  Great review of what sounds like an interesting book about a subject everyone should be interested.  A group of us are in Alaska are organizing the Alaska Zero Waste Action Council.  When you live in a community with no road connection, you quickly realize how much garbage you produce.  Alaskan produce about 6.5 pounds aday instead of the 4 most Americans Produce.  We have a newsletter, if you are interested let me know.  On In Garbage Land, Elizabeth Royte talks dirty posted 4 years, 3 months ago 2 Responses

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  Environmental Paradigms in env. communications

  Your article comes to conclution similar to those I found in my masters work.  I looked at the effect of environmental paradigm, ecocentric, biocentric, and anthopocentric, on the types of information and credible sources people accepted information from on environmental issues.  At the ecocentric end folks wanted information about how it would effect people and other beings well being, in a board sense. They were concerned about how it would effect the ecosystem in its broadest sense. At the anthropocentric end they wanted information about the economics and "scientific" information.  But they weren't really concerned about how it would effect individual people and nonhumans didn't count at all.  They were more concerned about assuring humans domination. The biocentric group split along another element and that was a split between people who came to that paradigm through science, an understanding of ecosystem science, and those that came to that paradigm through a feeling of connection to the rest of nature but still needed to believe in the suprior position of humans.  

  These theories have some very important implications for communication about these issues. We must always be cognicent of our audience's beliefs and paradigms and make our arguments resounate with them. The most important thing for us to do is put ourselves into their place and view our arguement through their perceptions and beliefs, in order to determine their value.  

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  On Cultural biases precede empirical facts; greens should fashion strategy accordingly. posted 4 years, 3 months ago 5 Responses