Comments usandthem has made

People

I have been behind "Zero Population Growth" for decades.That just means stabilized population.One person dies,one person is born.I believe that if we had a lower stable population that we would not have the pressure that causes poverty,environmental degredation,wars,poor health,and even the need for Genetically Modified Foods or nuclear power.The article was informative and well written.Thank you Lester Brown.

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I remember Meyers III

Thanks so much for all the information in your comments.I remember Meyers.I worked against him for all the damage he could do to the environmental movement and to western lands.I did not know about his closeness and support by Salazar.Thanks for that bit of info.I can see why Salazar would not be a good choice for Sec.of the Interior.
 I am becoming more and more disappointed by Obama's choices for key positions in his cabinet.I am told that he has to use people who are experienced,or more center than right or left.I am trying to believe that,but I see more and more people who are not fit for those positions,in my opinion.They are people who are too close to the debacles of the past administration,or who have supported bush's position,or who have vested interest in their own interests rather than the interest of this country and it's people.Thanks again jfranke.

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Crap

Crap is crap!That little snippet of information is full of crap.Maximum achievable control technology!That is double-speak.It means nothing!They will do what they want and say that they are doing the best that they can,but that doesn't keep the environment clean.Since when has business done anything but feed their bottom line?Coal is dirty and there is no current fix that cleans it up significantly.For environmental groups to trust coal to police itself is stupid and criminal.It is like asking congress to police itself or corporate america or the banking industry.It just ain't going to happen!On Utility strikes deal with green groups allowing new coal plants to proceed posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 6 Responses

It's ok

But it's ok that the EPA rejected California's desire to reduce carbon dioxide and automobile emitions,now isn't it!On Air pollution in California costly and deadly, study says posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Nuclear power

Japan should never have built nuclear plants in the first place.Their country is on the Pacific Rim of major volcanic and earthquake action.They were lucky that there was not a major escape of nuclear material.This is yet another reason that nuclear power plants should not be built.Along with the FACT that we still do not have a safe way to get rid of the waste.The Yucca Mountain site is unsafe because it sits on a fault line.This is unexcusable given the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars went into scouting and building the site.
 I understand that we need power and that nuclear energy is "green"as far as emitions are concerned,but there is still the waste.Coal and oil are what we are used to,but that has high emition rates that are contributing to global warming.We have to learn to conserve,the free ride is over folks!We need to develope green energy from solar,tidal,hydro,and wind and we have to do it NOW!Even these green technologies have some drawbacks because of how they are manufactured.Everything has a price,but renewables leave less of a carbon footprint and they are renewable.A culture that is so desperate that they/we will build dangerous nuclear power plants on fault lines and in earthquake and volcanic zones is dangerously deluding themselves,and endangering life on earth.On Japan's emissions hit record levels posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Bandwagon

I was on the bandwagon for ethonol,at first.I thought that anything to help us get off of the oil teat would be a good thing."They"also said that the corn could still be used as feed even after the ethonol product was removed.The problem is that all over the world rainforest and forest in general are being slashed and burned to plant crops for ethonol,not a good thing.People in third world countries are hungry because their governments are shipping food crops away to make ethonol,also not a good thing.And the bottom line,ethonol does not get us off of the oil teat.It just stretches the oil a little further.On Ethanol industry struggling posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

Shuffle

It's the same old shuffle facts around and blow smoke up your leg game.Big Politics will never change it's stripes until "We the People" make them change by our vote and our participation in the change.We need to mobilize behind the green energy bandwagon and push it until they all get the message.This is only a start.We have to hold politicians to account for their votes and their misdeeds and mistakes and their corrupt actions.On Exxon Mobil announces record quarterly profit, again posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

Oh by the way

Have you noticed that the price of gas has gone down considerably as we have gotten closer to the election date!Hmmmm,wonder why that has happened?Could it be that republicans are manipulating the system to throw sand in the eyes of the electorate?Hmmmm,something to consider.

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Energy

We act like children rather than adults when it comes to energy.As an adult we should have learned the lesson that life is not easy and we can't have ANYTHING that we want,just because we want it.It will be somewhat difficult,the transision from oil and coal to wind,thermal,hydro,and sun energy.We may not be able to just waste energy like we always have.We will have to learn to conserve and take care of the environment,for ourselves and our children.That is what adults do!As spoiled children we think that we can just have and do what we want.Balderdash!!Children have to learn responsibility and it can be difficult and even painful.It's called growing up,and we need to be grown up and not just keep taking and taking,but learning to give.We can not just pollute the air and water and the land,because we will die.On Google unveils plan to move U.S. off fossil fuels by 2030 posted 1 year, 1 month ago 2 Responses

Hello!

mreinbold,do you even follow politics?The republican party has pushed down the working class of this country and GIVEN huge tax breaks and breaks in the laws to Big Whatever.They have the money and the breaks that money insures.Working people have no such safety net.We have to buy our own insurance,food,medicines,and education for our children.Yes,I know so do the rich,but they have the money to have the best.We have to settle for what we can get.The republican party is the party that walks all over the Constitution and would be an oligarchy if they could.Both parties look down on the people of this country,and we do need another option.
 Right on green granny.Palin is just a pretty face with a petty attitude.She is for everything that bush has wanted.McCain is a hollow shell of a man.He was a screw-up in the academy and in flight training and that is why he got shot down in vietnam.

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Brave new world

It's a brave new world that we are looking at,when we have to do like they have been doing all over the third world and go through our dumps to survive.On High oil prices in future could spur plastic mining from dump sites posted 1 year, 3 months ago 4 Responses

Other problems

I have been hearing recently that other problems have occured with the cattle that are fed the corn residue after it has been processed for ethonol.There have been cases of deaths and illness that,as yet have not been traced back to this feed stock,but other cattle are not getting sick...sooooo!On EPA refuses to lower requirement for ethanol in fuel supply posted 1 year, 3 months ago 2 Responses

Old terms

I like the old terms,such as fascist and oligarchy.You can look up these terms in the dictionary and find out what they mean,until they decide to change the dictionary that is.

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Member

I have been a member of The Nature Conservancy since 1986 and joined because the Conservancy gets things done and not just in the U.S. but throughout the world and politics is not involved.I am proud that the Canandian Nature Conservancy has done such a wonderful job of protecting another portion of the earth.Well done.On Canada protects B.C. caribou habitat posted 1 year, 4 months ago 2 Responses

Hmmm

Are you other posters,excepting geek,sure that nothing is happening in Kalifornia?I don't hear too much from alot of other states on environmental improvements and when I do often California is mentioned as a point of stimulus or a pusher.If the governator is just blowing smoke(no pun intended)that is a shame,but if he can smoke(pun thing again)out people in government as in the EPA to show themselves as opponents of higher CAFE standards,that has to be good.The more that environmental standards are brought up in the news,or renewable energy,the more people hear and hopefully start to think of the way that our society HAS to go in order to save us and the earth.
On First statewide green-building standards adopted by California, natch posted 1 year, 4 months ago 4 Responses

not for decades

I have not been aware for decades that the changes in the world and politics will be more violent,but I have become aware.There will be food and water riots as well as riots for and about fuel of any kind.People will and are becoming very anxious and will demand what they want even if violence is there only outlet.On Top Dems in Congress open to possible compromise deal on offshore drilling posted 1 year, 4 months ago 6 Responses

Bravo

 I applaud your thoughts and the simili about rollerball.We don't always agree,but often enough.I have been disgusted for years about Exxon's non-payment of their fines and penalties.I am even more disgusted,if that is possible,that Exxon is being let off the hook now and again.They have been gifted with a corrupt president and congress that gave them tax breaks when they have been making ripoff profits and now another gift.I am so against Big Business that it is not funny.They own our congress and will pay they price.I believe.
On Supreme Court slashes Exxon's punitive damages for Valdez oil spill posted 1 year, 5 months ago 6 Responses

Teats

We need to get off of the oil teat.We will have to pay more,but the alternative is generations of lowering lifestyle and pollution and hunger.We need to bite the damn bullet and pay for our destruction of this planet.We need to develope renewables at a break neck speed.We have to learn and understand that we can not have everything that we want when we want it.We need to grow up!On Backing up McCain, Bush calls for ending offshore drilling moratorium posted 1 year, 5 months ago 11 Responses

Riots

There are currently riots in asia and africa concerning food and water.Do not think that this country will be exempt from those same riots.The future is more wars for oil,food,and water,and riots everywhere at the same time. Do what you can now in your neighborhood to protect yourselves.Prepare yourself and your family so that you can survive.Do not wait til the last moment,because it will be too late.Learn gardening,raising animals,and water conservation skills.Make your mistakes now,when they are not life threatening.Later we will not get that chance.Find out what animals are cheap and easy to raise for the feed costs and effort.Build a cistern and learn how to keep it clean.Buy a wind generator and learn its fallability and what it takes to keep it operating.Learn and conserve!On U.N. report forecasts continued high food prices for the next decade posted 1 year, 6 months ago 11 Responses

archigee

Now I hope that I am reading your piece correctly.The republicans want to give the whole show away to corporate facists,and so do the democrats but the democrats want to go more slowly.I can get behind that.You can't trust either party.It is a revolting,revolving game.One party screws us and screws us til we get a few grains of intelligence.Then we vote the bums out and the other party waltzes in and finesses our meager mentality until we kinda catch on that they too are just using us,ad infinitum.On White House admits humans causing climate change posted 1 year, 6 months ago 9 Responses

It's all about the benjamins!

The oil companies use their huge reserves of money to buy politicians and make people see that we don't have to conserve,that we can have any and all THINGS that we want.Buffalo shit!The government gives oil companies obscene tax breaks and they(oil companies) use this money to buy and brainwash the general public into seeing this situation as necessary and normal.They use elected officials to scoff at scientific research or to ignore it and go on as if nothing will come of it.Balderdash!Tax the hell out of Big Oil and use the taxes for research and developement of renewable energy.Yes,I know that renewable energy is not the total answer,but it is a part of the answer.Conservation of energy is the other part.We have to get over our childish behavior that we can have what we want NOW and not worry about the future.We,as a people,have to take control and grow up and become adults.We can not let corrupt officials and greedy Big Business take from us our future of a clean,peaceful world and give us their future of war,famine,lack of clean water and clean air.We have to stand up and work for what we want and not at the expense of our environment or our peace of mind.On Alaska will sue over polar-bear listing posted 1 year, 6 months ago 7 Responses

What future?

Nuclear energy is more and more being perceived as a panacea for the environment.Where the hell did that come from?Nuclear waste is around for thousands of years and we don't have a coherent plan for its disposal or use or anything! How can anybody think that nuclear energy is clean energy?This is Big Business at its worst.This is an ad compaign to enrich the rich and not see or plan for the future.
 People are so desperate to have what they want NOW and not worry about the future repocussions and this is childish,insane behavior.We can not have everything that we want,nor should we.It is time to be the responsible adult here and grow up!On Italy wants to reverse ban, move forward with nuclear power posted 1 year, 6 months ago 5 Responses

Carrot and the stick

One step forward and two back.I mean congress doesn't want to burn all the lobbyist money bridges,by steping on Big Agribusinesses toes.We certainly don't want the small farmers to get ANY kind of a break,so that people can feed themselves and not have to depend on Big Agri.On Congress finally passes veto-proof farm bill posted 1 year, 6 months ago 5 Responses

Maybe

Maybe ms.Silva just got bought off!On Brazil's pro-rainforest environment minister resigns posted 1 year, 6 months ago 5 Responses

Exxon

Exxon is not going to pay a damn thing.They were taken to court 25yrs. ago for the Exxon Valdez oil spill and lost their case and were ordered to pay millions to the state of Alaska,and hundreds of people.They(Exxon)have not paid a dime to anybody and keep dragging the case into to court on some pretext or another so that they won't have to pay.No,neither Exxon or any of the other Big Oil companies will pay anything.On Big Oil will shell out for groundwater cleanup posted 1 year, 6 months ago 3 Responses

Vote

It is sad that there is not a single honest candidate for President of the United States.
 I wonder if there has ever been an honest candidate of president of this country.
 I will probably have to vote for Oboma,only because he is the lesser of two evils.Strike that,the lesser of three evils.McCain is exactly the same as bush.Clinton is a long time crook from as far back as "Whitewater" and is a true lieing politician,Obama is a neophite political liar.He is telling the people in Kentucky what they want to hear to get the votes.This is what politicians do.
 I would just as soon have Mike Gravel,look it up,than any of the politicians running currently.

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Confusion

Irresponsible adults are responsible for children shooting themselves with their parents guns.
 I am not in favor of CONCEALED guns in national parks.The only people affected by laws banning the possesion of firearms, under whatever the circumstances, are the law-abiding. If you wish to be a disarmed, helpless victim of crime, that's your right in a free society. Taking away the option of self-defense is not your right. I can agree with this person.
 There are going to be many battles in this country and the world over clean water and food.If you can not protect yourself.You will die!You may think that my thinking is radical.Read the news of the world and see that riots over food and water are becoming common.This will happen in this country also.You may say,Oh no not here,maybe Africa or Asia,but not hear.Don't delude yourself.You have to eat and have water and you will do what needs to be done. Watch the world news and see!!!On DOI takes public comment on allowing loaded guns in national parks posted 1 year, 6 months ago 12 Responses

Agreement

I agree with amazngdrx.Now is the time to have a powerful VP who is for renewables,instead of a corrupt cronies who is in the pocket of Big Oil and Big Business.Hell,he is the poster boy for Big Business.He still has major influence in Haliburton.
 A reminder for nadine.Renewables such as solar panels are not totally clean and do have a pollution footprint,that said.I am totally for renewables as in solar,hydro,hydrogen,and wind.There is less pollution and less damage from mining and destruction of habitat for animals and people.We need more money for research so that these pollution problems that renewable have can be reduced or alleviated.On Third try at coal-plant bill heads to Kansas governor posted 1 year, 7 months ago 4 Responses

At a loss

I am at a loss as to what technology we need to push for energy in the future. Well,maybe? Coal is very dirty and polluting of water,air,and land,no matter how you slice it.I am against nuclear energy whole heartedly because of its past history and potential for war and the destruction oh humankind.There is also the extremely long life of its dangerous materials.I am also whole heartedly for renewable energy in all its forms,wind,solar,and water.The problem is that all renewabe forms of energy production are limited in the numbers of people that can use them and the limits of production that they have.Renewables are not crystal clean either.The production of silicon crystals pollutes,and wind turbines have a carbon footprint,and dams disrupt fish reproduction,but on the whole renewable energy is not as deadly as is nuclear energy or the global warming effects of coal,or oil.Plus you have the political implications of nuclear power,which have been and continue to be abused and used to promote war.On E.U. plows ahead with coal posted 1 year, 7 months ago 6 Responses

Yep

Yes matt I also had that thought that auto makers could me that mark right now.I believe that they could for many years now.Why allow foreign markets to run roughshod over U.S. auto makers for this long though.Ingnorant!On Feds set fuel-economy benchmarks for automakers posted 1 year, 7 months ago 7 Responses

One hundred days

I have heard that one hundred days thing before.Actually,I think that it was one hundred hours.Never the less,talk is cheap and if the democrats,and I lean that way although I am an independent.The democrats have lied and backpeddled,and bowed down to and run scampering away from the promises that they made to get a majority in the house and senate.I see no reason that they won't do the same thing if the president is a democrat.Worst case,the democrats will turn aroung and screw the american people their own way.It is the cycle of political life.On Governors will pester candidates about climate posted 1 year, 7 months ago 2 Responses

Oh No

No no no Blueplanet!It is we(americans) who should be apologizing for inflicting bush on the whole planet.
 These are politicians and it has to be known that they are all liars.It is a given and part of being a politician.
 You got rid of Tony Blair.Australia got rid of John Howard and we ,by default,are getting rid of bush.If we are really not paying attention we will get the bush clone,John McCain.You know what they say,you get what you pay for.Oh wait.No I am right.You get what you pay for,so says Big Business.On British prime minister chats climate with Bush posted 1 year, 7 months ago 5 Responses

Ok

Stern did bring up very important issues about the environment and has raised a hew and cry about the dangers of global warming.I thank him for that,but I can't let myself get on board the nuclear train.We can't safely dispose of nuclear waste and nuclear waste is dangerous at all levels.Throw in corruption in the form of Big Business and politicians and that is a brew that can and will backfire and destroy the land and water as well as alot of people.It is too late to say "I'm sorry" when you let the genie out of the bag.On Nicholas Stern says climate change worse than he thought posted 1 year, 7 months ago 4 Responses

Big Oil

Ya see Big Oil don't take no for an answer.They have been used to getting their way for so long that they think that they can have whatever they want.
 Ever vigilant,because Big Oil will find some other place or time to get what they want,where they want.On New York governor puts the kibosh on proposed LNG terminal posted 1 year, 7 months ago 1 Response

Bye bye

Maybe it is time for Porche to go bye bye if it can't get it's act together and work for a safer environment.Maybe alot of other autos should smell the pollution and go bye bye.
 I am so ready for mass transit to emerge as a(pun intended)moving force of people and goods.I like the idea of pedestrian city centers and even neighborhoods,when possible.My country's use of mass transit(U.S.)is incredibly sloppy,excepting the cities.The cities could use some major upgrades and that is happening,slowly.Our railroad system is a bloody mess.When a railroad company acquires another line.The first thing that they do is tear out one of the two tracks,if that is the case,so that they can charge higher rates to other railroads who want to use their lines.Wasteful!!It's all about the benjamins! On Porsche launches legal challenge to London's congestion fee increase posted 1 year, 7 months ago 3 Responses

Shafting

The World Bank is a terrible institution,especially if you are a third world country.They have time and again forced economic disasters and penalties on poorer countries as a requirement to get money for developement from the world bank.
 I think that a carbon tax would be better than the cap and trade program being pushed the most.The carbon tax would target countries that use the most carbon intensive technology.Where as the cap and trade system allows carbon intensive industries to still do what they do and trade with another company for the right to not change.On IMF report says economic costs of climate-change action negligible posted 1 year, 7 months ago 1 Response

Problems

One of the problems for the hydrogen powered autos is that currently we get most of our hydrogen from natural gas,a fossil fuel.We still have the same problem of needing and using oil to make hydrogen.Yes,we can get hydrogen from water,but it is extremely energy intensive and most of the electrical energy in this country comes from coal,dirty old coal.
 I wish fervently that we could develope hydrogen fuel cells that are affordable and effective.As to Pangolin.I did not know that hydrogen fuel cells were not workable.I mean that they are used in space vehicles and developed for the space industry,originally.They seem to work just fine,so I guess that I am confused.On California's 'hydrogen highway' runs into roadblocks posted 1 year, 7 months ago 4 Responses

Funny?

I can have a sense of humor as one poster advised,but I did not think this article was the least bit funny.
 All that I could think of was that al gore was dooming the democratic party and allowing the republicans the opportunity to screw americans again.Not that the democrats won't screw us anyhow,but you know what I mean.
 If al gore would run for president as an independent he would have no support or power in the house or the senate and even less would get done then is now being done.
 Nope,not funny at all!!!On Gore will run for president as independent, sources tell Grist posted 1 year, 8 months ago 34 Responses

Something else

There is this big fuss about China,and with very good reason.China doesn't give a squat about the rest of the world.They just want to dominate the economic world and in the process alter manufacturing bases world wide.Thus,giving them more control financially world wide and then they can make even more changes.They will become entrenched like ticks and even harder to make them move in any direction.
 Something that many people are unaware of is that the world and the U.S.in particular have been dumping toxic waste in Africa for decades.We do it because they are destitute,mostly,and will take whatever pays money.The waste is not sequestered it is just dumped in a hole.That does not help the water supply,or the soil,or the people and animals.The money,of course goes to the top people in government in the country and not the population in general.I mean Hey! It's only a third world country.Right!
 Hell,China is dumping their toxic waste in streams and the rural countryside in their own country.People in the countryside are getting cancer of the stomach and intestinal tract because they are drinking water from streams that are polluted.Ya know the kicker?The people know that the water is polluted but they have to drink it because that is the only water available.
Quite the world we live in hey!Big Business,doesn't care about the little people,only the bottom line.It doesn't matter what country you live in.It is the same equation all over the world.On Solar-panel manufacturers dumping toxic waste in China posted 1 year, 8 months ago 8 Responses

Insanity

This is insane thinking to allow Genetically Modified crops,of any kind,to be planted so close to this country.Yes,I know that we are planting GM crops in this country,but,and this is a big but,we have protection in the form of the EPA and other forms of government to check these crops.What am I saying!!!!GM crops can mix with natural crops and/or plants and pollute the food pool,changing them forever.We could starve to death or develope even more allergies then we have now.It has been proven that one of the blames for increased allergies in americans is due to the GM foods that we knowingly or unknowingly consume right now.
 We should NOT be messing with the DNA of plants or animals.We don't know what the effects will be in the long term.When you allow "Big Business" to make these decisions,then you are trusting that they have YOUR interest in mind,HAAAA.They only care about the bottom line.They have to money to move somewhere else and to eat the best foods.They thing that they(Big Business)will be immune to poisoned food,but they sure don't think very far into the future.There will be no place safe from animals and crops that have had their gene pool polluted by man.
On Mexico to allow planting of genetically modified crops posted 1 year, 8 months ago 10 Responses

Welcome

Welcome to the brave new world and get used to it.It does not seem that government leaders and "Big Business"believe that there is global warming.They don't seem too concerned because they/we aren't doing enough,fast enough to make the changes that are necessary to alleviate global warming.Yes,I said alleviate,because we can not stop all of the effects.We can only make them less damaging.The longer that we wait the more severe those damages will be.On Early-springing spring is a climatic consequence posted 1 year, 8 months ago 6 Responses

Brain damage

Are these conservative and religious leaders brain damaged?Scientist all over the world have confirmed that the earth is warming.I can't see how rising ocean levels,increased flooding,loss of crops due to higher temperatures and less rainfall,and harsher hurricanes doesn't constitute a disaster for the human race.Maybe they think that god is only kidding and that god will not wipe out or at least reduce the population of the earth.Don't they read the papers or do any research to find out the real facts?They sound like a bunch of pollyannas.
 There will be wars over food,water,and energy.There will be political upheavals and they can pray or look the other way until god comes down from heaven and it still won't stop global warming.On Industry launches campaign against Lieberman-Warner climate bill posted 1 year, 8 months ago 5 Responses

It's ok

It's ok that spitzer was a sleaze.Isn't it?Yes,he did do alot of good,but why?He only broke a little law and lacked self-control.What if he were into little boys.He only was hurting one small segment of society and look at all the good that he did!!On New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns, leaving behind eco-legacy posted 1 year, 8 months ago 5 Responses

Take a chance

We need to learn that we can't have what we want when we want it.It is called growing up.We need to learn to eat locally,because the day is coming when that is all that is going to be available,due to the cost of oil,transportation cost,global warming,pollution,lack of water,and unsafe foods from other countries that don't have the same food safety laws as we do.
 Get involved now or wait until it is too late and you and your family are in trouble.Learn to garden on your own land or if in the city there are community gardens.Learn and fight against genetically engineered food,and irradiated foods.Learn to take care of yourselves.Think,Plan,and Execute!On Umbra on joining a CSA posted 1 year, 8 months ago 5 Responses

Fishing nations

The oriental nations and scandavavian nations are the hogs of the world about fishing just like america is the hog of oil in the world.They won't quit fishing until the ocean is devoid of fish and whales anymore than americans will quit using oil until it is all gone.On Activist says he was shot in confrontation with whalers posted 1 year, 8 months ago 2 Responses

All in favor of......

I am not in favor of half-stepping on renewable energy.The democrats have been doing just that since the last election cycle and very little forward progress has been made for renewable energy,ending the war in Iraq,Impeaching bush/cheney,protecting the environment,protecting the health of american citizens,insurance for children and low income americans,automobile CAFE standards,healthcare,fairer medicine prices for seniors,education,etc.,etc.,etc..On Renewable-energy bill passes House, likely to be short-lived posted 1 year, 9 months ago 4 Responses

Renewable

I don't know why,but 15yrs. ago PV's were all the rage.Two years ago I went back to the Midwest Energy Fair in Amherst,Wisconsin and all I heard about was wind generators. I don't know why or when this changed.I thought that maybe it was because of environmental damage in the production of solar cells and now I don't know again.I am glad to see that there is 89% less environmental damage from solar cells,but then I wonder.Is some one using semantics to blur the truth.Ahhh truth,that increasingly more difficult and elusive animal.On Solar photovoltaic cells are quite eco-friendly, says research posted 1 year, 9 months ago 1 Response

Diversity

There is no ONE type of renewable energy that can support our current lifestyle,worldwide. We need to develope and use all of the renewable energy types that we possible can.There is also tidal flow energy production,which is being used in the Bay of Fundy,Canada as well as in the Netherlands.There is geo-thermal,fussion also needs to be developed.There are probably others that we are not familiar with or have not even beem thought of.We need to reduce the worlds population,push money into developing new sources and old of renewable energy and we need to learn to conserve,wether that be water,energy,or land.I oppose fission atomic energy and lean toward fussion energy.On Governors are of varying minds when it comes to clean energy posted 1 year, 9 months ago 2 Responses

Heirloom plants

There is a group in Decorah,Iowa that is called The Seed Savers Exchange.They have been all over the world saving seeds and plants that have been around for millenium to just hundreds of years.When the Soviet Union fell.The Seed Savers went to Russia and it's former soviets and started to save old plants that were still being used daily and had been for many generations.They had to hurry because huge Agribusiness such as Cargill, was pushing their agenda of hybrid plants on that new market.Every so often as the seeds dictate the organization grows out seeds to get fresh seeds for storage and eating and selling.This is a very good organization and they have thousands of seeds of all kinds from tomatoes to zuccini from apples to spinach.Check it out.

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Hybrids

I think Hillary already understands the problems with ethanol, she has her eyes open to the plugin hybrid alternative.  Barack is too busy attacking Hillary while trying to appear to be the one under attack to pay attention to nuance like this.

You do realize that plug-ins use electricity that is mostly derived from coal! Nuclear power is filthy,dangerous,and a magnet for terrorist.Plus when water levels drop in draught areas nuclear power plants have to shut down,as in Alabama this past summer.
 There is no free lunch.Every energy source has some fault,even wind power and bird migrations.Although wind power is the most benign.It still takes raw materials to build them.

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mining

Taxing new mines and not old mines seems unfair.In that,old mines go free while the taxing can stop new mines from occuring.I have no problem with that part,but why should the old mines not have to pay royalties?Is there not a law that mines have to reclaim the land that they tear up,or is that only for open pit mines?On Senate committee considers mining reform, not all that into it posted 1 year, 10 months ago 2 Responses

Fuel

One of the problems, as I have been hearing it, is that the E.U. is "farming" out their bio-fuels,such as ethanol to poor countries.The problem is that there already is not enough food in these countries and the common folk are going to be the ones to suffer,as per usual.On European Union unveils detailed plans to cut GHG emissions posted 1 year, 10 months ago 3 Responses

There is hope,maybe

I trully do hope that there is actually a movement afoot concerning the "Greening of America",but I am a life long pessimist and having watched this country all of my life.I have noticed that we don't really have stamina when it comes to doing something that is difficult or demanding or is some form of deprivation.We have never learned to do without.We have never really had too. I do hope that we are catching on and can continue to grow in renewables and environmental protection,because I really believe that we are at a time when we either change or we lose our civilization and lasp into anarchy.
 Without a stable climate there is no food.Destroying the ocean and it animals as well as land plants and animals leads to starvation and war to get food and water.Lack of energy leads to wars for territory ,as in Iraq.We need to,as our illustrious leader has said in the past,stay the course.What an imbecile!! His idea of stay the course is to enrich his cronies bank accounts and rape the earth. Enough said.On The top green stories of 2007 posted 1 year, 11 months ago 14 Responses

Taxing

I totally agree that Germany or any other country should tax us for being obstructionist and not helping the planet,but damaging it.If they are going to do us then,I also want them to do China and or Korea or India.We,in the U.S.,need to get this moronic president out and get on the road to helping to heal this planet.We aparently can't compete on the world economic market because of other countries using extremely cheap labor and not worrying about environmental pollution.We need some equity in the world.We need to get our act together and develope renewable energy.On Germany's Social Democrats call for climate sanctions on U.S. goods posted 1 year, 11 months ago 4 Responses

fuel bill

I am thoroughly disgusted by the democrats and their incessant whining about possible vetos and filibusters.Stand up and be counted and quit using whatmighthavebeens and push the proper bill through!You had all these grand promises that you fed us voters and really nothing has come of what you said to get elected.It is as I thought,business as usual.All talk and no action.
 You say that the most important part of the bill passed......B.S..The most important part of the bill was the emphasis on renewable energy and the money was to come from taking back the grossly huge tax breaks that bush gave to his cronies in the oil industry.Make no mistake,renewable will come.Some oil companies(British Petroleum)are investing in renewables now.Maybe that is what bush and his cronies are waiting for,so they can control renewable energy as they do oil.Sad bunch of people those oil moguls.On Senate OKs fuel-economy increase, but drops more ambitious parts of energy bill posted 1 year, 11 months ago 4 Responses

hellooooooo!

As I have been saying to whomever would listen.All of our serious environmental,food,and war problems can be traced to overpopulation.How do you peddle lower population to countries that have high birth deaths?I don't know.This gets into the area where people have to have large numbers of children to help economically take care of the family,do daily works,and replace the inevitable deaths of some of the children.This is a philisophical issue,although the familys probably don't think that way.They go with the way it has always been or is daily to them.The way of thinking that we have to replace or reproduce at a high rate so that we can live idea is hard to stop.
 The bottom line is that too many people,too few and lessening resources leads to pollution of land and water and air,and then to war to get those resources.Get ready for the bumpy ride folks,because there is going to be alot more of this negativity until the earth rebels and cleans itself and us along with it.The earth will endure,but we probably will not!On Dying For a Change posted 2 years, 3 months ago 3 Responses

Iowa farm ground

Tom I wonder if you dug down in the soil about six inches? I suspect that you did not.If you had you would still see the rich black earth,but you would not find any worms or much of any other kind of life.The intense plant life and the heavy use of chemicals stifle life other than the monocroping of corn. The soil is not healthy. It will grow corn and soybeans,but other life is missing.

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Farming

Hey whiskerfish! What the heck, are you not aware that those people on farms have lives that are worthwhile? Maybe you like depending on corporate farms that only care about the buck,but I don't and I sure don't trust big business at any level to care about my food or the land or the water or plants and animals.When was the last time that agribusiness indicated any caring for water pollution or enriching rather than depleting the land.Obviously whiskerfish has no idea about farming or healthy soil or what is involved with getting food from the land to the urban areas.I would have to think that whiskerfish lives in a large city or is totally unaware of any aspect of farming. Steph Larson's viewpoint is more articulate than mine.Read it and ponder.
 The farmlands of the WORLD are at the limit of production and still we keep thinking that everything is alright.Well,think about this!Why do you suppose that genetically engineered food is even being thought of? We at at the limits of what fertilizer and hybridized plants and insecticides and herbicides can do,so we are trying to make plants do what they should not do.All for the almighty buck.These plants have not even been throughly tested,but they are being grown out in the open like there is no danger of polluting our food supply PERMANENTLY.Enough for now,but read and learn a little more before you think that it is simple to grow safe and healthy food,when the science of food production is being surpressed by our current ,not so benevolent emperor.dubya

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Renewables

Business as usual! This country is mired down in corrupt big business and corrupt politicians.We have the chance,and have had the chance to jump on the Renewable Energy bandwagon and we just wander around with our hands in our pockets poohooing ,what is the world coming to.Now is the time to get all the way into renewables and majorly help this country get into the forefront of this burgeoning business opportunity.This is going to be the wave of the future and we could be world leaders,which would help us economically as well as in the areas of health for inividuals as well as the health of the world.What the hell are we waiting for!!? Are we,because of the stranglehold of big business,going to wait until we are a third rated nation before we get into a fantastic opportunity for people and the world.Maybe we will wait until we are destitute and then we can have another war to take what we want,rather than step up and show the world that america is a peaceful nation that can move into the future for the betterment of it's people and the world.
 I am trully sick of our so called political system that has no view of the future other than what the politicians can do for THEIR personal good rather than the good of the nation and/or it's people.On Tell It to the Senate posted 2 years, 5 months ago 1 Response

Water

The simple fact and the only one that makes a difference,wether it be amounts of food,war,lack of energy,pollution,or any other of the woes of the world is.........OVERPOPULATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!On Quench Warners posted 2 years, 5 months ago 3 Responses

bikers vs smokers

In this day of terrorism,possibly unattended bikes could be loaded with explosives.It has been done many times before.
 Quit your whinning.If you were fine riding in the rain to whatever site you were going to than you are probably protected i.e. rainsuit,poncho,etc..
 Everybody knows that smoking is bad for you,including smokers,but we are crapped on by everybody for an addiction that is devastating.Every time there is money needed there is an increase in the Sin tax,cigarettes and alcohol.I believe that we still have rights as smokers in this country but I don'
t hear anybody listening or caring.So quit your whinning.Oh by the way I am a biker myself.

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another point

To make a point.Hurricanes and flooding are problems that are exaserbated by people moving into places that they/we should not be in,such as flood plains and wetlands.We build in these places that are naturally there and expect that we will not suffer,but we are proved wrong each time.I live near the mississippi river and finally a few years ago the federal government told people that they would not be giving aid to people flooded out after the first time,in order to dissuade people from building in flood plains.If they did build again in the same place then basically they were on their own.It does not sound fair,but it actually is,because these places will always flood.No matter that levees are put up or not.

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Bush.........zero

Cutting funding to anything other than oil related industry is the course that the bush administration has always held to,stayed the course as the president likes to state it.Funding for ethanol is still funding for the oil industry.It still has us using oil and not getting on to using electricity or hydrogen or anything other than crude oil.This is going to have to be a multi-pronged approach that we are going to have to have to get off the oil teat.Yes,some of these other renewable energy sources still uses oil,but each step gets us further away from war for oil planning.To cut funding(and it is a tiny amount)from any program that is based in the future of our nation is foolish and we will pay for those mistakes as a people and an economy.Already the japanese have surpassed us in the technology needed to move into the future of energy use and we are falling further and further behind other countries in the area of alternative energy.

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priest vs. prophet

The priest has a good point and as it has been pointed out good things can come from scientific advancement,BUT we all have become hypnotized by the mantra that science can cure all,science can do all.We have been lucky so far that we have had that be the case,but science now will play with anything and do anything to advance their cause.They most likely have grown or will certainly grow clones for the usual reasons and profit,of course.New germs for war are and will be developed and someday will get out.They will be too verilent and will kill many,as will the genetically altered crops which we will not be able to restrain as is now the case.Our food will be corupted and either inedible or dangerous to us.People will jump on the cloning wagon to live.The poorest will just die.There are limits to crop production and the water is and will get more polluted and wars are being fought to get more for ME.Civilization will war itself to death and in the process pollute the planet to death.Thus negating anything that science or money can do.We will just die and most horribly.Rich against the poor.Religous against the secular.The young against the old and nothing will save us.As you may note I am a pessimist,but that is ok ,because no one is going to read this far down anyway. Peace and love.
 The planet has cleansed itself in the past and is now in the process of doing the same again.The storms will come.The great cities which are mostly on a coast or major river will flood and die.The heat will become unbearable and the water will disappear.THE END.Have a nice day!On Can industrial civilization really become sustainable? Should it? posted 3 years, 3 months ago 40 Responses

smell the progress?

Your kidding right? So when do we start trusting religious politicians,and big box company mouthpieces? Fool me once,shame on you,fool me twice shame on me.These people change their stripes to suit the situation and then change back when they need to get something else that they want.Let's see if these doofs are still here next year or the next. What is their agenda this time? To sell more of what ever they were selling before,wether that be a religious agenda or a big box of whatever.You people trully are gullible and proof of how the Russians were able to make fools of us for decades.
 It takes time to build trust and not a bunch of retoric.
On Why won't America's environmentalists accept positive developments? posted 3 years, 3 months ago 22 Responses

have you driven a ford lately

Gee,I must be some kind of pollyanna neil.You don't really care about the environment unless there is money in it.This is not a shock mr. golightly(by the way what a name for an auto exec.)that you only care about the bottom line.The bottom line is that ford has fallen out of first place in auto sales to a japanese company,because they have seen the writing on the wall and are producing cars that are selling because they are more fuel efficient and are not as dependent on the oil industry.They are making huge sales because they can make money and be more environmetally friendly.Your company,neil golightly ,is a dinosaur that IS in the tarpit and going down because you won't change.And it is not only ford, it is the U.S. auto industry on the whole.We will drop like a stone as china and india come into the auto production market in the next 3to5 years.
 The handwriting has been on the wall for decades Neil,ford and other U.S. auto producers have been trying to white wash over the facts on that wall that big,heavy,inefficient automobiles are dinosaurs and that they are going down in the economic tarpit.On Ford's green guru discusses cars, climate, and time-warp activism posted 4 years, 1 month ago 3 Responses

environmentalism religion?

I to agree that the environmental movement can get too serious as in when a group or persons never look for or see compromise.
 When people become fanatics they stop thinking and operate according to dogma.Always be studying and examining and looking for what needs to be done.Never close your mind to all the possibilities. Ed P.

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