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You people don't know enough about Sebelius! She's the bomb - fought like hell to keep new coal plants out of her state.On Who should be next head of the EPA? posted 1 year ago 8 Responses

Lighten up

If you believed this for even a second, you haven't been listening to anything Gore has said in months.On Gore will run for president as independent, sources tell Grist posted 1 year, 8 months ago 34 Responses

Southern Indiana is not hip.

I  live in Evansville, south of Edwardsport. Our first Step It Up rally in April focused on Duke's plant. 200 people showed up, and in Eville that's a great turnout. Along with the knowledge and efforts of Valley Watch, a local watchdog group, we convinced our utility, Vectren, to back out of investing in this plant.

We already live within 62 miles of 17 coal plants - the greatest concentration in the world. We had air quality alerts this year from May to September.

But Bush's pal Mitch Daniels has been intent on building more coal plants here since before he took office.

Valley Watch calls us an "energy sacrifice zone" and indeed that seems to be the way Daniels perceives us as well. Daniels recently called southern Indiana "the Saudi Arabia of coal." This is how backwards he is in his thinking. Climate change isn't even on the radar.

We've got plants popping up in Western Kentucky, too.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/oct/30/peabody-narr ...

Any attention Grist and environmental groups want to focus on our area is more than welcome!On Indiana regulators approve coal plant posted 2 years ago 5 Responses

Many good points...but.

You make good points, Dave, and I don't believe Al will pursue a presidential run. But this:

"Gore can help bring governments together; he can get powerful financiers, corporate titans, rock stars, and energy scholars in the same room. He can help shape policy and public opinion across globe, not just in the U.S."

is a great reason FOR him to run.

He has succeeded at bringing the urgency of global warming into public consciousness. With the Oscar and now the Nobel, he has done that job as well as he can.

What now, indeed?On Al Gore and the IPCC jointly win peace prize posted 2 years, 1 month ago 56 Responses

Geez...

Couldn't he have thrown in some stats about, I dunno, hugs or rainbows?On Wacky dude makes cool stat-o-meter on what's happening in the world posted 2 years, 3 months ago 1 Response

So Steve...

Whydja click on the link, huh?

I wonder if Angelina is upset by Obama's flip-flopping on Coal-to-Liquids.On Brangelina argue over politics posted 2 years, 4 months ago 7 Responses

Soon to be IGCC central?

I live in the highest concentration of coal plants in the world. We've had a dozen air quality alerts since May. As I type, I can see a smokestack from my office window.

We have very little wind potential here, decent solar potential but no incentives (and no RES - it's failed twice in the state legislature), and a conservative, uneducated populace.

A handful of us are currently fighting two IGCC plants. A nearby county is negotiating with seven proposed plants, and the neighboring governor called a special legislative assembly this week to discuss millions of dollars of tax incentives for coal conversion plants in that state.

I've organized a march, written many letters and voiced opposition to these plants at a hearing, but if the government came along and mandated that all the old pulverized coal plants be razed and replaced with IGCC, that would make a significant difference to our air quality.

Dare I suggest that such a project, on the scale of a New Deal, could be a step toward weaning the country from coal?

In my neck of the woods - which is the backwoods, culturally - we have a lot of educating to do, and it doesn't help that the natives aren't interested. On For shame posted 2 years, 4 months ago 29 Responses

Weddings are also about community

The in-the-flesh kind.

We got married in a gazebo by a lake on the property of the reception hall, so people wouldn't be driving to and fro and to again. Insisted on the real dishes, had veggie lasagna (those two things were our biggest cost), and had friends and family bring a single flower, with which my sister-in-law decorated the lattice on the gazebo before I walked down a hillside in a dress my mother-in-law made. Each of the flowers represented someone who loved us.

I've gone on longer than I intended but it was the purtiest wedding ever...sniff.On Green weddings are no better than white ones posted 2 years, 6 months ago 11 Responses

It's not grabbing me.

Why a bunch of rock concerts all over the world? Aren't there more urgent concerns? Couldn't those sustainability experts be spending their time on less fleeting, more important pursuits?

What's the goal?On And if I could work another 7 in there, I would posted 2 years, 6 months ago 5 Responses

Obama not so green

I had a lot of enthusiasm for Obama when he announced his candidacy and went to his Web site to register for my own Obama social networking account (my.barackobama.com). When setting up an account, you are asked to choose the issues that are important to you, and environmental issues and global warming were not among them (they have since been added). The closest I could find was "smart energy policy." I posted a blog about my disappointment and have not been back much since - except to respond to weekly appeals for donations with the demand that Obama speak up about global warming and beyond ethanol and "clean coal."

Edwards has never held any appeal for me, but he attended a Step It Up event and endorsed the 80 percent reduction in carbon by 2050.On Obama speech indicates new day is here posted 2 years, 6 months ago 10 Responses

It IS fun

And so is your writing. I'm totally stealing "Inhofian fruitloopitude."On Time to start welcoming rather than bashing eco-newcomers posted 2 years, 7 months ago 19 Responses