Comments ehsdirector has made

Nice summary David and I would suggest if OSHA and EPA want to get draft regulations reviewed more thoroughly they should adopt the fluffy bunny theme.

Regardless of my position on CCS or Cap & Trade... I will fully comply with your idea of including 'fluffy animals' in my future regulatory posts ;-)

I had to raise my toddler in a 1800's home in Wisconsin that had 'epic' energy conservation issues. I used my DOE and energy auditor tools only to find out ANY replacement would take over a decade to pay back on windows (IN Wisconsin)... knowing we would move within the next 5 years, it made no $en$e.

I went to the library and hardware store - Read books, got out the grout and caulk tools and restored the dozen windows for about $400 to be 'draft tight'... The first window took a day the rest to another.
Later - the realtor stated how much charm and extra value the restoration added to the house...

Also caulked/taped the ducts, blanket the water heater/insulated lines, filled house with blowin insulation, sealed around vents, roof and foundation... everything under $1,500 and about 40hrs (or less time than it took my wife and I to decide on baby room colors, flooring and window dressing ;-)

Have fun with it, ask neighbors and friends for help (also help them) and guide your children to be a little more self sufficient (sustainable) by examples in your life.

I voted 'this is your biggest problem?' on this one...
However, everything counts in small amounts when applied to scale - Restoration and conservation are the key to both our longterm eco-nomic and economic struggles. Your idea just needs to expand to all aging U.S. building plans.

Thank you David.

It is imperative that we keep our new administration accountable to the economic and ecological facts regarding 'clean coal' and nuclear power...

Fact:
'current clean coal and nuclear technologies fail on all promises of a clean sustainable future'...

They are a 'energy and economic bubble' that make fanny mae mortgages failures look like chump change.

It will change our current economic and ecological  from historic to biblical.  

Change - You asked for it, now demand it...On The Epstein alternative posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

Not answers. Just answers to get votes...

All in defense of defenseless options.

The big stuff
Clean coal? More drilling & nuclear plants... this is what my father heard during presidential debates when I was a baby.

New nuke & Clean Coal plants would take over a decade to come online and we are still in debt from the ones installed over two decades ago.

The price of all resources and operating costs in these industry's are nearly 3 times more than any other. And no one seems to have a longterm viable solution to how the get rid of the long term waste from either....

More debt and longer time-lines are not sustainable energy options... the longer we wait, the longer we push ourselves into financial, energy (*4 trillion debt) and ecological debt (*5 trillion debt).

Lets put aside the trillion dollar safety, health and environmental issues that proponents of clean coal nuclear energy leave out... these options may bankrupt a bankrupted nation.

The small stuff
The "best" proposed scenarios by candidates Energy Plans for nuke and off shore drilling could only supply 3% -5% of our energy demands.

Not likely... but what of we prosper during this time? The 3% -5% would barely keep up with growth in the next two decades while these "no plans" dig use further in debt.

Current vehicles on the road and coal plants will not be phased out for decades. If these are the "primary sources" of our problem, how do any of the "proposed plans" address this? And growing Asian and Indonesian environmental and energy problems will make the current U.S. situation look insignificant by then.

WHERE DOES THIS ALL LEAVE US IN 2020, 30 40?

As we elect our next president... we can not continue to erode our future with the same answers for energy that have left us in the dark for decades.

Regardless of who we want to win... it's politics, they will not change unless we demand it.

At this point, it should be abundantly obvious to all.

Rant-
Have we learned nothing about politics or energy? When we leave the destiny of our future in the hands of others, we hand off our own opportunities.  

The only way we can ultimately protect our future is for everyone to have a "vested interest in it".

We can stop more than 30% of our waste and 76% of our electricity energy needs that create 48% of our greenhouse gases. In less than a decade we have hope of eliminating the need for volatile foreign energy commodities that erode the safety, security and economy of our country.  

*Current EIA & DOE . gov facts we choose to ignore... detailed on the oildrum and a dozen other sites. On Obama's 'support' for dirty energy contains conditional clauses that make all the difference posted 1 year, 1 month ago 5 Responses

Science? NO media drive perception trumps all

Science? Seriously?

The effects of global emissions has been in academics since the 40's. Government measuring monitoring regulations have been tracking our impact for three decades filling buildings with supporting documents and viable options to stop what has become our current reality.

Social media driven perception has always become the reality that trumps strong logical scientific efforts.

Logic, common sense and science are tools for the elite and have always been ignored for a more "passionate or interesting, feel good" stories about "things we already know and want to hear".

The current candidate options are a prime example of this (rehashed carter era stuff).

Every good scientific environmental and energy plan this month will be trumped a 1000 fold by paris's mock energy plan of McCain further proving the over obvious point of mine. On Things smart people assume posted 1 year, 3 months ago 15 Responses

Call me a moron

A little hard on a "one man mission" for the environment...

Call me a moron but, I will  be tuning in on Lee's campaign at savetheplanetprotest.com...

I had a hard time reading the choice of words on "Lee's" protest of the "Discovery Channel". Using the words "stupid" and "idiot" to describe this environmental search for truth in media.

Even kindergarten children know enough not to blindly call individuals "stupid idiots" as it is hurtful and reflects ignorance. I remind my son that the world is filled with Billions of people and choosing which ones are "idiots" is just not that easy.

Furthermore, ranking LEE's cause of on a scale of  "smart" to "idiot" is impossible in world of imbeciles who continue to choose to destroy our future for these children.

It appears to me that he is simply protesting the same lack of ethics and ideals that plague the media into "green washing" our world into false hopes and options lacking fundamental structure or science to succeed or even help the environment.  
Further promoting global environmental doom pandemic just to boost ratings and completely ignoring the problems that have abundant solutions nicely outlined and promoted throughout the GRIST.

And while LEE's campaign may lack the "style" and "million dollar" bang David is looking for....

I am completely confused by the personal judgment of one person willing to "risk it all" for the hope we can change our ways.

Giving Lee the benefit of a doubt, I contacted him yesterday and asked him about his campaign and the genuineness of his intentions.

He stated to me in an email: "I can assure you that my only intention is to save the planet by whatever means possible."

After Lee let me know that,  I offered my support and volunteered to help.

But, I guess that just makes me a "Stupid Idiot" ;-)On Idiot protest or brilliant parody? posted 1 year, 9 months ago 5 Responses

Action trumps Ideas - Just listen to reason...

Personalities? Ideas? These people have been "discussing" action for 30 years... while the few, proud and diligent have made a difference.

At this point eco-hypocrites taking the Limelight for personal "fell good" recognition or financial gains need to put their "Personalities" aside and LISTEN to the people who have PROVEN ideas that have worked for over two decades...

Seriously, all the answers to stop "human" destructive influences on our environment have been evident for over two decades, the only thing that changes is the "politics of it" and lack of positive actions.

The GRIST does a fine job of exemplifying that most, do not grasp the basic concepts of Environmental Protection or conservation.

It's easy to criticize actions by others, it is hard to change theses actions in ourselves.
On Don't shoot the messengers posted 2 years, 8 months ago 6 Responses