Comments jatkeison has made

  • The American West

    I fear most for places like Albuquerque and Santa Fe, but there are a lot more people at risk in the "greater" Denver area.
        Its another example of the intersection of Global Warmng & human short-sightedness. Here in New Orleans we had hurricanes juiced up by warmer sea surface temperatures combined with lousy levees & political misleadership. In  Denver the combining factors are desertification (probably) and the draining of the aquifers while the Rocky Mountain glaciers melt away.
        We are so very late getting into action!
    John Atkeison
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    1001 South Broad Street, Ste. 119, New Orleans, LA 70125On Climate change to cause 'economic deserts,' U.N. chief says posted 1 year ago 1 Response

  • Quibble bibble

    Obviously tboggia-- like most Americans-- does not know that in order to get and maintain ballot status (have your candidate's names appear on a ballot) in the United States, a new political party must qualify and re-qualify according to rules set by officials who are Democrats & Republicans, and that this has to happen on a state-by-state basis. And many states have wildly differing qualifying rules from others.

    Sometimes those rules include requirements that a party receive a certain number of votes at the top of the ticket to get ballot status for the party in the next election(s). The alternative is to petition or pay, and the petitioning requirements are usually for many times the number of signatures required of Democratic and Republican parties.

    You ever try getting votes, much less winning congressional seats, etc., without having the names of your candidates on the ballot?

    It is a pretty complicated pain in the butt which is no accident. So quit complaining about those who are trying to improve things and pitch in to be constructive, what do you say?

    Otherwise we are just gambling with 80 more years of the same system we have now.On Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney talks to Grist posted 1 year, 3 months ago 19 Responses

  • Build, don't destroy Green Politics

    Why not ask, "Why is it so hard to build a new political party in our democracy, when the Green values are majority values?" instead of "Why does the Green Party feel the need to self-destruct?"

    Of course there are plenty of people who are trying to destroy the Green Party, because the Greens are the only organizational alternative in this whole area of American politics! Why would the Green experience be different from any other attempt at building a new political force, all of which have been attacked by the various forces of the status quo.

    People who are really in favor of the values of the Greens pitch in support the Greens 95% of the time, rather than sniping from the sidelines.On Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney talks to Grist posted 1 year, 3 months ago 19 Responses

  • No fooling around

    Global Warming = Local Emergency -- what matters is if we take action in time to make the effects less catastrophic.
        Don't fool around with our future.On Voluntary actions didn't get us civil rights, and they won't fix the climate posted 2 years, 2 months ago 61 Responses

  • Thinner is inner?

    There are always newer and cooler ways to be greener, and thin-film PV is one of them. Lay stripes of this material on a transparent substrate-- like glass-- and you have a good translucent material for a skylight or over an outdoor arbor, or...

    And don't let anyone try to tell you that it costs more carbon-laden energy to make these babies than they produce. Tell those folks to hush until they get the coal out of their portfolio.On Umbra on thin-film solar panels posted 2 years, 5 months ago 7 Responses

  • a moving story

    What a beginning.
    I recently made my first trip to Maine and am contemplating a move to NOLA.
    I'll be listening!On On moving to New Orleans, a city defined by water posted 2 years, 6 months ago 5 Responses