<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Broadening the Earth Day tent]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-17-broadening-the-earth-day-tent/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:26:41 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-17-broadening-the-earth-day-tent/1 Why should an "urban" high school student care any more than a suburban householder?

Even though you'd like us all to buy the world a Coke and solve the problem, it will be the Technology Elites that make the breakthrough.  For most, life will go on as normal..but without CO2.


Example:

Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control Issues Final Decision Approving 27.3 Megawatts of Projects Using FuelCell Energy Power Plants

``The DFC-ERG and DFC/T power plants achieve approximately 60 percent electrical efficiency -- the highest electrical efficiency of any available distributed generation technology,'' said R. Daniel Brdar, Chairman and CEO of FuelCell Energy. ``This efficiency results in low carbon emissions because less fuel is used to produce electricity. And because our power plants do not combust fuel, our customers also benefit from near-zero emissions of NOX, SOX and particulate matter.''


]]> Why should an "urban" high school student care any more than a suburban householder?

Even though you'd like us all to buy the world a Coke and solve the problem, it will be the Technology Elites that make the breakthrough.  For most, life will go on as normal..but without CO2.


Example:

Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control Issues Final Decision Approving 27.3 Megawatts of Projects Using FuelCell Energy Power Plants

``The DFC-ERG and DFC/T power plants achieve approximately 60 percent electrical efficiency -- the highest electrical efficiency of any available distributed generation technology,'' said R. Daniel Brdar, Chairman and CEO of FuelCell Energy. ``This efficiency results in low carbon emissions because less fuel is used to produce electricity. And because our power plants do not combust fuel, our customers also benefit from near-zero emissions of NOX, SOX and particulate matter.''


]]> Comment #2 by Bart Anderson http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-17-broadening-the-earth-day-tent/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:19:29 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-17-broadening-the-earth-day-tent/2 Absolutely right, Mike.

I like looking into the traditions of different groups, and celebrating the practices and beliefs from the past.

Food and gardening are a great place to start.  For example, East Palo Alto in California has an annual collard greens festival
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20070730/ai_n19436736/

Here's an interview about Growing, cooking, eating, remembering collard greens
http://www.epa.net/launch/comvcs/tellstry/item?item_id=604890

Turns out that collard greens have killer nutritional value, are easy to grow, besides being an integral part of Southern culture. 

Bart
Energy Bulletin

 




]]> Absolutely right, Mike.

I like looking into the traditions of different groups, and celebrating the practices and beliefs from the past.

Food and gardening are a great place to start.  For example, East Palo Alto in California has an annual collard greens festival
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20070730/ai_n19436736/

Here's an interview about Growing, cooking, eating, remembering collard greens
http://www.epa.net/launch/comvcs/tellstry/item?item_id=604890

Turns out that collard greens have killer nutritional value, are easy to grow, besides being an integral part of Southern culture. 

Bart
Energy Bulletin

 




]]> Comment #3 by nigel rayment http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-17-broadening-the-earth-day-tent/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:54:45 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-17-broadening-the-earth-day-tent/3 Spot on, Mark. We need to help others to make links - as well as finding new ones ourselves - as part of a continual, lifelong process. I agree with what I think you are suggesting, that we cannot divorce the west’s disastrous relationship with the natural world from a its track record on social injustice. Are you familiar with the work of Julian Agyeman http://www.tufts.edu/~jagyem01/ and the UK’s Black Environment Network http://www.ben-network.org.uk/ ? They have done some seriously good work around how the language used by environmentalists is sometimes uncritically borrowed from racists. Well worth a look, I think.

]]> Spot on, Mark. We need to help others to make links - as well as finding new ones ourselves - as part of a continual, lifelong process. I agree with what I think you are suggesting, that we cannot divorce the west’s disastrous relationship with the natural world from a its track record on social injustice. Are you familiar with the work of Julian Agyeman http://www.tufts.edu/~jagyem01/ and the UK’s Black Environment Network http://www.ben-network.org.uk/ ? They have done some seriously good work around how the language used by environmentalists is sometimes uncritically borrowed from racists. Well worth a look, I think.

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