<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for In eastern North Carolina, citizens and students rise up for environmental justice]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/have-you-smelled-the-little-piggies/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:15:21 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/have-you-smelled-the-little-piggies/1 Biodigestor energy subsidies

A 5 to 10 cent per kwh subsidy for electricity generated from farm biogas would get this to change, eliminating huge amounts of GHG and relieving aor and water pollution.

Biogas energy offsets 20 times the GHG effect of combustion energy.  And safely, biodigested organic fertilizer replaces expensive, GHG producing chemical fertilizer.

One would think that the research triangle region would have enough brain power to get these energy/ag reforms going?  I guess not.  University scientists are too busy pandering to agribizz with genetic engineering research and better pesticide, herbicide poisoning.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

]]> Biodigestor energy subsidies

A 5 to 10 cent per kwh subsidy for electricity generated from farm biogas would get this to change, eliminating huge amounts of GHG and relieving aor and water pollution.

Biogas energy offsets 20 times the GHG effect of combustion energy.  And safely, biodigested organic fertilizer replaces expensive, GHG producing chemical fertilizer.

One would think that the research triangle region would have enough brain power to get these energy/ag reforms going?  I guess not.  University scientists are too busy pandering to agribizz with genetic engineering research and better pesticide, herbicide poisoning.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

]]> Comment #2 by alphaniner http://www.grist.org/article/have-you-smelled-the-little-piggies/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:50:27 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/have-you-smelled-the-little-piggies/2 Or just tax methane

20 times the tax on CO2 that NEEDS to be implemented will due as methane is a 20 times more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.  Why choose winners when you can tax evenly based on potency and let the market optimize the equation?

]]> Or just tax methane

20 times the tax on CO2 that NEEDS to be implemented will due as methane is a 20 times more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.  Why choose winners when you can tax evenly based on potency and let the market optimize the equation?

]]> Comment #3 by Rebecca T of HonestMeat http://www.grist.org/article/have-you-smelled-the-little-piggies/ Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:17:56 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/have-you-smelled-the-little-piggies/3 politicians stink more than pigs

I have just started learning about the situation in Eastern North Carolina, and it stinks to high heaven.  I have written about it in my blog, http://www.honestmeat.com, but I hope more and more blogs, newspapers, etc. pick up this story and transmit it to the American public.  I'm glad to hear college students working in solidarity with community members who have been devastated by the air & water pollution of these factory hog farms.  I hate to hear of yet another politician, this time a Democrat, beholden to the corporate payouts.

]]> politicians stink more than pigs

I have just started learning about the situation in Eastern North Carolina, and it stinks to high heaven.  I have written about it in my blog, http://www.honestmeat.com, but I hope more and more blogs, newspapers, etc. pick up this story and transmit it to the American public.  I'm glad to hear college students working in solidarity with community members who have been devastated by the air & water pollution of these factory hog farms.  I hate to hear of yet another politician, this time a Democrat, beholden to the corporate payouts.

]]> Comment #4 by John former Marine http://www.grist.org/article/have-you-smelled-the-little-piggies/ Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:36:43 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/have-you-smelled-the-little-piggies/4 What if I use the whole hog?

If I use everything but the oink as in recent articles by Roz Cummings, does it reduce the size of the manure lagoons in North Carolina?

Driving to and from Camp Lejeune, NC, I was always taken by the beautiful countryside, thinking it would be quite a nice place to live...but I always kept my windows up because it stank really bad.

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

]]> What if I use the whole hog?

If I use everything but the oink as in recent articles by Roz Cummings, does it reduce the size of the manure lagoons in North Carolina?

Driving to and from Camp Lejeune, NC, I was always taken by the beautiful countryside, thinking it would be quite a nice place to live...but I always kept my windows up because it stank really bad.

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

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