<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Step It Up]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by poprocks http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/ Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:08:58 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/1 Step it up...

Hello,

My name is Victoria and I work with NowPublic.com We're a participatory news agency that uses non-news sources as news material, for example eye witness reports,videos and photos.

We've had some amazing contributions in terms of stories and photos about people wanting to take action in helping to save the environment.  I saw the Step It Up 2007 banner and decided to write a short blurb about it.  Hope this helps you guys.  Good Luck!

http://www.nowpublic.com/step_it_up_on_global_warming

All my best,

Victoria

]]> Step it up...

Hello,

My name is Victoria and I work with NowPublic.com We're a participatory news agency that uses non-news sources as news material, for example eye witness reports,videos and photos.

We've had some amazing contributions in terms of stories and photos about people wanting to take action in helping to save the environment.  I saw the Step It Up 2007 banner and decided to write a short blurb about it.  Hope this helps you guys.  Good Luck!

http://www.nowpublic.com/step_it_up_on_global_warming

All my best,

Victoria

]]> Comment #2 by garynick http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/ Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:46:21 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/2 Watch out

Watch out Now Public mentioned in the comment above, is a for-profit corporation, trying to make money off peoples contribution. The above comment amounts to spam from a corporation - be weary  of this please.

spend your time a grist and other non-profit websites (http://coanews.org/affiliates)

]]> Watch out

Watch out Now Public mentioned in the comment above, is a for-profit corporation, trying to make money off peoples contribution. The above comment amounts to spam from a corporation - be weary  of this please.

spend your time a grist and other non-profit websites (http://coanews.org/affiliates)

]]> Comment #3 by garynick http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/ Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:47:23 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/3 2050?

Ok 2050 is way to far away, anyone can promise something that far away.  We need to get imediate direct changes, and we need to stipulate how in a charter, and get politicians to sign it.

]]> 2050?

Ok 2050 is way to far away, anyone can promise something that far away.  We need to get imediate direct changes, and we need to stipulate how in a charter, and get politicians to sign it.

]]> Comment #4 by poprocks http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/ Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:10:34 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/4 From Victoria....at NowPublic

Hi, this is Victoria ..again  Actually NowPublic is not that scary. We're a great platform for your cause.  We don't actually make any money from your posts.  We don't even have ads.  If you're interested have a look at what we're doing.  You may discover that we have more in common than you think.  Also if you've got questions please don't hesitate to email me:  vrevay(at)nowpublic(dot)com

]]> From Victoria....at NowPublic

Hi, this is Victoria ..again  Actually NowPublic is not that scary. We're a great platform for your cause.  We don't actually make any money from your posts.  We don't even have ads.  If you're interested have a look at what we're doing.  You may discover that we have more in common than you think.  Also if you've got questions please don't hesitate to email me:  vrevay(at)nowpublic(dot)com

]]> Comment #5 by Peggy Farabaugh http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/ Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:59:48 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/5 Add Vernon to your list

Hi Bill-
Thanks for all your wonderful work up at Middlebury!  We'll check tomorrow at my sons school and see if we can get a group of students and parents together down here in Vernon Vermont to join you on April 14.

We appreciate all the good work you do.  We also love and have worked with Jim Andrews at Middlebury to try and help save the reptiles and amphibians of Vermont.

Best of luck with the project,

Peggy Farabaugh
Vermont Woods Studios
Fine Furniture from Sustainable Sources




]]> Add Vernon to your list

Hi Bill-
Thanks for all your wonderful work up at Middlebury!  We'll check tomorrow at my sons school and see if we can get a group of students and parents together down here in Vernon Vermont to join you on April 14.

We appreciate all the good work you do.  We also love and have worked with Jim Andrews at Middlebury to try and help save the reptiles and amphibians of Vermont.

Best of luck with the project,

Peggy Farabaugh
Vermont Woods Studios
Fine Furniture from Sustainable Sources




]]> Comment #6 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/ Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:46:30 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/6 Promoting Climate Change


I've started a movement to promote and enjoy climate change.   Balmy weather, lower energy costs and more arable land being available are just some of the key advantages.

Land in Alberta: For years, the entrenched Liberals have bought up the warm coasts and jacked up prices to keep themselves rich.  Now the huge central areas of North America will open up and make land cheaper and cheaper.   Buying a house will no longer be something done in a life time, or even a decade, but in a single transaction ($20,000 for a 4 bedroom in Saskatchewan?  Here you go, put it on my Visa!

Warm Weather: All the money I save in electricity will go to letting me drink more lattes and have more time off to enjoy the Internet as Me: The Time Man of the Year.

Paint It Black: I see the girls go by in their summer clothes.  Yeah, and now it will be all year round!  No more long months looking at big puffy winter suits...now micro-skirts will be de rigeur fasion.  Hoo-rah!

]]> Promoting Climate Change


I've started a movement to promote and enjoy climate change.   Balmy weather, lower energy costs and more arable land being available are just some of the key advantages.

Land in Alberta: For years, the entrenched Liberals have bought up the warm coasts and jacked up prices to keep themselves rich.  Now the huge central areas of North America will open up and make land cheaper and cheaper.   Buying a house will no longer be something done in a life time, or even a decade, but in a single transaction ($20,000 for a 4 bedroom in Saskatchewan?  Here you go, put it on my Visa!

Warm Weather: All the money I save in electricity will go to letting me drink more lattes and have more time off to enjoy the Internet as Me: The Time Man of the Year.

Paint It Black: I see the girls go by in their summer clothes.  Yeah, and now it will be all year round!  No more long months looking at big puffy winter suits...now micro-skirts will be de rigeur fasion.  Hoo-rah!

]]> Comment #7 by Billhook http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:32:43 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/7 Urgency & Focus

Bill - I'm writing from my home in Wales to applaud your efforts at mobilizing people.

I'd make a few points that I hope may be helpful.

1st, many Americans don't seem to realize that they cannot commandeer developing nations' co-operation in the supremely urgent task of halting greenhouse gas emissions -

A global framework for the allocation of national emission-rights for this century is requisite to any serious change on the issue.

Without that framework, which must be equitable to be negotiable, and must be scientifically stringent to be effective, we will remain in the present "After you, Claude" catch-22, where no nation will risk its economy by making serious cuts in its emissions.

The title of that framework (which was first presented to the UN back in 1990) is Contraction & Convergence",
and, put succinctly it is about

Contraction - of global GHG emissions to respect Earth's capacity,
and
Convergence - of all nations' emissions-rights to global per capita parity.

This framework is open to negotiation as to the dates by which a given global cut is made and by which per capita parity is achieved.

Further information is at the website of Global Commons Institute - http://www.gci.org.uk

So I really hope that the masses of people you motivate to come out and demonstrate will do more than call just for the US gubmint to "do something useful".

Best of luck,

Billhook




]]> Urgency & Focus

Bill - I'm writing from my home in Wales to applaud your efforts at mobilizing people.

I'd make a few points that I hope may be helpful.

1st, many Americans don't seem to realize that they cannot commandeer developing nations' co-operation in the supremely urgent task of halting greenhouse gas emissions -

A global framework for the allocation of national emission-rights for this century is requisite to any serious change on the issue.

Without that framework, which must be equitable to be negotiable, and must be scientifically stringent to be effective, we will remain in the present "After you, Claude" catch-22, where no nation will risk its economy by making serious cuts in its emissions.

The title of that framework (which was first presented to the UN back in 1990) is Contraction & Convergence",
and, put succinctly it is about

Contraction - of global GHG emissions to respect Earth's capacity,
and
Convergence - of all nations' emissions-rights to global per capita parity.

This framework is open to negotiation as to the dates by which a given global cut is made and by which per capita parity is achieved.

Further information is at the website of Global Commons Institute - http://www.gci.org.uk

So I really hope that the masses of people you motivate to come out and demonstrate will do more than call just for the US gubmint to "do something useful".

Best of luck,

Billhook




]]> Comment #8 by MikeF http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/ Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:25:03 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/mckibben/8 Re: Sir Richard Branson's recent announcement

So what does everyone think about Richard Branson's announcement last week that he would award a $25 million prize to anyone who can figure out how to remove a billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere?

Is this a step forward or too little too late?

]]> Re: Sir Richard Branson's recent announcement

So what does everyone think about Richard Branson's announcement last week that he would award a $25 million prize to anyone who can figure out how to remove a billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere?

Is this a step forward or too little too late?

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