Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 5, 2009 at 2:34pm

Right now, the Environmental Protection Agency is considering reversing a Bush administration decision that has prevented California and other states from taking action to reduce global warming pollution from cars.

This is a tremendous opportunity for real progress towards solving the climate crisis. And to help make this crucial decision, the EPA wants to hear from you. Will you submit a comment?

Tell the EPA to grant California a waiver to set motor vehicle global warming pollution control standards:

http://www.RepowerAmerica.org/epawaiver

This is a really big deal.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 5, 2009 at 2:40pm

I just posted a similar action alert from EarthJustice the other day. This one is from the Sierra Club.

A panel of federal judges has just ruled in favor of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a controversial legal case focused on mountaintop removal coal mining. The ruling threatens to open the floodgates on a new wave of mountaintop removal coal mines. This would allow coal mining companies to blow up mountains and bury neighboring streams with coal mining waste without acting to minimize stream destruction or conducting adequate environmental reviews.

As a result, Appalachia could now be facing up to 100 new permits for mountaintop removal coal mining operations to bury streams, which would destroy huge swaths of the Appalachian Mountains.

Watch the video of Ashley Judd speaking out against mountaintop removal and then join her by asking the Obama Administration to ban mountaintop removal coal mining.

Learn more about mountaintop removal.

Check out our info brochure on mountaintop removal.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 6, 2009 at 10:09am

TAKE ACTION

Our planet is warming at an alarming rate, but scientists say we can solve the climate crisis if we act quickly. That's why it's so important for President Obama to strengthen the target he has set for reducing global warming pollution by the year 2020.

Unfortunately, Obama's current proposal is to return to 1990 pollution levels by 2020. This would be a significant reduction, but not nearly enough, fast enough.

Let there be no mistake: if we fail to reduce pollution much more swiftly than the Obama administration is contemplating, we face the prospect of irreversible climate impacts that could devastate human civilization. In addition, the faster we cut emissions, the more jobs we can create by switching to a clean energy economy. That's why we're joining with our allies in asking you to take action today.

Help President Obama and congressional leaders strengthen their goals for reducing global warming pollution:

http://www.1sky.org/pollution-targets

Why hasn't Obama strengthened his target? After all, he has made global warming a top priority and said his decisions will be grounded in science. A recent speech from Obama's top climate negotiator provides the answer. Speaking about the 2020 target, the negotiator said: "At the same time we are being guided by the science and doing the math, we cannot forget that we are engaged in a political process and that politics … is the art of the possible."

Any climate targets will have to pass Congress. President Obama is concerned there isn't enough political support for the strong pollution reductions that are needed--that corporate lobbyists and Washington insiders are more likely to pay attention to policy details like a 2020 emission reduction than citizens and voters like us.

Let President Obama and congressional leaders know we'll provide the grassroots support that will make stronger pollution reduction targets possible.

On behalf of the 1Sky team,

Gillian Caldwell,
Campaign Director, 1Sky

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 9, 2009 at 12:22pm

Energy and Society: The Relationship Between Energy, Social Change,...

Preface

Anybody is pretty presumptuous who sets out to publish a revision of a book that has been on the market for twenty years. I am, but I think that a lot of people who didn’t read it the first time should have! And, I want to bring the evidence for the thesis up to date. I was glad to find how well the basic ideas had held up and how much of the evidence relevant to it supports it without much modification. Three of the chapters dealing with basic theory are reproduced almost without change. All the others have been rewritten so that modification could be made where it was necessary, and more recent proof introduced where it has permitted elaboration now backed by empirical evidence.

Energy will be a major revolutionary factor in human life in the future, as it has been in the past. All of us, who think they know things that may help to avoid the problems that changes in its sources and declines in its availability will create, owe it to our fellows to do our bit. So, presumptuous or not, I have done what I thought I should.

Editor's Note: This preface was found with the rest of the revised manuscript which was “discovered” in the Spring of 2008 by Robert Cottrell, son of Fred Cottrell. It was not signed or dated, It was a part of the working papers.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 11, 2009 at 2:28pm

The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America's Schools

This is more than just an article. The site has multiple articles and ongoing contirbutions, as well as interactive maps and videos.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 11, 2009 at 3:39pm

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

The Ludlow Massacre of 1914 has long been known as one of the most notorious events in all of American labor history, but until the publication of Killing for Coal, it was still possible to see this slaughter simply as an episode in the history of American industrial violence. In Thomas Andrews's skilled hands, it becomes something much subtler, more complicated, and revealing: a window onto the profound transformation of work and environment that occurred on the Western mining frontier in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Anyone interested in the history of labor, the environment, and the American West will want to read this book.
--William Cronon, author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Listen to an interview with the author here.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 17, 2009 at 2:52pm

Green Your Coffee
Your choice of coffee can have a global impact, one cup at a time.

You may be surprised to learn that your daily choice of coffee can have a global impact. Here are three simple suggestions to help you make a difference, one cup at a time.

Look for Fair Trade Certification. When you buy coffee that is fair-trade certified, you are guaranteeing that the farmers who grew the beans are paid a fair price, are provided much-needed credit and given technical assistance, such as help in making the transition to organic growing.

Select organic coffee. It is worth the small cost premium to use organic coffee beans, too, which eliminate your exposure, and that of the environment, to hazardous pesticides that are commonly applied to conventional crops.

Look for shade-grown beans. Coffee was originally a shade-loving plant, and was traditionally cultivated underneath existing trees in a process that protected the native forest. Today, many farmers continue to raise coffee beneath shade trees, and the plants provide sanctuary to important migratory birds, many of which are now threatened. These are many of the same birds that fill American yards with song during the warm months.

Click for related articles.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 19, 2009 at 6:18pm

In The Arctic, A Time-Lapse View Of Climate Change


Listen Now

Fresh Air from WHYY, March 18, 2009 · Intent on documenting the effects of climate change, nature photographer James Balog ventured into ice-bound regions with 26 time-lapse cameras, which he programmed to shoot a frame every daylight hour for three years.

The resulting images — which make up Balog's "Extreme Ice Survey" project — show ice sheets and glaciers breaking apart and disappearing.

Balog calls the melting of glaciers "the most visible, tangible manifestations of climate change on the planet today."

A documentary film crew accompanied Balog, and their footage along with Balog's work will be featured in the Mar. 24 NOVA and National Geographic special Extreme Ice. Balog's photographs are also on display in his new book Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report.

Balog's other work has been published in numerous magazines, including National Geographic, The New Yorker, Life, Vanity Fair and Audubon. He has won the Leica Medal of Excellence and the premier awards for nature and science photography from World Press Photo.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 20, 2009 at 12:37pm

Grassroots Action Toward a Green Recovery For All
A Green For All National Conference Call

Wednesday, March 25th
Noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern

Hear how leaders from disadvantaged communities are using Recovery Act funds to bring green jobs and training home. Ask your questions about securing Recovery funds where you live.

RSVP for the call.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 20, 2009 at 12:41pm

Download your copy of Climate Science: The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences, from ClimateScience.gov.

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