| Canada No Longer a Democracy: Government High on Tar Sand Fumes Doing Nothing But Messing Up Kyoto |
[May. 22nd, 2006|09:49 am] |
Canada will try to block a bid to set stricter emissions targets in the Kyoto Protocol's second phase from 2012 and eventually wants the accord scrapped in favor of a voluntary deal, reports have said. The newspaper said it had obtained private Foreign Affairs Department instructions to Canadian negotiators in Bonn, Germany, where an international 10-day meeting opened this week to plot the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol. "The private instructions from the Foreign Affairs Department to the Canadian delegation show Canada will also oppose the widely held view that targets in the second phase, which begins after 2012, should be tougher than those in the first phase," the newspaper said. According to instructions quoted by the paper, the government advised negotiators: "Canada will not support agreement on language in the work program that commits developed countries to more stringent targets in the future." The 22 pages of instructions "also show that Canada wants the climate-change accord phased out in favor of a separate, voluntary deal," the daily wrote. |
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| ask your mayor to support Resolution 50 |
[May. 22nd, 2006|09:38 am] |
The US Conference of Mayors membership will be voting on final adoption of this Green Building measure during their Annual meeting which occurs the first week of June. As such, we urge you to contact your Mayor as soon as you can, and ask your mayor to support Resolution 50, which is formally titled Adopting the "2030 Challenge" for City Buildings. The Mayors of Chicago, Seattle, Miami, and Albuquerque recently jointly proposed Resolution No. 50, which sets a goal for carbon neutral buildings by 2030. Your mayor needs to hear early and often that they should support this initiative. Your message need not be explanatory; you simply need to ask for meaningful green buildings initiatives. Contact your Mayor by any means possible -personal contact, telephone call or email. |
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| it's official! Bill H.R. 5143 passes 416 to 6 |
[May. 11th, 2006|06:34 pm] |
from private Xprize to public HPrize
Fun times in the House! They just passed a bill funding a Hydrogen Fuel Cell prize. A grand prize of $10 million, and smaller prizes reaching millions of dollars is offered to anyone who can make one of these things viable... it's pretty muchin teh same vein as that Ansari X-Prize. The Energy Department announced earlier this year that it would provide $119 million in funding for research into hydrogen fuel cells, including $100 million over the next four years to projects to improve components of fuel cell systems.I guess the extra couple of million is incentive for the engineers and scientists to quit stalling or something...
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[Apr. 7th, 2006|05:47 pm] |
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| harper and his merry band of idiots... go away! |
[Apr. 6th, 2006|07:49 pm] |
CAN WE KICK THE BUMS OUT YET????
[Warning: Canadian politics ahead. Might not be on the International radar scope but aside from killing all those seals, the newly minted canadian government has decided to keep hacking away at eco concerns]
I usually shy away from Right/Left politics. Basically not my game... But these guys are going too far! And I've already had it with Rona. That honeymoon ended very quickly. Anyone who has the gumption and nerve to back out of Kyoto (while heading the damn thing) but not the cojones to actually face the public, and hides behind a letter to the editor, is a lameass who is simply wasting our time.... But now the rest of the sorrid lot are sticking their tongues out of their muzzles, and spewing sibilant disdain at the hardworking climate proactivists, and public interest workers. In fact these cowards, who more often than not hide behind Stephen Harpoo's gag order, have just announced a 40% slash in funding of climate activities through the department of natural resources. "If it's not in the taxpayers' interest to fund programs that are not effective, then we are not going to," Said pasty-assed Natural Resources Minister (of the minute) Gary Lunn (seriously Gary, you will be out of a job before you can even work a good groove into that seat, so don't get too comfortable). ( Read more... ) |
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| That's my Minister of the Environment! |
[Feb. 24th, 2006|08:24 pm] |
happy to report so far everybody was wrong....
Great article from Dennis Bueckert, in the Canadian Press, how they were Once skeptics, but now the Tories are preaching the Kyoto climate-change gospel! They say that even though the Conservatives opposed ratification of the climate treaty while in opposition, they appear to have undergone a conversion, promising to do a better job of cutting emissions than the Liberals ever did (the Liberals said they would, but didn't so pretty much anything is better than what they did on emissions).
"There's an action plan that we are going to move on very quickly," Minister of the Environment Rona Ambrose said in an interview with The Canadian Press today. Noting that the action plan will include an emissions-trading system for large polluters, and will try to engage the public in a new way.
"I'm very committed. The prime minister has given me a very strong mandate. ...I think we not only have the political will from the prime minister, and from myself and my colleagues, on this issue, we also have the public will on our side." ((And that was what was needed all along. See, they won't do it without us gasping for it... but if they want *our* votes and we let them know we want it.... well the sky's the limit!)) "We feel very strongly that we need to engage the public both in terms of our strategy and outreach but also in creating incentives ((oooh!)) and programs that reach the individual level in Canada." Ambose isn't just our
A lot of eco-peeps were worried that she was going to be pretty much the opposite of this. She os from Alberta after all (big Canadian oil), but our Minister of the Environment (and, BTW, president of COP the Conference of the Parties which is the UNFCCC group that made the Kyoto Accord) has been doing a great job so far! Good for you Rona! Let's rock! |
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| new group aims to be a pain in the G8's neckl! |
[Feb. 24th, 2006|08:16 pm] |
what could be scarier?
A brand new group called the "Climate Change Dialog initiative" comprised of lawmakers from all G8 countries has been formed and vows to push governments on climate change initiatives! "Climate change is both a national and a global problem and an issue that transcends political affiliations," Joan Ruddock, British parliamentarian and co-chair of the new initiative, told a news conference. "There is an urgency that not all players grasp or share," he said in a thinly veiled reference to the United States' refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
Ruddock said the group would shadow and feed into the twice-yearly meetings of G8 leaders and environment and energy ministers with the aim of producing concrete policy proposals for the G8 summit in Japan in 2008. Oooooh! What could be scarier than being shadowed by hundreds and hundreds of lawyers? This might actually work.... |
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| ....in the "waste = food" department: |
[Feb. 12th, 2006|02:16 pm] |
Governor visits Carson for announcement about plant that reuses refinery wastes and captures greenhouse gasses.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined oil company and electric utility executives in Carson today to announce plans to build a new hydrogen-burning power plant that reuses refinery wastes and captures greenhouse gasses. The $1 billion electric-generating station at the BP Carson refinery would run on hydrogen extracted from wastes created in the routine production of gasoline, and would vastly reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the process.
"Ve set the most ambitious goals for reducing greenhäus gases of any state," Schwarzenegger said. “Ve vill not meet these greenhäus goals vithout a strong commitment from the private sektor.”
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| MAKING GREEN ROOFS HAPPEN!!! FYEAH! |
[Feb. 2nd, 2006|08:10 am] |
After 60 smog days and finding out how much money
they will save... the T.dot gets greener. En Masse!
Toronto City Council approved "Making Green Roofs Happen", its green roofs strategy The recommendations that Council approved today include a commitment to install green roofs on new and existing buildings owned by the City, green roofs are to be considered for existing municipal buildings when roofs are due to be replaced. For new City-owned buildings, the Green Roofs strategy sets a target of green roofs covering 50 to 75 per cent of a building's footprint. The council also recommended that a pilot program of financial incentives be initiated this year for the construction of green roofs. City officials will also work with Toronto Hydro and the Toronto Atmospheric Fund on the possibility of offering building owners additional financial incentives for retrofits.
Joe Pantalone, Deputy Mayor and Chair of the City's Environmental Round Table said, "Torontonians have asked us to do more to promote green roofs. In response, the City has approved a comprehensive approach - from establishing standards and building our capacity to support Green Roofs at the City level, to offering education, funding, expert advice and promotion." Yeah that's all it takes, ask. Oh and save the city $300M.. The City recently commissioned a multi-disciplinary green roof benefits study by Ryerson University. Researchers found that an eight-percent coverage of existing rooftops with extensive green roofs would generate over $300 million in initial cost savings in areas such as storm water management, combined sewer overflow reduction, building energy savings, and the urban heat island reductions. Operational cost savings for the city from this level of coverage were calculated at approximately $40 million per year. So remember kids, all you have to do is ask:p Still as we say up here; Awesome news, eh?
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| The Clinton-Read New Energy Campaign! |
[Jan. 30th, 2006|08:47 am] |
the nine billion dollar plan...
Senate Minority Leader Harry Read and Hillary C have just started the legal ball rolling to set up a DARPA-like $9Bn Advanced Energy Department. "We should immediately undertake an Apollo-like R&D program to rapidly transform our country's energy use," Reid said. "Wooo!" I Say, "Sign me up!" And like they said: "We have the technology, we have the capabilities...."
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| Al! What a guy.... |
[Jan. 29th, 2006|12:31 pm] |
ExVeep Al Gore pushing new movie.. and the envelope!
There's quite a bit of news coming out these days from Park City about Al Gore and his new movie! Jeez! this guy is quite a mogul these days ainte? with a network, movies and the rest i am digging this guy more by the second-- not to mention that he's looking mighty presidential if you ask me). But here's the deal, Gore is at the Sundance Indy Festival pushing "An InconvenientTruth" (what a great title), his new documentary about Climate Change. I can't wait to see this one!! Not only does he collaborate with 24 Director Davis Geuggenheim (sure it's an evil propaganda show but is shot/cut soooo well!!!), but he's also talking the serious talk! He has even mentioned (what now i guess in no longer heretic) the coming Ice Age in Europe (it's funny that people still think that the cooling will only affect Europe. Wishful huh?) |
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| Toto, I think we are in kansas still |
[Jan. 25th, 2006|01:27 pm] |
In Lawrence Kansas, Plans for a $75 million sewer plant considered crucial for future community growth may be delayed while city leaders learn all about living machines
“I think it would be easier on the river and the environment,” said Tom Bracciano, a member of the Public Advisory Committee and facilities planning director for the Lawrence school district. “Anytime you can use a natural approach, that’s good.” they are actually going ahead with this! Makes me so happy! |
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| A Message from Dr. David Suzuki |
[Jan. 8th, 2006|08:16 pm] |
Up here in Canada David Suzuki is a rock star of the ecoworld. He's a household name, TV star, activist, and committed like no one's business. When he gives a stern talk, everyone listens. But that's not today, this isn't stern, this is hopeful! (And nicked from his amazing DSFoundation Website). And it was in newspapers across Canada today!
Sea Change in Environmental Understanding- By David Suzuki
The New Year is often considered a time to reflect on the past and look ahead to see what's coming in the near future. Over the holidays, I had time to reflect on some recent events and I think what's coming next may be "good for the environment."
Why the quotation marks? Well, early in December, I spent a week in Montreal for the international climate negotiations. It was an amazing experience and I was fortunate enough to be able to speak with a wide variety of people, from delegates and dignitaries, to business leaders and citizens on the streets.
It was a busy time. There were peaceful protests and rallies. There were tough discussions behind closed doors. There were holdouts and those who attempted to derail negotiations. There were even a few confused souls standing out on street corners, handing out pamphlets insisting that global warming was some sort of hoax. Yes, the conference had a little of everything.
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| Judge calls anti hemp legislation "Assinine" |
[Dec. 19th, 2005|03:50 pm] |
That's right! He said Assinine
In the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, there's an interesting fight going on between the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and members of the Lakota Nation at Pine Ridge. DEA are trying to place an injunction preventing the White Plumes from growing industrial hemp. In what has been deemed a Tribal sovereignty case. You see the White Plume family has been planting industrial grade hemp (tho illegal to grow in the US, Industrial Hemp contains virtually none of the THC, not enough canabinals to give a buzz to any size human)
After the Government made it's case, Judge Arlin "Jim" Beam commented, "It seems asinine to me that they can bring in the Canadian stuff and use it but can't grow it." Beam also suggested that it did not make sense that Congress would try to make the economy of Native American tribes more enhanced by casino gambling but not allow industrial hemp cultivation.
The federal government filed a civil suit against the White Plumes in U.S. District Court in South Dakota despite the fact that the Lakota were growing hemp for seed and fiber when they entered into the treaties with the U.S. government. "Because federal Indian law allows tribes to continue doing something today that they were doing at the time they signed treaties with the U.S. government, the Lakota have an excellent chance at reversal," says Ken Friedman, local counsel for the Hemp Industries Association and Vote Hemp who submitted their brief in the White Plume case.
...when a federal judge calls Hemp Laws assinine, whar are they going to say? That Jim Bean better get off the wacky tobacky? can't wait to hear how this one plays out.... |
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| if you're only going to read one article shame on you, but still, if you are going to only read one |
[Dec. 14th, 2005|04:04 pm] |
If you only want to read one article about climate change. Ok, well aside from wishing you 'Good Luck Sucka' (no seriously, how can you do that? you can't throw a stick without hitting an article on climate change these days...) all I can say is read this one!
It's from The Economist ((who have really grown up over this whole debate... i remember when they'd write (in say, '92): "Why worry about climate change, it only affects 3% of the US economy, like farming and outdoor sporting events?" Really, they said that only a decade ago... my how they grow!)). And while I hate to spoil the ending for ya, here's why I am so into this article:
"The final, and largely overlooked, outcome of the (COP11 UNFCCC Montreal)conference may yet prove its most important: delegates agreed to promote carbon capture and sequestration technologies, and to get serious about adaptation to climate change"
See, while its all good to cap emissions (or try to, or trade credits to defray the emissions, or...), at some point we will have to face facts and start figuring out how to feed, heat, cool, and otherwise supply life support for a few billion people. And it wont happen without business getting involved, so it's high time that some publication like the economist get onboard. Now let's get on that adaptation stuff..... |
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| California; 3 Billion Dollars! ! ! ! |
[Dec. 14th, 2005|03:47 pm] |
move over florida--- CA is the king Sunshine State
The California Public Utilities Commission just announced a new program that will inject $3 Billion dollars into solar energy over the next decade in the form of consumer rebates and incentives! And we all say "Wooo Hooo!"
Apparently, California's move towards solar technology and other green energy sources comes after a state study found significant evidence that greenhouse gas pollution can be substantially reduced at a profit rather than a cost (and it's not like California's million and a half hippies haven't been singing that song for like, 30 years already, but anyhoo).... The study, commissioned by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, found that energy efficiency has helped the California economy grow an extra 3 percent - a $31 billion gain - compared to business as usual. And that ain't hay!
[to read more about this 3,000 MW deal, click here or here] |
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| the EZ way.... |
[Dec. 3rd, 2005|07:03 am] |
these guys can help!
r u american? do you want a hybrid vehicle (or better yet, a DIY electric and/or Biodiesel SVO)? do you want solar energy and wind? Have you read some of the reports here about the tax credits (like the guy a few weeks ago who got a $47K solar system for around $15K after rebates and incentives? Do you want that same thing and not know where to go? Ok, so thank the Alliance to Save Energy cause they just put out this online guide everything-you-need for new energy efficiency home/vehicle tax creditos! So, now what's your excuse? |
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| ch ..ch ..ch ..changes |
[Dec. 2nd, 2005|05:13 pm] |
((hey! thats the second one-word bowie quote i have here))
Wanna participate in the UNFCCC but not in Montreal? Well, Climate Action Network are down there on the floor, and every day they pin the winners of the Fossil Of The Day Awards and as you can see from the link, you can join in the fun! The award goes to the country how blocks the most progress at the conference. At presstime, the winner seems to be a three way tie between USA Russia and Australia. Go team go!
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....and on that climate chanhe Montreal topic: An interesting story form Financial Times today, about a new group at the conference, the NGO: Coalition for Rianforest Nations</a> basically working to get rainforest preservation valued for carbon exchange credits (one of the main grease wheels at the UNFCCC).
and if you do want one, here's a nice primer on climate change called Why Montreal Matters |
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| on the fence for this story... |
[Dec. 2nd, 2005|04:09 pm] |
The Eropean Union just released the news that they launched the Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants. A body which "will bring together energy companies, equipment suppliers, users, consumers, financial institutions, regulators, public authorities, researchers and civil society to develop common research goals, with the aim of a future where the use of power plants that emit no climate-damaging greenhouse gases.
And I am sitting on the fence about this. My initial stance was kinda skeptical and smart-ass, but I don't know....
The platform will focus on CO2 capture and underground storage. The aim is to capture carbon dioxide emissions as they are produced by power stations and then store them underground so that they can't add to the the greenhouse effect.
Mmmmm magma-soda.....
it's kinda silly. I'm all for capturing the CO2 at the source (as previously noted, algae biodiesel is way cool). Hey I'm all for scrubbing carbon out of the air the way they do it in submarines (just above ground). But why not make stuff with that carbon? Why do something that maybe after 100 years of carbonating the ground we realize has new and weirder consequences? Come on! Think silky uber-hip carbon polymer clothes! and diamonds! We can make so many diamonds that nobodies saw or drill bit will ever have to go dull... (not to mention algae for biodiesel and hydrogen
..and i know that these guys do amazing work so I was still listening... then i heard these argument from the people who actually do the sucking up of CO2, and i guess i figure well, as long as we can get them eventually to do something with that carbon.... |
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| Hemp For Victory! |
[Nov. 25th, 2005|09:07 am] |
Hemp Food Sales Grow 50 Percent Over Last Year; Canadian Farmers Triple Hemp Acreage to 24,000 in 2005
I read both of those awesome stats on a USNewswire.com release that just recently got slipped under the door. The news and stats, interestingly enough comes not from Agriculture Canada, but from the Hemp Industries Association, or HIA (pronounced "high-yeah") Annual conference in San Francisco (a place without which, we wouldn't have had the war on marijuana, nor hippies!). The data on annual retail sales of hemp food compiled by Leson & Associates shows a "50 percent increase, from an estimated $8 million during the 12-months reference period in 2003/04 to almost $12 million in 2004/05. During the same period, retail sales of hemp body care products grew by 15 percent from $35 million to about $40 million in 2004/05. Market wide data on the much larger sales of hemp fiber-based products such as clothing, paper and auto parts was not part of this new research, but should be available next year," the report said.. (Hemp paper, clothing, and fibers for auto parts are huge cash cows for hemp farmers, so you can imagine these numbers indicate the trends and growth but are tiny, compared to the real numbers). And as you already know, Hemp can really procure almost anything:
And according to the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA), the trade association representing all sectors of the Canadian hemp industry, Canadian farmers planted over 24,000 acres of hemp in 2005. This is almost triple the 2004 acreage and 6 times the 2002 acreage of about 4,000 acres. Canadian farmers are reporting net profits of $200 to $250 per acre and are very pleased to have a successful alternative crop. And of course, in the United States it is still illegal. Some members of Congress are trying to change the federal ban to allow states to regulate hemp farming. This summer H.R. 3037, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005 was introduced but has yet to get a hearing and is unlikely to become law this year. Currently fourteen states have passed pro-hemp legislation. But still the weed, which was once mandatory to grow for all farmers in the USA, which could also easily share the burden of fossil-free biodiesel while manufacturing car parts, TNT, micro fibers, paint and all these hippie products you can already buy in a health store... is illegal and controlled by the DEA.
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| thank you Forbes.... |
[Nov. 24th, 2005|07:44 am] |
DO SOLAR WHILE THE CREDIT SHINES
I found this article on Forbes today, and partially because it's one of those subscribe-first articles, as well as being a little cynical, I decided to cut/paste the whole dern article. Aside from the obvious jaded nature of the writer, it is chock-full of information for anyone seriously considering PV in the United States, good breakdowns and lots of facts.... so, enjoy!
Thinking of picking up a photovoltaic panel? Install it before the lavish tax subsidies expire.
(Forbes, by Ashlea Ebeling, apparently written December 12th 2005?)
A front porch with hanging flower baskets and stone-based columns softens the modern look of Bronwen and Jeffrey Martin's 4,600-square-foot home in Mooresville, N.C. But in back there's no confusing this $1.2 million structure with its more traditional neighbors: The rear south-facing glassy roof has two top rows of solar thermal panels that heat the house and its water and three bottom rows of solar photovoltaic panels that generate its electricity. "We have essentially locked in our future energy costs. And we can take hot showers forever," boasts Jeff Martin, a 38-year-old senior program manager at Microsoft. Adding to his solar bliss: $17,500 in state tax credits.
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| Sweet & Sour Pork |
[Nov. 24th, 2005|06:49 am] |
big news in Washintoon: many a greenie pissed off by "solar pork"
I find this an interesting conundrum--- both sides have good points, and yet the whole thing seems so lampoonish. I mean come on, Government Pork has traditionally been for the anti-green (stuff like highway building), and here we are in the 21st century where 1/2 of the solar PV industry is pitted against the other and the mud if flying out of the trough.... Traditionally the government calls it "Earmarking." A Bill is about to be passed (let's say about politeness, or some abortion pill), and some congressman comes over and tacks on a highway amendment, saying basically, he will vote for the bill, so long as his friends back home get to build another $75M highway in his home town (i mean, voting base). But that's oldschool--- we're in the 21st now!
And as reported today in Renewable Energy Access the shizzle is hitting the fanizzle in a big way. What's going on is that state-by-state "Earmarking" has been done to support big mega solar projects. Good you say, right? Well, apparently its at the cost of our future (sort of). For example, NREL had to lay off a whole bunch of people (who were working on new solar techs, new applications and processes)... Which in my opinion sucks. They have always been on the forefront, and losing their funding so that some private company can get $2M to build a 1Megawatt solar plant on a brownfield near the highway may or may not be a great alternative (it's good in the sense that people driving by will acclimatize themselves to solar being good). It is a tough one, because other examples are even dumber; Sandia labs for example just got $3.5M to build a demonstration site to show off their parabolic solar stirling systems. Great tech! I'm all for people knowing about it, but don't you think that a 4,500 acre site in the California desert is a good demonstration, especially since a company is paying for it, not the government dole?
I'm all for government sponsored facilitation. I love tax credits and rebates and incentives... shit, just removing the market barriers would be good enough for me. And I do think that there's merit in these mega-projects and demonstrations... but when it comes in the old fashioned method of pork "earmarking" I think we are bound to get into a Gap Dress situation; media shock, disinformation, and the rest...
I'm really on the fence on this one. Will have to see how it plays itself out.... |
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| in France they say: "vendez-nous votre électricité solaire et faites les merde-charges de l'argent!" |
[Nov. 18th, 2005|09:36 am] |
Paris' new Feed In Tariffs go beyond anyone's expectations
OK we've talked about Feed In Tarrifs before. But nowhere have I heard the seriousness of what just happened in France. Wow! The Government just announced that the EDF, their electricity purchasing body, will be purchasing solar power from individual residents and companies, and unlike here, where we hope to see a modest 15% feed in tariff (they pay a 15% premium, more for your excess solar electricity then the selling price), France has taken it to a new level. Now, the EDF will be paying residents a 50% feed in tariff (they will pay people 50% more). And, if you happen to be a business and have solar panels on your roof, they will buy that with a 100% feed in!! Yup! They will pay you twice what they charge people for dirty nuclear electricity. Don't believe me? check it out for yourself |
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| The Al & Bruce show... |
[Nov. 14th, 2005|10:12 am] |
...in case you don't check those links up at the top of my blog-- the "Viridian Pope" Bruce Sterling just cut/pasted/added_comment to Al Gore's latest open letter. The letter itself is pretty strong. And every American ought to read it. Of course I like the read much more with Bruce's trademark (((comments from the peanut gallery))) and hope you do, too ...So, the whole thing is available right from the Viridian site [[with lotsa other nice goodies!!]]. But now, i leave the floor to the venerable Misters Gore & Sterling:
(((The United States came amazingly close to having this guy become President. Now, although physical reality is lavishly backing up Al Gore's oft-rehearsed environmental themes, he's writing plaintive screeds for dodgy little online zines like SALON rather than making legislation. Well, we do what we can, eh?)))
The time to act is now "The climate crisis and the need for leadership.
By Al Gore. Nov. 04, 2005
"It is now clear that we face a deepening global climate crisis that requires us to act boldly, quickly and wisely. 'Global warming' is the name it was given a long time ago. But it should be understood for what it is: a planetary emergency that now threatens human civilization on multiple fronts. Stronger hurricanes and typhoons represent only one of many new dangers as we begin what someone has called 'a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.' (((I wonder who that "someone" was; he's sure got a nice line of gab. I also wonder why politicians always say "the time to act is now," even when it's crystal-clear that the proper time to act was quite a long time ago.)))
"As I write, my heart is heavy due to the suffering the people of the Gulf Coast have endured. In Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and particularly in New Orleans, thousands have experienced losses beyond measure as our nation and the world witnessed scenes many of us thought we would never see in this great country. But unless we act quickly, this suffering will be but a beginning. (((Due to lag-time in climate change, it's just a beginning EVEN IF we do act quickly.)))
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