Links to Environmental Information
Barron was one of only two workers from the drill floor to survive. He had been so excited to be working his first shift there.He struggles with the loss. "All the guys I loved were on that rig."
He can't help but recall the ominous feeling they all had about this well since the first drill bit burrowed into the Earth.
"This well did not want to be drilled," he says. "It just seemed like we were messing with Mother Nature."
David MacKay is a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge. His book, "Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air," is published by UIT Cambridge and is also available in electronic form for free from: www.withouthotair.com/
The Original Sin
www.resurgence.org/magazine/article2758-The-Original-Sin.html
"The mountaintop removal mine may be the ultimate manifestation of modern industrial people’s ideology of conquest. It symbolises a sociopathic culture, a culture so thoroughly divorced from its roots in wild Nature that it views the living Earth merely as a smorgasbord of ‘resources’ for exploitation and profit. Blowing up mountains and burying streams in pursuit of coal is a practice that could only be conceived by people who have forgotten – or reject – our species’ kinship with all of life. It is a form of violence against the land so rapacious that it literally condemns mountains to death. It ignores the fundamental need for health. It promotes sickness. It is utterly contemptuous of the future. It is one generation of humans saying to other members of the land community, “You don’t matter,” and to our own descendants, “Screw you, I got mine.”"
Renewable energy - not so green
ctgreenscene.typepad.com/ct_green_scene/2009/02/renewable-energy-not-green.html#more
"5 Places to see before Global Warming Messes Them Up"
www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/02/17/global.warming.travel/index.html
"What the public doesn't get about climate change"
www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1853871,00.html
CT Green Scene - Great Blog by various writers
ctgreenscene.typepad.com/
International Panel on Climate Change - 2007 Report
www.ipcc.ch/index.htm
Dreaming of a Climate Change Bailout
www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/02/700bn.climate/index.html
Time Magazine - Links to Green Websites
www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1730759_1731034_1732025,00.html
E-magazine Link
www.emagazine.com/
The Green Grok
www.nicholas.duke.edu/insider/thegreengrok/
In The Headlines
BBC World News, Oct. 24th 2006 – The World Wildlife Fund has released it’s Living Planet Report 2006 that documents that if we continue on our current consumption of our natural resources, we will need another planet by the year 2050. We are currently consuming 25% more resources than our planet can sustain in the long term. www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/living_planet_report/
That’s only 44 years away people! What part of this are we, meaning the educated industrialized nations who do the most consuming, not getting?
National Geographic Magazine, September 2006 Issue - The cover photograph shows one of our National Parks vistas with three steaming smoke stacks visible. “Come see our parks now, because their natural beauty isn’t going to be around much longer.” Another article: Trace chemical testing of one man’s blood shows 165 chemicals contaminates detected in his body.
So, the industrial revolution has produced some ugly side effects that we all thought the FDA and EPA were supposed to protect us from. Take note of the chemicals that are now being banned like fire retardants? Don’t forget lead paint and asbestos. Is the Clean Air Act really working? What new concoctions do we need to be dubious of their benefits vs. hazards? Where’s the funding for renewable energy research?
The Nature Conversancy – They hired famous professional photographers to go to ‘The Last Great Places” on our planet to photograph them, lest they be gone too soon. The images have become a traveling exhibition. http://www.nature.org/aboutus/inresponse/
Is the natural beauty of our Planet Earth going to be reduced to just images on a wall in our museums and galleries, like our endangered animals are in our zoos?
Artist Manifesto
• Awareness of the issues and crisis at hand. Educate everyone about conservation. Put a Madison Avenue advertising spin on it to make it cool if that is what it takes, but just do it!
• Enact more stringent laws about polluting and the governance of resources. Enforce the laws.
• As much funding as has been spent on the wars against each other to be spent on scientific and university research to find alternative fuels. Global Warming…who’s right, who’s wrong? Facts are facts, no?
• Big Oil, Big Telecom, Big Chemical companies to step back and think about their Grandchildren’s future. What happens when the oil and coal run out? What about Internet neutrality so everyone has equal access speeds to learn more and perhaps be part of the solution instead of crawling along on dial-up? How many chemical contaminates are in their own bodies?
• I want computers and digital cameras, but not to destroy our planet to have these tools. I want a hot shower but not at the risk of needing another nuclear power plant to heat it. The guilt is often overwhelming to me. You?
• Greater Good… I want our Government to take the lead with common sense and not the lobbyist’s money.
• Renewed Respect for Mother Earth. We have messed with Mother Nature. The delicate dance of molecules and energy has been tossed up for grabs. It’s time to pay some respect and honor our natural resources and environment.
What YOU can do today to change the path we are on
- Write your congress representatives that environmental issue are very important to our basic survival in the long term. The sooner we start to make changes, the slower the destruction of our planet.
- Recycle ALL materials like plastics and cardboard along with all the paper, bottles, and cans.
- Take them to your local recycling center if you don’t have curbside pick-ups.
- Walk more, drive less. Use public transportation instead.
- Build Green. Buy EnergyStar appliances. Read packaging.
