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Join the movement on March 28th, wherever your are in the world, turn off all the lights and enjoy a quite moment with friends and family in honor of the earth.

Vote Earth Your Light Switch is Your Vote

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This independent film narrated by Robert Redford, is about how the coal companies tried to fast track their way into Texas. Watching this movie gives you an idea how when big business has the prey in their eyesight, they will put out all the stops, steal and lie to get what they want. If environmentalists are not watching out for the people and the planet, big business will have their way and they don’t have our interests at heart. This film is an inspiration to all that are fighting against big business greed. The film is about a half hour long and well worth the time.

How far should we be willing to go? As far as it takes! Become involved, we do have a say.

“From the outset FIGHTING GOLIATH: TEXAS COAL WARS was intended to serve as a tool for raising awareness, inspiring action, and creating a meaningful dialogue about how to overcome one of the greatest threats to public health contributors to global warming faced by the U.S.—conventional coal-fired power plants. FIGHTING GOLIATH follows the story of farmers, ranchers and Mayors fighting against the construction of 18 new coal-burning power plants in Texas. TXU Corp. withdrew eight of the 11 permit applications shortly before the case went to court, when it was announced that shareholders would sell the utility to private equity firms. The film was produced by the Redford Center at the Sundance Preserve and Alpheus Media, and directed by Mat Hames and George Sledge.”
(Snag Films.com)

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In honor of Earth Day: Take a few Green Steps…

Give the Earth Some Love…

Walk to work or play. With the price of gas these days, taking this step won’t be as difficult as it seemed before. Take a walk on the wild side, walk to work, the grocery store, the library, the kids school. Who knows maybe you will like it, and will continue the trend, it’s not only good for the environment, but also good for your health.

Earth Day Footprint : Want to know what kind of a footprint you are leaving on this earth? Check out the Ecological Footprint Quiz over at Earthday.net, and here is a version of a Ecological Footprint Quiz for Kids over at Kidsfootprint.org

Buy Local but watching what you buy is just as important: If your food comes from afar, you can be sure that energy was spent to get it to you, but also the type of food you eat can make a difference… Check out this article over at GreensSAHM.com ” it’s not so much where your food comes from, it’s what you’re eating.”

Read Green and Make Some Money while your at it: Intriguing book by author David Bach discussed over at TheGoodeLife.com covers 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth (and Get Rich Trying)!

Save Gas: Don’t Turn Left: Huh????? Groovy Green has a story on how UPS saves gas…UPS-No Left Turns Allowed

It’s not all about “Good Energy Policy” : Follow the reasoning of the “No Impact Man” for whether Individual Lifestyle Changes will make a difference.

Get rid of those water bottles: give up convenience for the environment. Here are 5 good reasons to give them up on Earth Day… from LighterFootstep.com

Lose those Hazardous Chemicals : Learn to identify hazardous chemicals and replace them with greener, healthier ones that do the job just as well. Clean Green to Stay Healthy and Save Money

Earthday is the perfect day to start a garden, an Organic Garden at that. Here are some great tips for doing just that.

Put the Three R’s to work: How about Reduce,Reuse, and Recycle. Salvage Yard finds are a great place to start putting some Green Style in your home…

Noise Pollution: Imagine a world without noise. GreenLivingTips.com makes some great points on the effects of Noise on the Environment. Make Earth Day your No Noise Day…

Anything you and I can do, will help…

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Earth Hour Goes Global

Today is the day

Join the rest of the world

When millions of people turn off their light

On March 29th at 8pm

join the movement against Global Warming

by turning your lights off for one hour

Turn out for Earth Hour

Earth Hour Lights Out America

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The fluctuations in the weather worldwide make you think…

• Feb 19: Kuwait Dust storm disrupts air and port traffic for the second time in 2 days. Read More
• Feb 19: 72 people die of Cholera after floods ravage Mozambique since late January. Read More
• Feb 20: Flash Floods kill 26 in the Philippines. Read more
• Feb 22: UN study says that World fishing grounds are affected by climate change. Read More
• Feb 22: Madagascar Cyclone Kills 29, leaves 70,000 homeless. Read More
• March 1: Severe drought in China causes drinking water shortage for millions. Read More
• March 2: Hurricane strength winds cross Europe killing 13 people. Read More
• March 3: Flooding in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4 killed/ 3 missing. Read More

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Will your Candidate be Green enough? Do you know how they stand on the issues? Here’s a peek…

John McCain

• Believes that climate change is real and that greenhouse gases are damaging the environment, but even if the science cannot prove it, doing nothing is not an option.
• Introduced Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007 .
• Committed to using Nuclear Power, conservation, and new technologies.
• Would sign a Global treaty but has to include both India and China.

Hillary Clinton

• Would develop new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, focusing on global deforestation.
• New mission for Department of Energy would be to move in the direction of energy independence towards solar, wind, bio-fuels, hydro-power, geothermal, and other renewable sources.
• Market based cap and trade system to reduce carbon pollution, including efficiency and fuel economy standards, to lower the U.S. contribution to Global Warming below the 1990 levels by 80%.
• Opposes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
• Fund new research by taking away subsidies from the Oil Companies and putting that money to work in the Alternative Energy Field.
• Believes turning the focus on Green Building and Alternative Energy could create millions of jobs for the American Economy that could not easily be outsourced.

Mike Huckabee

• Whether or not Humans have caused Global Warming or not, believes it is our responsibility to leave the planet in better condition for future generations.
• Would pursue all areas of alternative energy including Wind, Solar, Clean Coal, and Bio-diesel.
• Would put limits on Greenhouse gas emissions.
• Supports drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
• Supports increasing offshore drilling.
• Would create a profitable market for alternative energy by making the government the biggest user.

Barak Obama

• Would implement an economy wide cap and trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Proposes a new International Global Warming Partnership.
• Plans to introduce a National Low Carbon Standards (LCFS), to speed up the introduction of low-carbon non-petroleum fuels.
• Create a new Technology Transfer Program within the Dept. of Energy, who’s mission would be to export climate-friendly technologies to developing countries.
• Incentives to maintain forests globally and manage them sustainably.
• Domestic incentives that reward forest owners, farmers and ranchers for planting trees, restore grasslands and undertake farming practices that capture carbon dioxide.
• Believes the cap on emissions would create a market for Clean Technologies.
• Reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

Source: CNN.com: Elections 2008

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Yep you heard right, the “Doomsday Vault” as it is referred to because it is a place where millions of seeds from over 100 countries will be kept in case of a doomsday scenario. If in a disaster, a collection of seeds is destroyed in its natural habitat, then there would remain a alternate source. Not a bad idea, considering the history of humanity.

The chosen place for this earth saving vault is called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located in an Arctic mountain near the town of Longyearbyen , on the Island of Stpitzberger, in Norway. It consist of 3 chambers, that have been dug 400 feet deep into the permafrost . The seeds will be kept at a temperature of minus -0.4F degrees or minus -18C degrees. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…

The project’s intent is to preserve the earths crop diversity in case of a natural or man-made disaster. There will be thousands of varieties of seeds from over 100 countries deposited in the vault, including some that are not currently being commercially used but that may be of use when and if earth conditions change. Even in the event of drastic Global Warming and Arctic ice melt, it is believed that the facility can keep the seeds safely frozen for at least 200 years. The belief is that some of these seeds will be able to live and grow for thousands of years.

Source: Times Online

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6 Degrees of Separation: It’s a small World after all.

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I watched part of the National Geographic Show called “Six Degrees”, which ponders the question of what would happen in the world if the temperature were to rise by 1,2,3,4,5, or 6 degrees, and it got me thinking about how much of this is already happening. Everyday some extreme weather event happens somewhere in the world, and it will be chronicled here on this weekly series. It will be interesting to see if there are patterns, or just flukes.

From the National Geographic Site:

• One Degree of Warming
  • At one degree of warming, the Arctic is ice-free for half the year, the South Atlantic—typically void of hurricanes—experiences coastal hurricanes, and in the western U.S. severe droughts are plaguing residents.

• Two Degrees of Warming
  
  • Polar bears struggle to survive as glaciers increasingly melt away. Glaciers in Greenland begin to disappear, while coral reefs are vanishing.
• Three Degrees of Warming
  • The Amazon rainforest is drying out and El Niño’s intense weather pattern becomes the norm. Europe repeatedly experiences searing summer heat that has rarely happened before.

• Four Degrees Of Warming
  • Oceans could rise, taking over coastal cities. The disappearance of glaciers may deprive many of fresh water. Northern Canada’s agriculture could boom and a Scandinavian beach could be the next tourism hotspot. A part of Antarctica could collapse, causing water to rise even further.

• Five Degrees Of Warming:

  • Uninhabitable zones could spread, snow pack and aquifers feeding big cities could dry up, and climate refugees could run in the millions. Human civilization could begin to break down with this drastic of changes to the climate. The poor would likely suffer the most.

• Six Degrees Of Warming
  • At six degrees, the oceans could be marine wastelands, the deserts could march across continents, and natural disasters could become common events. The world’s great cities could be flooded and abandoned. This could be “the doomsday scenario.”

Feb 1-12 /Extreme Weather Events:

• La Paz, Bolivia: President Evo Morales declares a State of Emergency after weeks of flooding, lead to 60 death so far and 43,000 people finding themselves homeless.
• China:Millions of Chinese on the way back to work will have to once again brave transportation problems amid more bad weather on the horizon. On the way to Chinese Lunar Year Celebrations with their families, hundreds of thousands got caught in the heaviest snow storms in 50 Years, which caused major power outages and transport gridlock as millions were on their way home for the celebrations.
• U.S.: Tornados sweep the south in th US, killing 52 people. More than 50 tornadoes touched down as a series of rare winter thunderstorms rolled through the region late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
• Tajikistan: An ex-Soviet Republic has to ration the electricity supply to it’s capital, Dushanbe, because a sever freeze has paralyzed it’s power grid. Winter temperatures that usually hover around 32 degrees F, have dropped to 4 degrees below zero F. Rationing in the city has gone down to 10 hrs a day, and in the outlying areas to 90 minutes per day. “ The cold has iced over a river feeding the lake that drives the Nurek hydroelectric power plant, with an impact on supplies right across the country. Wells and other sources of water supply have also been disrupted.”
  
• Afghanistan: Cold Snap Kills 760 in Afghanistan along with thousands of livestock in what is believed to be the heaviest snowfall in 30 years.
• Tonga: A freak storm dumps a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours on the South Pacific Island Nation of Tonga. Up to 11.38 inches of water rained on parts of the main island of Tongatapu.

Source: TerraDaily.com

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