Environment : Our mother nature's beautiful gift to us. Air, water, soil, plants, animals everything around us has a major role to play in this world. Everything is dependent on the other. We had such an marvelous environment that depicts a heaven on earth. Are we really treasuring it?
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are those who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. --Frederick Douglass 1857
on September 4th, give up food for a day, And Send a powerful message on global warming.
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Coal-to-Liquid is a Giant Leap Backwards
UPDATE: On June 19th, the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Bunning that would have mandated a 6 billion gallon market by 2022 for liquid coal with a vote of 39-55.
Also on June 19th, the Senate rejected an amendment led by Sen. Tester that would have provided $10 billion in loan guarantees for the development of liquid coal in a vote of 33-61.
In an editorial on June 14, the Washington Post called the coal-to-liquid movement a "sop to the coal industry that would pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. That is not the way to go."
Thursday, January 31st, 2008KPFA brings you a day-long broadcast from the largest teach-in in US history, from the campus of San Francisco State University.
10:10-11:00 Business and climate change Peter Melhus, Management, SFSU; Bryan Cole, Clif Bar; Wendy Pulling, PG & E; Susan Cholette, Decision Sciences, SFSU
11:10-11:55 The "Big Picture": war, capitalism and climate change 'War and Climate Change', Carlos Davidson, ENVS, SFSU; Antonia Juhasz, Institute for Policy Studies
Thursday, January 31st, 2008KPFA continues its day-long broadcast from the campus of San Francisco State University. Focus the Nation is the largest teach-in in US history.
12:05-1:00 Policymaker Roundtable Wade Crowfoot, Director of Climate Protection Initiatives, Office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom; Ross Mirkarimi, San Francisco Supervisor, Dictrict 5; Bob Twomey, District Director,
Office of Assemblymember Fiona Ma, 12th Assembly District; Tom Lantos, Congressman, California's 12th District
1:10-2:00 Creative responses to climate change "Serpentine," Douglas Johnson, SFSU ENVS Student; Fashion for Change, Connie Ulasewicz, Consumer & Family Studies, SFSU; Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi live web chat with SFSU students
Thursday, January 31st, 2008KPFA continues its day-long broadcast from the campus of San Francisco State University. Focus the Nation is the largest teach-in in US history
2:10-3:00 Climate change and social justice II 'Making climate solutions equitable in the U.S.', Nia Robinson, Director, Environmental Justice and Climate Change; 'Climate change and global justice', Paul Baer, EcoEquity
Despite the US government’s opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, California, New York and New Jersey embraced carbon trading Tuesday as they joined European governments, Canadian provinces, and New Zealand to launch a forum known as the International Carbon Action Partnership.
David Price is the co-founder of Debategraph and member of WAVE project , an eParticipation project using visual debate techniques for climate change regulations in Europe
WAVE is a new free social media tool that harnesses the power of collaborative action to help give individuals and communities a voice on the climate change issues that matter to them.