As part of 350.org‘s worldwide “Moving Planet: A day to move beyond fossil fuels” event this Saturday, Greenpeace-Charlotte is planning to stage a “die in” at Duke Energy’s headquarters from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
My first question — perhaps it was yours, too — was, “What in the hell is a ‘die in’?” As it turns out, if all goes well, there will be no actual deaths.
According to Greenpeace:
Greenpeace-Charlotte will hold a die-in (mock death) at the Duke Energy Headquarters in Uptown Charlotte. The worldwide event is being organized by 350.org and those attending locally will be urged to chant “We want clean energy” in order to get the word to Duke Energy that we want them to quit using dirty coal and switch to clean renewable options like wind and solar.
And then, from noon until 2 p.m. they’ll be passing around petitions at Festival in the Park. Find out more here.
Here’s more on the “Moving Planet” event:
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2011.
Wow what narrow minded people. It would probably take a windmill in every yard to generate enough power to replace what we get from natural resources, that is if the wind continues to blow. Or every home can have a roof of panels for the days when the sun shines. Then though the Sierra club would complain about how bad it looks and the Audobon society would hate the way it affected the birds ability to fly around. We could buy all our solar panels from China since even 500 million in loans is still not enough to help a company compete against foreign competition. Maybe all you special interest groups will be happy once America is back to living as the natives did before the Europeans came. This continent was so much better. Think about it.
Um, our state could get PLENTY of its energy with offshore wind production, and solar panels are much more efficient than they used to be, improving all the time. If you’re just naysaying because environmentalists annoy you, its not for the right reason. You’d think EVERYONE would be open to the idea of increasingly plentiful cheap energy.
Give proof please of this so called incresingly plentiful cheap energy I BEG OF YOU. Last I checked it was more expensive to run a wind farm than the actual money it generates from energy. Last I checked solar panels are veeeeery expensive and dont last long enough for the offset in cost to catch up. STU stop drinking the kolaid YOUR LIPS ARE PURPLE!
You know, I just have to say that if it wasn’t for Greenpeace beating the anti-nuclear power drum 30 years ago, this world would most likely not be in the carbon dioxide induced global warming trend (provided that is what is truly occuring) that has occured since then. The rest of the world followed our lead then in moving away from nuclear, and the world is now paying the price. But you know, I don’t see the Greenpeace stepping up and taking credit for that “victory”. Or maybe I am being too short sighted.
Just another case of not thinking beyond Stage 1…
An easy assessment of the true cost of these “alternative energy” projects as opposed to traditional base load sources (Coal, Nuclear, NG) is to inquire as to the extent in which the tax credits the project will obtain/generate are integral to the project’s financing structure.
It is one thing to offer a tax credit to spurn the development of an alternative energy source. It is entirely another to necessitate these credits to move forward with a project that is otherwise non-viable.
The best option always is to not use it in the first place! So all you ‘environmentalist’, how much do you use? Do you think solar and wind are green? Think again. There is a huge amount of energy use to produce a solar panel and there are really nasty chemicals used (cadmium). In 20 years, your solar panels will be a hazardous waste! Wind, well composite materials and steel. Yes, nuclear is probably still a great path to take but we aren’t educated enough to see the light……..
A fanatic: someone who can’t change her mind and won’t change the subject. See: Fionn, Rhiannon
Just put some scrubbers on those good ole reliable coal burners. There! Problem solved! Clean fuel again! Any more problems to solve? My other half says those activists ought to go ahead and be buried since they’re already dead . . . they’ll make good manure/fuel for another generation.
A fanatic: someone who trolls a website, unhealthily obsessed with certain writers (Rhiannon, Grooms), and leaves asinine comments about everything they post. See: Whad, Dicque
A reporter is a “fanatic” because she tells the community about an event. Really? The commenter who makes wild and frequent assumptions about people they’ve never met is totally sane, though, I’m sure.
The most interesting thing to me is that no one has commented on the issue this “die in” was presenting… that coal is killing people! We don’t need an energy source that is costing our lives and the lives of our children!
Someone dies every hour in the US because of disease related to coal. They cause heart attacks, breathing problems, SIDS, birth defects, brain damage, and the list keeps going.
Aren’t human lives worth more than corporate profits??
to MC / try again:
Here’s a report all about offshore wind in NC. We are ranked #1 on the East Coast for offshore wind potential and can power more than our current energy use (112%)!!!
http://na.oceana.org/sites/default/files/North_Carolina_0.pdf
and thank you to the author (Rhiannon Fionn) for always posting stories with SUBSTANCE! Much better than most of the things getting written about today.