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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
News / Earth-Day The Earth will be fine
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM
According to Joseph Romm, of ClimateProgress.org, you can stop worrying about the planet, it'll be fine. We're the ones who are screwed.
Dumping Earth Day has been on my mind for a year now -- and all the more so today because the NYT magazine just published an interview with our Nobel-prize winning Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, in which he says:
I would say that from here on in, every day has to be Earth Day.Well, duh! Heck, we have a whole day just for the trees -- and we haven’t finished them off … yet. So if every day is Earth Day, than April 22 definitely needs a new name.
I don’t worry about the earth. I’m pretty certain the earth will survive the worst we can do to it. I’m very certain the earth doesn’t worry about us. I’m not alone. People got more riled up when scientists removed Pluto from the list of planets than they do when scientists warn that our greenhouse gas emissions are poised to turn the earth into a barely habitable planet.
Read the rest of this AlterNet.org article here.
Watch Secretary Chu talk about climate change:
Earth-Day / News 'Green' sex toys
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM
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Film / Film Reviews / Earth-Day / News Earth Day viewing: An Inconvenient Truth
Posted By Matt Brunson on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:24 AM
By Matt Brunson
Cinematically, what better way to celebrate Earth Day than by reprinting CL’s original review of the Oscar-winning documentary (and surprise box office hit) An Inconvenient Truth? I guess by popping the film itself into the DVD player.
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
***1/2
DIRECTED BY Davis Guggenheim
STARS Al Gore
There's a point in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth when Al Gore, who now gingerly introduces himself by saying, "I used to be the next president of the United States," soberly insists that global warming is not a political issue but a moral one. He's absolutely right, of course, but you wouldn't know it from listening to folks whose ancestors doubtless were the ones insisting that the earth was flat.
Republican Senator James Inhofe declared that global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." (Really? Over those WMDs?) Exxon apologist Sterling Burnett slyly compared Gore to Joseph Goebbels on (but of course) FOX News. And controversial meteorologist Bill Gray, in a Washington Post interview, also stated that global warming is "one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people" (OK, who's the plagiarist, Inhofe or Gray?) and went on to opine that "Gore believes in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews."
Goebbels? Hitler? I suppose if we shave Gore's head, we'll find a little "666" birthmark, right?
Earth-Day / News Blynk Organic celebrates with free coffee tasting
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:02 AM
A little birdie (named Twitter) told us that Blynk Organic will be hosting a free organic and direct trade coffee tasting 7 am - 4 pm today. Stop by Blynk, located in the lobby of 200 South Tryon St. uptown, to get your daily dose of caffeine.
Earth-Day / News What is deep ecology?
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Satish Kumar explains:
What it means to be an Earth Pilgrim:
Happy Earth Day. Turn off the computer. Get up. Go for a walk. Recycle something. Don't buy something. Turn off the lights as you leave the room. Be sweet to our Momma.
Boomer with Attitude / Earth-Day / News Mountaintop removal mining foe wins major environmental prize
Posted By John Grooms on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:56 AM
The 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize winners were announced yesterday, and one of them has a lot of relevance to our area, particularly Duke Energy customers.
The Goldmans have been awarded for 20 years to honor environmentalists around the world, and comes with individual cash prizes of $150,000. The winner from North America is Maria Gunnoe, a West Viriginian activist who has been a leader in the struggle to end mountaintop removal coal mining. That type of "mining" has ravaged huge swaths of Appalachia and wrecked the lives of many of that area's residents by creating toxic waste that has left toxic coal sludge in their yards and seeped into their groundwater. Duke Energy, which Charlotteans rely on for electricity — not that there's a choice — supports mountaintop removal mining and uses coal derived from this horrendous process to burn in its power plants. If you want to let Duke know how you feel about their support of mountaintop removal mining, contact them at https://www.duke-energy.com/contact/contact.asp. See more about the Goldman Environmental Prize winners here.
News / Earth-Day Ocean of Plastic
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Here's yet another reason to get one of those canvas grocery bags:
The Wack List / Earth-Day / News The Wack List: April 22
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM
In honor of Earth Day, here are five eco-oriented people, place and things we really ain't digging today.
• Folks who criticize celebrities for taking stands against pollution and global warming. Who gives a shit if Al Gore flies in a private jet? At the end of the day, I think Exxon is doing waayyyyy more damage than one flight on a G4.
• America's shrinking rivers
• The possibility that recycling might be a waste (let's hope it ain't!)
• People who don't believe they'll save gas by inflating car tires
