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Green Christmas Gift Ideas

Posted by Average Voter on Saturday, November 14, 2009 7:36:30 PM
   From the Daily Green, we have some extreme green gifts for those enviro-nutters in your family. Here are some examples.
 
Want to start making your own food? How about this...
eglu cube
 
   Is your time almost up? Why put yourself in a plastic box...
 
bamboo coffin
 
Not hip to all the electrionic gizmo's? Don't want to be?
 
i-wood 3b
 
For the golfers in your life; corn based biodegradable golf tee's.
Biodegradable Golf Tees
 
Got a loved one living in Hawaii? This one is perfect...
 
solar-powered cooler
   Just a few good green ideas, and crazy ones, for all your loved ones.
 
 
 
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NBC's Prime Time Green Time

Posted by Average Voter on Saturday, November 14, 2009 6:55:33 PM
   NBC has decided to put our favorite greenie on a prime time show, along with some green messages in some of the shows as well.

“30 Rock,’’ where Al Gore takes a cameo role, leads the way. Environmental themes were also added to the scripts of “The Biggest Loser,’’ “The Office,’’ “Heroes,’’ and “Community.’’

NBC Universal’s three-year “green’’ campaign has largely focused on off-camera issues like making company facilities more eco-friendly. News and information programs have also been enlisted to do stories on environmental issues, but except for one “30 Rock’’ episode two years ago, the campaign hasn’t touched the prime-time lineup.
 
   Set your DVR!
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Even the Brit's Aren't Buying It Anylonger

Posted by Average Voter on Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:47:24 PM
   A new poll out in Britian the other day shows only 2 out of 5 people think global warming is man-made.
 
The findings threaten to undermine Gordon Brown's position at next month's UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, when he will push for international agreement to cut carbon emissions.

Mr Brown's hand in negotiations will be weakened if other countries think that he does not enjoy solid public support at home for his stance on global warming.
 
   The climate is changing alright, just not the way the British Prime Minister had hoped. If he isn't careful, his job may be changing as well.
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Can Climate Change In Months?

Posted by Average Voter on Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:34:53 PM
   According to this group of  scientists climate can change in mere months. (Via Instapundit)
 
Until now, it was thought that the mini ice age took a decade or so to take hold, on the evidence provided by Greenland ice cores. Not so, say William Patterson of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, and his colleagues.

The group studied a mud core from an ancient lake, Lough Monreagh, in western Ireland. Using a scalpel they sliced off layers 0.5 to 1 millimetre thick, each representing up to three months of time. No other measurements from the period have approached this level of detail.

Carbon isotopes in each slice revealed how productive the lake was and oxygen isotopes gave a picture of temperature and rainfall. They show that at the start of the Big Freeze, temperatures plummeted and lake productivity stopped within months, or a year at most. "It would be like taking Ireland today and moving it up to Svalbard" in the Arctic, says Patterson, who presented the findings at the BOREAS conference in Rovaniemi, Finland, on 31 October.
 
   Well, what do you suppose that means? Nothing, probably. If you do enough digging around and enough "scientific" research, you can get just about any answer you want to describe climate. I believe we have no clear idea what is going on. The research is good, but let's not jump to conclusions about how it all comes together.
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More Government Control Hiding In The Climate Bill

Posted by Average Voter on Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:21:31 PM
   In case CO2 reaches 450 ppm in the future (currently it is about 380ppm), the cap and trade bill from the senate has a neat little clause that woiuld allow the federal governmnet to inact any type of regulation it so desires on business to control emissions.
 
   Through a Science Acadamy board, created in this bill, it will determine once we reach 450ppm what actions need to be taken to limit the bills indentified greenhouse gases, and send a recomendation to the president. He can then direct the appropriate agencies to impose those recommendations onto the private sector. That means energy companies, the oil industry, refineries, any business that emmits any amount of carbon gases could get stradled with regulations that the govenment so deems necessary. Sound great, right?
 
   Of course, the general consensus is that we will reach that within the next decade or so. With countries like China and India taking no action in regards to CO2 limiting, it seems more like a government power grab than a way to protect the people.
 
   But with so many things in our past, we the people must stand up to this, like we have thus far with the Obamacare, and demand a stop to it, or we will make sure they no longer have any power.
 
   If you click here, you can read through section 705- 707 and read for yourself the power they are giving to this Science Acadamy board and the president.
 
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Reasonable Climate Action

Posted by Average Voter on Saturday, November 14, 2009 10:23:40 AM
   If we had more of this type of action, more people might be interested in down something, instead of being robbed, by government, of their money to combat something that is not proven.
 
An olive grove in South Africa's Western Cape Province is the unlikely setting for an ambitious environmental and humanitarian project which aims to combat global warming and ease the plight of children born into AIDS-ravaged communities. It has already caught the imagination of environmentally-aware companies and individuals in Europe with its simple and straightforward approach to the global warming issue. Carbon credits are being earned by companies wishing to offset their carbon footprint by an ambitious tree planting programme in the Western Cape and other impoverished and needy areas of southern Africa. The double benefit: an improved environment for everyone, and vastly improved economic prospects for local people.

They are funding the planting of olive trees in a project set up by Carbon Credit Tree Africa, a company formed specifically to help local communities in Africa to make a positive contribution to the worldwide battle against global warming. Carbon Credit Tree Africa is the conduit through which western companies and individuals have channelled their own personal carbon credits to the benefit of the African communities, and, in the long term to the benefit of the whole planet.

Just one of these hardy trees can offset three tonnes of carbon emissions during its lifetime. So for many people the equation is starkly simple: paying for the planting of just one tree can make a significant difference, and give an individual a major carbon credit contribution

 
   What a novel idea! Come up with a market based program that will benefit everyone, not just money changers in the government.
   
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