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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 2, 2011 at 7:50pm



Smart Meter, Big Brother

The goal of smart meter technology is to improve energy efficiency, cut greenhouse gases and save consumers money. But Kevin Doran, a Senior Research Professor at the University of Colorado, tells host Bruce Gellerman that these smart meters raise privacy concerns because they can potentially reveal personal details about customers' at-home behaviors.

Listen here.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 30, 2011 at 3:46pm

National Action Alerts from the Union of Concerned Scientists 

 

Urge Obama to End America's Addiction to Oil
Urge President Obama to keep billions of dollars in our economy, cut pollution, and protect our coasts from devastating oil spills by implementing a national oil savings plan.
Who can participate? Everyone

Demand Stronger Fuel-Efficiency Standards for Cars
Urge President Obama to support strong clean car standards that can save consumers money and put more fuel-efficient vehicles on the roads.
Who can participate? Everyone

Urge Obama Administration to Cancel Wasteful Nuclear Project
Tell the Obama administration not to cut projects that prevent terrorists and other nations from acquiring nuclear weapons or materials.
Who can participate? Everyone

Stop Wasting Taxpayer Money on Nuclear Power Subsidies
Tell your legislators that putting taxpayers on the hook for subsidies to the nuclear industry is bad business and will only delay or diminish investments in affordable clean energy alternatives.
Who can participate? Everyone

Stop the Senate from Giving Nuclear Power a Blank Check
Urge your senator not to funnel billions of taxpayer's dollars to the nuclear power industry at the expense of investments in clean, affordable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
Who can participate? Everyone

Protect Food Safety From Corporate Interference
Urge the FDA and USDA to get serious about protecting our health and safety by implementing strong scientific integrity standards.
Who can participate? Everyone

Urge the USDA to Support Modern Agricultural Methods
Urge the USDA to end policies that give an unfair advantage to polluters and to support modern agricultural methods instead.
Who can participate? Everyone

Tell Congress to Support Modern Agricultural Practices in the Farm ...
Urge Congress to pass farm policies that support modern, science-based agricultural practices that produce abundant food while safeguarding our health, reducing global warming emissions, and protecting our environment.
Who can participate? Everyone

Urge Utility Companies to Make Better Energy Choices
For years, utility companies have relied on dirty fossil fuels to power our lives, while neglecting local, home-grown, renewable energy resources and energy efficiency opportunities. Please email the largest utility company in your state to find out where your power comes from and their plans for increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of electricity and energy efficiency.
Who can participate? Everyone

Strengthen Federal Energy Policy
Urge your senators to build a clean, reliable, and affordable energy supply for the future by reducing our dependence on dangerous and dirty energy sources.
Who can participate? Everyone

Use Best Available Technologies to Curb Global Warming
Urge your governor to protect the public's health and the environment by ensuring that polluting facilities use the best available technologies to cut global warming emissions.
Who can participate? Everyone

Urge Federal Agencies to Let Scientists Speak Out
Federal scientists must feel free to speak out about research findings that impact our lives. Please urge federal agency leaders to improve their agencies’ media policies.
Who can participate? Everyone

Urge Your Governor to Protect Public Health
Some states plan to comply with EPA global warming regulations, others are unprepared or unwilling, or have taken other actions to resist climate action. Discover whether your state is a leader or a laggard, then take action to make sure all states do their part.
Who can participate? Everyone

Tell YOUR Automaker to Go for the Green Car Gold
You can help push the automakers in the greenest direction by reinforcing how important environmental performance is, especially to their prospective customers.
Who can participate? Everyone

Protect Science and Public Health—Defend the Clean Air Act
A handful of politicians and industry groups are attacking the Clean Air Act and the government's scientific findings that global warming emissions harm public health. This law saves lives and can help us limit global warming pollution. Write to your governor and state attorney general today asking them to help stop the attacks.
Who can participate? Everyone

Tell Rupert Murdoch: Get the Facts Straight!
Please urge News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch to match his corporation's green pledges with real action. Tell him we aren’t entertained by people who attack climate science and mislead the public.
Who can participate? Everyone

Get There Greener
Take the pledge to reduce the global warming pollution from your vacation travel.
Who can participate? Everyone

 

  
California and Western States Action Alerts

Urge Your Assembly Member to Support Renewable Energy in California
Urge your assembly member to support SB 2X, a bill which would require that at least 33 percent of California's electricity will come from clean, renewable sources, such as the wind or sun, by the year 2020.
Who can participate? Everyone in this state

Support a Strong Renewable Energy Standard for California
Governor Jerry Brown has made clean energy a high priority for his administration, but there are many competing demands in Sacramento. Please write now to urge your state legislators and Governor Brown to quickly pass a strong 33 percent renewable energy bill.
Who can participate? Everyone in this state

 
Midwest Action Alerts

Urge Ohio EPA to Stand Strong on Global Warming Solutions
Write the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency about the critical need to limit global warming emissions from power plants and other large polluters, which will help prevent the worst consequences of climate change.
Who can participate? Everyone in this state

Protect Missouri’s Clean Energy Future
Convince Governor Jay Nixon to keep Missouri's renewable energy standard strong. Sign the petition today and we will hand deliver all the gathered signatures to the governor.
Who can participate? Everyone in this state

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 29, 2011 at 4:33pm

U.S. stance matters in upcoming POPs treaty meeting

At the end of April in Geneva, officials from 172 countries will make decisions about toxic chemicals that will affect communities around the world — for generations to come.

U.S. reps should do all they can to stand up to industry pressure for loopholes, and keep the POPs treaty strong. EPA and State Department are taking comments on U.S. positions for the meeting until April 4th. Please sign our petition today.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 25, 2011 at 3:06pm

The triumph of coal marketing

Do you have an opinion about nuclear power? About the relative safety of one form of power over another? How did you come to this opinion?

Here are the stats, and here's the image. A non-exaggerated but simple version of his data:

 

Follow the link at the top to read the rest.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 8, 2011 at 7:50pm

Don't Let Congress Roll Back 40 Years of Environmental Protections

Republicans in Congress are attempting to repeal fundamental environmental protections by attaching hundreds of amendments to a stop-gap funding measure.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on February 10, 2011 at 4:11pm

I can't watch the video because they started blocking most videos at work, but I am passing this along for anyone who is interested.  - Dallas

 

Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a 'Liberal Hoax'

In this sixth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky talks about the Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and other business lobbies enthusiastically carrying out campaigns “to try and convince the population that global warming is a liberal hoax.” According to Chomsky, this massive public relations campaign has succeeded in leading a good portion of the population into doubting the human causes of global warming.

 

Known for his criticism of the media, Chomsky doesn't hold back in this clip, laying blame on mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times, which will run frontpage articles on what meteorologists think about global warming. “Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it’s going to rain tomorrow," Chomsky says. "What do they have to say any more than your barber?” All this is part of the media’s pursuit of “fabled objectivity.”

 

Of particular concern for Chomsky is the atmosphere of anger, fear and hostility that currently reigns in America. The public’s hatred of Democrats, Republicans, big business and banks and the public’s distrust of scientists all lead to general disregard for the findings of “pointy-headed elitists.” The 2010 elections could be interpreted as a “death knell for the species” because most of the new Republicans in Congress are global warming deniers. “If this was happening in some small country," Chomsky concludes, "it wouldn’t matter much. But when it’s happening in the richest, most powerful country in the world, it’s a danger to the survival of the species.”

 

Go here to learn more about "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate," and to see the other videos in the series.

Comment by Adrian on November 30, 2010 at 10:01pm

Want to know why the US economy is failing and falling behind it's competitors? Dr Steven Chu explains some of the reasons why and the way forward, and gives his thoughts on climate change denial. Check out the greenman3610 channel this comes from!

Comment by Sydni Moser on November 27, 2010 at 10:21am

Comment by Sydni Moser on November 13, 2010 at 10:01am

Beautiful images and music. Watch it Full Screen.

Comment by Sydni Moser on November 11, 2010 at 7:04am

A flamenco-style dress inspired by TV's 'Strictly Come Dancing' has been created from reused Sainsbury's carrier bags. The dress, modelled by 18 year old Shanice Bailey-Farrell who works in the supermarket's Islington store, has been designed to encourage customers to reuse their plastic bags in the busy shopping period until Christmas. Sainsbury's will also be giving customers a free 'Bag for Life' in store on Sat 6th November, and will be rewarding customers with double Nectar points every time they reuse a bag for a whole week. The designer of the dress, Adnan Bayyat, says: "I created the dress by hand-crocheting Sainsbury's bags together. The dress took me an entire month to make"

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