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[California Progress Report] An Early St. Patrick’s Day in California: The Democrats’ Green ...: Senator Dean Florez, who is Chair of the Senate Government Organization Committee, said: “This will be a tool to help investors know who the good actors are when it comes to cleaning our air and being responsible stewards of our planet. As investors are armed with the information to make environmentally responsible choices with their investment money, companies will have to follow suit to stay competitive.”
[enviroevents] ESPM Colloquium Spring 2008: Fellow at the Center for Applied Biodiversity Sciences. “Nature Cares: Can Tropical Forest Conservation Mediate Health Impacts of Climate Change and Improve Incomes?”
[Global Dashboard] America the resilient: Flynn understands the importance of narrative, too. It’s a shame, he says, that the prevailing story about 9/11 is about the attacks that succeeded, rather than the one that failed - because of self-organised action by citizens on United 93. Later, he notes that
[Blowing Our Tax Dollars on Wind Farms] Cold Water on ”˜Global Warming’: Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He outlines the importance of the “International Conference on Climate Change”
[CFO.com: Today in Finance] Step Change: In the low-lying coastal region of England's East Anglia, climate change is already afoot. At Anglian Water, the £919m (€1.2 billion) utility that serves the region, more than 85% of the incidents that its wastewater emergency team was called on to address in the last fiscal year were weather-related, "far more than in previous years," the company reports.
[Disastermanagement786's Weblog] Relief and Discrimination: Not only that there are evidence of caste based discrimination in some parts of the World. After the Indian Ocean Tsunami, ”˜Dalits’ who are treated as ”˜untouchables’ in the Hindu caste system, were forbidden by other castes from drinking water from UNICEF water tanks because sharing with Dalits would, in their view pollute the water.
[The Teeming Brain] Headlines from the meltdown: Sunday, March 2, 2008: see, for instance, James Lovelock’s cheerful prediction of disaster among the linked stories below. Lovelock is writing more about the earth’s climate than human culture, although culture definitely plays into what he’s saying.
[Riot 4 Austerity] The real lessons of Cuba and peak oil: Those who are by nature collaborators with tyrannical regimes say, "look, the power of community, look how everyone got together spontaneously to help each-other out!" Those who are keen on organic food say, "look, they feed themselves without fossil fuels." Each of those is in some ways the truth, but is not the whole truth.
[Beastrabban's Weblog] Sam Harris on Atheism’s Tolerance and Lack of Dogma: Most of the atheists in Western society are probably so because of these generalities, having neither the time nor inclination to worry about particular points of contact and difference between Humanism, Existentialism, Anti-Humanism or Nietzschean Nihilism. Nevertheless, this does not mean that atheism cannot be dogmatic, and that violence cannot proceed from atheist dogma, if it considers that it has found the single, overriding metaphysical truth that has to be defended from an insidious, monstrous threat, like theism.
[Berkman Center Events & Webcasts] February 19: Cyberscholar Working Group - Tonight: The threat of climate change has generated increasing interest in curbing energy use. Many of the well-publicized efforts have included corporate strategies to ‘go green’
[objectivismonline.net Meta-Blog] Global-Warming Authoritarianism: "Despite the constant assertion that global-warming science is 'settled,'" Lockitch said, "it is far from certain that we face any sort of catastrophic global emergency. But in the name of 'saving the world' from unproven threats, such activists want to impose a draconian regimen of taxes, laws, regulations and controls that would affect the minutest details of our existence.
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