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[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Worldchanging: Bright Green: Using Human Rights Law to Address ...: Poets, performers, print-makers, dancers, muralists, and designers, Alixa and Naima have sharpened their art as a tool for popular education, community organizing, and personal transformation. With roots in Haiti and Colombia, Alixa and Naima reside in Brooklyn and track footprints across the country and globe on a mission to overcome destruction with creativity.

[Green Energy Market] Closing the Climate Change Accounting Loophole ”” With a Billboard ...: By showing us all the day-to-day environmental toll of our actions it will, in one small way, help move decision-makers from Washington to your kitchen table to attach real, honestly-measured prices to those actions. And that type of transparency in turn will inspire a wave of change and innovation that will change the rules of the game, environmentally and economically.

[THE CITY FIX] THE CITY FIX: Exploring Sustainable Solutions to the Problems of ...: Transport funding should be channeled toward the best projects, regardless of whether they are road, rail or transit (NTPP calls this “mode-neutral.”) At this morning’s press conference, Warner expressed his support for this, emphasizing that “we need to get out of the silo approach to transport funding.”

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Worldchanging: Bright Green: Chu, Browner, Holdren, Lubchenco: the ...: We were put in our place."[16] In an October 2000 Congressional hearing on the matter,[18] Browner appeared near tears as she said minorities had tripled in the agency's senior ranks during her time as administrator, but she was unable to explain why the culprits in Coleman-Adebayo's case had not been dismissed and in some cases had been promoted.[16] A month earlier, Browner had asked for the Office of the Inspector General to linvestigate a statement by an African American environmental specialist that she had been ordered to clean a toilet in 1993 in advance of Browner's arrival at an EPA event.[19] This followed a rally in which dozens of EPA employees protested what they saw as rampant bias at the agency.[19] Congressional dissatisfaction with the EPA situation and its treatment of Coleman-Adebayo led to passage of the No-FEAR Act in 2002, which discourages federal managers and supervisors from engaging in unlawful discrimination and retaliation.[17]"

[National Security Experts] National Journal Online -- National Security Experts ...: But that would be a profoundly shortsighted and dangerous strategy.The reality is that as we focus on the financial markets, the failure of iconic companies, high unemployment and the collapse of the domestic housing market, we need to understand that issues of national security are integrated into this process.As the economic crisis spreads around the globe, the potential for political unrest and regional humanitarian emergencies expands. At the same time, the stakes are raised for terrorists and criminal enterprises to make lethal mischief with weapons and toxic materials.Recently the nonpartisan Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) released a two-year study of the U.S. national security system;

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Worldchanging: Bright Green: Worldchanging Interview: WRI on Bus ...: A critically important advantage of pure electric mass transit is the very high horsepower utilization at the rail or wheel in the case of trackless trolley, which is adjustable with the incorporation of the new type of Varible frequency drives , adjusting according to loads of people being carried, without robbing power from other vehicle functions such as heating and or air conditioning. A typical problem in fossil fueled transit vehicles that operate in summer heat.

[End Times Prophetic, Prophecy, Visions, Dreams, Revelation, Christian Blog] The G20 Summit in London « End Times Prophetic, Prophecy, Visions ...: In an influential but highly controversial paper called “Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change,” British economist Nicholas Lord Stern, formerly a high British Treasury official, has declared that industrial economies would need to cut their per capita carbon dioxide emissions by “at least 80% by 2050,”

[Green Inc.] Environmentalists Cheer Rhode Island Court Decision - Green Inc ...: The other states are allowed to follow California’s standards if they are different (only stronger, never weaker) than the Federal standard, not to make their own standards. Currently Rhode Island and 16 other states have decided to follow California, so the car makers would be meeting the majority of the market by following California’s standards, and in fact could simply sell California cars in all states.

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Worldchanging: Bright Green: Refugees in America: Despite these differences, I hope Katrina shares one important feature of the tsunami: I hope it continues to expand peoples' awareness of bigger picture, cause-and-effect relationships that only disasters like these can magnify for all to see. I also hope this event expands peoples' "circle of empathy", which is arguably the most distinctive legacy of the tsunami.

[Green Inc.] Environmentalists Speak Out on Auto Bailouts - Green Inc. Blog ...: I think a fair and ecologically-responsible plan for the US auto industry would be to have the feds take over the pension and health-care obligations for workers, and possibly restructure their debts (guarantee them to get a lower rate?) …. And in exchange require changes including increases in CAFE standards, sale of corporate jets &

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Worldchanging: Bright Green: Enough About Us...: My blog is a mish mosh of my playlists from my WNUR (www.wnur.org) jazz and freeform playlists, as well as pictures of my continuous parties, and rantings about sustainability as I try to convert the friends that read my blog to sustainable mindedness.

[AlterNet.org] Is Economic Recovery Even Possible on a Planet Headed for ...: Add to that peak oil and the global financial meltdown and we have all the ingredients for a perfect storm--one that will likely wipe out vast swaths of the population. Just on the topic of climate change, a top Australian minister said last year that the outlook for his country in terms of a livable climate over the next 2 to 3 decades ran from total disaster in the best case, to complete biblical annihilation in the worst case.

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Worldchanging: Bright Green: The Future of Public Lands in the ...: The Worldchanging comments are meant to be used for further exploration and evaluation of the ideas covered in our posts. Please note that, while constructive disagreement is fine, insults and abuse are not, and will result in the comment being deleted and a likely ban from commenting.

[Green Inc.] California Lobbies For Emissions Waiver - Green Inc. Blog ...: Again, Charles, the auto industry is then free to apply the California standard to the rest of the 50 states, if managing a whopping 2 standards is such a hassle. Would the auto industry endorse the California standard as the new national standard?

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