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Global Warming: What’s happening and what we can do about it 1/27/10
Posted on January 26, 2010 by iwilder
Hi Folks, It’s forum time again. The Long Island Progressive Coalition, Huntington Chapter presents: Global Warming: What’s happening and what we can do about it Featuring Dr. Scott Carlin (Long Island University) and David Sebek (Huntington Town Energy Task Force) 7:00 PM , Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Huntington Public Library, 338 Main Street, Huntington , […]
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Kids vs. global warming founder to speak on January 31st
Posted on January 18, 2010 by iwilder
Alec Loorz was 12 when he saw “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s documentary movie on global warming. “That’s what sparked my awareness of this issue and caused me to do something about it,” he said. At 13, Loorz founded the nonprofit Kids vs. Global Warming, which urges young people to become activists on the subject. Now […]
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Body found on Plum Island (Long Island, NY)
Posted on January 15, 2010 by kwilder
from Washington Post/AP Story Body found on NY’s Plum Island, disease lab site The Associated Press Friday, January 15, 2010; 3:55 AM PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. — A human body has washed ashore on suburban New York’s tiny Plum Island, where the U.S. government has an aging lab for studying dangerous animal diseases… The Suffolk County […]
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NYS Green Party Response to State of the State
Posted on January 7, 2010 by iwilder
The Green Party of New York State calls Gov. Paterson’s response to New York State’s ongoing economic and political crisis inadequate. In his speech Gov. Paterson named fiscal reform, ethics reform, and political reform as the most pressing problems facing New Yorkers in 2010. Unfortunately, his prescription for solving these problems is mostly unimaginative and will do very little to […]
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The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of the Military
Posted on December 31, 2009 by iwilder
Review by Kim Scipes of Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism Yet he makes an incredibly important point, trying to put things into perspective and to focus our attention: “… here’s the awful truth: even if every person, every automobile, and every factory suddenly emitted zero emissions, the Earth would still be headed head […]
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Green Party leaders: US negotiators at the Copenhagen summit helped kill necessary measures against global warming, replacing them with vague vows on greenhouse gas emissions
Posted on December 22, 2009 by iwilder
US Green Party leaders expressed their dismay with the failure of the UN summit in Copenhagen to reach an agreement on international action to curb climate change. Greens have been especially critical of: the grossly inadequate emissions reduction proposals that the US and other rich countries brought to Copenhagen, the lockout of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) […]
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“The Copenhagen climate summit has ended without the fair, ambitious and legally binding agreement”
Posted on December 19, 2009 by iwilder
Not Done Yet | Amnesty International More than 120 world leaders who gathered in Copenhagen have been unable to resolve the issues blocking the road towards a just outcome, leaving the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people at greater risk of losing their homes, health and livelihoods as a result of climate change. Even so, […]
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Annie Leonard presents The Story of Cap & Trade
Posted on December 18, 2009 by iwilder
for more information: http://storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/
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Bolivian President Evo Morales: “Shameful” for West to Spend Trillions on War and Only $10 Billion for Climate Change
Posted on December 16, 2009 by iwilder
from DemocracyNow.org Bolivian President Evo Morales recently arrived in Copenhagen for the UN climate summit. In a press conference Wednesday, Morales said, “The budget of the United States is $687 billion for defense. And for climate change, to save life, to save humanity, they only put up $10 billion. This is shameful.”
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Global Green Parties call for honest, scientifically sound climate agreement
Posted on December 16, 2009 by iwilder
As the Copenhagen COP enters its second week, the Global Greens today called for an honest climate agreement, based on science not tricky accounting. The Global Greens are concerned that rich nations are building loopholes into the agreement to give the appearance of strong targets without the reality. Land-use and forestry in particular are being […]
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Sunday night into Monday: Geminid Meteor Shower
Posted on December 13, 2009 by kwilder
The Geminid Meteor Shower has been going on a few days, and is supposed to peek early Monday morning. There is a link to an article: here. And, more below… (excerpt from) The LA Times Blog Geminid meteor shower 2009: Where to watch, what to bring Sky-watchers, get ready for another late-night adventure. The Geminid […]
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Copenhagen climate talks: tens of thousands of demonstrators
Posted on December 13, 2009 by kwilder
(excerpt–out of order–from the BBC) Copenhagen police detain 968 in climate change rally “…Activists are arguing for an ambitious, legally binding agreement on emissions cuts to be signed by world leaders at the summit’s conclusion at the end of next week…” “Police in Copenhagen in Denmark say nearly 1,000 protesters were detained after a huge […]
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