Chart of US Energy Use Reveals Herculean Effort Needed to Ditch Oil, Coal : TreeHugger

Posted on April 12, 2011 by iwilder

There’s really no excuse for that — to lose 54% of the energy we generate across the nation due to inefficiency and pure wastefulness. And there’s a reason that energy efficiency aficionados are constantly making calls to pick the plentiful ‘low-hanging fruit’. They’re right, of course. At a moment in time when we’re fully aware […]

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Wendell Berry Presses Coal Protest, Wins Honors

Posted on April 3, 2011 by iwilder

Berry made a less ballyhooed but more personally agonizing stand against the coal industry last summer when he severed a lifelong relationship with the University of Kentucky over a corporate sponsorship deal. The writer was horrified by UK’s decision to accept $7 million for a new basketball dormitory from a group of donors organized by […]

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Wild conspiracy theory: Who was really behind Power Shift 2009?

Posted on March 2, 2009 by kwilder

Live streaming of the Power Shift/Capitol Climate Action demo against the Capitol coal plant in DC: here. KW: I thought this one up on Friday before Power Shift 2009. I am publishing it after Power Shift is mostly over. (with the anti-coal demonstration in DC underway.) Didn’t want to burst anyone’s bubble.

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Live streaming of Capitol anti-coal demo (plus global warming)

Posted on March 2, 2009 by kwilder

Link to live streaming of the Capitol Climate Action rally and civil disobedience in D.C. Comments on speech by Vandana Shiva. Thoughts on global warming, climate change, and energy.

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We’re not in Kansas anymore… (D.C. and crazy days of energy activism)

Posted on February 27, 2009 by kwilder

Information, links and questions about Power Shift 2009, Capitol Climate Action, NIRS, the Green Party and nuclear energy. Why would some do a civil disobedience for Natural Gas?

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The Associated Press: Climate warming gases rising faster than expected

Posted on February 14, 2009 by iwilder

The Associated Press: Climate warming gases rising faster than expected Posted using ShareThis Despite widespread concern over global warming, humans are adding carbon to the atmosphere even faster than in the 1990s, researchers warned Saturday… The largest factor in this increase is the widespread adoption of coal as an energy source, Field said, “and without […]

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Stop Mountaintop Removal

Posted on October 14, 2007 by iwilder

Co-op America’s plan to combat global warming calls for a moratorium on coal. Coal is the dirtiest of all fossil fuels — it creates more pollution than oil, natural gas and gasoline when burned. As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said recently, “There’s not a coal-fired plant in America that’s clean. They’re all dirty.” If […]

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