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Beginning Yesterday, Saturday, May 29th, 2009, The San Francisco Police will crack down on vehicles with modified mufflers including motorcycles that revving their motors scaring tourists, children and inhabitants in the City of San Francisco. Let me tell you that I have been waiting for this Civil and Government initiative for long time and I Thank God it finally arrived. This is the beginning of a work to clean up the noise and the carbon foot print of polluters that can care less about anyone by themselves. It seems that the people are getting the message and it is time to take our Cities back. We need to have more tourists visiting our City and we cannot jeopardize their impression of our City by letting the polluters dominate the turf. Here it is my footage of the Police interview and announcement.Beginning Yesterday, Saturday, May 29th, 2009, The San Francisco Police will crack... more
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Greenpeace, along with a coalition of environmental, legal, consumer, and community advocacy groups announce that they cannot support the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill unless and until it is substantially strengthened. The lives and livelihoods of 7 billion people worldwide will be affected by America’s response to the climate crisis. The response embodied in this bill is not only inadequate it is counterproductive.
Greenpeace is calling for renewed leadership from President Obama and Congress following the release of the drastically weakened Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill today. The American Climate and Energy Security Act (ACES) was already in need of improvement when first released as a discussion draft in March, and has become severely worse as members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee actively worked to weaken the bill on behalf of fossil fuels industries and other corporate polluters.
Following the release of the legislation, Greenpeace USA Executive Director Phil Radford issued the following statement:
“Despite the best efforts of Chairman Waxman, this bill has been seriously undermined by the lobbying of industries more concerned with profits than the plight of our planet. While science clearly tells us that only dramatic action can prevent global warming and its catastrophic impacts, this bill has fallen prey to political infighting and industry pressure. We cannot support this bill in its current state. We call on President Obama and leaders in Congress to get back to work and produce a bill, based on science, which presents a clear road map for significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, transforms our economy with clean, renewable energy technology, generates new green jobs and shows real leadership internationally.”
Emissions targets miss the mark
To avoid the worst impacts of global warming, science tells us that the United States and other developed nations must collectively achieve emissions cuts of at least 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80-95% by 2050. But ACES, as it currently stands, only sets a domestic target of approximately 4 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. Even with additional measures elsewhere in the legislation, the U.S. effort would still fall far short of the emissions cuts that climate scientists say are necessary.
Rapid emissions reductions in the short-term are critical to avoiding the worst effects of global warming because rising temperatures have already triggered a series of negative feedback loops – such as Arctic melting in the North and raging wildfires in the South – that are accelerating the crisis. With the weak start oulined in this bill, achieving the needed emissions reductions would be impossible.
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Time to let Congress know they need to do better. Billions of people who will feel the effects of climate change and those who already are cannot afford to have governments dropping the ball at this urgent hour.Greenpeace, along with a coalition of environmental, legal, consumer, and community... more
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Former US vice president turned climate campaigner Al Gore warned business and political leaders Sunday that the world was running out of time to reach a deal on how to fight global warming.
"It's time to act now... We have to do it this year, not next year," Gore told the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen.
"The clock is ticking because Mother Nature does not do bailouts," he said.Former US vice president turned climate campaigner Al Gore warned business and... more
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Or a misrepresentation by the pundits and spin-doctors?
What really happened on wall street?
Do we really need these jerks who got us into this mess to get us out?Or a misrepresentation by the pundits and spin-doctors?
What really happened on... more
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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - It's fine if a driver can feel the music inside their car, but if Huntsville officers hear it too, they could get slapped with a big fine.
By Jeanie Powell
Posted by Dana FranksHUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - It's fine if a driver can feel the music inside their... more
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The manner in which we have destroyed our economy is astounding. We are so far from understanding and correcting our massive fuck ups that even this current obliteration of our ways has not brought up the discussion that needs to be had: Our usury laws are insane. Our usury laws drove us into debt, sped up the loss of our manufacturing base and have directly led to the murder of the middle class. And it’s only going to get worse. The looming credit card crisis will be the next shoe to drop and with deflation a serious threat, shockingly heinous and fluctuating interest rates will make it impossible for many to get by. Even ancient Babylon had laws against the shit we allow lenders to get away with.
Quite a few successful ancient empires considered usury to be worse than murder and it was punished accordingly. We, because we are an incredibly wise country, decided to toss out centuries of law and tradition. First in the early 1900’s, we began to gut our usury laws and then under Jimmy Carter they were fully disemboweled. It’s not like we didn’t have a time period to look back on and see what would happen....
Hit the link above for a brief and entertaining trip through the usury laws of ancient and modern "civilizations"....
Think we're more protected from onerous debt and the excesses of money lenders now than we were two centuries ago? Think again!The manner in which we have destroyed our economy is astounding. We are so far from... more
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President Barack Obama is to announce strict limits on vehicle pollution that will set national standards across the US for the first time.President Barack Obama is to announce strict limits on vehicle pollution that will set... more
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We interviewed three self-started small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area to find out how they got started and became successful.
Credits:
Jordan Kendall - Head Motion Graphics/Camera man/Editor
Lauren Heminez - Sound Design/Music/Editor/Photographer
Melissa Hernandez - Motion Graphics
Jon Evans - Additional Music
Special Thanks To:
Dylan Fiesel, Creator of Mrs. Munchies
Daniel Knapp, Creator of Urban Ore
Nikolai Lokteff, Co-Creator of Mastermind Treasure HuntsWe interviewed three self-started small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area to... more
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Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey have just introduced the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 into Congress. The act is comprehensive energy legislation that, if passed, will create millions of new clean energy jobs, save consumers hundreds of billions of dollars in energy costs, enhance America's energy independence and cut global warming pollution.
The discussion draft of the bill sets a nationwide standard for renewable electricity production, establishes a federal low carbon fuel standard and calls for a 20 percent cut in overall emissions from 2005 levels by 2020, among other things.
Sign on to support the Democrats' efforts to tackle global warming! Urge your Representative to ensure that the strictest energy standards are maintained throughout the House discussion of the bill!Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Democratic Congressional Campaign... more
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If for some reason you have been thinking the price of a gallon of gas is what's posted on the price board at your favorite gas station, take a look at this report.If for some reason you have been thinking the price of a gallon of gas is what's... more
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The survey showed that hearing loss is a top medical concern among parents, higher than concerns about asthma, food allergies, or exposure to tobacco smoke. More than 90 percent of parents are very concerned about hearing loss in their children.The survey showed that hearing loss is a top medical concern among parents, higher... more
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Astroturf Advocacy groups are Corporate Fascism's answer to Grass Roots movements. While there are now fake advocacy groups in all facets of the political spectrum, the most dangerous by far are those that are over-fed by corporations who have learned to BUY favorable legislation, lax regulation and misplaced public approval.
CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) has done a bang up job of pursuing and exposing Richard Berman, one of the "Kings" of colorfully-painted corporate images but there is an added danger to his handiwork. They look like responsible consumer action groups who have the best interests of the public at heart.
These carefully-scripted and factually-challenged pseudo-grassroots organizations are really just another way powerful, moneyed interests paint pictures of themselves as kinder and gentler "movements". In reality, they are clever manipulators of public opinion who express and promote their elitist agendas by morphing into "organizations". Of course, they are not really organizations in the true sense of public groundswells but rather are defense mechanisms for corporations and trades. Their sole purpose is to protect the status quo and usually at the expense of honesty and prevailing public opinion.
Look at how CREW has exposed the power behind the promotion.
Also take the time to carefully look at the imagination used in naming all the corporate propaganda "organizations". It seems incredible that these deceptive names should be given "tax exempt" status but free speech does trump the idea of censorship. We should, however, know about and spread the word about these fake citizen advocacy sites
At the very least, there should be disclaimers and published information about the backers that accompany any descriptions of those "organizations". In other words, people should be told about entities like Fishscam.com and mercuryfacts.org that put out misleading information about mercury levels in fish. They should be warned of the Employment Policies Institute that fights any initiatives for higher minimum wages for workers. The individual backers of these sites should be listed in bold print on the HOMEPAGE.
Here is the CREW website page that shows how Berman and his team "cross over" and do the media contact and PR jobs for so many of these "front" organizations. It's like a "Puppy Mill" only they breed corporate manipulation.
How about the Center for Consumer Freedom? Hey, we ought to be able to buy flammable pajamas for our kids if we want to! Right? And no one should tell us if McDonald's fries are the most grease-laden in the fast food industry! Right?
Even the Berman site on lawsuits is comical. I mean why is it that some overpaid plaintiff attorney can deprive me of the right to kill my whole family with smoke inhalation when I want to fall asleep on a foam sofa cushion with a cigaret? It's like Berman is paid to make people think they should have the right to buy defective products that could maim or kill them if they really wanted to do so.
Check out these pages:
http://bermanexposed.org/facts
http://bermanexposed.org/associates
CREW Homepage:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/ (they are equal opportunity trackers of Congressional abuse - John Murtha is on their hit list, too.)Astroturf Advocacy groups are Corporate Fascism's answer to Grass Roots... more
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The turbines behind our home have been on sporadically for the past few weeks. Friday-Sunday was the first time they were on for a continuous period of time. Saturday was the first night we heard the turbines INSIDE our home—in all of our bedrooms we could hear them! Outside it would be unbearable to listen to that noise. The noise would make you crazy! And now hearing them inside and knowing what more Trey is going to go through is breaking our hearts!
Nina Pierpont’s ResearchThe turbines behind our home have been on sporadically for the past few weeks.... more
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Earth Day wasn't just once a year for those in Thomas Jefferson's time.They loved the land with their hearts and their hands everyday, and built a nation with the fruits of that love. This is what I miss in America. We have become a country of concrete with large cities, crowded, noisy, polluted, and far away from the simple natural way of life that while hard was so rewarding.
These are some quotations by Thomas Jefferson about the environment that I wanted to share and remember for Earth Day. As our Founding Fathers were mostly all farmers who loved this land, it is only fitting we remember them on Earth Day as well:
From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Quotations on Environment)
1785 October 28. (to James Madison). "The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on."[1]
1786 October 12. (to Maria Cosway). "How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"[2]
1787 July 30. (to William Drayton). "By varying too the articles of culture, we multiply the chances for making something, and disarm the seasons in a proportionable degree of their calamitous."[3]
1787 December 20. (to James Madison). "I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."[4]
1790 December 23. (to Martha Jefferson Randolph). "...There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me..."[5]
1793 July 7. (to Martha Jefferson Randolph). "I never before knew the full value of trees...What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown."[6]
1793 July 21. (to Martha Jefferson Randolph). "When the earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality."[7]
1797 March 10. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society). "The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral."[8]
1800. (A Memorandum Services to My Country). "The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to it's culture."[9]
1801 August 14. (to Joseph Rapin). "While I wish to have every thing good in it's kind, and handsome in stile, I an a great enemy to waste and useless extra expense, and see them with real pain."[10]
1803 November 8. (to David Williams). "The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery."[11]
1806 December 8. (to Edmund Bacon). "We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do."[12]
1813 June 24. (to John Wayles Eppes). "The earth belongs to the living...The soil is the gift of God to the living."[13]Earth Day wasn't just once a year for those in Thomas Jefferson's time.They... more
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The Cost of Inaction April 21, 2009 : 4:16 PM
When climate crisis deniers and their allies argue that cap-and-trade and other legislation costs too much, they always seem to ignore the price of inaction.The Cost of Inaction April 21, 2009 : 4:16 PM
When climate crisis deniers and their... more
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What legacy do you want to leave in the future to your children?
It is time to separate polluters from non-polluters and seize the power from polluters where it is applicable.
http://www.climateprotect.org
(T)What legacy do you want to leave in the future to your children?
It is time to... more
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"You are what you eat. But do you recall munching some molybdenum or snacking on selenium? Some 60 chemical elements are found in the body, but what all of them are doing there is still unknown.
Roughly 96 percent of the mass of the human body is made up of just four elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, with a lot of that in the form of water. The remaining 4 percent is a sparse sampling of the periodic table of elements.
Some of the more prominent representatives are called macro nutrients, whereas those appearing only at the level of parts per million or less are referred to as micronutrients.
These nutrients perform various functions, including the building of bones and cell structures, regulating the body's pH, carrying charge, and driving chemical reactions.
The FDA has set a reference daily intake for 12 minerals (calcium, iron, phosphorous, iodine, magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese, chromium, molybdenum and chloride). Sodium and potassium also have recommended levels, but they are treated separately.
However, this does not exhaust the list of elements that you need. Sulfur is not usually mentioned as a dietary supplement because the body gets plenty of it in proteins.
And there are several other elements — such as silicon, boron, nickel, vanadium and lead — that may play a biological role but are not classified as essential.
"This may be due to the fact that a biochemical function has not been defined by experimental evidence," said Victoria Drake from the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University.
Check out the link for a full run down of just what the hell is in your BODY!!"You are what you eat. But do you recall munching some molybdenum or snacking on... more
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A majority of Americans support a cap on carbon pollution -- but you wouldn't know it from what you read in the papers or see on the news.
Across the country, those who want to keep America addicted to fossil fuel are making gross misstatements about clean energy -- and the media has been playing right along.
In one case, opponents of clean energy misquoted an MIT study so badly that the author wrote to them in protest, saying their claims were "just wrong. It's wrong in so many ways it's hard to begin."
Of course, they didn't stop, and their misleading statements were repeated on TV and in newspapers across the country.
You know the truth, and right now your voice is the most powerful tool we have to set the record straight on the carbon pollution loophole.
Will you send a message to your local paper using our simple tool?
Your "Letter to the Editor" will make a powerful impact when it is published: These letters are read by millions of people each day. Your letter will show that Americans across the country support a clean energy future and will help news outlets shape their coverage of this issue.
These letters are also a good way to reach your members of Congress since many read the newspaper opinion pages every day.
Our opponents want to scare Americans out of supporting change. Your letter will show that it won't work. That we're not afraid and that the most costly mistake we can make is doing nothing at all.
By using our simple online tool, you can write and send your letter very easily. And we've provided all the talking points you need to make it effective.
We can't let opportunities for a better future be derailed by fear and misinformation.
Stand up for clean energy in your community. Get started now:
http://www.RepowerAmerica.org/page/speakout/carboncap?js=true&zip=94105
Thanks,
Steve Bouchard
Campaign ManagerA majority of Americans support a cap on carbon pollution -- but you wouldn't... more
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Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D.
Chair of the New York City Council on the Environment.
Noises impinge on the child’s language, cognitive and learning abilities.
"We can do something about noise and when we do, children profit!"
Great Scientific Article on Noise and Children Development. Why it is so important for children to learn about hearing, acoustic pollution and noise.Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D.
Chair of the New York City Council on the Environment.... more
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