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Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all use asthma-inducing, climate destroying coal to power the “cloud” that stores your emails, photos, music and videos. Take action now & tell these companies to clean the cloud.
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Posted in Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, Elephant Journal, Favorite, Greenpeace, PlanetSave, Wend Greenery
Tagged Amazon, climate change, coal, com, Greenpeace, iCloud, mean Joe green cartoon, Microsoft
Big Coal may be molding our youth with pro-coal propaganda, but worry not, Big Coal also offers a “green” video to teachers called “The Greening of Planet Earth,” which says that “our world is deficient in carbon dioxide, and a doubling of atmospheric CO2 is very beneficial.”
Doubling the CO2 is good for you. By you they mean their bottom line. Afterall, to Big Coal “you” are either a means to drive profit or block profit. They’re doing what they can to make sure our children do not grow up and do the latter. Of course, they’re also making sure our children grow up with an increased risk of asthma, premature death, and mercury-related illness.
Fortunately, the EPA just set new rules to limit mercury and other toxic emissions. As David Roberts of Grist states, “It will save tens of thousands of lives every year and prevent birth defects, learning disabilities, and respiratory diseases. It will make America a more decent, just, and humane place to live.”
David, and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, must not have gone to a Coalementary School. However, these folks did!
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Posted in Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, Elephant Journal, PlanetSave, Wend Greenery
Tagged big coal, coal, corporate influence, education, Holidays, Mean Joe Green
From OpenSecrets.org: Coal Mining: Top Recipients (and MUCH more)
From Second Nature: Coal-Fired Plants Linked to Asthma (and the disprportionate amounts of coal-related asthma cases in the black community)
From Greenpeace: Climate Enemy #1: Coal
From Grist: We could replace coal power with geothermal—10 times over
From OnEarth: Coal on a Roll
From CoalTattoo: Jeff Goodell: ‘Coal more powerful today than ever’
From Mother Jones: Rick Perry’s Dirty Deals With Big Coal
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Posted in Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, Elephant Journal, Favorite, PlanetSave, Wend Greenery
Tagged air pollution, asthma, big coal, coal, Energy, Mean Joe Green
From SourceWatch: All About Koch Industries
From Greenpeace: Koch Industries: Still Fueling Climate Denial (2011 Update)
From Daily Kos: Koch Brothers Limerick & Song Challenge
From Me: Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and article=”cartoonicle”)
From SourceWatch: All About the Coca-Cola Company
From Slate: Coke and Pepsi’s plant-based bottles still damage the environment.
From Z Magazine: Coke Accountability
From InspiredLiving: Coke or Water
From ALECexposed: Through ALEC, Global Corporations Are Scheming to Rewrite YOUR Rights and Boost THEIR Revenue
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Tagged ALEC, big coal, big oil, climate change, climate skeptic, coal, corporations, Koch brothers, Koch Industries, oil
From Nobel Peace Laureates: “Renewable energy sources are one of the powerful keys to a peaceful future.”
From NOVA: A Clean Energy Future?
From Sourcewatch: Health Effects of Coal
From Greenpeace: Anti Coal Activism
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*Cartoonist’s note: This cartoon is inspired by the House Energy Action Team (HEAT). More on HEAT after the cartoon.
From DeSmogBlog: GOP House Energy Action Team Is Dirty Energy Dream Team
From GreenChipStocks: 28 Bureaucrats Who Sold You Out For A Little Oil Money–$4 Million Gets You $4 Billion In The Oil Game
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From Kelly Mitchell – Greenpeace Coal Campaigner
You have 24 hours to set a world record on Facebook and help get the social network to start powering their website from clean and unlimited energy sources like the sun and the wind, instead of the dirty coal-fired power they’re using right now.
Are you in?
Back in February, (Greenpeace) gave Facebook a deadline of April 22nd to announce a plan to go coal free, but as of today we still don’t have a commitment from them to switch to renewable energy. So we figured it was time to do something that would really get their attention: set a Guinness world record on Facebook by generating 50,000 comments on one post in 24 hours.
The clock started at 1:00 AM EST on Wednesday. You’ve got 24 hours to comment and invite your friends to do the same. And you don’t have to personally have a Facebook account to participate. Just click on whichever link below works best for you and follow the instructions:
Yes, I’m on Facebook and want to set a world record.
No, I’m NOT on Facebook but I want to set a world record.
But that’s only the start, were going to deliver the message in real time by showing your comments in support of renewable energy on a big scrolling screen in front of Facebook’s California headquarters. There is no way Facebook will miss the message or be able to ignore the fact that hundreds-of-thousands of their users want them off coal now.
Facebook is global. So is Greenpeace. We can set this record and, more importantly, get Facebook to change if all of us all over the world work together. Add a comment from your Facebook account or use our system right now and be part of the action. There’s not much time to set the record and your comment is crucial if we want Facebook to notice.
There is a real opportunity here for Facebook to be a force for good and a world leader on this issue. As we begin working to shut down old, dirty coal-fired power plants here in the United States, it’s important that American companies like Facebook don’t work against us by supporting new investments in coal.
Leave a comment. Set a world record. Help start an energy revolution.
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Back in February 2010, Greenpeace called on Facebook to unfriend coal and embrace renewables to power their massive data centers, giving them a deadline of April 22 (Earth Day) of this year. Since then, over 600,000 Greenpeace supporters have called on Facebook to take action and according to Greenpeace International Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo, Facebook is listening (atleast the founder’s sister, Randi Zuckerberg is).
Even if you overlooked coal’s impact on climate change, and the levels of mercury it emits (along with a laundry list of other harmful effects), the American Lung Association found that coal-powered electricity alone caused “over 13,000 premature deaths in 2010, as well as almost 10,000 hospitalizations and more than 20,000 heart attacks per year.” Considering that many of these people are current or would-be Facebook users, Randi would certainly do well to sway her brother before Facebook triples their current energy consumption (by 2020) to a level higher than that of France, Germany, Canada and Brazil combined.
To view Greenpeace’s recent TV ad, and to get info on how you can help convince Facebook to unfriend coal, visit the Greenpeace blog.
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Sometimes it seems as though change takes way too loooong…
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Posted in Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, Elephant Journal, PlanetSave, Wend Greenery
Tagged coal, mean Joe green cartoon, poetry, pollution
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air we (their consitituents, and the rest) breathe?
From Greenpeace: “Every year, in the US alone, fine particle emissions from power plants are believed to cut short the lives of 30,000 people. Every year, 38,000 heart attacks, 12,000 hospital admissions and an additional 550,000 asthma attacks are a result of power plant pollution.”
…but who needs clean air?
More
From The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Dirty Air Extremism
From Greenpeace: (health effects of) Coal Power Plants
From The US EPA: Clean Air Act
Again, the NRDC: Coal in a Changing Climate
From the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America: Asthma Facts and Figures (interesting bits on who is most affected…you decide why)
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Unfortunately, fighting against billionaires and their subsidy-driven profits takes some time. Don’t fret, we’ll come out of it clean.
…we just may be a bit bloody and limb-less.
Related info:
Ecopolitology’s Coal article archive
My Coal cartoon archive (with great links to more info)
King Coal wins the midterms
Leave it to Santa to know what’s make-believe and what isn’t.
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The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victorious. Unfortunately, when oil billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries (apologies for putting their names on the horse and ass’s asses) fight unwinnable battles you can be certain the pointless battles will last a lot longer than they should. Putting approximately 100 million dollars of their money into right-wing coffers to keep fellow polluters happy and federal regulations lax, Koch Industries is more than eager to fight a battle that compromises our future and greatly compromises the future of our children. The same children to which they are now eagerly marketing.
The brothers have also been enthusiastically supporting the Tea Party. They are doing a fine job of fooling the new political movement into believing that a victory for the Tea Party and their backers is a victory for good old “Joe America”.
What the Joes really need to do is look further in to who is telling them what, and why. A little digging will certainly uncover that most major polluting industries are in the pockets of many of their Republican and Tea Party heroes (Democrats too, but less so. Hence their slogan “the lesser of two evils”).
If billionaire polluters help elected officials get into office then who do you think they are beholden to? Who are they working for? You, the people, their constituents, the Joes they are polluting, or the billionaires who got them there? And why are these billionaires cow-towing to the Joes? Could it be that they want you to have their backs when “crazy, radical, hippie, liberals” (read, folks who like clean soil, air and water) call them out on the poison they release into our environment in extremely dangerous amounts? It could.
Name calling and turning Joe against Joe is a game politicians, corporations and billionaires have long played to keep us distracted so they are free to do whatever their extremely tiny, crusty, brownish-grey hearts desire. Which (to keep it simple) is ONLY to make more money.
Money is the root of all evil. And unfortunately evil is a beautiful flower of deception that keeps us from focusing on the root.
Let’s all try to pay closer attention to who is yelling at whom and why. Use your critical mind to find out why, and please avoid any misdirected hostility. Otherwise, you are the fertilizer that helps Evil grow.
Evil needs you. You do not need evil–no matter how pretty it may seem.
Same old same old from the right side of the aisle. As Treehugger columnist, Brian Merchant recently shared, “they are the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science.”
Scary.
More on the ever-tan Mr. Boehner:
John Boehner on the Issues (scroll down for “Energy and Oil” and the “Environment”)
Posted in Enviro-Political, Twilight Earth, EcoPolitoligy, Wend Greenery, PlanetSave, Favorite
Tagged climate change, coal, Energy, Republican, clean energy, John Boehner, solar
Find me a liberal in the Big Coal and/or Oil biz and I’ll never draw another cartoon again!
Republican governor candidates deny climate change
On climate change, it’s the Republicans versus reality
Posted in Enviro-Political, Twilight Earth, EcoPolitoligy, Wend Greenery, PlanetSave
Tagged climate change, global warming, coal, oil, big oil, republicans, big coal, mean Joe green cartoon
“BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy” Reposted from Wend Magazine, Twilight Earth, and Ecopolitology.
If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers…
Posted in EcoPolitoligy, Twilight Earth, Wend Greenery
Tagged air pollution, bp oil spill cartoon, cap, coal
“If Only We Could See All Pollution” reposted from Wend magazine’s Greenery page.
In his final throes as “Worst Environmental President Ever,” W shocked the world when he designated nearly 200,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean as conservation areas. According to ocean conservationist and educator Jean-Michel Cousteau
and the above linked Guardian article, it was at a White House presentation on the state of the oceans (read: world) that got Laura Bush turned on to the subject of conservation. Cousteau showed a variety of images from the Pacific Gyre and L became determined–to the dismay of D (Cheney)–to clean up the mess.
This got me thinking–”That’s the problem!” If we could only see pollution then EVERYONE would fight for cleanup and stop polluting at once. It is the simple fact that we cannot see the sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, volatile organic compounds, mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and smog-forming particulates (for the most part) that coal-fired power plants fill our air and water (and therefore, us) with that keeps coal surviving and keeps these toxic emissions out of the mainstream carbon eliminating/global warming-related “discussion”.
I wish we could see what’s in our air and water… although, maybe ignorance is bliss…
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Posted in Enviro-Political, Wend Greenery
Tagged 5 Gyres, air pollution, coal, ocean conservation, water pollution
Groundhog Sees Shadow–Predicts Extreme Weather re-posted from Wend Magazine’s Greenery page.
Posted in Enviro-Political, Favorite, Wend Greenery
Tagged climate change, coal, global warming, groundhog, groundhog's day cartoon
“Earth Attends Oil-Coal-holics Anonymous Meeting” re-posted from Wend Magazine’s “Greenery” page.
Posted in Enviro-Political, Favorite, Wend blog
Tagged coal, Earth cartoon, oil, oil spill, oilcoalholic
