I hope you all take full advantage of the health benefits of dandelions in order to prolong your life and be around when wind power finally surpasses coal power.
For today, I hope a little “summer snow” falls peacefully on you and yours.
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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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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.
Joe’s cartoon archive and twitter ramblings…
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.
Joe’s cartoon archive and twitter ramblings…
Related info (about DIY energy projects, not ESP)
From Treehugger: DIY Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (Video)
From Cleantechnica: Man Creates Homemade Biodiesel from Algae
From Mother Earth News: Do-It-Yourself Solar Heat
From Treehugger again: Ingenuity + Wind + Text Book = Home Made Electricity
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More info
From Grist: Obama’s energy gambit: a call for less coal
From EcoSnobberySucks: Did Obama double talk the State of the Union?
From PlanetSave: Obama’s State of the Union Address [VIDEO]
From Popular Science: World’s Largest Underwater Turbine Installed
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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
Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressing.
Unfortunately, that is not the world we currently live in. The money has long backed the polluters, and although we are definitely in transition–we have a long way to go. And with the results of the mid-terms in, Karl Rove shares that our long-way-to-go just got longer.
“Climate is gone” he proclaimed at a recent conference for shale gas drilling companies. He goes on to say Congress “sure as heck” won’t pass legislation that would limit greenhouse gas emissions. Obama agreed that it’d likely be years before climate and clean energy legislation will be back on the table (more on this in Treehugger’s recent post).
Climate Hawks (aka, people who like clean air, water, and soil) unite! Let’s all start putting our money and our actions where our collective frowns are. We will un-”screw” ourselves only when our current choices–”getting worse” and “not getting worse”–include “getting better”. I’m sure our current two options are what inspired the always-entertaining blogger extraordinaire, Jeffrey Davis’s caption, “talk about choosing the lesser of two evils.”
Thanks for the captions, Jeffs, and the rest! Time to unscrew ourselves.
Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner.
Note: The winning caption will be selected from all participating websites: Wend Greenery, Ecopolitology, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave and my cartoon site.
Thanks for participating! And thanks for VOTING TODAY!
Still undecided? –Sierra Club 2010 Endorsements
Obama announced recently that he plans to add solar panels to the White House. I can’t see anyone or anything standing in the way.
White House gets into 10/10/10 spirit with solar-panel plan
Obama: ‘No industry with more potential to create jobs now than clean energy’
Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 10/21/09
With ‘clean coal’ and nuclear power likely to play a larger-than-expected role in climate change legislation, are we heading for an iceberg? Literally, no–they’re all melting. Figuratively, maybe…
Posted in Enviro-Political, Green Options
Tagged Cartoon, Clean coal, climate bill, conservation, Mean Joe Green, nuclear energy, renewable energy, titanic
Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 9/24/09
Mean Joe Green #74: Old King Coal’s New Nursery Rhyme.
Will we be able to move away from dirty fossil fuels to new clean energy sources in the near future? Not if Old King Coal has his way…
UN Speeches Ramp Up Rhetoric in US – China Climate Change Arms Race
Fossil fuel subsidies dwarf clean energy subsidies; Obama wants to eliminate them
U.S. pushes G20 to cut fossil-fuel subsidies
Ten Dirty Things About Big King Coal
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Talks Dirty Coal at Bonnaroo, and More (audio)
Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 8/27/09
I guess I’m on a pole dancing kick this week. But, my (very short) post on nude pole dancing on the subway inspired thoughts of how renewable energy needs to get a little “sexier”.
This should do the trick…
Posted in Enviro-Political, Green Options
Tagged Cartoon, Mean Joe Green, pole dancing, renewable energy, sex sells, wind energy, wind turbines
Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 3/4/09
I’m all about activism and rallying in support of renewable energy, but we MUST NOT forget the importance of conservation. Afterall, WE are the ones creating the need for coal-fired power plants.
US: Efficiency Can Reduce Energy Use By 30%, Coal Dependence By 60%
Signs of the times great pictures from the rally–scroll down for the pro-coal intern…
Earth Policy Institute: Plan B Efficiency and Conservation Measures Drop Energy Demand by 2020
Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 10/2/08
Two recent bills in support of promoting renewable energy nearly made it to the the Senate floor–they fell one vote short. Needing 60 votes to progress, each failed with a tally of 59 for–40 against–and 1 senator absent. Guess which senator missed the votes that could have moved our country and our economy towards cleaner, greener, pastures?
You guessed it–The Maverick!
And guess who was absent on 6 other similar votes this year and last?
Yep–Maverick again!
And guess who, when asked about those missed votes, told U.S. citizens “..I have not missed any crucial vote”?
Mav!
At a time when we are in desperate need of a global clean-up can we afford to elect a Maverick who stated last December that the “truly clean technologies don’t work.”? (By the way this is the same one-man think tank that called the fundamentals of our economy strong, only a few weeks back!)
Time to elect a leader who has a clue…
Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 9/2/08
The future of renewable energy does not bode well with a candidate who was absent for the eight key votes to extend renewable energy tax credits.
For more, read the articles linked below the cartoon.
John McCain Scores a Zero on the Environment
McCain is Absent on America’s Energy Crisis: Misses 8 Key Votes
An about face?..
McCain Meets with Pickens, Says “Of Course” he Supports Renewable Energy Tax Credits
On the other hand…
Top Ten Reasons to Vote for Obama/Biden
Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 8/8/08
Tim Hurst’s recent article in Red, Green, and Blue highlights John McCain’s talk on taking care of the environment–in the case of the article, specifically as it relates to renewable energy.
Sorry John, but not showing up to cast the deciding vote on important energy incentives that would promote renewables, speaks louder than words I’m afraid.
I’m also afraid that sometimes mere talk wins out…
