Kerry & Edwards visit Lawrence Friday 11:30pm

What: Kerry & Edwards visit Lawrence
When: Friday August 6th, 11:30 pm
Where: Lawrence Amtrak station: 413 E. 7th Street, Lawrence KS
Why: Kerry & Edwards are bringing their campaign for change to Kansas!

It sounds like they'll be in town for about ten minutes, but still sounds cool. I've never seen a prez candidate in person! Anybody planning to attend? Sounds like tmseay and others are going, and I'll try to make it if'n I get my grading done in time.

Chris

Kerry & Edwards visit Lawrence Friday 11:30pm

What: Kerry & Edwards visit Lawrence
When: Friday August 6th, 11:30 pm
Where: Lawrence Amtrak station: 413 E. 7th Street, Lawrence KS
Why: Kerry & Edwards are bringing their campaign for change to Kansas!

It sounds like they'll be in town for about ten minutes, but still sounds cool. I've never seen a prez candidate in person! Anybody planning to attend? Sounds like tmseay and others are going, and I'll try to make it if'n I get my grading done in time.

Chris

local book club online

Just discovered this:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ks_booklovers/

Cool. Though I see no one has started discussing books yet >g< Of course, that means it's still open to voting what gets read first, eh?

Chris

local book club online

Just discovered this:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ks_booklovers/

Cool. Though I see no one has started discussing books yet >g< Of course, that means it's still open to voting what gets read first, eh?

Chris

The end of the world is here (if we don't act)

What an article. ( Behind the cut is scary stuff; optimistic ending below )

Gelspan's fourth way -- an "Rx for a planetary fever" -- involves stripping energy subsidies in industrialized nations from the fossil fuel industries and putting them entirely into renewable energy; creating a $300 billion fund to bring renewable energy to developing countries; and implementing a global fossil fuel efficiency standard, which would rise by 5 percent a year. In this scenario, tens of thousands of coal miners would have to be bought out or retrained. And to avoid engendering geopolitical chaos in the Middle East, the region would have to become a center of renewable hydrogen production with wind farms and solar panels in the deserts instead of oil wells.

Only regulatory measures this drastic, and involving such a level of international unity have a chance of stemming global warming, argues Gelbspan. But he also suggests that there would be an additional upside to the necessary global cooperation. The creation of a new energy infrastructure would spur new job growth and create huge new markets for multinational companies.

The scenario he paints would not only address climate change, but bring about a more equitable world, "putting people back in charge of governments and governments in charge of corporations." Thus, ultimately "Boiling Point" is not a horror story about our collective, incipient global warming doom, but, paradoxically, wildly optimistic, as Gelbspan appears to believe that such wide-scale international cooperation is possible.

Whatever happens, there's a generation of seabirds in Scotland that won't be around to find out.
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Okay, line me up for investing in Kansas wind farms. I wonder... if enough people created a wind-farm co-op, I bet we could build a farm with enough power to provide Lawrence with all the energy it needs. Hmm... I'm sensing a political movement....

Chris

The end of the world is here (if we don't act)

What an article. ( Behind the cut is scary stuff; optimistic ending below )

Gelspan's fourth way -- an "Rx for a planetary fever" -- involves stripping energy subsidies in industrialized nations from the fossil fuel industries and putting them entirely into renewable energy; creating a $300 billion fund to bring renewable energy to developing countries; and implementing a global fossil fuel efficiency standard, which would rise by 5 percent a year. In this scenario, tens of thousands of coal miners would have to be bought out or retrained. And to avoid engendering geopolitical chaos in the Middle East, the region would have to become a center of renewable hydrogen production with wind farms and solar panels in the deserts instead of oil wells.

Only regulatory measures this drastic, and involving such a level of international unity have a chance of stemming global warming, argues Gelbspan. But he also suggests that there would be an additional upside to the necessary global cooperation. The creation of a new energy infrastructure would spur new job growth and create huge new markets for multinational companies.

The scenario he paints would not only address climate change, but bring about a more equitable world, "putting people back in charge of governments and governments in charge of corporations." Thus, ultimately "Boiling Point" is not a horror story about our collective, incipient global warming doom, but, paradoxically, wildly optimistic, as Gelbspan appears to believe that such wide-scale international cooperation is possible.

Whatever happens, there's a generation of seabirds in Scotland that won't be around to find out.
______
Okay, line me up for investing in Kansas wind farms. I wonder... if enough people created a wind-farm co-op, I bet we could build a farm with enough power to provide Lawrence with all the energy it needs. Hmm... I'm sensing a political movement....

Chris