Energize America #5: how you can help
Final part of the Energize America presentation at the recent YearlyKos conference. This grassroots campaign for a progressive energy policy was initiated by members of the Daily Kos website.
Activism
Solutions & sustainability – June 16
Retired nuclear physicist discovers peak oil / Companies embracing sustainability / Rural Kenya women replace wood fires with solar cookers /
Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award / Tour of the Maple Ridge wind farm /
Message board activism: the blogosphere’s mext level / Trolling for dollars (Netvocates)
An Inconvenient Truth
We now have a devious layer of corporate-financed, pseudo-science spread all over everything like sticky jam. So much so that when we see something clean and pure without that sticky confusing mess, we think that something is missing.
Energize America #3: guiding principles
A slide presentation describing the main goals of Energize America. This grassroots campaign for a progressive energy policy was initiated by members of the Daily Kos website.
Solutions & sustainability – June 14
BREAKING: Sheriff’s deputies evicting South Central farmers now / Sustainable architecture can reduce CO2 /
Food, energy woes can change people’s ideas of community / Organizing to break US oil addition – July Indiana conference /
5 alternatives to an oil-based economy
Energize America # 2: how Kossacks built EA
How Energize America came to life, and the unique caracteristics of DailyKos that made that netroots-based drafting process possible and give it its qualities of transparency, democracy and the ability to vet information.
Solutions & sustainability – June 11
Darley: Relocalization for architects and developers /
Preparation for the future (thoughts For 30-somethings) /
A visit to the Eden project … Wow / Sustainable architecture can reduce CO2 / Is the battle for South Central Farm near a close? / HP cuts back on telecommuting / TIME: Lure of the 100-mile diet /
Gathering highlights power of the blog
Climate chaos: Bush’s climate of fear
Some of America’s leading climate scientists claim to BBC’s Panorama that they have been censored and gagged by the U.S. administration
Energize America presentation (part 1 – the energy situation)
Energize America is a comprehensive plan developed by informed citizen activists to wean the U.S. from its fossil fuel addiction and provide the U.S. with Energy Security by 2020, and Energy Freedom by 2040. (First part of a presentation at the YearlyKos conference now underway)
Jonathon Porritt: peak oil and climate change
Speaking to approximately 1000 people at the Hay Festival, the message of the long-time environmentalist was powerful and well received. He described climate change and peak oil as “two riders of the apocalypse”
Gender, peak oil and culture: part 2
Differences are important. We ignore dealing with gender and cultural issues at the risk of excluding diverse voices. Instead, we should welcome and seek to enhance their power, thus strengthening Peak Oil work.
Peak oil – June 4
Follow-up to the Hirsch Report: “Economic Impacts of Liquid Fuel Mitigation Options” / Interview with report co-author Roger Bezdek /
Communities Magazine special on PO and sustainability /
MoveOn.org prioritizes “energy independence” / Energy strategies for the mining industry / No technofixes for PO / BBC scrapes the barrel to stand up PO theory
