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The AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION ads on KOS are hard to miss. Either they're at the top of the page or somewhere on the left-hand side. Which is not to say I object to them. Really, the only thing that's objectionable is that they're really hard to capture. FLASH is not susceptible to copy and paste. So, I ended up refreshing the page about a dozen times to get the exact verbiage. The reason I bothered is because I really don't think the ads here ought to go without the critique we apply to other media offerings.
By monica smith at 12/26/2008 - 16:17 | Environment | Jobs | monica smith's blog | login or register to post comments | read more
What Does $82 an Acre Buy in Utah?
22,000 acres of prime conservation land that the oil/gas industry wants to exploit.
Impostor disrupts lands bid By monica smith at 12/24/2008 - 14:06 | Environment | News | login or register to post comments | read more
Air Force--Assassins and Sundries
Every now and then it seems advisable to check in on our United States Air Force, currently being directed by Michael B. Donley in his second tour as Secretary, having been approved by the Senate on October 2, 2008 after the prior Secretary was canned by Robert Gates.
No doubt, Secretary Donley is not responsible for the continuing turmoil nor the persistent aspirations to grandeur.
Air Force Seeks More Air Space Over Eastern Nevada By monica smith at 12/24/2008 - 04:54 | Accountability | Corporations | Environment | News | Terrorism | War | monica smith's blog | login or register to post comments | read more
Friedman: While Detroit Slept
SOURCE: NYT
December 10, 2008 OP-ED COLUMNIST While Detroit Slept By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN As I think about our bailing out Detroit, I can’t help but reflect on what, in my view, is the most important rule of business in today’s integrated and digitized global market, where knowledge and innovation tools are so widely distributed. It’s this: Whatever can be done, will be done. The only question is will it be done by you or to you. Just don’t think it won’t be done. If you have an idea in Detroit or Tennessee, promise me that you’ll pursue it, because someone in Denmark or Tel Aviv will do so a second later. Why do I bring this up? Because someone in the mobility business in Denmark and Tel Aviv is already developing a real-world alternative to Detroit’s business model. I don’t know if this alternative to gasoline-powered cars will work, but I do know that it can be done — and Detroit isn’t doing it. And therefore it will be done, and eventually, I bet, it will be done profitably. By admin at 12/10/2008 - 10:41 | Corporations | Energy | Environment | login or register to post comments | read more
Jim Rubens of the Union of Concerned Scientists Leads Discussion on Merrimack Station Coal PlaSun, 12/07/2008 - 1:00pm THE FELLS CLUBHOUSE, 1 FELLS DR. Amherst Please join us Sunday, Dec. 7th in Amherst for an important opportunity! Women Making A Difference is hosting Jim Rubens of the Union of Concerned Scientists who will be educating us on the current status of the Merrimack Station Coal Plant in Bow, NH. Mr. Rubens is former State Senator from Hanover and presently is the Energy Policy Consultant for the Union of Concerned Scientists. He coordinates the campaign in NH to help pass a strong national climate bill. Our hope is to fully educate people as to the very important opportunity to reassess how our ratepayer money is being spent in relation to this coal plant and how the public can best be served. I will include a few of the particulars below. This will be a HUGE issue in NH..... and we could have the opportunity to set the bar for the rest of the nation! Mr. Rubens is traveling a fair distance in order to speak with us, so let's make sure we have a good group to take part. Please join us for this very important discussion - Environmentalists draft bold roadmap for ObamaSOURCE: Huffington Post WASHINGTON — A united and diverse coalition of environmental advocacy groups has sent President-elect Barack Obama its roadmap for change _ and it represents a U-turn from the policies of President George W. Bush. The 391-page report titled "Transition to Green" lays out what the administration can do in its first 100 days and beyond at more than a dozen different agencies to achieve the dual goals of cleaning up the environment and revitalizing the economy. "It gives a whole vision on how to move forward to repower, rebuild, refuel America," said Jim Lyon, senior vice president for conservation for the National Wildlife Federation, one of 29 groups that signed onto the laundry list of policy recommendations. Many of the suggestions in the report released Tuesday echo what Obama has said on the campaign trail and signaled during the transition: capping the gases blamed for global warming; basing environmental decisions on sound science; and taking a more cautious approach to energy production on federal lands. Sierra Club victory partySun, 12/14/2008 - 4:30pm Concord IBEW Dear Sierra Club Fan We did it! Thank you for your work to help elect environmental candidates up and down the NH ballot! We’ve helped to elect Barack Obama President, Jeanne Shaheen to the US Senate, Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter to Congress and over 90 environmentally friendly state legislators. These elected officials will lead us toward a clean energy economy that will create good jobs and protect the environment. Over 1,000 NH Sierra Club members and supporters volunteered their time knocking on doors, making phone calls, doing data entry, holding signs, and even making food to keep the campaign workers fed. We're so proud of all your hard work. Its time to celebrate! Join us on Sunday December 14th at 4:30pm at the Concord IBEW Hall for a Victory Party. We'll have free food and drink, share Election stories, and get the chance to check out all the cool clean energy technology located at the IBEW's state of the art training facility. Sign up today! Check out Sierra Club Volunteer Stories from the Election Below: Tyranny of Oil--LectureFri, 11/21/2008 - 7:00pm River Run Bookstore, 20 Congress St. Portsmouth, NH In Tyranny Juhasz provides the hardest-hitting exposé of the oil industry in decades, answering today's pressing energy questions: Why are prices rising so quickly? Where will prices go and who’s really controlling them? How much oil is left? How far will Big Oil go to get it? And at what cost to the economy, environment, human rights, worker safety, public health, democracy, and America’s place in the world? Tyranny blends history, original investigative research and reporting, candid interviews with key insiders, and a unique focus on activism with a host of real-world policy solutions Antonia Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco. She is a fellow with Oil Change International and the Institute for Policy Studies and a senior analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus. Juhasz is a frequent media commentator and an award winning writer. info@seacoastpeaceresponse.org Gore: The Climate for Change
SOURCE: truthout.org
The Climate for Change - Sunday 09 November 2008 by: Al Gore, The New York Times The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he - and we - must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis. The electrifying redemption of America's revolutionary declaration that all human beings are born equal sets the stage for the renewal of United States leadership in a world that desperately needs to protect its primary endowment: the integrity and livability of the planet. The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is "unequivocal." To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is too late. Congratute the elected environmental champs We did it! As you know there are tremendous victories to report up and down the ballot. Time to get right to work to ensure that President-elect Barack Obama and the incoming members of the new Congress tackle the pressing environmental issues facing our state and the nation. But first, here's an opportunity to congratulate the candidates who won and applaud their commitment to the environment. Environment New Hampshire, as part of Environment America, endorsed 29 candidates for Congress and Sen. Barack Obama for president. We're excited to announce that, so far, 25 environmental champions were victorious on Election Day -- including Jeanne Shaheen for U.S. Senate and Reps. Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter for Congress -- giving us an enormous head start on our agenda for 2009. (The other four races are still too close to call.) By happyplanet at 11/07/2008 - 10:37 | Environment | Volunteer | login or register to post comments | read more
Turn America green by volunteering your time to elect Sen. Barack Obama to be the next president.
Here, and in 9 other battleground states nearly 1,600 have signed up to volunteer in the critical 96 hours before the election.
We're putting out names down for the last 96 hours because we worry this race could be much closer than the polls predict. Will all of the hard work and long hours be enough? With your help, it will be. Click here to Volunteer in the final 96 hours Here are a couple of reasons why we shouldn't take anything for granted. * Record turnouts are expected on Election Day, but it's unclear if polling places are ready for the deluge of new voters. With long waits and new voting technology in several states, polls can't predict how voters will react. * Polls -- even exit polls -- got it wrong in 2004. Not much has changed: On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, the polls showed Barack Obama up by 8.3 points in the average of all state polls. The media had started to write off Hillary Clinton and declare Obama the winner. By the end of the day, Hillary Clinton was declared the winner with a margin of victory of 2.6 points. The campaign that was supposed to be "over" went on for another five months. By happyplanet at 10/31/2008 - 12:55 | Elections | Environment | login or register to post comments | read more
Democratic Policies Promote High CO2 emissions
It is the Democratic Party that is responsible for savaging the World’s climate with high CO2 emissions, not Republicans. Yes, you heard that correctly.
First of all, through its longstanding and continuing opposition to nuclear power, the Democratic Party has forced and will continue to force this country to rely on coal and oil for much of its energy needs for the foreseeable future. Nuclear power is safe and emits next to nothing in terms of greenhouse emissions, but your Democratic Party will have none of it. And anyone who thinks Barack Obama and the current cast in your Democratic Congress will build nuclear power plants is dreaming. Secondly, the Democratic Party is also responsible for high CO2 emissions because its anti business policies have driven more businesses overseas to China and India(where the businesses can pollute the environment as they wish). Your Democratic Party seems to have forgotten that, as far as the greenhouse effect is concerned, the world’s environment is not helped simply by moving polluters from one spot to the next. By Reality Check at 10/22/2008 - 21:30 | Candidates | Democrats | Environment | login or register to post comments | read more
1Sky: Welcoming the new Congress and PresidentTue, 11/18/2008 - 7:00pm http://www.1sky.org/ Nov. 18: Welcoming the new Congress and President Given the challenges facing our country, November 4, 2008 is one of the most important elections in U.S. history. But regardless of who’s elected on Nov. 4, it will require ongoing action to hold our leaders accountable and push them to enact bold climate solutions. With a key round of international climate talks coming up in Poland in December, it is critical now to send our elected officials a message to take bold leadership on climate. On November 18, two weeks after the election, we will “welcome” the 111th Congress and the new President to office. Through hundreds of distributed actions across the country, we will call upon them to make climate a top domestic priority in 2009. As an immediate first step, the actions will also urge the President-elect to attend the Poland climate talks and re-engage the international community by calling for strong global action. Together, we will ensure that elected officials hear about climate between Election Day and Inauguration Day and counter-act the influence of the fossil fuel lobby. We will demonstrate the power of the emerging bloc of climate and environmental voters, building a base for action through 2009 and beyond. Take action for green jobs this Saturday
NOTE: The new location for the day of action is the Fellowship Hall of the Concord Unitarian Universalist Church, at 274 Pleasant St. in Concord, at 11 am on Saturday. As before, we're going to have speakers from groups including the Sierra Club and the New Hampshire Council of Churches, tables and information from some of our partner groups, and an art project for kids to participate in!
Hey folks, This Friday, the presidential candidates will come together in Mississippi for their first debate, to lay out their platforms in front of a national audience of millions. But while each candidate will claim to have a vision that can protect our country's safety and prosperity, neither of them is going to articulate a strong enough platform on stopping global warming. The candidates are far behind the American people on this issue. You and I know that global warming is a threat to our health, our security, and our future, and that it's time to implement solutions that will address this crisis while creating good new jobs and pathways out of poverty. But if we're going to make the candidates face up to this reality, we're going to have to make some headlines of our own so that our concerns get heard. By admin at 09/23/2008 - 08:32 | Action alerts | Energy | Environment | login or register to post comments | read more
Peace Day ExeterSun, 09/21/2008 - 12:00pm Swasey Parkway Exeter, New Hampshire 03833 The Peace Day Exeter festival will be held on Sunday, September 21 in the lovely downtown Swasey Parkway between the hours of 1 and 5 PM. Activities for the festival include workshops and games for children, music and poetry, guest speakers, panel discussions on peace and sustainability issues, and other exciting events under two tents and the Swasey Parkway gazebo. Some of the participants to date include key note speaker, peace and campaign finance reform advocate Doris “Granny D” Haddock, The Tents of Hope Project, Camps for Diversity with Marilyn Kellogg, the Taoist Tai Chi Society, yoga and meditation with Julie Rost, environmental activist Beth Tener, Mark McPeak from UUSC Just Democracy, music supplied by Chris Avery and The Sassafras String Band, Reni Taylor, Drew Sullivan, Ruth George and other musical guests and poets. The festival is planned to coincide with the UN International Day of Peace. The Blue Moon Market and Café will supply a wonderful array of food and drink. Phillips Exeter Academy students will work with children in supportive and educational roles. Films and meditative exercises for adults are also scheduled. This is a family festival, and those attending are encouraged to bring a blanket or folding chairs and enjoy the day’s activities. The First Unitarian Universalist Society of Exeter is the rain location for this event. For more information, please visit our webpage: www.peacedayexeter.org. If you’re interested in volunteering for Peace Day Exeter, please contact either Cindy at clategan@comcast.net or Bob at bmoore628@comcast.net, phone: 603-642-4648. By rmoore at 08/31/2008 - 08:43 | Education | Energy | Environment | Fair elections | Miscellaneous | Outreach | Resources | Volunteer | War | login or register to post comments | calendar
Political comedian/musician ROY ZIMMERMAN in NH!Tue, 07/29/2008 - 6:00pm Northwood, NH The Northwood Theater Workshop announces the next installment of its ongoing concert series. Tuesday, July 29, at 7pm, acclaimed liberal singer/songwriter/comedian Roy Zimmerman will be appearing at the theater for the New Hampshire stop of his "Thanks For The Support" 50 state summer tour. Zimmerman, from San Francisco, writes and performs comedic songs about "ignorance, war, and greed". Examples of his work can be found on his YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/royzimmerman Zimmerman has shared the stage with the likes of George Carlin, Bill Maher, Kate Clinton, Dennis Miller, Sandra Tsing Loh, kd lang, Andy Borowitz and Paul Krassner, and played a series of shows swapping songs with The Pixies' Frank Black. In the 90's he founded, performed with, and wrote all the material for the folk quartet "The Foremen" who were signed with the major record label Warner Bros/Reprise. "Roy's lyrics move beyond poetry and achieve perfection." -Joni Mitchell The Global Poverty Act
I'm writing on behalf of the Borgen Project- a seattle based non profit organization working to bring political attention to severe poverty. You can learn more about our organization through theborgenproject.org.
As you will see we have created the Global Poverty Act which has passed in the House and now we're trying to pass in the Senate. The way you can help is severly important and takes only thirty seconds to help pass this act. We need roughly a dozen people (however the more the merrier) in New Hampshire to call Senator Sununu's office at (603) 647- 7500 and simply tell the staffer on the phone: “I’m a Borgen Project supporter and I would like the Senator to cosponsor the Global Poverty Act.” People can also email his office here: sununu.senate.gov. If you and your members can make the call or shoot an email it would greatly help the cause. You can see here (sample call log on right) how political offices tally each call and why it’s so important. Thank you so much for your consideration and let me know if I can answer any questions. Thank you, Candice Hays The Borgen Project theborgenproject.org By candice at 06/29/2008 - 15:11 | Accountability | Action alerts | Civil rights | Crime | Economy | Education | Energy | Environment | Family | Health care | Immigration | Jobs | Labor | Poverty | Reproductive rights | War | login or register to post comments | read more
Sierra Club alert: Sununu and Gregg vote to Drill in Arctic Refuge!Sununu and Gregg vote to Drill in Arctic Refuge! Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted down an amendment by a margin of 42 to 56 (60 votes were needed for approval) that would have opened pristine lands and coastal waters, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to new oil drilling. It would have also promoted the use of expensive, dirty, and dangerous "unconventional" fuels produced from liquid coal and oil shale. Sierra Club applauds Senate for rejecting failed energy policies. Unfortunately John Sununu and Judd Gregg were among those who voted for new oil drilling. They along with President Bush are calling for more of the same disastrous energy policies that have saddled us with our present energy and economic crises. By admin at 05/15/2008 - 10:51 | Action alerts | Environment | login or register to post comments | read more
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