2.02.2012
Feds: Mid-Atlantic wind farms take step forward San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle -
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, AP Offshore wind farms from New Jersey to Virginia took a big step closer to reality with the completion of a review that showed the renewable energy source would leave no major environmental damage, officials said Thursday.
While the Lip-Service-Left Fiddles: Lack of collective will on climate change: Manmohan Singh Economic Times
Economic Times -
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that "a lack of collective will" was hampering efforts to forge a common global front against the threat of climate change. Addressing the opening of a Sustainable Development Summit in New ...
States Mandate Insurers to Disclose Climate Change Risks SustainableBusiness
SustainableBusiness.com -
Insurance commissioners in California, New York and Washington State are the first to mandate that insurance companies report on the risks from climate change to their business and customers. How do insurers plan to deal with the rapidly rising risks ...
'My Religion: Christlikeness. Embodying Love. Jesus' Religion.' SL (no detail)
'My Religion: Christlikeness. Embodying Love. Jesus' Religion.' SL
'Unconditional Love is Brutally Conditional on Focusing Time, Attention.' SL (no detail)
'Unconditional Love is Brutally Conditional on Focusing Time, Attention.' SL
US set to be hit hardest by tropical cyclones TG Daily
TG Daily -
Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages by the end of the century, according to Yale and MIT researchers, because of economic growth as well as climate change. Global tropical damage is expected to double to $56 billion per year, ...
Leslie H. Gelb: Obama's Faster, Smarter Afghan Exit Daily Beast
Daily Beast -
Kudos for Obama and his team! They've announced a quick end to US combat in Afghanistan—a surprise decision of strategic skill and political courage, writes Leslie H. Gelb.
2.01.2012
Obama's money advantage is minimal Washington Post
Washington Post (blog) -
He documents that between hard money and PACs, Mitt Romney has essentially leveled the financial playing field with President Obama. After taking us through the math, he explains: That brings the combined Obama and Democratic outside group totals to ...
UN chief urges Israel to halt settlement construction in bid to salvage ... Washington Post
Washington Post -
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israel must halt settlement building and present detailed proposals for a border with a future Palestinian state, visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday, as he tried to persuade the Palestinians to continue low-level ...
KILL BABY, KILL: Rescue under way as European cold snap kills 79 CBS News
CTV.ca -
People walk through the historic center of Siena, central Italy, as snowfalls have been battering the country, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.
Mitt Romney: 'Im not concerned about the very poor' Politico
Politico -
Mitt Romney said Wednesday he's “not concerned about the very poor.” Romney told CNN's Soledad O'Brien during a morning interview after his Florida primary win that his focus is on the middle class - and not on the “very poor.
Voice of the People, P2-Kathy & Start Loving (vid) - Social Mechanics & McPherson Square, DC
Voice of the People, P2-Kathy & Start Loving - Social Mechanics & McPherson Square, DC
Kathy Roberts - ©GIFTOFSTRENGTH.com® Productions - All Rights Reserved -- INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST Kathy and Occupier, Start Loving, engagement in a ...
'Start, it's your example that caused our willingness to human-shield.' SL (text)
From a note to a friend -
To my shock and delight, for the first time since I've been in DC I see some real Peace Makers beginning to emerge - a small, largely mature cadre of folks from within Occupy, half of them Vets. 'Give me a military man to fight alongside any day. Don't give me any cowards.' Gandhi. Like Diane Wilson, Col. Ann Wright, Brian Willson....
Based on visual sightings, the a fringe group that have one quadrant of the DC Occupy park, had armed with lethal mustard gas bombs and feces bombs. I figured, that as usual, I'd be standing alone as a human shield, protecting and shielding our brothers and sisters in uniform, and protecting the deserved international good-will that the Good protesters have built with their Occupation. I was wrong. I was not to stand alone. There were another 8 that rose up, and we developed plans, we were standing together, for Brotherhood, no one gets abused, no double standards - the only and entire hope - the only thing that would be New, to Save us, under the sun.
And then, at midnight, we learned that the hostile group had self-destroyed the materials, afraid for their own safety - that the stuff might detonate and they'd be the victims.
But we grew in Spirit through the trial, folks in Occupy grew as we've rarely seen in 60 years. Morphing toward 1 Family, 1 Human Family, the only Hope, by whatever name.
As our cadre last night broke up, with the good news, at midnight, we went to sleep, exhausted from a prior sleepless night of vigilance. As I was leaving, the most senior in the group, a fellow for whom I have developed immense respect for his character, humanity, seriousness of purpose..., an AFL/CIO guy, 10 years younger than me, I've been watching him for months now, said, 'Start, it was you. It was your Spirit that rose us to this level of humanity, your Spirit, your Example and the coaching you've shared with us.'
The potential for hostilities continues, over the pending removal of the tarp on the McPherson statue, and further resolution on camping. And now the reports of Right-Wing hostiles is no longer just a report - http://dcist.com/2012/01/man_sick_of_occupy_dc_tries_to_cut.php . So, I'll continue my recent pattern of recharging the laptop in the morning, and spend afternoons and evenings sitting, working, on the southwest edge of the concrete circle around the statue.
xx sl
ps: It is such a tragedy how religiously, how scrupulously I've been ignored, marginalized, excluded by the DC activist 'club' ever since I've been here. The young and just plain 'folks' that have come from all over to Occupy McPherson, weren't smart enough to do so, so for now anyway, I've been able to work some of the magic I'm placed here to work.
1.31.2012
'A Peacemaker, an 'activist,' not equipped to fight till she knows what she'd die for.' SL (no detail)
'A Peacemaker, an 'activist,' not equipped to fight till she knows what she'd die for.' SL informed by MLK Jr.
Energy return on investment (EROI) for wind energy
Energy return on investment (EROI) for wind energy
www.eoearth.org/.../Energy_return_on_investment_(EROI)_for_win...
Jun 7, 2007 – The average EROI for just the operational studies is 19.8 (n=60; std. dev=13.7). This places wind energy in a favorable position relative to ...UN warns world lacks food ABC Online
ABC Online -
Within the next 20 years the world's population will need 50 per cent more food and vast new reserves of energy and water, according to UN estimates.
'Don't Say Gay' senator is asked to leave Tennessee restaurant Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times -
You are still free to preach against the alleged dangers of engaging in a homosexual lifestyle, as Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield did recently.
While McKibben Fiddles: Poll backs Obama on taxes, but not oil pipeline USA TODAY
USA TODAY -
By David Jackson, USA TODAY A week after the State of the Union address, a new poll reflects the old good news-bad news routine for President Obama. By a margin of 65%-to-31%, Americans agreed with Obama's proposal for a new minimum 30% tax rate on ...
Greenpeace storms Romanian ministry over gold mine Times of India
Times of India -
Wearing bright yellow jackets, Greenpeace activists knelt silently or sat on the dark red carpet of environment minister Laszlo Borbely's office, holding banners saying "Save Rosia Montana" and "No cyanide at Rosia Montana".
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