 | Vernon Haltom on "Clean Coal" (This video was originally supposed to be uploaded on CNN's iReport Network. For reasons unknown it has not been able to be uploaded. After many attempts and hours of troubleshooting it is now here on youtube instead.) Vernon Haltom, co-director of Coal River Mountain Watch, responds to CNN's Energy Fix question about "Clean Coal." Here are some quotes from the interview: "To put it bluntly there is no such thing as "clean coal technology." Its is an industry buzz word that the media has picked up on." "Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will not solve the climate crisis." "In West Virginia, every year, the coal industry uses the explosive equivalent of 31 Hiroshima style atomic bombs." "No one in America should be a refugee in there own homes." "Coal is a finite resource. It is going to run out." "The coal-to-liquids process is horribly polluting, it is horribly expensive, and it would make no significant difference on the price at the pump or on foreign oil dependence. What it would do is take your tax dollars to prop up a dying industry." www.crmw.net www.coalriverwind.org www.penniesofpromise.org www.sludgesafety.org |
 | gyfafy change your mind we are the fish gods ch. 109 chapter 109 the petrochemical industry is huge. so many of the products on the market come from our favorite finite resource, mineral oil. they can all be replaced. as can most of the wood industries. and they need to be replaced. it will be much easier and safer to take life with us on our large star ships than chemicals from a finite resource. our pharmaceutical industry steals their formulas from nature, patents the chemical and cuts down the forest. to get rich. but ultimately, to reduce our chance of space travel by killing our renewable resource. life. one word religion gyfafy |
 | Critical Mass 101 I ride in the Critical Mass bike ride every month while I'm living in Chicago. I notice that many people are confused about what we are doing and why, so I decided to make this video. It's 5 minutes and 19 seconds. In the United States many people need cars to get around just because other alternatives are not available, sufficient, or feasible. With gas being a finite resource, and it also being a cause of war, I think it's so important to promote other alternatives: bikes, trains, walking, and building pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods and cities where we can walk to the stores or other businesses from our homes. Here are some other things to ponder when we are thinking of ways to build a better society: "Road accidents cost about $90 billion annually by killing over 40,000 Americans, about as many as diabetes or breast cancer, and injuring 5 million more. Globally, car accidents are the fifth- and will soon be the third-largest cause of death: They currently kill a half million people and injure 15 million more every year. If automobility were a disease, vast international resources would be brought to bear to cure it." --from "Natural Capitalism", by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins. Hope you enjoy the video and thanks for watching! |
 | Bush Admin Changing Environmental Regulations, Urgent i double checked my numbers, and 150 species a day would add up to about 56,000 a year. this is still within the most pessimistic estimates (which are as high as around 140,000 species a year). http://www.alternet.org/story/98065/we%27ve_got_one_week_left_to_stop_one_of_bush%27s_worst_environmental_attacks/ INSTRUCTIONS: Go to www.regulations.gov and use the search terms: "50 CFR Part 402 proposed rule." The proposed changes are in Document # EB - 18938 To see the proposed changes, click on "View this document" Click on "Send a comment or submission" to write your comment. Note that plain e-mails will not be considered. This is another way public input is being limited. Write your comments before September 15, 2008. My message to the Feds: We are in the middle of the largest extinction event since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago, and it is a direct result of our human presence on this planet. Granted, more than just the United States is responsible for this catastrophe, but that doesn't mean we cannot play a significant role in trying to lesson our footprint within our own boarders, nor does it mean that our example is not a significant influence upon the rest of the world. We ought to be taking the lead on this issue, strengthening our ecological regulations. Our economy is important, but the ecosystems that sustain our existence on this planet are more important. Economies cannot grow indefinitely. We live on a single planet with finite resources. WE ARE IN NO POSITION TO BE LOOSENING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION TO BENEFIT PRIVATE CORPORATE INTERESTS. And it is not important to protect wildlife (only) because we have some kind of emotional attachment to various species, or because we find some animals aesthetically pleasing, or because they will suffer as a result of our expansion, resource depletion, and pollution; it is important because a loss of biodiversity has a direct effect on the quality of our human lives. We depend on certain ecological relationships to grow and pollenate our crops, to catch our fish, to produce the air that we breathe, etc (nature does all of this for free, mind you). At the current rate of extinction (approx. 20,000 species a year, most of which have not even been scientifically cataloged yet), our planet could face a drastic collapse of its life carrying capacity within decades, and we humans could very well be among the species affected. We are slowly pulling out the columns acting as foundations for a rather large building, and while on the surface everything may look fine, below ground the whole structure is nearing the verge of sudden and dramatic collapse. PLEASE RECONSIDER THESE CHANGES TO THE LEGAL LANGUAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT. OUR PLANET DEPENDS ON IT. |
 | Electromagnetic Spectrum, Critical to our Nation's Security Many nations around the world, including the United States, are facing a challenge regarding the use of the electromagnetic spectrum. The challenge involves the continued development of wireless devices that are realized by the use of "spectrum" (radio frequencies). Spectrum is a finite resource that has significant capabilities to generate revenue for a nation's economy, yet spectrum is also a vital enabler for first responders and other organizations that contribute to a nation's security. The DON CIO's spectrum video, titled "Electromagnetic Spectrum, Critical to our Nation's Security and Economy," identifies the U.S. challenge of balancing economic growth and national defense. |
 | John McCain: Employee Town Hall 08/11/08 John McCain Employee Town Hall Erie, PA 08/11/08 TRANSCRIPT: QUESTIONER: Well, I just had a question about the mass transit in this country like high-speed rail, electric, this kind of stuff that families could use to commute east and west, north and south and do it cheaply. JOHN MCCAIN: "[...] I think what you're doing here [at GE] is a natural extension of what you're going to see as an explosion of mass transit in America. Yeah. I can't tell you that I think the price of a barrel of oil is gonna come down dramatically. I'm happy to see, as you are, that it's come down some recently. But to somehow think that the price of a barrel of oil is gonna be very inexpensive again ignores the reality of two major economies--China and India--that are also competing for a finite resource. I mean, it's just a fundamental of economics. And so I think that mass transit is gonna be a very, very big factor. A lot of the cities are doing it. My own hometown of Phoenix, Arizona—we are involved in mass transit. And I'd also like to mention one other aspect of it: It seems, to me, that it's very much keyed to the efficiency of the mass transit. In other words, if you go do mag lab, if you do these other advance technologies that the price per passenger, per mile is dramatically lowered and, as the price of oil goes up—that goal, obviously isn't as hard to reach—but, if you can develop these technologies, which I am confident we will, that will carry a passenger further, at a—furthest—at a lower cost, we're gonna see an explosion of mass transit. I think you're gonna see of it—some of it like they're already talkin' about Dallas and Houston [...] Basically Amtrak, on the East Coast, is turning into a large, mass transit kind of an operation. I think you're gonna see the same thing on the West Coast and then obviously it will progress in the major cities in America. [...]" LABEL: JM PA 08-11 (JR#64) GKH - ClipA - LS To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: http://issuealliance.box.net/shared/7rxupcucn6 To download the full campaign event, VISIT: http://issuealliance.box.net/shared/jknb2nu8c1 |
 | Controlled Bleeding - A Nation's Nightmare Controlled Bleeding -- A Nation's Nightmare A film by Barton Santello Psychotropic Films presents Controlled Bleeding, a film about addiction and dreams turned to nightmares. Underground filmmaker Barton Santello applies his signature psycho-active filmmaking style to perceptions of recent history. In this film, symbolic media images, imbued with a sense of tragic irony, portray repeating cycles of dysfunctional human behavior in the pursuit of a finite resource - Oil. Historical Background That Inspired This Film: Oil - the biggest industry on earth - drives the world's economic model, provides vast oil wealth and power for business and political entities. However, this fading resource, now mostly concentrated in poor, remote and politically unstable countries halfway around the world, leaves highly mechanized nations vulnerable to events in these remote countries. As third-world nations industrialize and populations explode, competition over the remaining oil intensifies. Around the world, corrupt power brokers influence and infiltrate governments and manipulate jingoistic ideologies of powerful nations into projecting military power. To ensure the control of oil requires a physical presence which disrupts cultures of the people living in the regions where oil is found. After decades of economic exploitation and cultural degradation, David now fights-back against Goliath, in a modern day 'war-of-the-worlds.' In the United States at the dawn of the 21st century, political proxies of oil conglomerates have hijacked incredible technological, economic and military resources of a nation to wage war against Islamic peoples that stand between the access to 'black gold' and the West's thirst for modern comfort and convenience. The cost of needless human suffering, financial abandon and environmental resource depletion, is seen as incidental to protect the flow of the world's economic lubricant. Rather than seek clean, sustainable alternatives to oil that would diffuse Jihad related terror; the defense of oil in America has moved the country toward a Fascist state. Capitalizing on fear following the events of September 11th, 2001, a dictatorial Executive Branch, conducts wars that fill the pockets of the military Industrial complex. At the same time proclaim to protect the public from the consequences of its own compulsive and consumptive behaviors: Wasteful practices which the government itself enables and perpetuates. One can now witness in real-time, a nation bring terrible misfortune down upon itself through addiction, fear, propaganda, and extreme nationalism; while expending great resources and policies that ironically help create enemies faster than they can be killed. This perilous gamble with economic catastrophe and the sacrifice of moral behavior is conducted in full view of the world. And one can now witness a once highly respected nation, regress into mis-adventures such as secret prisons, torture and hunting-down its enemies as they dash from cave-to-cave in remote regions of the world. Ironically, all this comes at a time when alternate renewable energy technologies could replace oil, transform economies, preserve the environment and empower people to take responsibility for their energy use. Will we open our eyes and awake from the nightmare of oil before it's too late? For additional info and films; see weblog: http://psychotropicfilms.blogspot.com |
 | Draning Water Resources This is Amanda Thomas Citizen Journalist from the UK British overconsumption of water and its impact around the world warns of the hidden levels needed to produce food and clothing. Only 38% of the water used by the UK comes from its own resources, with much of the rest coming from countries such as Spain and Morocco, which face serious shortages. The average UK household consumption for washing and drinking is 30 times more than the virtual water used in the production of imported food and textiles. What's particularly worrying is that the huge amounts of food and cotton we consume are grown in drier areas of the world where water resources are either already stressed or very likely to become so in the near future. This need to be taken care of as we are knowingly contributing to the slow death of some of the world's most important rivers, and we may not be able to rely on the same supplies in the future, with fresh water now being described as "the new oil", a finite resource running out. http://www.instablogs.com/ |
 | Resource finite The unconscious water wastage in contrast to the vital need of water on a young girl's daily life. Day by day, she keeps wasting without realizing that water is a scourge resource. For the Festival VidéEAU, competition of "The World Youth Congress 2008" in Canada. Realization: Camila Borgo, Elissa Schpallir, Patricia Peniche, Tainah Veras |
 | Peak Oil: What could it mean for Vancouver? Oil, a finite resource, impacts nearly every aspect of our lives and is our main source of enegry. What could its limited supply mean for the future of Greater Vancouver? |
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