Shea Gunther has launched Green Options. Go over and run up his new hit counter, will you?
Been a while since our last cow flatulence update. (via)
While I'm a skeptic about anthropogenic global warming gas, I have been steadily pointing out the suspicious silence by the MSM on the meat issue -- because according to all the official data, human meat consumption is said to be the number one cause of global warming. I now I see that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is laying the issue at Al Gore's feet -- and they accuse his movie of failing to address cause number one...Among other things the letter cites studies showing that switching to a vegan diet is more effective than switching to a Prius...I hope they hold Al Gore's feet to the fire on this one. Something about the way they're avoiding meat strikes me as downright devious. I suspect it's because they don't believe their own rhetoric. Or maybe it's because they think taking the country off meat will be too much of a hard sell. Whatever it is, I'd like nothing more than to get to the bottom of this nonsense.
I hope PETA makes Gore squeal like a stuck hog.
Time to start thinking sirloin offsets! More on cap"-and-charade" at Greenie Watch.
UPDATE: More here.
UPDATE: Cost of buying our way out of Kyoto: $10,000,000,000 a year. Cost of making "offset" proponents put their money where their mouth is: Priceless.
New research shows African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a rate unprecedented since an international convention banning ivory trade took effect in 1989. So much for international conventions.
AccuWeather Blog: "Banning bulbs all over the world."
A lost cuckoo breaks its silence.
Since Israel introduced the Deposit Law in 2001, over 1.5 billion bottles and cans have been recycled. Litter has been reduced. And over 260,000 tons of greenhouse gases have been saved.
Oy vey! Israel has a bottle bill. I wonder how many of her neighbors are recycling.
Honda tries to make their Formula One car greener, but Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace aren't buying it. How come "awareness" is only important when they're the ones raising it? Silly. Meanwhile, greenerMiami reports on a biodiesel boat trying to set records.
Three California cyclists begin an "international ride to promote environmentalism." They end up in jail and a five-year ban from national parks for illegally riding across the Grand Canyon.
No difference between "Islam and environmental theocracy"?
Texas Catholic Bishops vs coal fired electricity:
The church cannot ignore the economic benefits that coal may offer; but neither can the church ignore coal's attendant dangers to human health and environment," they said. They asked legislators to "commit to a clean, affordable and reliable energy future for Texas" by developing "the necessary infrastructure to ensure that energy from our state's abundant wind and solar resources is available to residents throughout the state."
Cleantech blog has more on the Texas coal plant issue from a green business perspective. The Catholic bretheren are busy up in the Great White North as well, eh.
Add "sumptuary laws" to your lexicon of religious terms applied to global warming. And there are moral benefits from global warming; apparently it's negatively impacting the sex industry.
UPDATE: On the other hand... (Still more from Sister Mary Katharine)
During the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, the governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington signed an agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, a cause (say some) of global warming.
Ballor: NCC Spokesman: 'Satan is myth, global warming is real'. Ouch!
McDonald: Traditional environmentalist naysayers are lost. Isn't that the truth.
Interesting bit on the history behind the Chesapeake Bay restoration here.
Finally, Sustainablog reports on renewable (hydroelectric) power brought to a Guatemalan village:
CNA community leader Javier Jimenez notes that the micro-hydro project fulfills the promise of "triple bottom line" business: it protects the environment while raising the standard of living for villagers, and providing them with opportunities to diversify their incomes. The company also created biogas systems (biodegesters) and a solar hot water heating system for the community. The company's website has a full overview of the technologies it provides.
I found this news exciting because it again shows the potential to address the needs of people in the developing world with appropriate technology that doesn't harm those same people, or the land, air and water they depend on for survival. It also shows that markets exist where, often, traditional businesses are the least likely to look: among people who have little, but who also will have a better chance to raise their own standards of living with some investment in their potential.
Seems to me this is exactly the sort of thing Christian businessmen and engineers could engage in as missionaries, and larger denominations could support as missions ministry.
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