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 Planet Gore:

It’s always easy to blame the oil industry, but it’s not the oil industry that’s holding up new transmission lines through the California desert to connect cities to solar farms in Nevada nor is it the oil industry that held up wind turbinesoff of Nantucket for years. We can go on and on with examples, but the point is that there’d be a lot more “green” energy if the “green” movement would just get out of the way.

Yep.  Nothing like being your own worst enemy.

To this, add:

• Green hypocrites in Hollywood and Washington D.C. and the UN and...
• Global warming hype-ism that turned off most of the country and distracted the rest from real (and solve-able) environmental problems
• The Gore Effect
• A budget crisis driven anti-big-government backlash gutting environmental programs the way EPA was clobbered by Reagan (with enormous public support) after the Nixon/Carter buildup years
• Climategate and IPCCgate and GISSgate and Himalayagate and...
• Liberal Christians who refuse to talk about Jesus at environmental conferences
• Marc Morano and Anthony Watts.
• Waaaay too much trust in Washington politicians to advance a green agenda, instead of aligning with public opinion to lead politicians in the right direction
• Unilateral regulation of CO2 by the Obama Administration.

I'm sure you have a few of your own.

I always thought "environmentalism" was a horrible idea compared to "ecology." Maybe we can finally get back to basics.  [photo credit] 

Cold Fusion Reactor

High Altitude Wind Power

Solar in the Sahara

Alaska's Untapped Hydrates

Shoutout - Thanks back!

Hugh Hewitt's out to salvage evangelical politics. Good luck. Fortunately Hugh has held on to his environmental law roots. Interesting post here about a potentially-awful critical habitat listing in Southern Florida.

Kruse: Evolutionists flock to Darwin-shaped wall stain. ROTFL!

Top 5 sustainability communication trends. Because, you know, it's not substance of the message - it's the effectiveness of the messenger that's important.

Obama's pics for Energy, EPA and Interior are all climate and no economy according to World Mag.

Ms. Rodham follows right along by appointing an envoy for climate change. Apparently they haven't read this. The UN is licking its collective chops because - well - it's always been about relevance and power for them. They think they have both now.

David Roberts, pleeeeeez put down the cool-aid before somebody gets hurt.

Recycled facial tissue. Buy a box for yourself and send a box to Manitoba. They suck at recycling.

St. Christopher Church of Cape Cod is wrestling with contamination from an old gas station under their new addition. Somebody call Teddy!

Dealing with TED addiction.

Enviro Law Prof has an update from the front of the war on bottled water.

With Pope stepping down as head of Sierra Club, Big Eco is headless:

This makes the Sierra Club the third major green group currently in search of new leadership. John Passacantando, who lead Greenpeace USA for eight years, stepped down on Jan. 1 to start a green investment consultancy. Longtime environmental activist Mike Clark is currently serving as Greenpeace's interim executive director as the group seeks a replacement. Friends of the Earth U.S. is also searching for a new president, as current president Brent Blackwelder is planning to retire.

Check out http://www.nacce.org

Prolife Blogs Dot Com: "Across America and in other countries, this month will likely see millions of good people standing, praying and marching for life." Uh, sorry. Not if the MSM has anything to say about it, they won't.

Cattle ranching climate myth debunked.

Finally, this:

The Intelligence Squared Green Festival on Climate Change was a full day's worth of important information and debate on many issues confronting mankind about the future of our planet. With a cast of heavy hitters, from scientists to professors to CEO's, it was an opportunity to hear serious people talk about serious matters.

The first big debate was "Countdown to Armageddon--how long have we got?"

LOL! I never heard anyone say that about Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins who, by the way, issued a statement clarifying that Obama is likely not the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation.

Forget peak oil. Cleantech Blog sez worry about peak phosphorus.

Celebrating the love of God without the nasty cross.

Using the stimulus to do toxic site cleanups. I thought that's what SUPERFUND was for.

Man's man. Speaking of, Grist gives Jim Depiso a moment to tell the world about W's greatest environmental legacy.His second was saving the Mesopotamian marshs from the clutches of an Iraqi dictator. Grist was never a fan of President Bush. Perhaps this part of his legacy will improve with time too.

"How to save the world:"

Or, to put it another way, the importance of getting rid of all the 'gunk' that we take on, that adheres to us as we get older and assume the trappings, the costume of civilization, that prevents us from being honest, raw, authentic, nobody-but-ourselves -- stuff that others put on us to make us more like them, more acceptable, more obedient, tamer, quieter, more familiar, more 'like-able'.

To move forward now I have to become un-civilized, wild. Agile. Authentic. Finally, fully, nobody-but-myself.

To do that I must let go of everything I believe, everything I think I 'know', everything I fear, everything I think is appropriate (or not), expected, accepted (and acceptable, or not), everything I have unintentionally become and everything I have 'taken on'. All that baggage. All that stuff that holds me, holds all of us, back, and holds us in place.

I have to become light.

There will come a time, as our familiar, once-comfortable world starts to fall apart around us, when there will be no choice but to let go, to become light.

Now, we have a choice.

What are we waiting for?

What am I waiting for?

No, my friend. Not becoming light. Getting to know the Light. That's what makes us light.

Popular Mechanics: Dealing with the recycling market crash. Recycling myths don't help things much.

Coal into jet fuel. Because, you know, you can't fly a jet fighter using coal. There's actually plenty of defense related fuel stocks. The real issue is $14/gal price DoD is paying for jet fuel today.

UPDATE: Neglected to mention National Downshifting Week 21-27 April. "Slow down and green up!" Tracey Smith has a good thing going here. Spread the word!

Remember, the more money you spend,
the more time you have to be out there earning it
and the less time you get to spend with the ones you love.

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