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Beck: Youth climate activists are being organized by the same 1960s “radicals” who said “kill the parents”

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:49:57 +0000

As CP reported earlier this month, Glenn Beck is out at Fox News thanks to shrinking ratings and growing disconnect from reality. Now Brad Johnson reports at ThinkProgress that Beck can’t leave fast enough to stop the crazy. The good news is that Brad also has a clip of Van Jones. Today, lame-duck Fox News host Glenn Beck equated the 10,000 youth climate activists who participated in the Power Shift conference this weekend with dangerous “radicals” who want to kill their parents [or who are being told to "kill their parents" or who tell each other to "kill their parents" -- as usual, it's hard to tell what Beck is saying]. At Power Shift, climate leaders Van Jones and Al Gore exhorted the mostly college-age participants to engage with the older generations by asking moral questions about American values, just as young people did during the Jim Crow era. Beck falsely claimed the advice was to “not to listen to your parents!” Continuing further, Beck said these are “the same radicals” who talked about “kill[ing] the parents”: The more things change, you see, the more they stay the same. These radicals are the same radicals that used to tell each other in the 1960s, “Don’t trust anybody over thirty. Don’t trust your parents!” Bill Ayers said, “ Kill the parents! Kill your parents !” Watch it: During his attack, Beck interrupted a clip of Van Jones’ keynote address , which began, “When your uncle Joe, who loves Fox News, starts talking to you, and starts dominating the discussion . . . ” Beck then broke in, “Listen to what he’s saying

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Los Angeles to slather its rooftops with solar panels

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:06:52 +0000

by Christopher Mims. Here’s a crazy idea: apply the same incentives that have made Germany the world leader in rooftop solar power to a place that is actually sunny. Also, use the power generated from these panels to zero out the electricity costs of people in low-income housing, so the city has more money for education. Those are the suggestions of a new study from the Los Angeles Business Council, which argues that just sticking solar panels on commercial buildings and multi-family dwellings could generate enough power for 30,000 homes. Extending the program to individual homeowners, the study’s authors estimate, could easily double that.

Singapore’s Strategy to Secure Food

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:20:05 +0000

In January of this year, the

What Makes Housing Really Green? Location, Location, Location…

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:40:06 +0000

Thinking about doing some renovations around the house to make it more energy efficient? Increase insulation levels? Put in more efficient windows? Maybe even install a white roof ? All of these things will help… but if you live in a car-oriented suburb, it turns out there may be one action you can take that will produce more bang for the buck than all of these options… and that’s moving. OK, that’s probably a bit of a stretch, but Kaid Benfield at the NRDC’s Switchboard blog highlighted a new report from Jonathan Rose Companies and the EPA that shows, in terms of total energy use, a transit-oriented home, or one “…within a quarter to a half a mile of a transit stop,” likely produces the greatest energy savings for a home… more than lots of green features in a home in a car-focused development. The report, Location Efficiency and Housing Type – Boiling it Down to BTUs , looked at total energy consumption: not just electricity and gas used in the home itself, but also transportation energy.

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Brands Court the Considerable Influence of Mommy Bloggers

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:53:33 +0000

Brands are well-aware that women make 85% of consumer purchasing decisions. Moms, in particular, are targeted by companies wanting them to spend their family budget on their products. Although many moms have always been discriminating, concerned and vocal consumers, they now have a new forum in which to express their approval or disdain for businesses and their

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Beyond Veggie Burgers: Organic Vegan Barbecue Ideas

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:02:29 +0000

Being careful of our eating habits is perhaps one of the biggest commitments we can make towards caring for our environment, and choosing ethically produced food gives us, as consumers, more control over how our food is grown, harvested, and prepared. Organic food is a rapidly growing market as more and more people are choosing to eat organic for health reasons, or because they have concerns about our impact upon the environment and the spread of unethical farming practices. Organic farming encourages biodiversity on and around farmland – which is particularly important for those species threatened by modern farming methods – and does not rely upon pesticides which might leach into nearby watercourses

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Raffi on child honouring, the right to a future, and “tweeting while Earth burns” – Urgent need for a new lens and lexicon for conveying climate…

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:54:18 +0000

Climate change is not one among many issues, it is THE crisis, the greatest threat on Earth. If you have kids, you know Raffi. But Raffi is much more than a singer, songwriter, and performer. He is a children’s champion and ecology advocate, founder and chair of the Centre for Child Honouring , the name of his powerful, integrated philosophy. This essay, by Raffi, is reposted in full by permission followed by his song on global warming. Are we tweeting while Earth burns

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Small, Green, Affordable: 1519 Cleveland

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:33:51 +0000

With design costs, build costs, land acquisition, and everything else, homes are expensive. Add a layer to that, that homes be sustainable, or somewhat “ green, ” and they get more expensive. Yet folks want these homes to be cut-rate affordable. It’s tough to do and a new modern home in Columbia, South Carolina, perhaps gives us an idea of what an affordable, light green home could look like. This single-family home is located at 1519 Cleveland Street in North Columbia’s College Place neighborhood. It has 1,120 square feet with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an open living, dining, and kitchen space. Green features include spray foam insulation, recycled low-VOC paint, a green screen/trellis entry, and a pervious driveway. To keep things affordable, 1519 Cleveland has IKEA kitchen cabinets, exposed air ducts, polished concrete floors, and a stacked washer and dryer

Tenzicut’s Personal Seed List

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:05:15 +0000

By Tenzicut After Steve sent his article to me on his Seed Report this morning, it was right on the heels of finally updating my personal seed list for my own garden until 3 am this morning. I have saved seed for many reasons for many years now. My love for seed starting began in the late 1970′s when I was still a child, helping my father collect them out of his quarter acre garden. Although dad is gone now, I still raise certain varieties because they were dear to him, although I have favorites of my own. It links me to him still. I guess I started saving seeds more hardcore since 1996 and it has become an obsession since then. After I learned about the plight of our heritage seeds and how we are losing them at a rate of 10,000 a year, lost forever… is when I got more into the conservation part of things

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Does Corporate America Need More Hackers?

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:57:09 +0000

Perhaps it’s the term “hacker.” To anyone who has been the unwitting victim of a malicious virus that has wiped out their information, used their address book to spread its poison code to friends and family, or sent their financial institution into panic, a hacker conjures the image of someone who spends their time dreaming up programs

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