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Support the Two-Year, Nine-Million-Jobs Investment Plan!
Architecture 2030 has expanded its advocacy tools so that, with just one click, you can quickly and effectively contact your state and federal representatives.
Time is running out! If the Fed does not tie lower mortgage rates to the energy efficiency targets of the 2030 Challenge, we will miss out on a historic opportunity to create millions of jobs, rebuild the Nation's economy and dramatically reduce US energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Please take a moment to send the following letter to elected officials in your state and in Washington, DC, urging them to support The Two-Year, Nine-Million-Jobs Investment Plan. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5...
Check out EarthLab's Earth Day Challenge cause and Stop Global Warming Cause! Join the causes then see how many of your friends you can get to join. Click the links below to join. Let’s see if we can get a million people to join in 2008!
Stop Global Warming cause: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/83180
Earth Day Challenge cause: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/76247
Check out EarthLab's Earth Day Challenge cause and Stop Global Warming Cause! Join the causes then see how many of your friends you can get to join. Click the links below to join. Let’s see if we can get a million people to join in 2008!
Stop Global Warming cause: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/83180
Earth Day Challenge cause: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/76247
Architecture 2030 is organizing millions to wear BLUE for Earth Day 2008 to signify a vote for NO COAL. Please, help us get this movement going on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Archite...
Architecture 2030 is organizing millions to wear BLUE for Earth Day 2008 to signify a vote for NO COAL. Please, help us get this movement going on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Archite...
The Architecture 2030 Cause isn't about raising money, it's about raising awareness. Go to the website for more information.
The Architecture 2030 Cause isn't about raising money, it's about raising awareness. Go to the website for more information.
leo-- it says that this group isnt raising money right now...
so i guess the real question is-- WHY???
leo-- it says that this group isnt raising money right now...
so i guess the real question is-- WHY???
Whats going on with this donation portion of this group.. is that a real thing?
Whats going on with this donation portion of this group.. is that a real thing?
I see clean coal the same way I see better fuel economy standards and hybrid cars... as a step in the right direction, but far from a sustainable solution. At best they offer us a way to ease into more sustainable energy sources like wind, hydro and solar, at worst they are a distraction meant to delude people into thinking that they are sustainable solutions.
I see clean coal the same way I see better fuel economy standards and hybrid cars... as a step in the right direction, but far from a sustainable solution. At best they offer us a way to ease into more sustainable energy sources like wind, hydro and solar, at worst they are a distraction meant to delude people into thinking that they are sustainable solutions.
Hey, guys.
An interesting bit I saw at the Harvard Climate Change Project, the current plan in America is to switch to domestic coal as the major power source. Coal is cheap, has a high energy content, and is conveniently abundant in the United States. We've been running off coal as our major power source for years.
The problems with this are obvious: Coal emits CO2 when it's burned, and the methods used in mining coal are dangerous to both humans and their environment. Check out "Moutain-top removal coal mining: West Virginia" to see just how damaging coal mining can be.
The coal industries claim that they are cleaning up their act, and making efforts to make coal burning less harmful by reducing their CO2 emissions to next to nothing. There is actually a "Cleancoalusa" campaign extolling the virtues of "clean" coal. However, the current solution (at least the only one I have heard of) for reducing CO2 emissions from coal plants is to store the emitted CO2 underground, which I find wholly suspect. Although this will certainly delay the emission of Carbon dioxide for an amount of time, it has to go somewhere. It is reminiscent of landfilling practices, which as we all know are a wasteful use of land and not wholly safe. I don't know, I just see the coal industry's efforts to abate their carbon emissions as more harmful than good. I like cheap electricity as much as anyone, and coal plants provide it. But if we allow psuedo-progressive measures such as coal companies are claiming to take to be acceptable, we do no service to the cause of preventing climate change or protecting life on the planet. We merely delay and hide the inevitable.
Hey, guys.
An interesting bit I saw at the Harvard Climate Change Project, the current plan in America is to switch to domestic coal as the major power source. Coal is cheap, has a high energy content, and is conveniently abundant in the United States. We've been running off coal as our major power source for years.
The problems with this are obvious: Coal emits CO2 when it's burned, and the methods used in mining coal are dangerous to both humans and their environment. Check out "Moutain-top removal coal mining: West Virginia" to see just how damaging coal mining can be.
The coal industries claim that they are cleaning up their act, and making efforts to make coal burning less harmful by reducing their CO2 emissions to next to nothing. There is actually a "Cleancoalusa" campaign extolling the virtues of "clean" coal. However, the current solution (at least the only one I have heard of) for reducing CO2 emissions from coal plants is to store the emitted CO2 underground, which I find wholly suspect. Although this will certainly delay the emission of Carbon dioxide for an amount of time, it has to go somewhere. It is reminiscent of landfilling practices, which as we all know are a wasteful use of land and not wholly safe. I don't know, I just see the coal industry's efforts to abate their carbon emissions as more harmful than good. I like cheap electricity as much as anyone, and coal plants provide it. But if we allow psuedo-progressive measures such as coal companies are claiming to take to be acceptable, we do no service to the cause of preventing climate change or protecting life on the planet. We merely delay and hide the inevitable.