carbon

Adopt Your Local Coal-Fired Power Plant

How we can get a big part of the US carbon economy to turn off?

Practically? Safely?

Over the past few years, I've been very impressed with The Sierra Club's "Stop the Coal Rush" Campaign to halt new coal-fired power generation in the US. It has been very effective: using legal action, protests, ad campaigns - a host of actions - it had the effect of making coal 'dirty' for the public. The Sierra Club is one of the few big organizations willing to address the facts: we have to phase-out coal to halt global warming. I've attached the Google Earth KMZ file for the Stop the Coal Rush Campaign so you could plot the locations of all the coal plants The Sierra Club is tracking.

Expanding this program to include PHASING OUT EXISTING COAL POWER PLANTS is a logical and necessary next step. Realistically, people need the power supplies, so we have to be smart about this.

Not Hotter, Not Drier, Not Here.

Jul 06 2010
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New Mexico is one of the hottest, driest States in the US. Because of global warming, it is getting a lot hotter, a lot drier.

Especially in the United States, we need to pass bold, comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation. 1Sky.org is leading in the US - join the movement. Take action. Make history, especially for the already-dry southwestern US, where conditions are worsening. In Mexico City this year, the United Nations COP16 event will try to extent this work to a global treaty

Ask your freinds and other citizens to take action.

Educate yourself.

Motivate yourself.

Change the world.

Earth Condominium: Organizing the Global Neighborhood

Aug 12 2009
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A wonderful short video, beautifully done, showing how we all live on a shared planet, much like a 'condominium' - where everybody has to get along because we all share everything!

10-Year Old Felix: Plant for the Planet Campaign (Deutsch with subtitles)

Jul 13 2008
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The amazing 10-year-old Felix Finkbeiner articulates his wishes for "Plant for the Planet" the campaign to plant trees - a United Nations-sponsored program that has become an overwhelming success.

In German, with English subtitles.

Think Like A Forest

Jun 22 2007
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In the forest there is no such thing as garbage! Everything works together without harming anybody.  They find ways to get along because they need each other.  Pierre talks about how people can learn to think like a forest.

When we think like a forest, we seen many things newly. We see that waste does not exist, we can make our own food, and we can take only what we need - no more. We see that all living things have a right to live their lives, too. We see how to live together, and we see how to run a business - all by thinking like a forest.

Global Warming makes Mother Earth Crazy!

Feb 12 2006
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Mother Earth and Pierre find out how crazy weather comes from global warming. Pierre tries to get us to use less carbon fuel so Mother Earth does not hurt him with snowballs!

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 2/12/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
Story Level 1 = Intended for all children or adults

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