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Adopt Your Local Coal-Fired Power Plant

Submitted by Kevin Hansen on November 12, 2011 - 13:01

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.

Climate, Energy and Environment

US President Proposes New Global Security Strategy at the United Nations

Sep 24 2008
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Following the startling new cooperative, regional approach to security outlined in the 2008 State of the Union address, the US President describes the new US policy for a more peaceful world at the opening of the UN General Assembly, in a short film from Philadelphia filmmaker Kevin Hansen, Statesman Craig Eisendrath, and Bunker Seyfert. Prepared text as released to the press reads as follows:

I Introduction

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Blue Spruce Hollow I: Architect David Hartke Builds a LEED/Green Residence

Jan 02 2007
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Blue Spruce Hollow, Episode I:

Architect David Hartke showed Pierre his environmentally conscious new home, under construction in Doylestown Pennsylvania. The home is to become a LEED-Certified or 'Green' dwelling with many energy and environmentally-friendly features.

South-facing, the home gains much from solar orientation. Large sheltered porch living spaces will provide several 3-season rooms. The home uses little/no large timbers, relying instead on strong composite materials made from fast-growing woods.

Posted by Pierre Terre |
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