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That Green Thing In the line at the store today, the cashier told an older woman ahead of me that plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized to her and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." That's right, they didn't have the green thing in her day. Back then, they returned their milk bottles, Coke bottles, and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, using the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But they didn't...

Consequences: The green lobby assured everyone it knew what it was doing when it got a judge to cut water to Central Valley farmers to save the delta smelt. But while the Valley economy is now ruined, it hasn't helped the smelt. Some day, environmental radicals will be held accountable for crimes against the ecosystem — the human ecosystem. Back in 2007, they convinced federal Judge Oliver Wanger to rule that the Endangered Species Act gave the federal government the right to cut water to thousands of farmers in California's Central Valley to protect a 3-inch baitfish called the delta...

California is the nation's laboratory in green job initiatives of the type that so many politicians in Washington, D.C., and the states see as America's economic passport to the future. The Golden State was first in the nation in renewable energy standards, it is the home of the most stringent cap and trade legislation (called AB 32) to reduce carbon emissions, and it has poured hundreds of millions of state tax dollars into renewable energy research. So where are all the green jobs? A new 2010 study by the University of California-Berkeley comes to the sobering conclusion that "the green...

LEWISBURG - Bucknell University will host the series, "Avatar: Responses from Earth," this spring and fall. The series is an examination of various real-life cultural perspectives on ecology from "real life" traditions and disciplines on Earth in response to the success of the film "Avatar" as a sci-fi environmental parable, according to Alf Siewers, associate professor of English at Bucknell University. The series opens with the talk, "This Holy Earth: Ecological Vision in the Cosmic Cathedral," with Father Andrew Damick... Damick, who is a founder of the Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas, will discuss Christian panentheism as...

For decades, automakers have been on a quest to make cars quieter: an auto that purrs, and glides almost silently in traffic. They have finally succeeded. Plug-in hybrid and electric cars, it turns out, not only reduce air pollution, they cut noise pollution as well with their whisper-quiet motors. But that has created a different problem. They aren’t noisy enough.

This is hilarious! Do these morons have a clue how many people laugh at them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIULIJxVr7A&feature=player_embedded

Two US women journalists will go on trial in North Korea's highest court Thursday on charges that could send them to a labour camp, amid growing international tensions sparked by Pyongyang's nuclear test. The pair were detained by North Korean border guards on March 17 along the narrow Tumen River which marks the border with China, while researching a story about refugees fleeing the hardline communist state. Pyongyang has said they will face trial for "hostile acts" and illegally entering the country, with the hearing to be held "on the basis of the confirmed crimes committed by them." South Korean...

President Nicolas Sarkozy's desire to appoint an outspoken climate-change sceptic to a new French super-ministry of industry and innovation has drawn strong protests from party colleagues and environmentalists. Claude Allègre argues that global warming is not necessarily caused by human activity. Putting him in charge of scientific research would be tantamount to "giving the finger to scientists", said Nicolas Hulot, France's best-known environmental activist. Mr Sarkozy wants to bring Mr Allègre, 72, a freethinking, former socialist education minister, into the government in a reshuffle after next month's European parliamentary elections. The president appears to reckon that appointing someone from outside...

As the climate crisis mounts and Arctic icebergs slip away, polar bears are suffering starvation, population declines, and drowning as they must swim further and further to find food. Seeking to raise awareness for the endangered species' plight, ADDI Concepts has taken wildlife preservation literally by designing a life-vest for displaced polar bears struggling to stay afloat as their homes sink into the sea. Polar bears are facing a bleak future as Arctic icebergs continue to melt and ancient shelves of ice collapse. The species inhabits only the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding areas, and they and can hunt consistently...

LONDON (Reuters) - A new advisory firm launched on Monday seeks to boost carbon emissions trading in sub-Saharan Africa and raise the continent's lagging profile in the $120 billion global carbon market. CarbonStream Africa, a joint venture between South African state-owned CEF Carbon SA (Pty) and Nordic company GreenStream Network Plc, offers advisory services for firms seeking to trade greenhouse gas offsets in Africa under the Kyoto Protocol. "Africa is really lagging behind, but I really believe it has the strongest potential," said Deven Pillay, CEO of CEF's carbon trading arm and chairman of CarbonStream Africa. "It's where we need...

After eight years of Republican rule, environmentalists believe they have a keen ally moving into the White House Tuesday, and Canada's oil sands are high on their list of targets. But they'll have to deal with Gen. James Jones. As a monumental battle over energy policy shapes up within the new administration of president-elect Barack Obama, Jones, a former NATO supreme commander who retired from the U.S. Marine Corps, may turn out to be Canada's best ally. After Tuesday's historic presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., he will be the new president's national security adviser, and has sent clear signals that...

The idea of “green” buildings is a terrific marketing concept. In San Francisco, it has helped grease the political roadway for massive, view-blocking luxury condominiums, implying that building these structures is more environmentally sustaining than leaving land vacant. Few seem to care whether green buildings can be a nightmare for those having to work inside high-rise structures lacking heat or air conditioning. The new Thomas Mayne designed Federal Building at 7th and Mission Streets in San Francisco is a case in point. Lauded by the New York Times as a building that “may one day be remembered as the crowning...

The latest political crusade is the crusade to replace ordinary light bulbs with the new CFL light bulb that is supposed to save electricity, reducing the need for fossil fuels and helping the fight against global warming. Since crusaders seldom stop to weigh the cost of what they are advocating, it is especially important that the rest of us do so before we get swept along by rhetoric and emotions. With the CFL light bulb, the initial cost -- several times that of a regular light bulb -- is only the financial cost. A bigger problem is what to do...

Green Dating – Are You An Ecosexual? Heather Buchanan Friday, July 13, 2007 The “green” buzzword has infiltrated our consciousness in terms of what we eat and how we recycle and when we drive to the store or walk. Now it’s even entered the equation of “Your carbon-footprint-free place or mine?” The question is: Are you an ecosexual? The concept of green dating used to be restricted to SWM seeks SWF to share life in yurt with long walks in protest rallies and vegan restaurants. But even if you don’t throw around words in personal ads like “family oriented pagan...

Marines To Conduct Gregory Canyon Exercise; Environmentalists Criticize Plan To Conduct Training At Old Dairy By: DAVE DOWNEY - Staff Writer Thursday, June 21, 2007 NORTH COUNTY (San Diego)-- An old dairy at the planned Gregory Canyon landfill will become an anti-terror training ground next month for 40 to 60 Marines from Camp Pendleton, a military official said Wednesday. Local environmentalists said they are worried the exercise could damage the fragile environment near the San Luis Rey River or ignite a wildfire in a tinder-dry area at one of the driest times of the year. Marine officials said care will...

Here are some outrageous and racist comments by environmentalists. These are compiled and documented in my book Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health. John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club: Muir said American Indians are “mostly ugly, and some of them altogether hideous.” They “seemed to have no right place in the landscape,” he continued. Muir is still honored without qualification on the Sierra Club web site, which proclaims, “John Muir is as relevant today as he was over 100 years ago.” Paul Ehrlich, influential “overpopulation” guru and professor of population studies at Stanford University: In his best-selling book,...

Al Gore's "Fever"

I noticed in one of those commendable articles on Canada.com, this week, which made Drudge, that the green people have discovered "environmentally-aware sex". It was overdue. The Italian Communist Party took much less time to discover ideologically-aware sex, and by the 1960s had a manual instructing party members that, "Sex, without class-consciousness, cannot give satisfaction, even if repeated to infinity." But once again, we find that the Communists were a little deeper than their "environmentalcase" successors. For the "green sex" that Greenpeace is currently selling rejects only stuff like, "sex toys containing phthalates, controversial chemical plasticizers believed by some to...

MADRID (Reuters) - Hundreds of nude cyclists pedaled around Spanish cities on Saturday to protest against car-clogged streets and demand greater respect for pollution-free transport. With slogans like "one car less" and "bio methanol" painted on their backs, the naked cyclists staged Spain's third annual Ciclonudista or "Nudecycle" in Madrid, Barcelona and Pamplona. The protest was part of world-wide naked bike riding events on Saturday across Europe, North America and South America. "We feel naked when up against traffic because people don't see the bicycle as just another means of transport," said Madrid cyclist Ramon Linaza, wearing only a cycle...

Frightening Quotes from Environmentalists (Attack Of The Socialist-Luddites) The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. —Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth” concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982) We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last! —Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue). Free Enterprise...

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Green to the core, Seattle attorney Michael McGinn joined the Sierra Club a decade ago while still in law school. Clean water, clean air, preserving public lands sounded the drumbeat of his environmental agenda. But now, as McGinn and other members of the nation's oldest conservation group elect five new people to the board of directors, they're weighing whether their environmental priorities — ending commercial logging, stopping sprawl, protecting wildlands — ought to include reducing U.S. immigration. Amid a bitter debate are some high-profile personalities, including civil-rights leader Morris Dees, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Paul Watson, head...

We had a wonderful discussion thread last night regarding the KGO talk show of Dr. Bill Wattenburg. Dr. Bill gathers a tremendous audience for his San Francisco based weekend show from the 50,000 watt station. Besides being a nuclear engineer, Dr. Bill is an absolute expert in discussions about the forest and forest fires. LAST NIGHT'S DISCUSSION: click. Listen to KGO tonight at 10pm Pacific online: KGO

HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE ECOFREAKS HAVE BEEN DOING. UNTIL WE FIND A WAY TO STOP THEM, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SAVE OUR FORESTS. ================================================== BEND - A federal judge has halted a salvage logging project near Crane Prairie Reservoir, ruling that the Forest Service did not adequately survey for ecological damage before beginning the harvest. The project would have logged about 2.8 million board feet as part of a salvage sale of burned timber. Much of that timber burned during the 720-acre Crane Prairie complex fire last year. District Court Judge Ancer Haggerty's decision Wednesday...

Frightening Quotes from Environmentalists (Attack Of The Socialist-Luddites) The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. —Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth” concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982) We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last! —Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue). Free Enterprise...

MISSOULA - The leading expert on grizzly bear recovery in the northern Rockies says a bear mauling in Alaska a week ago was prompted by irresponsible behavior, and could cause big setbacks for grizzlies everywhere. Wildlife author and filmmaker Timothy Treadwell, known to cavort with wild bears, was found dead Monday in an Alaska preserve. His girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, was also mauled to death. Two bears were then later shot by Alaska State Troopers investigating the scene.Experts say Treadwell was long ago warned he should stop playing with wild bears, because it was dangerous for both him and the bears....

<p>The FBI wants to question a man and two women about the bombings last week at the Emeryville headquarters of the biotech company Chiron Corp., law enforcement officials said.</p> <p>The federal agency put out an alert to police departments advising them to be on the lookout for a 1986 brown Dodge van with Oregon plates, according to local law enforcement sources.</p>

The most important hearing of the year was held on Capitol Hill last week on a critical issue this country faces today. No, you didn't hear about it because there was no press coverage. The information that was presented was so damaging to the left that a petty squabble occurred over the ground rules. This kept the fate of this hearing in doubt until one minute before the witnesses were to be seated. As a result, the press was never alerted, which may have been the point. It was the Democrats' only avenue to prevent this information from getting out....