http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/environmentalist/ en-us Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:12:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402349/posts According to a criminal complaint, 41-year -old Stephen Louis Olson of Backus was angry the county planned to log the trees. Cass County officials say the stand is thinned every ten to 15 years. About 100 of the 600 trees were slated to be cut down and sold this month. The money would have benefitted the community and school district. - Authorities say the entire forest must be cut down due to safety concerns. Mike Diekmann of the Cass County Sheriff's Office says that if a saw hit one of the nails, "it would explode like a gun going off"... kare11.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402349/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:12:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389987/posts Is Meg Whitman too green for the conservative core of the Republican Party? Wednesday the San Jose Mercury News released the news that eMeg has offered $200,000 to the Environmental Defense Fund from her charitable foundation, $100,000 more than what was first thought. Then there is Steve Poizner’s Charitable Foundation accounting numbers. While all of the attention is on Meg’s gifts to environmental causes, nobody has asked the obvious question: “Why does Steve Poizner’s charitable foundation only have $7,000 as its balance?” How can a millionaire have such a small amount of cash in his (and his wife’s) charitable foundation?... Hogue News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389987/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:19:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358930/posts A Canadian study shows that people who buy green products tend to lie and steal more than those who don't: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Toronto, October 6, 2009 -Those lyin', cheatin' green consumers. Just being around green products can make us behave more altruistically, a new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science has found. But buying those same products can have the opposite effect. Researchers found that buying green can lead people into less altruistic behaviour, and even make them more likely to steal and lie than after buying conventional products. Buying products that claim to be made... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358930/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:56:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342623/posts I want to know how the situation covered on Hannity today is not cause enough for armed insurrection by the people of California against the tyranny of Washington DC. I want to know how governor Schwarzenegger has not called out the national guard and by force of arms turned the water on. I want to know how any rational human being can look at the starving of an area, the destroyed landscape, the human misery caused by artificially starving an area of a natural resource and defend it. I want to know if our government would accept such actions committed... Free Republic Bloggers and Personal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342623/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:11:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2335404/posts EPA will also pursue a ban on the manufacture and distribution of lead tire weights in response to a 2009 petition from the Ecology Center, the Sierra Club and other NGOs requesting that the agency establish regulations prohibiting the manufacture, processing, and distribution of lead tire weights. cars http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2335404/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:26:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301219/posts San Joaquin Valley farms are laying off workers and letting fields lie fallow as their water ration falls. Reporting from Mendota, Calif. -- Water built the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley into an agricultural powerhouse. Drought and irrigation battles now threaten to turn huge swaths of it into a dust bowl. Farmers have idled half a million acres of once-productive ground and are laying off legions of farmhands. That's sending joblessness soaring in a region already plagued by chronic poverty. [snip] This year has been even drier after a federal court ordered that pumps moving water through the system be turned... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301219/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:45:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2282562/posts OK, this is clearly a vanity post and not that earth-shattering, but I thought I would share it in light of the recent cap-and-trade news. We are currently in the process of buying a home from some liberal Obama devotees. We don't know them at all, but it is abundantly clear from their bumper stickers, buttons, Obama inaugural pens, books etc. Anyway, in the home inspection process of the negotiations, we discovered that the home has high levels of radon which need to be mitigated. The sellers refuse to pay for this correction which would be, roughly, $900. Now this... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2282562/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:22:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276153/posts Is the right responsible for inspiring murder, such as that of late-term abortionist George Tiller by Kansas native Scott Roeder?  Some certainly seem to think so.  For instance, the Friday before last Bill O'Reilly had as a guest on his show Joan Walsh, the editor of leftist news site Salon.com.  She appeared because she had criticized O'Reilly for engaging in what she called a "jihad" against Tiller.  Her thesis is that O'Reilly and, presumably, the rest of us who are passionately pro-life are culpable Tiller's death. Of course, this isn't a novel idea among the left.  If there is any... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276153/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:17:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256216/posts The Green Left must be thrilled with the new Obama/Pelosi/Reid (OPR) troika in charge of the federal government. Three times already, the troika has blocked the development of domestic oil resources. During his first week in office, President Obama rescinded his predecessor's executive order permitting drilling on the continental shelf and in the Green River Formation. Both areas contain abundant oil-especially Green River (under Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah), which has recoverable shale-oil reserves three times the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Several weeks later, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar unilaterally canceled 77 oil and gas leases in Utah, on... Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256216/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 13:09:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220310/posts For me, purchasing shrimp is a moral dilemma. I have to have conversations with a pantheon of deities in order to just put a package of shrimp in my shopping cart. Why would something as simple and tummy-rubbing as shrimp do this to my already fragile psyche? Because the methods used to get it to my grocer’s seafood case are environmentally detrimental. Both wild-caught shrimp and farm-raised pose problems that just make me squirm. When I was younger I was Mr. Environmentalist. My school reports were always about natural power sources (that was before it was called “alternative energy” or... Lake County News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220310/posts#comment Thu, 2 Apr 2009 00:23:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216044/posts A state law prevents new nuclear power plants from being built in Minnesota, and some say that means nuclear can't even be part of a discussion about the state's future energy needs. An effort to change that suffered a setback Thursday, when members of a House energy committee voted down a bill that would lift the ban. The 9-12 vote came after two days of hearings in which lawmakers heard testimony from more than two dozen people, including national experts, environmentalists, the nuclear industry and people who live near Minnesota's two existing nuclear plants. While the measure still could be... pioneer press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216044/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:09:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206002/posts JERUSALEM (Map, News) - An American demonstrator was critically wounded Friday in a clash between protesters and Israeli troops over Israel's West Bank separation barrier. Peace activists with the International Solidarity Movement said Tristan Anderson, of the Oakland, Calif., area, was struck in the head with a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops. The military and the Tel Aviv hospital where Anderson was taken had no details on how he was hurt. "He's in critical condition, anesthetized and on a ventilator and undergoing imaging tests," said Orly Levi, a spokeswoman at the Tel Hashomer hospital. She described Anderson's condition... Indianapolis Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206002/posts#comment Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:36:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2193897/posts Don’t Drink the Water by: Heather Latham, February 25, 2009 Is your bottled water unsafe? Are you just as well off drinking tap water as bottled water? According to the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the answer to these questions may be yes. In 1999, the NRDC did a study “of more than 1000 bottles of 103 types of bottled water from many parts of the country.” The study was done on bottled water from California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas. They found that “according to government and industry estimates, about one fourth of bottled... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2193897/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:32:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182985/posts While everyone is distracted with the Pelosi Reid Obama artery–choking, cardiac arrest, Pork Barrel Spending Bill, congress is sneaking-ly trying to pass the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Left-wing environmentalists are behind this bill to purposely undercut current progress toward affordable domestic energy. Essentially they will be stealing 300 million barrels of proven oil and 8.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from any future use. ATR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182985/posts#comment Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182463/posts Environmental activist Lloyd Carter resigned from the California Water Impact Network late Monday afternoon -- after more than 100 people showed up outside Fresno City Hall to rally against his comments last week that disparaged farm workers. KMJ 580 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182463/posts#comment Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:12:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2159393/posts From the school of thought that brought us such blockbuster idiocies as "No DDT Means Malaria" and "Blood For Owl: Move It Lumber" comes a new thriller with all the intrigue that only moronic environmentalists can evoke.Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the salty tale of "Pass The Salt - The Puget Sound Chronicles."Floyd and Mary Beth Brown at Townhall.com tell the story: Snow and ice cause an increase in car crashes. Car tires have little or no traction on these surfaces. We learn these basic facts in Driver's Ed 101. However, officials in Seattle, Wash. disregard these physics laws... Roman Around http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2159393/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:44:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067640/posts Green With Envy: Prius Owners Smile as Neighbors Fume Monday , August 25, 2008 By Meg Shannon Every morning, as Lynn Schmidt walks out of her Long Island, N.Y., home, opens the door to her baby-blue Prius, waves to her grumbling neighbor and pulls out of the driveway, she has every reason to smile. It's not just the 45 miles per gallon her gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle is getting. And it's not only that she can go three weeks without a fill-up. It's also because that through her choice of automobile, Lynn is doing what she considers her share of being... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067640/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:06:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034907/posts James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer. Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034907/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025050/posts Recent crises have reenergized the population control movement. Worried about food shortages? Reduce the number of babies born, its advocates argue. Concerned about global warming? Contracept or sterilize more women. Want to bring down gas prices? Promote abortion around the globe. As "Going Green" columnist Bryan Walsh puts it in the latest issue of Time magazine (June 2, 2008), "Population is the essential multiplier for any number of human ills." Not so long ago, the population controllers would have been embarrassed to openly promote such ideas. After all, they have cried wolf so many times that most sensible people have... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025050/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 00:11:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008111/posts Ojai, California has an environmental activist that might be too liberal for even this liberal-leaning city of 8,000. Ojai is the home of Jennifer Moss, “The Pastie Lady”. Clad only in a G-string and flower shaped pasties, Moss pedals her bicycle around Ojai in her attention-grabbing get-up and campaigns for what she considers good causes. Jennifer might be labeled an “environmental exhibitionist”. In the year that “social artist” Moss has been “performing” for the environment, on Ojai’s main drag, she’s been arrested twice–and repeatedly ticketed for obstructing traffic. Irate parents have asked the City Council to force Moss to put... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008111/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:35:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007899/posts With athletic grace, Ojai's "Pastie Lady," a self-described social artist and environmental activist... Moss may face a misdemeanor charge for taking off her clothes, down to pasties and G-string, outside the city's Catholic church on Easter Sunday, as parishioners were leaving morning Mass. "She took that opportunity to make her statement, and she appeared nude to most people," said Ojai Police Chief Bruce Norris. "We got several calls." Moss now says that going to the church was "poor judgment on my behalf." She chose Easter Mass, she said, because "there are so many bad people who are hurting and destroying... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007899/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:47:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2006567/posts Do you like paying Sky High Gas Prices? Thank A Democrat. Of all the campaign issues that the candidates are not talking about, gas prices lead the list. On the heels of the worst housing slump since WWII our economy faces an even bigger threat; Loss of mobility. This is obvious to anyone who needs to fill up their transportation yet the elite, those who create the environmental dictates American’s must contend with couldn’t care less. They refuse to even engage the subject as they attempt to lie their way into the White House. Where are the new refineries, nuclear... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2006567/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992776/posts A radical environmentalist was sentenced Thursday to one year and one day in federal prison for speaking publicly about how to make a homemade Molotov cocktail. Rodney Coronado apologized for his past use of violent tactics in the name of animal rights and the environment, and said he had cut his ties to groups, including the Earth Liberation Front. "I have done things in my past that I now regret," Coronado told U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Miller. He said he wanted to serve his sentence and then get on with his life in Tucson, Ariz. The 41-year-old activist pleaded... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992776/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:02:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981459/posts A major airline is under fire from environmentalists for flying an aircraft across the Atlantic with only five passengers on board. The flight from Chicago to London meant that the plane, a Boeing 777, used 22,000 gallons of fuel. It led to American Airlines being accused of reckless behaviour by green lobby groups. The latest "eco- scandal" flight took place on February 9 after American was forced to cancel one of its four daily services from Chicago to London. While it was able to find places for nearly all the passengers on the fully-booked flight, five still had to be... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981459/posts#comment Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:03:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1962092/posts Humor alert: if you have no sense for this sort of thing, please hit your ‘Back’ button now, else you risk a bad case of indignation. “Johnny! Open the door this instant!” “Leave me alone, ma!” “If you don’t open this door, I’m going to get your father! What are you doing in there so long anyway?” What is Johnny doing in there? Not what you think. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1962092/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:05:37 GMT