http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/greens/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:44:50 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2419198/posts Throughout history humans have worshiped nature in many forms. More recently they have become better known as environmentalists. We are grateful that their love for nature has overcome greedy humans exploiting the environment and has been able to persuade governments to set aside numerous national monuments for remembering natural wonders. However, environmentalists have been able to stop even sensible exploration and development for the good of humankind. In fact, environmentalism has become a predominant "religion” around the world today. Their purpose is no longer saving a natural wonder for posterity to enjoy. Their love for nature has grown into a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2419198/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:44:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417921/posts The amount of venture capital that went toward green-technology companies fell to $4.85 billion in 2009, compared to $7.6 billion in 2008, according to numbers published on Wednesday by Greentech Media. The number of deals was up slightly from 350 in 2008 to 356 this year. ... But even with billions of government stimulus dollars spent on energy, the economic downturn has clearly had an impact on the overall sector. Venture capitalists cut off funding for at least two companies in 2009--algae fuel company Greenfuel Technologies and battery company Imara, which both failed to generate significant revenues. CNET http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417921/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:13:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415250/posts Environmental advocates and lawyers in Washington were wildly enthusiastic over the recent announcement by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson that carbon dioxide is dangerous to the health and welfare of Americans. The timing came just before the global warming conference in Copenhagen. Green groups were heartened because they believe they finally have manufacturers right where they've always wanted them: vulnerable to piecemeal regulation by an activist EPA without deliberation by Congress. Lawyers were rubbing their hands together in anticipation of all the litigation that will come their way as companies fight for their lives to be free of burdensome... Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415250/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:37:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415107/posts Voter support for offshore oil drilling remains as strong as it was during last year’s presidential election, but many also continue to believe individual states should be able to stop it off their own coastlines. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 68% of U.S. voters believe offshore oil drilling should be allowed. Just 20% oppose drilling for oil off the coast of the United States, with another 12% undecided. These numbers are virtually unchanged from findings just after Election Day in November 2008. Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party favor offshore drilling much more... Rasmussen Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415107/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:03:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415069/posts At face value, it seems harmless enough. According to ABC "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts, every Christmas the show features various "spiritual leaders" to talk about the role of faith in their lives. And this year's Christmas Day broadcast was no exception. "And now, it is a ‘GMA' tradition on Christmas Day, to talk about the role of faith in all of our lives," Roberts said. "We gathered a group of spiritual leaders from different traditions to talk about the importance of belief, in good times and belief in bad times, too." Roberts' panel featured Father Edward Beck, an... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415069/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:00:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411080/posts Green activists want a ban on the really soft toilet tissue. Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411080/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:21:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406204/posts Coca-Cola Warns Green Taxes Could Cut Its Profits By 50% Coca-Cola and Unilever have warned that their profits could halve over the next decade unless they reduce their emissions, as business leaders in Copenhagen called for a global fixed price on carbon dioxide. By Rowena Mason Published: 7:09PM GMT 11 Dec 2009 Coca-Cola announced that it would reduce the carbon footprint of its supply chains Photo: Reuters The two companies acknowledged that green taxes and regulation would cause profits to fall 47pc by 2018 in the consumer goods sector if no effective action was taken. Unilever and Coca-Cola both announced... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406204/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:11:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405257/posts WASHINGTON -- In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. declarations and conferences, they began calling for a "New International Economic Order." The NIEO's essential demand was simple: to transfer fantastic chunks of wealth from the industrialized West to the Third World. On what grounds? In the name of equality -- wealth redistribution via global socialism -- with a dose of post-colonial reparations... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405257/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405208/posts Climate deniers are on the offensive, even here. Check out the press release to see the way these guys operate. In the advisory, they call themselves the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and they are inviting the press to an International Climate Eco-Summit (ICE 2009). Sounds so smooth. Meanwhile tomorrow's event comes after another one organized by the Americans for Prosperity just yesterday where a group of fifty U.S. clean energy youth activists stormed the stage in Copenhagen during a live webcast also featuring endless climate crisis denier Christopher Monckton. He goes buck. Here's the video (Monckton spills the... Now Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405208/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:16:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402313/posts World leaders and VIPs began pouring into Copenhagen Monday morning for the city's long-awaited climate summit, arriving in style in a fleet of gas-guzzling limos and luxury cars. Most delegates to the climate change conference haven't exactly been hoofing their way to Denmark's capital, swarming the city's airport with 140 private jets, 1,200 hired limousines and a carbon footprint the size of a small country. Video shot on the scene Monday shows squads of new arrivals at the green gathering pulling up in BMWs, Mercedes Benzes, sleek Volvos and plush Jaguars. A bus reserved for the delegates rode along empty... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402313/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:16:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401314/posts The City of Calgary introduced its blue box, curbside recycling program this year, and there was rejoicing. Calgary, the last major Canadian city to offer it, had, until recently, asked citizens to deliver their own recyclables to green bins located every few blocks, or to hire, at $10 a month, a private pickup service. To those concerned about environmental appearances, it was embarrassing. "It means something to me that we're the last large city in Canada to implement curbside recycling," said Druh Farrell, the alderman championing the program. Approving the $50-million plan (plus another roughly $50-million a year recycling tax... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401314/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 02:58:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398725/posts Anthropogenic Global Marxism (AGM) is the greatest threat to the world and must be stopped. The time for deniers is over. The evidence is settled. Anthropogenic Global Marxism (AGM) is real. Creative Minority Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398725/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:04:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397359/posts Van Jones, President Obama's controversial former "green jobs" czar, serves on the advisory board of an independent environmental organization actively working with the White House, WND has learned. Jones resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Jones is one of 20 advisers to the University of Colorado-based Presidential Climate Action Project, or PCAP, which draws up climate policy recommendations for the White House and has been working with members of the Obama administration. The PCAP last September released... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397359/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 03:18:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396943/posts Hypocrisy is the vice we find hardest to forgive, but it’s also the one we most enjoy discovering in others. And nothing piques our interest more than eco-hypocrisy as practised by the “green” celebrities who have been spouting green virtue but spewing out hundreds of tons of carbon from their private jets or multiple holiday homes around the globe. There was Sheryl Crow, who had called upon the public to refrain from using more than one square of toilet paper per visit (“except on those pesky occasions when two or three are required”) and who was leading a Stop Global... Times On Line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396943/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:16:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392001/posts "General reaction seems to be that the CRUgate emails are genuine, but with the caveat that there could be some less reliable stuff slipped in. In the circumstances, here are some summaries of the CRUgate files. I'll update these as and when I can. The refs are the email number. Phil Jones writes to University of Hull to try to stop sceptic Sonia Boehmer Christiansen using her Hull affiliation. Graham F Haughton of Hull University says its easier to push greenery there now SB-C has retired.(1256765544) Michael Mann discusses how to destroy a journal that has published sceptic papers.(1047388489) Tim... Biship Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392001/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:59:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395153/posts Forget about lighting up a crackling fire for your Thanksgiving dinner guests. A Spare the Air alert has been issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District for the full 24 hours of the holiday. The ban covers Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa and southern Sonoma and southwestern Solano counties. The midnight-to-midnight alert bans the burning of wood, manufactured firedogs or any other solid fuel, indoors and outdoors.The daylong ban covers woodstoves and inserts, pellet stoves, outdoor fire pits or any other wood-burning devices. www.mercurynews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395153/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:01:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394216/posts All packed with vitamins and just plain old good! Ingredients: 2 – 3 bunches of any type of greens you have a taste for (Collards, Mustard or Turnip Greens or Kale) 1 small smoked turkey leg or wing 5 cloves garlic, chopped 2-3 tbsp. oil 1 small onion – peeled, and sliced thinly 2 -3 tbsp. cider vinegar (optional) 1 cup low sodium chicken broth 1 tsp. pepper 1/z tbsp. Café Netties Saltless Classic European 2 Tbsp. maple syrup (optional) The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394216/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:39:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381072/posts Energy-efficiency investments Tangible gains still ahead for $25 billion initiative In Baltimore, the 300 block of East 23 1/2 Street is getting patched up in time for winter. One economic stimulus program is paying to insulate 11 rental rowhouses, another is paying for furnaces and a third is covering the cost for reflective roofs to be installed by prison inmates in a job-training program. The block is part of one of the biggest initiatives ever undertaken by the federal government, a nationwide push to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. But as the national unemployment rate crosses into the double... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381072/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:35:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380977/posts Billionaire gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman gave away just $125,000 of her charitable foundation's $46 million in assets in its first year of operation — and tax records show the bulk of the money went to a surprising place. The Griffith R. Harsh IV and Margaret C. Whitman Charitable Foundation in 2007 contributed $100,000 to the Environmental Defense Fund, which is now at odds with Whitman over water policy. The foundation also invested $3 million in hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands — a Caribbean tax haven that's been the subject of political controversy. ... But it's the $100,000 to... Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380977/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:40:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378924/posts <p>Climate change belief given same legal status as religion An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.</p> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378924/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 05:21:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377147/posts Gore’s Dual Role in Spotlight: Advocate and Investor JOHN M. BRODER November 2, 2009 WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner. The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377147/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 04:20:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2376894/posts Thanks for killing the planet, dog owners. Well, that's a rough paraphrase of a New Zealand study that claims a medium-size dog leaves a larger ecological footprint than an SUV. In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required to feed a dog — including the amount of land needed to feed the animals that go into its food — give it about twice the eco-footprint of, say, building and fueling a Toyota Land Cruiser. Noting that a cat's pawprint was roughly equivalent to a Volkswagen Golf's, "New... Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2376894/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:33:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376152/posts State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of Gov. Ted Kulongoski's plan to lure green energy companies to Oregon with big taxpayer subsidies, resulting in a program that cost 40 times more than unsuspecting lawmakers were told, an investigation by The Oregonian shows. Records also show that the program, a favorite of Kulongoski's known as the Business Energy Tax Credit, has given millions of dollars to failed companies while voters are being asked to raise income taxes because the state budget doesn't have enough to pay for schools and other programs. The incentives are now under intense scrutiny at the Oregon... OregonLive http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376152/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 00:36:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373462/posts THE Australian Greens have described as "despicable'' a suggestion that Australia needs to have a serious discussion about the growth of its Muslim population. At least one Liberal frontbencher has distanced the party from the views of the last immigration minister in the previous Howard government, Kevin Andrews. Mr Andrews says the issue of a growing Muslim population is a topic that has to be discussed. "To have a concentration of one ethnic or one particular group that remains in an enclave for a long period of time is not good,'' the Liberal backbencher told Macquarie Radio Network today. "You... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373462/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:32:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371560/posts PARENTS have accused early childhood centres of "greenwashing" their children by burdening them with the responsibility of saving the world.Tots as young as three have sent letters to Kevin Rudd about their passion for green living and asked companies to reduce their packaging.Others are growing their own food, repairing toys and walking to preschool in an effort to reduce their toll on the environment.But experts have called for caution in teaching children about climate change because of the potential for fear, anxiety, frustration, anger and despair at catastrophic events.Mother Paula Driscoll, from Sydney, said environmental disaster was the new... News.com (Australia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371560/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:25:43 GMT