James OGrady replied on Permalink
Thanks for sharing Franke. Good luck with your campaign! I'm sharpening my pencil now...
Silencing Scientists "There was trouble of this kind here in the George W. Bush years, when scientists were asked to toe the party line on climate policy and endangered species. But nothing came close to what is being done in Canada... This is more than an attack on academic freedom. It is an attempt to guarantee public ignorance. It is also designed to make sure that nothing gets in the way of the northern resource rush — the feverish effort to mine the earth and the ocean with little regard for environmental consequences. The Harper policy seems designed to make sure that the tar sands project proceeds quietly, with no surprises, no bad news, no alarms from government scientists. To all the other kinds of pollution the tar sands will yield, we must now add another: the degradation of vital streams of research and information." New York Times Editorial by Verlyn Klinkenborg
"If the Keystone XL is built, the State Department says it could spill more than 100 times."
"U.S. consumers are not likely to see any reduction in pump prices; after all, the whole reason for building the Keystone XL is to raise the price that producers get paid." 24/7 Wall Street
"Oil-sands developers are counting on Keystone XL to lift heavy crude prices by connecting them to the world's largest refining market in the Gulf Coast as they double production by 2025." Pipeline rejection could set precedent
See the Oh No Canada! show in Washington, D.C. which ran from October to December 2013 thanks to Indiegogo 'Banned on the Hill' supporters, the NRDC, Sierra Club and National Wildlife.
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James OGrady replied on Permalink
Thanks for sharing Franke. Good luck with your campaign! I'm sharpening my pencil now...
Anonymous replied on Permalink
Fabulous to hear you a re sharpening your pencil! Thanks for providing the platform to share my Anybody letter to President Obama.
Anonymous replied on Permalink
Very impressive work and incredible motivation!
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Well done!
I had a meeting with a banker - good news for me & bad news for them as I am becoming one-half of a couple free of any major debt. Also an opportunity to sell me investments, so I asked about ethical investing and they came up empty. Bankers and financial planners also need to hear from all of us that we don't want to buy in to industries that don't take care of the planet for future generations, that profit from suffering, or that destroy our health. There are people who want to invest in a better future. Is the financial services industry listening?
Demand from customers at public institutions in California led the late Ray Anderson to completely transform the office carpet tile company Interface into a thrifty, recycling, conserving business.
We need to build demand and profitability for sustainable alternatives as much as (or more than) we need to resist dangerous & unsustainable projects.
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Jeremy Rifkin's "energy internet" is that sustainable alternative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NA9gM49qU .
This energy internet has begun to be built in Europe, China is getting on it and we can all help to bring it to North America. Help by spreading the word, spreading the link, and insisting on it from local and regional leaders. Grassroots is the way to go with an ideologue like Harper at the helm.