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Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Citigroup is one of seventy-nine corporations in the voluntary program aimed at adopting aggressive goals and strategies for curbing greenhouse emissions at manufacturing and other facilities. In the past, Citigroup has effectively met its commitments for improving energy efficiency, and reducing consumption. For example, their 2004 Citizenship Report shows C02 emissions as a reduction of 7 percent per employee. www.citigroup.

Local farms in urban areas help stabilize the local environment and reduce greenhouse emissions, as well as save on transportation costs. It's also critical to our national security to have local food sources. Essentially, you buy shares in a farm and you own the food and you come pick it up or it is delivered to you, depending on the structure of your CSA. You can go out and work on the farm, too, and pick food one day on a sort of farmer's holiday. Most require payment in advance, usually starting at about one-half or more shares, which can be a few hundred dollars.

Felicity Lawrence reports in the Guardian that food "miles" have risen dramatically over the past ten years, are still rising, and have a significant impact on climate change, traffic congestion, accidents, and pollution, as well as greenhouse emissions.38 According to the report, "Food miles increased by 15% in the 10 years to 2002. The average distance we now drive to shop for food each year is 898 miles, compared with 747 miles a decade ago. Food transport accounts for 25% of all the miles driven by heavy goods vehicles on our roads.

Plus, in terms of greenhouse emissions, buying organically grown and local foods grown in season cuts down on transportation costs and is part of carbon-neutral living. Visit www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/map.htm to find a farmers' market near you. Farmers' markets are great for supporting local causes and finding organically and naturally grown foods. If you want to be really outrageous, order your groceries with a delivery service.

But you just know that the talkers we hear most often, sobbing the loudest over some environmental cause, fly private jets that produce more greenhouse emissions on one trip than most of us do in a year. If so, just 'fess up and be real with the folks. It's not a big deal, really. It just shows how far we have to go, both as a nation and individually. All of us are guilty of falling short of our environmental goals.

So environmentally conscious has Ford become that they have even received a strong endorsement from the Sierra Club, which only a few years ago criticized Ford's greenhouse emissions record. The Mercury Mariner hybrid was voted best compact SUV by the Texas Auto Writers Association.3 The Mercury brand had to "shake off the brand's stodgy, oldster image and attract a new generation of customers," wrote Bryce G. Hoffman in the November 27, 2005, Detroit News, only a few days later, after attending the Lenexa event.4 And leading the charge, Brewer said, was the Mercury Mariner.

Bush Administration announces effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through "wishful thinking" (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Of course, there are some desperate eco-deniers who claim that greenhouse emissions have no impact on the climate, and that if we would all move to the far left side of the flat Earth, it would tilt over like a playground see-saw and all the greenhouse gasses would just fall off the edge. These are the same scientific minds who have been advising President Bush on environmental policy over the last several years and who have convinced the President to announce a greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan that essentially offers no reductions.

Wishing for change is far more important than actually cutting greenhouse emissions," Bush said in a prepared statement. "We urge all Americans to take up Wishful Thinking to lower CO2 emissions and, if necessary, to even use up their birthday wishes in this national effort." Bush's science team approved the scientific validity of the plan, citing strong evidence that wishing gets things done. "Nearly half the voters wished that Bush would be elected president, and that came true," said one science officer.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

The Orcelle would be powered by a combination of sails, solar energy, and fuel cells, using optimal designs to carry the most cargo possible—while requiring no ballast water, using fewer toxic chemicals, and generating no greenhouse emissions. The company predicts that such vessels may be plowing the waves as soon as 2025. ez Why Does the United States Still Export Cotton? That's the sort of question economists like Pietra Rivoli, author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, like to ask. Intrigued when an antiglobalization protester asked her, "Who made your T-shirt?

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

Whether the cause of global warming is human activity and "greenhouse emissions," a result of naturally occurring cycles, or a combination of the two, this does not alter the fact that it is having swift and tremendous impacts on civilization and that its effects will contribute greatly to the Long Emergency. Global warming projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show a widespread increase in the risk of flooding for tens of millions of people due to increased storms and sea-level rise.

More cars are used, more electricity generated, more greenhouse emissions sent into the atmosphere. In the Long Emergency, to borrow a remark from author James Flink, "there will only be two types of nations: the over-developed and those which will never develop."5 China may represent an amalgamation of those two conditions in one nation-state. The looming worldwide crisis over freshwater beats another path to a crisis of food production. "We have created a food bubble economy," writes ecological ethicist Bill McKibben.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

Charles proposes a mix of scientific solutions (such as ending greenhouse emissions) and intuitive approaches which respect nature rather than overwhelm her—for example, going to organic farming instead of genetically modified foods. These words stand in stark contrast to the silence of royalty steeped in the control of the world's money and resources. While I happen to be on the side of radical change versus gradual reform, we will need to create more gatherings like those described above to discuss remedies.

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent—and in the process pioneer and patent the new energy technologies that will inevitably replace coal and oil." These new energy solutions form the major thesis of this book. We'll explore them in the next chapter. We can find symptoms of the American problem in our media?for example, the special Earth Day 2000 issue of Time Magazine entitled "How to Save the Earth.

IPCC's most recent projections. "So everyone went home mad (at us)," said the late Donnella Meadows, adjunct professor at Dartmouth College and director of the Sustainability Institute in the U.S.16. The anger was especially poignant when delegates at the Hague heard from representatives of the low-lying atoll nations of the South Pacific who face the permanent inundation of their land, forcing them to evacuate because of sea level rises and El Nino storm surges.

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