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4/15/2007
10:34:22 am EDT
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Activists And Green Man Tell Congress: Step It Up
Author: Lynda Clancy Source: knox.VillageSoup.com (ME)
Title: ACTIVISTS AND GREEN MAN TELL CONGRESS: STEP IT UP
Approximately 100 environmentalists and activists turned out Saturday at the Camden Snow Bowl to issue the U.S. Congress a major directive: Step It Up!
The "it" is the effort to reduce carbon emissions to 80 percent by the year 2050. The April 14 Step It Up day was considered to be one of the largest assemblies of environmentalists in this country since the first Earth Day 37 years ago.
In Camden, the young and the old, the booted and barefooted, settled into place at the bottom of Ragged Mountain in several inches of spring corn snow for their momentous photograph, which would be sent off to the Step It Up headquarters for immediate posting to the Internet.
Milling through the crowd was the Big Green Man, who had ventured forth from the forests of Rockport. Artistic renditions – mostly wood carvings -- of the Green Man have been discovered in Christian cathedrals across the British Isles, vestiges of a pagan past. His face is often made from leaves, and he is considered a descendant of a woods god.
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| Small Steps | Apr 17th. at 9:32:48 pm EDT
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Ben'elat (Helensburgh, New South Wales) - Email Me
In fact the small step we do indivdually, morally correct as they may be, can do little good. Energy effciency is a an energy resource. That is to say by using energy more effciently we are leaving more energy over to do useful work. IF, however, this is done in the context where there is not some overarching comittment to reduce fossil fuel consumption, all we are doing is lowering the demand and thus the price and thus for example the marginal cost of production of say Aluminium. Instead of fixing the problem all we get is more tin foil.
We need an enforceable global commitment to reducing fossil fuel consumption, otherwise the small steps we take are meaningless.
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| Just Some Thoughts | Apr 16th. at 7:33:44 am EDT
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Ravenowl (Amboy, Oklahoma) - Email Me
the problem is.. most of society has been taught to abuse the enviroment is ok.. to pass the buck... to never realize that we are not effecting the enviroment. When someone calls me a tree hugging hippie thats supposed to be an insult. Well no I dont go around hugging trees, but so what if I did? The main misconception is our level of comfort would somehow deminished, from the move away from oil. How can that be possible. One I have yet to meet someone that likes paying 3$ a gallon for gas. Not one person I know likes having to give out 60$ every time they need gas. No matter their income, its always complaining. 30 MPG is extremely not effcient. When if we went to say Hydrogen based, we would get around 300 MPG. With the only byproduct of it is more water? What about electric cars? That idea has been around for ages. For the price of about 20cents, you get a full day worth of miles. What car do you know of that can come close to spending the same as say 1/30th of a gallon of gas a day? Without loosing anything in the process. You have sports cars, luxary cars in that grouping. The only difference is its costing you pennies a day to run. What about ethanol? What about diesel cars being converted to use kitchen oil. For a 150$ modification any diesel engine can run on the waste. Most restuarants gladly give you the stuff. So your getting your fuel for free, and your using a resource that would otherwise be wasted.
Personally I walk. If I cant walk to something, I dont bother going there. Public transportation is freely out there.
For health reasons alone it is better to walk, then to sit in a car.
Yes its only a degree, and it can be disproved that the Earth is just in a cycle of heating. Well what did the last heat cycle result in? Ice age, thats what. Are we doing irreversable damage? Nope. Mother will survive no matter what we do to her. She will heal the wounds, but will we be here when she is healed? No, not doing what we are doing. With an increase in heat comes something else that isnt widely talked about. The weather changes. It becomes more violent. More unpredictable. What mother has been striving for since time in memorial is simple. Balance. Mother wants to be the same everywhere.
Start a grass routes campaign to say no to oil what would that get us? well truth be told. Life. We get to be around another million years. We have to get up and say no to hurting the enviroment.
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| Small Steps..... | Apr 16th. at 12:26:32 am EDT
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Thorin (Newaygo, Michigan) - Email Me
Without these small steps, no-one will take the larger ones of CHANGE. Yes, we all know what needs to happen.....so what are YOU doing about it?? Do you still drive your SUV?? Do you car-pool?? Does everyone in your family use the three "R's" we were taught in the 80's....."Reduce, Reuse & Recycle". If we ALL take small steps, the change will happen. I applaud the folks in the article.....they are taking a step......now we all need to do the same thing. I am forwarding this article to all the YahooGroups I am on....and to local papers. Don't make the change......BE the change!
Thorin
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| Kiss Me Kate! | Apr 15th. at 11:13:42 pm EDT
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Tim Grimalkin (Sandy, Utah) - Email Me
That's the way to get things done!
Yes, the Scouts are a great resource and more than willing. There's also a Recycling Merit Badge (not to mention money for recyclable metals and other waste (sic) )
Cookies and Lemonade - Good
What saddens me is that about "one hundred environmentalists" gathered and this is the biggest gathering since Earth Day 1969? That's depressing, may there be more and bigger gatherings than this before the multitudes convinced that "More, more, more is better, better, better" choke on their own fumes and are buried in their volumes of posessions.
Bright Blesings in Christ,
Tim Grimalkin
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| Our Part | Apr 15th. at 8:38:41 pm EDT
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Kate (Athens, Georgia) - Email Me
Waiting for the government to get up off its butt is wasting time. We need to start a grassroots campaign to teach and convert others to cleaning up our world. There are programs in place right now that could be expanded.
1. Convince your neighbors (shame them if necessary) to recycle.
2. Walk and by doing do set an example. On your daily trek around the neighborhood, stop and buy something produced locally and proudly carry it home, making sure the neighbors take note. In my area, it's a mile walk to the nearest grocery store. Certainly a doable distance. Coming home swinging a cloth bag with a few grocery items puts the idea into the heads of others.
3. Get the neighborhood gang (young 'ens) together to pick up trash then treat them to lemonade and cookies (home made) .
4. Volunteer to lead a local scout group in earning their enviroment badge.
5. Live in one of those manicured areas? Introduce the idea of using earth friendly 'chemicals' on the lawn. Vinegar kills weeds as well as the expensive sprays.
Make you own list. Set an example. No need to shout; show by doing.
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| The Problem | Apr 15th. at 7:34:25 pm EDT
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Ravenowl (Amboy, Oklahoma) - Email Me
Well simply put .. we are all screwed now anyhows.... it takes 40 years.. four zero... to the gases to reach the ozone.. and no one.. can tell me that we arent doing a whole lot more damage to the ozone then we did in 1967. The only solution is simple.. create ozone.. and release it . 03 needs to be injected. Alas that will only work if we get away from oil based things. The technology is there.
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