Copies of the new
NCJ
are usually hitting Arcata and Eureka right about now. Not this week. It looks like there were some problems at the printers last night, and the
Journal
won’t be going out until this afternoon or tomorrow. We haven’t seen any copies yet.
Here’s a tease, though. This week, the
Journal
is participating in a nationwide effort to look back at what has happened in the 10 years that have followed the Kyoto Protocol, the first international treaty designed to tackle climate change. The “Kyoto at 10” project was sponsored by the
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
, a trade association to which we belong, and led by the awesome folks at the
News & Review
papers.
Fifty papers from across the United States and Canada contributed to “Kyoto at 10.” We could print only a small selection of the work. We ran an essay by
Bill McKibben
, a story about California’s climate change initiatives, a first-person look at the Kyoto convention and a piece by our own Heidi Walters about the van Eck Forest, a patch of redwoods up in Fieldbrook that is serving as a test case for a new front in battling greenhouse gas emissions. I wrote about it in my column, too.
Here’s
the AAN press release
on “Kyoto at 10.” Here’s
links to almost all the stories
by the papers participating in the project. That page will be updated as more papers file their work.
This article appears in Rural and Rebellious.
OT, but what’s going on with the pipe today hank, doesn’t seem to be updating.
They seem to be hit and miss. Working now, as far as I can tell.
The Pipes are pretty easy and useful, but they leave a lot to be desired in some ways. I’m going to migrate to something more solid whenever I get the time.
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Can’t post YouTube videos on this comment board; sorry folks, had to try:)
Check out this article and video, where Ron Paul talks about his views on global warming.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/120607_slams_fearmongering.htm
I agree with Ron Paul and Alex Jones, and I don’t trust Al Gore (Mr. Occidental Petroleum didn’t mention his own ties to the oil industry in his film).
If you’re really concerned about “global warming,” then STOP DRIVING! That’s the addiction that most people aren’t willing to make, isn’t it? Everyone wants to get together into groups and talk about how they can save the world, yet they’ll drive to and from the event, in total contradiction. I sold my vehicle years ago, and have either walked or taken mass transit ever since, mostly because of the Blood for Oil dynamic, not so much “global warming.”
Obviously toxic pollution is a problem, which needs to be addressed. How many of you are willing to stop driving? Even if you drive electric cars, you’re probably still using some kind of oil to keep it running smoothe, which is directly connected to the refineries and oil industry, so, unless you’re willing to live on the Earth, and travel about as humans were meant to, on our feet, then what are people really proposing as a solution?
Buying a better light bulb?
See, it’s all about buying a solution, like a hybrid car, which most people can’t afford.
I’ll be sticking with non-violent direct action and to problems that are 100% proveable, such as the loss of Old Growth forests, the destructive effects of clearcutting, the toxic effects of herbicides, and the mass wasting effects of logging on steep and unstable slopes.
Let’s not let the environmental movement get swept up into the New World Order.
Forever Wild,
Shunka Wakan