The Portland Business Journal reports that Oregon has just been given the go-ahead by The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council to build a 909 MW wind farm in the north-central part of the state. That’s enough energy to power 200,000 homes.
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Here is a link to the latest video from Al Gore that calls for Generational Challange. Please take a moment to check it out. Also
We can solve it!
take a look at the new blog sites and links at wecansolveit.org
This is fom an article in “TIME”, less plastic, less oil consumption! Give some up today!
The U.S. produced 28 Million tons of plastic waste in 2005 – 27 million tons of which ended up in landfills. Our food & water come wrapped in plastic.
It’s used in our phones and our computers, the cars we drive and the planes we ride in. But the infinitely adaptable substance has its dark side.
Put a brick in your toilet!
Though many states and localities are waking up to their water shortages and taking steps to plan for “peak water”, people generally continue to waste water and to ignore the energy-water link.
If you can’t get to an event host your own. Check PangeaDay.org for details
The Pangea Day EventStarting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.
The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person’s eyes. Details on the Pangea Day films can be viewed here.
The program will also include a number of exceptional speakers and musical performers. Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, musician/activist Bob Geldof, and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova are among those taking part.
Scientists at Newcastle University have pioneered breakthrough technology in the fight to cut greenhouse gases. The Newcastle University team, led by Michael North, Professor of Organic Chemistry, has developed a highly energy-efficient method of converting waste carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemical compounds known as cyclic carbonates.
I just read this and really thought this to be of great importance. It is not that we didn’t know it, rather that it is being stated against the fossil fuel industries. Please take a look at the whole article.
Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA’s top climate scientist says.
more info at wecansolveit.org
Mike Hope on Redondo Beach 
