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Hey Folks- Salon.com <http://www.salon.com/> has a great article out today in conjunction with Rolling Stone magazine. Climate Warriors and Heroes: Meet the 28 Leaders scientists, politicians, activists, celebrities, and inventors?who are fighting to stave off planetwide catastrophe. (If you¹re not a subscriber, you can still get a site pass by sitting through a few pages of Infiniti advertisements ... which is rather ironic, if you think about it). They do not list one ZeroWaster or Recycling Pioneer as a warrior/hero though. Possibly someone will point this out in their comments section, however, to my mind it means we need to get on the stick doing a better, more provocative job linking waste resource management and planning to global climate change and greenhouse gas reductions. It¹s a nice piece in any event, summarizing the breadth of problem solving and commitment in the field. There¹s also an accompanying essay by Al Gore (who I just fingered for downplaying environmental politics in his campaign in my latest essay at GetUnderground.com). Might have been nice to see this issue front and center back in 2000?or 2004? db <http://bluolives.blogspot.com> Here¹s a clipping: Nov. 04, 2005 | Global warming is a planetary emergency everywhere but in the White House. While the Bush administration fiddles, the rest of the world burns with concern about the earth's rising temperature. With our industries billowing a relentless stream of gases into the atmosphere, trapping heat, we're decimating our natural ecosystems, exacting an incalculable toll on our planet and future health. The climate warriors and heroes honored here embody the environment's best defense. They are scientists, ministers, students, politicians, activists, lawyers, celebrities, inventors, and world leaders. As Al Gore says in his accompanying essay, they share little in common. "But each of them recognized the threat that climate change poses to the planet -- and responded by taking immediate action to stop it," Gore writes. The range of their actions is remarkable. A college dropout tours the country in a bus that runs on vegetable oil, educating young people about fuel efficiency. The CEO of General Electric, one of the world's biggest polluters, argues for a federal policy to reduce global warming. An emissary from the Inuit in the Arctic accuses the United States of violating the rights of her people by refusing to curb its climate-heating pollution. David Biddle, Executive Director P.O. Box 4037 Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-247-3090 215-432-8225 (mobile) Dbiddle@no.address <WWW.GPCRC.COM> Read In Business magazine to learn about sustainable businesses in communities across North America! Go to: <http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jgpress/> |
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