Spotlight on green news & views: Whats next in climate change activism? ::posted Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:00:07 +0000:: ift.tt/1nltJ5q rss@dailykos (Meteor Blades) Idle No More contingent at Peoples Climate March. Many environmentally related posts appearing at Daily Kos each week dont attract the attention they deserve. To help get more eyeballs, Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The most recent Wednesday Spotlight can be seen here. So far, more than 19,540 environmentally oriented diaries have been rescued for inclusion in this weekly collection since 2006. Inclusion of a diary in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it. Because of the relatively small number of diaries today (after Wednesdays record of 103), category titles have been removed for this Spotlight only. To solar carport or not to carport, that is the (or at least a) question ...—by A Siegel: Most people think and most analysis occurs in a stove piped fashion. Difficult in conception and more costly in resources (whether brain cells, time or cash), narrow and constrained thinking often fosters not just far from optimal but simply bad decisions. This is true across virtually all of human existence. The energy arena is far from an exception to this problem. From not considering life-time electricity use when buying Christmas lights to using the commodity price rather than delivered cost (fully burdened cost of fuel) in military procurement decisions to only discussing energy savings returns off insulation or new windows without talking about comfort or health benefits in the house to ignoring the productivity benefits from greening workplaces (and schools), the limited nature of thinking when it comes to energy and environmental issues is hard to exaggerate. (And, of course, these are only benefits within the decision-maker rather than all the externalities (both benefits and costs) that are left out of the economic transitions.) The all-too-often limited lens restricts us (all of us) to sub-optimal or simply wrong decisions. Thinking about solar carportsa provides a window on this issue. Joe Barton is Wrong about Oil—by FaithChatham: Statement by David E. Cozad, Democratic Nominee for US Congress TX6. Congressman Joe Barton recently stated: Im in favor of overturning the ban on crude oil exports. Mr Barton is wrong on this. Most of his fellow Republicans in the House are afraid to come out in public with their position. As the Democratic Nominee for U.S. Congress for the Texas 6th District, currently occupied by Congressman Barton, I differ with Barton because lifting of the ban on exporting crude oil jeopardizes our national security and risks damaging our national economy. I will stand and debate Congressman Barton on why this ban is in the best interest of the people of the United States, and especially to the people of the 6th District of Texas. I believe that the people deserve to weigh and evaluate the positions and priorities of the men and women who seek to serve them for the next two years in the United States Congress. Climate March Reflections—by fortyhays: Whether or not the People’s Climate March this past weekend finally pushes the needle for rampant, worldwide action on global warming, we cannot know for sure. But after standing—I mean marching - with my fellow citizens for over two hours, I am once again hopeful. As you have probably heard, turnout was stronger than expected—with estimates ranging from 300,000 to 400,000. The waves of people coming up from the subway in all directions near Columbus Circle caused delays. Organizers had planned on beginning the procession around 11:30 a.m., but by 1 p.m., I was still standing put in the same spot along Central Park West with a gathering of lawyers and scientists from the Natural Resources Defense Council. (Different sections of marchers had their own themes. NRDC was in the ‘solutions’ section.) A volunteer and her husband, who I’ll call Kristen and Bill, opened their Brooklyn home for breakfast that day for local PCM volunteers. Kristen, a vegetarian, used to work for a hedge fund firm and now writes poetry. What motivated her to hand out march literature to strangers at subway stations and open up her home for a climate change documentary screening? The future that awaits her 1 ½ year-old twins, she said. The Daily Bucket - beauty and the beasts a hummingbird tale—by Polly Syllabic: Gooseville, WI: A young female perches in the blue spruce on a chilly September day, fluffed and guarding her sugar feeder. Its her favorite day-perch since she fledged. Born in Wisconsin, shes been preparing to travel the thousands of miles south across the continent over the Gulf of Mexico to Central America. Shes never been there before. She sports a crisp black tail with flashy white spots that match her underpants. The black eye-mask with a white dot behind her eye betrays her youth. Shes feisty like her mom and dad. You can find more rescued green diaries below the sustainable squiggle. [Forwarded by the MyLeftBlogosphere news engine. Link to original post below:]
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