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Amory Lovins has sometimes been accused of having excessive techno-optimism. However, you can judge for yourself by watching this intriguing 27-minute presentation. If you are having trouble with the embedded video, you can go to the TED.com site of the talk at http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/amory_lovins_a_50_year_plan_for_energy.html. Amory Lovins is the Cofounder, Chairman and Chief Scientist at . . . → Read More: A 50-year plan for energy Greetings Everyone, Late last week, a number of members contacted me about the candidates for Selectmen and their positions on energy efficiency in town. I came up with a list of questions and emailed Jon Speers, Mary Andrews and Ray McMahon. (Ron Nowell doesn’t have an email address apparently). Jon Speers was the only . . . → Read More: Selectmen candidate’s positions on energy efficiency James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and author of Storms of My Grandchildren, makes an empassioned plea to say “No” to the Keystone XL pipeline and the Canadian tar sands. Hansen explains how if we exploited the vast carbon stores contained in the tar sands and other deposits, “Sea levels would . . . → Read More: Game Over for the Climate? From a MPBN.net news story broadcast on May 14, 2012: Among the projects that would benefit from the LMF bond is a conservation initiative known as “Mount A2Sea,” short for Mount Agamenticus to the Sea. The aim of the program is to protect a network of connected natural resources within a 48,000 acre area . . . → Read More: Mount Agamenticus to the Sea initiative would benefit from LMF bond Food columnist for the New York Times, Mark Bittman, talks about industry resistance to labeling American food. Democracy. Are we entitled to know what goes in our food? The answer’s easy, but Big Food thinks it’s “no.” It’s not just ammonia in beef, it’s arsenic and antibiotics – banned antibiotics at that, and Prozac . . . → Read More: Should we be allowed to know what’s in our food? In a Feb. 25, 2012 editorial in the Portland Press Herald, Beth Nagursky argues that Maine is underinvesting in energy efficiency. Our cheapest energy source is, and always has been, energy efficiency. The good news is that, as energy prices climb, significant opportunities remain to cut energy use in homes and businesses that are . . . → Read More: Energy efficiency pays Well, the problem is not lawns themselves but the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides on lawns, which can eventually run off into fragile waterways. A group in York is looking to protect our local river and ocean ecosystems. YORK — Protecting lobsters and the ocean from the harms of pesticides and lawn chemicals is . . . → Read More: Protecting the ocean from lawns From Aldo Leopold, the legendary American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, and environmentalist: We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. — Aldo Leopold A coalition calling itself Maine Citizens for Clean Energy is gathering signatures to for a ballot initiative that would mandate that Maine’s electrical utilities “get 20 percent of their power from renewable energy sources by 2020.” From the Oct. 27, 2011 Bangor Daily News: Six years before Maine utility companies are required to get . . . → Read More: Maine Clean Energy Initiative aiming for November 2012 ballot A powerful message from Robert Redford summarizing the dangers of the proposed tar sands oil pipeline. Learn more and take action at the NRDC website.  Comments are closed  Climate change, Energy conservation, Environmental regulations, Environmental toxins Seattle is striving to become a carbon-neutral city, the first in the world. It requires accounting for and reducing “the carbon footprint of everything from transportation to trash.” But the city recognizes that individual families have to play their part. Much of the work on climate change has focused on making major policy or . . . → Read More: Can Households Help Create a Carbon Neutral Community? Thomas Friedman makes a good case for showing some urgency in addressing the causes of our recent climatic extremes. Remember the first rule of global warming. The way it unfolds is really “global weirding.” The weather gets weird: the hots get hotter; the wets wetter; and the dries get drier. This is not a . . . → Read More: Is it weird enough for you yet?  |
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