Five Green Men to Love

Everybody loves a hot star that supports a good cause! We’ve seen stars associated with AIDS, political campaigns, children’s hospitals, etc., and now it seems that everyone’s going green. The following men have been involved from the beginning and have done a lot to bring attention to the environment...

activism.plc@gov.ac.uk — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

The environmental orthodoxy is a tangled web of corporate interests, policy-makers, -movers and -shakers, academics, NGO’s and activists - all pushing in the same direction. Which would be just fine if the idea had been tested democratically. But it hasn’t. We’ve said it many times… environmentalism has not risen to prominence through its own energies: it has not developed from a mass movement; it isn’t representative of popular interests. It is useful only to various organisations that have otherwise struggled to justify themselves over the last few decades. The political parties have bought it. Various ‘radical’ organisations have bought it. Large sections of the media have bought it. Academic departments and funding agencies have bought it. Little wonder that corporate interests have been able to jump upon the bandwagon and play their hearts out for personal financial gain.

Forget speaking ‘Truth to Power’. Today it’s all about speaking ‘Official Truth™ for Official Power©’.

Boulder Replacing Majority of City’s Fleet with Hybrids and Biofuel-Burning Vehicles | Biodiesel and Ethanol Investing

Domestic Fuel reports that the city of Boulder, Colorado hopes to have most of its vehicles running on biodiesel or ethanol within the next two years. The city hopes to raise last year’s goal of 60 percent of new vehicles purchased running on alternatives to 90 percent this year. This is now easier to accomplish, since many light duty trucks in 2009 can run on E85 ethanol. Boulder also uses or plans to use many hybrid and biofuel-using vehicles as it replaces aging vehicles. Although ethanol has its critics in the area, the city’s analysis is that ethanol is the best alternative to non-renewable petroleum.