I hate it when that happens: It's too cold in Pennsylvania to grow a crop that will save Pennsylvania from global warming

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Researchers at a Pennsylvania university are trying to come up with an alternative fuel crop that will grow in cold weather states like the commonwealth.

The Penn State-Harrisburg researchers are focusing on the oil-rich jatropha plant, which is said to be cheaper than corn or soybeans and can grow in marginal soil. The plant, however, prefers the warm temperatures of Costa Rica or India to colder climates.

A view from India

...there are also people, mostly women, who sell firewood in small quantity ranging from anything between Rs. 5 to 10 per bundle. One such woman by the name of Shanghring asserted it was good means to make some money during the winter break, post harvest, in order to maintain family and make both ends meet. And in the event of all these, she is not really concerned about the effect of cutting trees for firewood – global warming. “What does it really matters when we are struggling to make both ends meet,” she countered.

SUNY Cortland: Eco-socialist and solar installer to promote climate fraud

Joel Kovel, a controversial author, activist and faculty member at Bard College, will deliver one of three planned lectures at SUNY Cortland during "Earth Week: What on Earth is a Green Economy?" from April 21-24.

Organized by the campus organization Cortland Students Advocating a Valuable Environment (CSAVE), the presentations all begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Kovel will present "Ecosocialism or Barbarism: The Choice for Our Time" on Tuesday, April 21, in Sperry Center, Room 105. Kovel, a social studies professor at Bard College since 1988, has condemned capitalism for causing global warming and other ecological disasters that cannot be solved solely by new technology, better science and American inventiveness.
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Smith and Melissa Kemp, project designer and installer for solar electric (PV) and solar thermal systems with Renovus Energy in Ithaca, N.Y., will present "No One is Climate Proof: The Urgency of Sustainability and the Role of Renewable Energy in New York and Beyond."

An ecosocialist manifesto

The idea for this ecosocialist manifesto was jointly launched by Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy, at a September, 2001, workshop on ecology and socialism held at Vincennes, near Paris.