Tuesday, June 23, 2009

RIP Willie Neal
Neal, of Wilson, served as executive director of Cookies 4 Climate Change, a Jackson Hole-based environmental organization that promotes awareness of climate change among youth. In his biography on the group's Web site, Neal said his experience skiing in places around the world had impressed upon him the importance environmental activism.
Gavin Newsom on Daily Kos: [Forcing people to compost because of his personal belief that this will improve the world's weather]
Composting will prevent tons of material from going to the landfill, create healthy soil for our local farms and help us fight global warming.
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Today at the Farmer’s Market in front of San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building I am signing the nation’s first mandatory composting law.
Iowa Independent » As climate change [hoax] bill moves forward, [Iowa Democrat] Boswell remains skeptical
Spokesman warns 'It will hurt Iowa utilities and ultimately Iowa families'

1 comment:

Kunoichi said...

re: composting.

The original article seems to be gone, but I still have a quote...


“We have concentrated on getting waste out of landfill and into worm composting systems but they can actually produce more greenhouse gases than landfill sites produce,” Frederickson said.
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Frederickson said: “Everybody loves them because they think they can do no harm but they contribute to global warming. People are looking into alternative waste treatments but we have to make sure that we are not jumping from the frying pan into the fire."