Monday, April 23, 2012

Is Earth Day still relevant? | JunkScience.com

Was it ever? You can vote in their poll – when I saw it more than half of voters either didn’t equate it with environmentalism or had no interest in the day or the movement

Killer Offshore Windparks – 3 Dead, 80 Serious Accidents “…More Have Died”

In terms of deaths, this is worse than Fukushima.

Yet, we never hear a peep from the media about the dark side of this “safe and environmentally gentle energy”. Imagine if this had happened at a nuclear power plant.

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl among worst nuclear disasters - The Source - Latest news and updates from Boston.com

Three Mile Island, March 1979

A partial reactor meltdown at this Pennsylvania power plant caused a release of radioactive material. Despite the leak, no deaths resulted in the incident, although the cleanup took years.

Twitter / @dvergano [USA Today Science]: "Emotions might be the mis ...

"Emotions might be the missing link in effective communication about climate change" (abs: ) ~

Let’s Rename Earth Day | ThinkProgress

In a 2009 interview, our Nobel-prize winning Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, said:

I would say that from here on in, every day has to be Earth Day.

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