Well, I'm finally back from Greece. To be honest, it was pretty boring. Didn't go sight seeing much. Didn't go to the beach much. Just stayed with my grandparents in their rural mountain village. Read More »
clean energy
Demands for the Candidates
By Shimmeringstar - Posted on July 20th, 2008
Tagged: Al Gore
• clean energy
• Elections 2008
• energy
• Environment
• green
• presidential candidates
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Better future
Al Gore has it right. The time to act is NOW if we want to save our environment from damage we'll never come back from. It's time to put pressure on current and future leaders to address this climate issue. Read More »
Hairy Sustainability
By A-squared - Posted on February 25th, 2008
Tagged: Activism
• clean energy
• climate change
• coal
• Global Warming
• hair
• nuclear power
• solar power
• wind power
• Broad prosperity
• Effective government
• Better future
"Quite simply, the argument for investment in clean energy solutions is analogous to the argument for permanent hair removal...."
Hairy Sustainability
(As Published in the Diamondback, the University of Maryland's independent student newspaper). Read More »
Blame the Boomers
By A-squared - Posted on February 18th, 2008
Tagged: adults
• apathy
• Baby Boomers
• barack obama
• better future
• clean energy
• cynical
• generation differences
• Global Warming
• Our Generation
• politics
• presendential election 2008
• skeptism
• The youth vote
• Young people
• youth
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future
It was my Grandpa’s birthday and I spent four hours away from campus as an alien youth, socializing with a group of foreigners from a planet on the other side of what is being called the largest generation gap since the ‘60s. Read More »
Careless Conservationists
By Politae - Posted on October 26th, 2007
Honk If You Hate Windmills?
By grljduplisea - Posted on July 27th, 2007
After two failed wind farm projects in Maine, we finally have one up in Mars Hill. I've only seen pictures, but I recognize the stately wind turbines as graceful and benevolent structures reducing our collective carbon footprint. Unfortunately, a lot of people in the surrounding area are raising a big stink about it. A recent article in Down East magazine depicted a picture presumably on someone's front lawn that read, "Honk If You Hate Windmills."
The article also mentioned a gathering of people, one of whom said something to the effect of, "We all support clean energy, but you can't go putting these things up in people's front yards." First of all, this isn't in anyone's front yard. Mars Hill has ski slopes on one side; it's not virgin territory. Read More »
