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Tonight's editor: LokiMom
Tonight I am thrilled to bring you news of the DailyKos Community concerning development - sustainable and otherwise.
Village Green: Cities Matter but regions and neighborhoods may matter more from Kaid at NRDC (I also linked to an NRDC diary last time but I have no conflict here, just searching terms!) - I chose this first diary as it relates to a book by Paul Collier I am reading now, and I loved the images used in the diary! This paragraph also relates to the book, Collier's "The Plundered Planet" and to my interest in development:
The environment doesn’t respect political boundaries, either: the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers receive runoff from Virginia and Maryland as well as from the jurisdictional city of Washington; the Chesapeake Bay watershed (above) includes parts of seven states. Regional transportation patterns completely ignore jurisdictional boundaries. The air in Chicago moves freely around the seven counties and 284 separate communities just within the Illinois part of the region, to say nothing of those in nearby Wisconsin and Indiana. Very little of the energy consumed within the jurisdictional limits of the city of San Francisco is generated there. And so on. Statistics about only what is happening inside city limits very seldom tell us much about what is relevant environmentally.
I also like the maps and images in the diary. A map/image can show so much without need of much 'translation' usually!
More on Development...I would like to draw attention to the diaries on Haiti by Allie123. I have shared this list of Haiti diaries with a former colleague of mine who is half-Haitian half-Swiss. Development, how it has been managed in the past, and how things are progressing now, in Haiti, is critical to understanding what works for people, the environment, and a country that is currently on its knees.
An excerpt from Allie123's recent diary: Cholera, Floods, Hurricanes and nowhere to go:Haiti:
It is the system that is killing Haitians and if enough of us speak out it can change.
The earthquake didn't kill them, the hurricane didn't kill them either, neither did cholera the system killed them and until we speak out loudly enough and change US policy the system will continue to kill them.
This system of poverty, cycled with environmental degradation, and poor governance are all tied together to make what is happening now even more tragic.
Please read her diaries and note that there are things that we can all do to help Haiti, sources listed in her diaries. For another good book on Haiti's degradation, read Jared Diamond's "Collapse."
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WarrenS made a New Year's Resolution to write a letter advocating climate action every day. The result is over three hundred letters to congresspeople, newspapers, President Obama, and more. Warren has even had letters published in the New York Times and the Boston Globe.
Learn Warren's letter writing technique here. Be sure to steal his stuffand visit his blog.
Month 11, Day 10: We're Going to Do A Medley of Our Hit!
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune runs the same Neela Banerjee piece on the intrepid climatologists who’re jumping into the fray. I used it here as the hook for a more or less generic "false equivalence" screed.
The scientists who’ll soon be joining the fight against misinterpretations and misrepresentations of the facts of climate change have their work cut out for them. Not only are climate denialists ideologically wedded to an extreme anti-science position, the media’s adherence to the doctrine of false equivalence ensures equal amounts of air time or column inches to both parties in an argument, regardless of their reliability. Faced with a choice between, for example, a "professor of thermal engineering" from a Midwestern university and a "research associate in energy policy" from the Foundation for American Freedoms, how is a television viewer to distinguish between an actual climatologist and a mendacious shill from an oil industry-funded think tank? When it comes to the gravest threat humanity has ever faced, our print and broadcast journalists have abdicated their responsibility to the public. Good luck to these brave climate experts; they’ll need it.
WarrenS
(All times Eastern!)
eKos diaries from Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
Diary | Author | Time (Eastern) | Tags |
Gulf Watchers Wednesday - Commission Takes a Dive for BP & Big Oil - BP Catastrophe AUV #423 | peraspera | 11/10/2010 06:00:48 | Gulf Watchers, Oilpocalypse, BP, Deepwater Horizon, Macondo |
Nourishing the Planet TV: Beating the Heat to Reduce Post Harvest Waste | NourishingthePlanet | 11/10/2010 08:48:00 | Ekos, Nourishing the Planet, State of the World, NtP TV, Innovation |
Why is the U.S. Helping Finance Fossil Fuels Overseas? | Bruce Nilles | 11/10/2010 14:41:46 | eKos, coal, international, Sierra Club, Ex-Im Bank |
eKos diaries from Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
Diary | Author | Time (Eastern) | Tags |
Conflicted | Muskegon Critic | 11/9/2010 00:31:36 | Muskegon, Michigan, ekos, manufacturing, jobs |
RIP, "Clean" Coal | TheGreenMiles | 11/9/2010 08:01:49 | coal, environment, green, ccs, ekos |
Village Green: Cities matter, but regions and neighborhoods may matter more | Kaid at NRDC | 11/9/2010 09:42:44 | environment, sustainability, cities, regions, neighborhoods |
Haiti: Cholera Found In Port Au Prince | davidseth | 11/9/2010 10:27:25 | haiti, cholera, epidemics, disasters, poverty |
Obama Admin: Rail Money is for Rail, Use it or lose it | greendem | 11/9/2010 13:27:33 | Recommended, high speed rail, Roy LaHood, Wisconsin, Scott Walker |
The Night Train: The Path for Ohio High Speed Rail | BruceMcF | 11/9/2010 20:16:47 | learning, ekos, Living Energy Independence, HSR, passenger rail |
The incredibly Thinning Arctic Ice Cap -- simply Chilling! | jamess | 11/9/2010 23:59:08 | Climate Change, Thin Ice, Ice Caps, Arctic, Ice Volume |