Welcome to the eKos Earthship, your one-stop-shop for green diaries and series.
With an EcoAdvocates and the final addition of TWiCC already posted, tonight's eKos will not contain eco-news. Instead, we'll have an announcement, a repost of my diary about the new eKos library (in case anyone missed it), and of course, the eco-diary lineup.
Oh, and don't forget to rec the BP Disaster Liveblog Mothership!
Tonight's editor: patrickz
Announcement from wade norris
On Thursday at 7pm EST 4pm Pacific, Senate Candidate Andrew Romanoff of Colorado will be here as a live blog guest discussing his proposals for Renewable Energy.
About Andrew Romanoff:
Elected to four terms in the state legislature, Andrew Romanoff was the Speaker of the House from 2005 to 2009. He led the Democrats to their first back-to-back majorities in more than 40 years.
Romanoff took an early interest in civil rights. As a student, he learned about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s efforts to combat Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups. The Center’s Klanwatch Project and a state civil rights agency became two of his first employers.
Also, important to note, he has taken the same pledge as Barack Obama and takes no Corporate PAC money - only people power his campaign.
Mr. Romanoff's opponent, after being appointed to the Senate, immediately joined Evan Bayh's Conservadems - and helped with their goal of slowing down Climate legislation by signing a letter for more Natural Gas subsidies when people in Colorado already have flammable tap water from unsafe natural gas drilling. He also signed a letter letter that would exempt coal pollution for Utility companies in any Climate legislation coming out of the Senate. And even in this time of Environmental disaster, just this week, his opponent joined with Republicans to vote against Bernie Sanders amendment to end Oil and Gas tax breaks and to give the revenues to expanding energy efficiency.
Not only does Andrew Romanoff disagree with those positions, but on June 10th he announced his proposal for 50% Renewable Energy in the United States by 2030.
We have focused most of our attention on cleaning up the spill and holding British Petroleum responsible. That is appropriate. The coastal communities stand to lose thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue. We should do everything we can to help our neighbors recover from this nightmare - and to reduce the risk that a disaster like this ever happens again.
To that end, we should also seize the moment to revolutionize our energy policy Today, I am proposing that we set a national renewable energy standard.
The United States should take a lesson from Colorado. In 2004, our state became the first state in the nation to adopt a renewable energy standard by voter initiative. The people of Colorado demanded that we get 10 percent of our electricity from solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and other renewable sources by the year 2015.
We met that goal ahead of schedule - and, on my watch, we doubled it. This year, the legislature and the governor raised the standard again, setting a target of 30 percent by 2020.
That should be our national goal - to get 30 percent of our electricity from renewable sources over the next decade. We can do even better over the next two decades. I propose a national renewable standard of 50 percent by 2030.
Support Andrew Romanoff - Progressive leader, Environmental leader.
If you would like to make an announcement, please tell us! E-mail eKos at ekos350atgmaildotcom.
Check out the eKos Library!
What am I talking about? Really it's a blog on Blogger that has all diary intros, titles, tags and links from the eKos database posted in a nice, shiny, easy to navigate format.
This is my way of making the eKos database available for public viewing. It is not meant to replace or compete with anything. Every post at the blog has a link back to the Daily Kos diary at the end of the intro. Nothing is posted from the body of your diary. Think of it as a repository for Daily Kos eco-diary information, with easy access back to those diaries.
Sure, you can always use the Daily Kos search engine to find those older diaries on DK, but I think you'll find that this has some advantages.
A few features
As you'll notice above, Blogger has a handy archive sorter, so you can peruse all of the eKos diaries by date. We were also able to import the tags from the database, so that you can look through those as well. (I'm still wondering why the eKos tag isn't at the top of that list, though having Recommended there instead is pretty cool!)
The search tool in the top left corner is handy, too. It displays the results in the blog format, and is fast and painless. The search tool in the side bar isn't working as well for some reason, though it may take a few days to get going.
Why eKos?
I hope that this will become yet another reason for everyone to tag those eco-diaries eKos! It's such a simple act, just four little letters, and yet has so many benefits. The tag allows our Twitter account to automatically broadcast your diary to an ever-growing following. Our RSS widget picks it up for perusal in diaries in which it is posted.
The tag also allows us to store the diary in our database, which is at the heart of the eKos Earthship series, as well as the new library.
Ask me questions!
I'm not going to go in to all the technical details, but feel free to ask any burning questions in the comments! I'll go ahead and answer a few possible questions about the new blog/library right off the bat:
- No, it doesn't automatically update. I have streamlined the process greatly using some python code, but Blogger makes it very difficult to automate blog posts. I'll try to update it every day or two, since it only takes about a minute to do so.
- Older posts do not include formatting, pics, or vid. Only text. That changed with today and yesterday's posts. Future posts will all include formatting from the intro.
- Still a work in progress, so I may have some bugs to work out as I go, but everything seems to be working well so far.
- Yes, you can have your diaries removed from any and all eKos distribution services if you like, including the library. Just e-mail eKos350atgmaildotcom, and make sure not to use the eKos tag. We'll make sure our Rangers know not to tag your diaries if you don't want to have anything to do with the project, and there will be absolutely no hard feelings.
- We understand that all of this content is from you, the Daily Kos eco-community. Thus, this library and everything else eKos belongs to you. We try to make this all as transparent and open as possible. If you ever have any questions or concerns about what we are up to, please send them our way.
Eco-series line-up:
(All times Eastern!)
Today's eKos diaries:
Author | Diary | Time | Tags |
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LaughingPlanet | This week in climate change: Series Finale | 06/16/10 07:24PM Eastern | Climate change, global warming, This week in climate change, Twicc, eKos |
boatsie | ecoadvocates: Join hands in fighting BP & Offshore | 06/16/10 08:04PM Eastern | Recommended, ecoadvocates, climate change, COP15, Klimaforum10 |
ashowboat | Air Pollution 104 - Oxides of Nitrogen | 06/16/10 09:20PM Eastern | air pollution, oxides of nitrogen, photochemical smog, eKos |
Liveblog | BP Catastrophe Liveblog Mothership: #22 | 06/16/10 12:14AM Eastern | Recommended, Oilpocalypse, BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico |
A Siegel | "All costs, no benefits ..." | 06/16/10 08:07AM Eastern | epa, american power act, climate change, ekos, analysis |
slinkerwink | BP Turns Away Expert Oil Spill Volunteers! | 06/16/10 08:27AM Eastern | BP, oil spill, volunteers, eKos, 2010 |
Jed Lewison | Louisiana: 109 health complaints related to oil spill | 06/16/10 12:00PM Eastern | BP, oil, eKos |
Jed Lewison | Republicans vs. Making BP pay | 06/16/10 03:56PM Eastern | BP, oil, Republican, eKos |
jamess | Waxman details How Oil Companies deal with Real Risks | 06/16/10 05:59PM Eastern | BP, Emails, Response Plan, Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil |
Yesterday's eKos diaries:
Author | Diary | Time | Tags |
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Liveblog | BP Catastrophe Liveblog Mothership: #21 | 06/15/10 01:15AM Eastern | Oilpocalypse, BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, LMRP |
JekyllnHyde | Final Update #11: The Week in Editorial Cartoons - BP is the New BS | 06/15/10 01:33AM Eastern | Recommended, The Week in Editorial Cartoons, eKos, British Petroleum, Tony Hayward |
LaFeminista | Niger Delta: Exxon-Mobile, Shell, BP: Oil for Nothing | 06/15/10 01:56AM Eastern | ekos, Nigeria, Niger Delta, Exxon, Exxon-Mobile |
Stranded Wind | Halliburton Sold Nuclear Tech To Iran | 06/15/10 02:06AM Eastern | Recommended, corruption, Halliburton, eKos, Oilpocalypse |
theRoaringGirl | BP: It's not the first time an Oil Company got around Federal Regulation | 06/15/10 09:14AM Eastern | santa barbara oil spill, getting over on the USGS, greed, goo, dead wildlife |
Pam LaPier | A Day In The Life Of A Pod | 06/15/10 10:34AM Eastern | sperm whale, oil spill, gulf of mexico. oilacopolypse, marine life, gulf coast |
Gorette | LIVEBLOG: BP et al Hse hearings w/Markey et al | 06/15/10 10:43AM Eastern | Recommended, Gulf Oil Spill, energy policy, House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Liveblogs |
Ellinorianne | Reinventing the Whale - The Real Reason for Reviving Commercial Whaling | 06/15/10 11:39AM Eastern | Whaling, gray whales, minke, sea shepherd, japanese |
Jed Lewison | More proof that BP cut corners | 06/15/10 11:40AM Eastern | BP, Oil, eKos |
Edger | Beyond Pathetic: BP Hiding Oiled Animal Carcasses Washing Up On Gulf Beaches? | 06/15/10 12:36PM Eastern | eKos, BP, British Petroleum, Deepwater Horizon, Environment |
LaughingPlanet | Rachel Maddow ridicules BP's latest lies, affixes blame to Dubya | 06/15/10 02:44PM Eastern | Recommended, Rachel Maddow, TRMS, BP, Oilpocalypse |
Cedwyn | NW Natural Gas: Public Meeting Thursday on Palomar Pipeline | 06/15/10 03:36PM Eastern | NW Natural, Palomar Pipeline, FERC, Wyden, eKos |
blackwaterdog | Photos: When the cold and detached president met the angry people | 06/15/10 03:41PM Eastern | Recommended, Barack Obama, photos, video, eKos |
colorado bob 1 | The Hottest May on Record-Updated | 06/15/10 03:42PM Eastern | climate change, eKos |
Laurence Lewis | Tell the people | 06/15/10 05:18PM Eastern | Barack Obama, BP Oil Spill, BP, Gulf of Mexico, fossil fuels |
FishOutofWater | Breaking: Global Cooling Proven | 06/15/10 07:20PM Eastern | ekos, environment, oil, climate change, global warming |
icebergslim | sigh, he did not say anything. (update w/video) | 06/15/10 08:33PM Eastern | Recommended, presidential address, oval office, barack obama, gulf coast |
ashowboat | Air Pollution 103 - Reactive Organic Compounds | 06/15/10 10:13PM Eastern | air pollution, toxics, photochemical smog, reactive organic compounds, eKos |
patrickz | Introducing the eKos Library! | 06/15/10 10:15PM Eastern | eKos, eKos library, meta, environment, social networking |
Kitsap River | We did this. All of us. | 06/15/10 11:19PM Eastern | eKos, Gulf oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, oiled birds, ekos |
gmoke | Methane Cycle: Gas Production and Gas Release | 06/15/10 11:38PM Eastern | Nepal, Afghanistan, Africa, methane, ecology |
About eKos
The Idea
This project was inspired by the Earth Day @ DKos Blogathon. In case you missed it, we had 31 participating environmental diaries, all of which were linked to in the Mothership. During the event we had several requests for an eco-mothership diary series in the mould of the Earth Day effort.
The Mission
eKos is all about promoting community eco-diaries. Daily Kos already showcases several series, but sometimes the work of dedicated green diarists pass off the recent diary list hardly noticed. Our goal is to make these diaries more accessible. In the process we hope to build community and bring in a broader audience to the exceptional environmental writing here at DK.
How eKos Works
If you want a diary included in the list, please let us know by leaving a comment. We'll do our best to search out green diaries, but are bound to miss a few. For eKos to live up to its full potential, eco-diarists should post a link to the Earthship, or place the widget at the end of their diary. This will provide readers with easy access to other recent environmental diaries.
Tag Rules
If you want to help out with tagging, here are a few simple rules to follow:
- If you see an eco-diary or front page story, tag it 'eKos'. and inform the diarist.
- Fix the tag if it is wrong (e-kos or ecos tags won't help).
- Watch out for tag abuse. eKos is meant to be inclusive, but if you see writing that is clearly not friendly to environmental causes, or which breaks site rules that has been tagged, please remove it.
- Don't tag diaries that call-out or in any way directly criticize other Kossacks or diaries. It is fine if it addresses a meme or argument, but it cannot specifically mention or link to any comment or diary.
- If someone removes the tag without justification, please put it back. If they persist, report them.
- If there are any issues, please e-mail ekos350atgmaildotcom.
Contact
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If you are interested in becoming an eco-ranger for eKos, or just want some more info, e-mail ekos350atgmaildotcom
eKos Rangers
In no particular order:
Regina in a Sears Kit House
boatsie
Hopeful Skeptic
RLMiller
patrickz
Earthfire
Ellinorianne
A Siegel
dRefractor
SolarMom
Please give them some mojo if you see them, they deserve it!
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