Transition Staunton Augusta -- Advocates for Clean Energy & Good Jobs, Staunton, VA
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Tuesday, December 20 at 7pm (doors open at 5:30 for dinner) Mockingbird Restaurant, 123 W. Beverley Street, Staunton Admission free, $5 suggested donation Carbon nation is a documentary movie about climate change SOLUTIONS. Even if you doubt the severity of the impact of climate change or just don't buy it at all, this is still a compelling and relevant film that illustrates how SOLUTIONS … [Read more...]
Yesterday the other "fishbowl" at 107 West Beverley Street in downtown Staunton may have looked like an offbeat art project itself, one of those quirky performance art gigs where pedestrian movements are carried out in a tight space. In reality, it was author/artist Gene Provenzo and myself installing, through sweat and laughter, THINK, the video advocacy piece Gene made in collaboration with … [Read more...]
We need to burn fewer fossil fuels and release less carbon to slow down climate change. And because of rising demand from developing nations and decreasing supply, it’s easy to see that our economy needs to kick its addiction to fossil fuels for purely economic reasons. Richard Heinberg and others argue that it was not the subprime mortgage crisis that led to today’s recession, the worst … [Read more...]
The Obama Adminstration and its allies in Congress think that cap-and-trade will help us transition towards clean energy and conservation by making fossil fuels more expensive. They're right about the second part -- oil and coal will become more expensive under this scheme. But NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen,who's become an outspoken policy advocate, says that what he calls cap-and-tax … [Read more...]
