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URGENT: Use this link NOW to tell EPA to regulate Carbon Dioxide pollution

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Passing on this urgent call to action from Cathy Zoi:

Dear ken winston,

Friday is the last day to voice your opinion on whether the EPA — the Environmental Protection Agency — should regulate carbon dioxide pollution, the primary cause of the climate crisis. This is a big deal.

The EPA is taking public comment, before making a ruling.

Of course, special interests — like the oil and coal lobbies — are working overtime to defeat a positive ruling and have already gotten thousands of comments submitted in opposition.

Most people don’t know about this opportunity for public comment, so your voice can make a real difference. And with a new president in the White House, it’s likely that someone will actually be listening. Submit your public comment to the EPA here:

http://www.RepowerAmerica.org/EPA

In April 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide if it is harming our health and welfare. After more than a year of delay, the EPA is finally now requesting public comments on whether carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants are endangering our health and our climate.

Join us, and send a message about how crucial it is to reduce harmful carbon dioxide pollution. That you expect the EPA to (more…)

Why burning firewood is NOT ‘carbon-neutral’

Friday, November 21st, 2008

by Ken Winston Caine

A company selling high-efficiency woodstoves in northern New Mexico is advertising that burning firewood is carbon-neutral.

In other words, they are suggesting that it’s a clean, green-energy form of heating.

True science used to mislead
In the radio commercial, they say that the carbon released when the wood is burned is equal to the carbon that would be released if the tree naturally decayed after it died. And that it is equal to the amount of carbon that the tree removed from the atmosphere during its life. That much is good science, I believe.

But does that make wood-burning “carbon neutral?”

I don’t think so. Here’s why:

Man burns up natural balance sheet
Most hardwood trees have lifespans measured in the hundreds of years. Some live thousands of years. And then, when they die (usually due to pestilence or disease or periods of extreme climate change) they decay very very slowly.

So, the amount of carbon a tree releases needs to be measured against the number of years of its life and decay. Per year, the tree emits very little carbon on that basis. When you burn the tree, on the other hand, you release all the carbon at once. And then what do you do? (more…)

Come live in ‘The Forest’

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Just found this poem I scrawled in a notebook March 20, 1989 while looking for a home in the Colorado Rockies near Glenwood Springs, after being hired to establish and man a Western news bureau there for the Denver Rocky Mountain News:

We like the scenery
so we pull it all out
flatten the hills
& scrape the landscape clean
& put up matchstick condos with rustic cedar siding
& sell them for too much, unit by unit,
to people eager to live
in: The Forest
a project whose name
evokes only memories
of the majesty of
what once stood in its place.
– ken winston caine

Huge forest sell-off plan in works, Bush seeks power ‘to liquidate at will,’ RFK Jr. warns

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Just received this announcement and plea for funding from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:

Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,

If the Bush administration gets its way, you can say goodbye to 300,000 acres of our national forests. They’ll be going on the auction block to raise $800 million in fast cash to plug holes in this administration’s out-of-control budget.

You and your family stand to lose the most from the (more…)


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