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:
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…)
Here’s the challenge, in 3 minutes, with a beat to it.
by Ken Winston Caine
The U.S. CAN become 100% energy independent in 10 years and REBUILD THE ECONOMY at the same time, using existing clean-energy technologies.
I’ll show you a longer video in a moment that gives the specifics.
The video may make it seem simple. It’s not. To do this would require the type of will and vision and excitement and investment of the land-a-man-on-the-moon-in-10 years Apollo Project initiated by President Kennedy.
It will require the type of will and vision and excitement and investment of the interstate freeway system project spearheaded by President Eisenhower (which took a bit longer than 10 years — about 25 for the four major east-west arteries to be complete from coast to coast. But one section of I-70, through the particularly beautiful and delicate Glenwood Canyon in the Colorado Rockies wasn’t completed until shortly after I left my assignment as a reporter up there in the early ’90s).
Creating a nationwide clean-energy production and distribution system and economy is a huge undertaking.
The biggest challenge?
Political.
Because the fossil-fuel-based energy monopolies and their related support industries wield tremendous pressure and will not simply smile, nod and agree to be replaced.
And all those people whose jobs are dependent upon the fossil-fuel energy economy must be absolutely sure in the assurance that they will be retrained and transitioned to good, sustainable new-economy jobs and financially assisted in the process. And that must be part of any 10-year plan if the transformation is to win the public support it needs in order to get moving.
Shifting to a clean energy economy will require a sustained public and governmental mandate.
How can this be accomplished with existing clean technologies? Here’s a 27-minute video that spells out, plainly, step by step, how the U.S. can become 100% energy independent in 10 years using existing wind and solar technologies, and by moving to zero-emission technologies for cars. (The video embedded above is a teaser only.)
NOTE: Skip forward to 2:20 to get past the courtesy greetings and acknowledgments and into the exciting stuff.
Thirty-four years ago I read Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World. I’m reading it again. And wow.
I had forgotten how transformative are the lessons in its 10 “secret” scrolls.
Let me share a brief excerpt from Secret Scroll II. It reveals a simple shift that will double your success through invoking the healing power of love.
(Pardon the male pronouns — no overt sexism was intended, this is how English composition was taught and practiced when this was written.)
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