Saturday, December 21, 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Renewable Energy for Iowa: Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2013 S. 1595...
Renewable Energy for Iowa: Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2013 S. 1595...: I think I know why this bill has failed to make it out of committee. Thanks, Big Oil. Can you help us transition to a renewable economy,...
Monday, December 16, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
IOWA A LEADER IN WIND ENERGY: Des Moines Register
http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/342868952?count=20&q=wind+energy&client_source=feedzilla_widget&order=relevance&format=json&sb=1
p.s. Feedzilla has numerous stories about the wind industry killing eagles and authorizations for killing eagles: Is Feedzilla undermining efforts to renew the wind energy tax credit that expires 12/31/13?
Stunning: "Of the total high-quality energy consumed to support economic activity in 2010, only 14 percent was converted into useful work (the conversion efficiency). In other words, the American economy wasted 86 percent of all the energy used that year in the production of goods and services…." (ACEEE, 2013)….
Saturday, December 14, 2013
LEGISLATION: CALL: Move H.R. 3654 out of committee immediately onto the House floor and out the door to America for Wind and Solar Energy
Please call your Congressional representative to move H.R. 3654 out of committee immediately onto the House floor and out the door to America to change our dirty carbon economy into a more ReNewable Energy Economy …..to protect our childrens' futures please…..Thanks!
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr3654
Here's the House committee and representatives to contact immediately please thanks…. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/HSIF
The Chair, Fred Upton - R, MI-6 …..and Ranking Member, Henry Waxman - D CA-33
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr3654
Here's the House committee and representatives to contact immediately please thanks…. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/HSIF
The Chair, Fred Upton - R, MI-6 …..and Ranking Member, Henry Waxman - D CA-33
Friday, December 13, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
LEGISLATION TO PUSH: Renewable Energy Standards Act 2013
A letter not sent yet:
"Dear Public Representative,
Please count more than cash….and invest in your own
childrens’ future wisely by investing in a cleaner, more renewable energy economy to harvest the free energy from nature that our carbon-based energy infrastructure has ignored for 150 years…..to transition from that dirty energy system to a clean, renewable economy that will lift all up to the positive.….up to a more productive, critical ecological economy, a more logical economy that will lift All 100% up
to the positive now and generations from now……..wisdom and vision and intellect
impossible to count in cash….
If we divest from carbon fossil fuels, dirty energy…..
and invest in clean, renewable energy use, infrastructure, a “smart grid,”
production, education, research, innovation, we also invest in a powerful
economic engine that will power our world now and generations from now cleanly
of, by, for All 100% smiling….including your own children.
Amazing fact:
The sun alone could power all our energy needs on earth x 11, 000….
We need to harvest that free energy of the sun and
other renewables (such as wind, geothermal, biofuels, hydrogen, hydrological,
gravity, imagination) to play freely….instead of mopping up dead bodies after
megastorms ……deadly storms such as Haiyan caused by skyrocketing temperatures
of earth’s atmosphere through the last 150 years of industrialization and
urbanization and destruction of carbon-absorptive forests, wetlands,
prairies…….caused by cashflow floods for only 1%.
Please act immediately to move the Renewable
Electricity Standards Act of 2013 out of committee in both the U.S. House and
Senate, onto the floor and out the door to the many….. .to free our children from the curse we
have caused in the last century of deadly dependency and addiction to dirty
fossilized energy, carbon emissions that have caused carbon levels to hit 400
parts per million in the first time in human history, baking and drowning earth,
causing megastorms, the largest to ever hit land. That is not “economics”….
Our dependency and addictions to carbon fuels with "all the above" technologies is dangerous because a) hydraulic fracking that pumps toxic water through geologic layers with little control (impossible to control or predict) destroys both private and community health, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for too many communities in America for numerous reasons such as (including but not limited to) a1) destroys drinking water aquifers for entire continental regions, a2) causes destructive/deadly earthquakes, destroying lives and health and communities, a3) causes destructive/deadly sinkholes into caverns contaminated with toxic brine that have consumed entire neighborhoods where underground caverns/caves/wells are used to store toxic brines for the petroleum industry at taxpayer expense, a4) threatens our democratic, free, open government founded by our US Constitution and Declaration of Independence as Reaganomic privatization, deregulation and cost-shifting onto the unsuspecting has shifted sovereignty for our self-government from individuals, families and communities to corporate, CEO bank account control that assume erroneously that they "own" entire communities, states, nations….at taxpayer expense…and as Dick Cheney made it illegal for corporations to release the types of toxics that were being released into communities, even for public health and safety reasons.... a4) releases toxics that have caused tails to fall off of cows and other public and private health costs and consequences very difficult to prevent because of the fascist destruction of rights to self-determination and safe, affordable access to critical flows of information and resources to protect the private and public self in America….in an America where private corporations and corporate CEOs have more rights to destroy communities than infants.
You found the courage to challenge the lies of the
tobacco industry and America has found new life and health and happiness
because of your bravery to stand up to tyranny.
Gather the courage now to protect your own
childrens’ futures from those that limit their counts to privatized, immediate,
obvious cash of the fossilized energy industry more than their own childrens’
futures. Thanks.
You have the power to change the course of history
from a deadly downward tailspin ….and as a world leader to guide our transition
from a tailspin downward into a more positive course upwards toward light and
productivity where All 100% can find safe, affordable access to a more
productive future to produce more abundant riches of the earth for All to share
freely…….to enable every seed, seedling, soil to reach up toward light enough
to grow to full genetic potential to lift All 100% up to the positive…to pull
millions, billions out of poverty globally.
America has led before.
America can lead again and we must. Please hop on board to help us save our
children and futures from our selves.
Thanks so much:
Our methods of paying for healthcare will likely
become meaningless if we do not address the cause of rapidly escalating levels
of carbon molecules in our common atmosphere that all of us know are causing
our climate to grow more and more unstable as molecules become more active in a
hotter and unpredictable environment:
Skyrocketing levels of carbon (Cx measured as CO2
units) have hit 400 ppm (in addition to other pollutants) …causing earth’s
temperatures to rise almost 2 degrees Celsius since the beginning of the
industrial revolution….400 ppm the highest in human history in several million
years, causing changes in entire earth systems impossible to count in human
cash…..causing more and more frequent and massive megastorms exponentially
through time including Sandy and Haiyan, the strongest storm ever to hit
land….causing rising seas that are already erasing islands from the South
Pacific, engulfed in terror….causing a shipping route to open through the
Arctic for the first time in human history, threatening Polar Bears with
extinction……causing costs, consequences, pain of more and more frequent and intense
destruction of monster storms that continue to wash away entire communities of
many lives in only a few waves…..
James Hansen of NASA has warned US that an
escalation of temperature of just 2 degrees centigrade would cause earth to
become “another planet”…..seas rising about 200 feet, unimaginable
megastorms….megafloods, megadroughts, mass migrations never before seen in
human history…..but George Bush Junior and Dick Cheney hid that report….
The U.S. Pentagon warned in 2004 that climate
heating is no doubt a national security threat….but George Bush Junior and Dick
Cheney hid that report.
Our U.S. media has focused more time on waistlines
and turkey basters than on the carbon emissions that are destroying our human
civilization. Why?
We cannot afford those that stand in the way of the
critical transition from fossil carbon fuels to cleaner, more renewable energy
economies that will free us from our selves.
We have already caused an escalation of 0.8 degrees
C and have released enough greenhouse gases (primarily Cx) to cause another 0.8
degree rise in temperature…..so our nation and world have absolutely no time to
battle those that value private, immediate, obvious cash bank accounts more
than their own childrens’ futures.
Temperatures at the poles are rising much faster
than the more temperate lands.
We need action now immediately asap yesterday.
Climate talks failed in Warsaw, probably because
the carbonized industry stood in the way of action.
We cannot afford for the cash-driven fossil energy
industry to block the critical flows of information and resources that we as a
nation and world need to change the course of history from a deadly tailspin
downward into a more positive course upwards toward light, to the
positive…..enough to count in cash.
We cannot afford to ignore these costs and
consequences any longer. Prevention
pays…..and we need to invest our precious resources in prevention instead of
knee-jerk reactions based on ignorance and greed.
We cannot afford those that value deadly cash-flow
floods more than their own childrens' futures.
But humans can act to reverse these changes……..if
we act immediately together as a winning team….. at least reduce emissions to less deadly
levels by investing in a massive, global transition to renewable energy
economies that will redefine the word "economy"….
We do not have another planet to drive to….though
some act as if they would spend humanity’s assets to finance the escape of only
1%.
The word root, "eco-" means
"house" or "oikos" in Greek, but not every house nurtures
those within. Cash-driven houses that count only cash crush and destroy
those within, forcing the many to go to war to get what they think they
need….while destroying, crushing the critical (green) producers of nature that
they need to produce the critical flows such as air, O2, H2O, soil, food,
shelter to keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.
Self-destruction is not very smart or logical, but our cash system of human
cities has forced us to go to war for centuries.
War and self-destruction is not our only option.
We have the logical opportunity
to change the course of history from negatives downward into a more positive
course upwards toward light for all, where nature can grow all critical flows
to satisfy basic critical needs of all living organisms, plants and animals now
and generations from now.
Oil barons and war profiteers will just need to
learn to adapt…..and to help to invest in renewable technologies with their
expertise in energy production and distribution to:
· make the
transition from fossil carbon-based energy to a more renewable energy economy
with a “smart grid” for those on the sunny side of earth can share energy with
those on the dark side and visa versa daily
· help to
protect our natural systems of natural capital that protect and buffer our
cities from storms and degradation, from disintegration, from devaluation
· invest in
integrity of the fragile but critical, hidden but essential web for all life
that humans need to produce abundant riches of the earth for all to share,
critical flows impossible to count in cash
· balance
nature’s budget to balance our own……balance private with public with lifeweb….balance
short-term with long-term with infinite……balance obvious with complex and difficult
to see and understand with mysteries impossible to understand in human terms
(such as amazing ironies of life)
· count
more than cash…..and value the invaluable, the priceless (such as nature’s
wonders) impossible to count in cash
· honor and
respect the right of nature’s life and land and earth systems (impossible to
count in cash) to produce critical flows and producers to supply hungry human
cities…….and reimburse nature by protecting those critical but undervalued
natural ecological economic capital: A real capitalist does not destroy the natural
capital that capitalist needs to survive
Critical potentials of nature to produce critical
flows hide far beyond the privatized, immediate, obvious private, piratized
spheres of harsh, everyday urban lives of the simple, easy, cheap, quick of
urban walls and barriers and stackable and inflexible boxes of structures that
fall.
Humans need to reach far beyond the obvious,
immediate, private walls and barriers of urban walls to discover nature's
amazing wonders that inspire. For example, the spider's web is stronger
than human-made steel unit per unit….and the miracles continue in scientific
literacy for those brave enough to discover the unknown, to change, to adapt to
change and discover the need to change enough to succeed in more than cash.
Please listen to real climate scientists (IPCC,
2013) and others who have warned us about the catastrophic links between carbon
levels in our atmosphere and unimaginable heating of our climate, causing more
and more frequent and intense superstorms, rising seas, cataclysmic destruction
of entire populations and densely populated urban areas, national security
nightmares, disintegration of the orders of our ancient public infrastructure
foundations such as civil government as chaos consumes us, causing unbearable
pain for so many, including your own childrens' future, as our human
civilization unravels…
We can't afford those that spend millions, billions
of dollars to discredit scientists who have warned us about the deadly costs
and consequences of carbon pollutants in our common atmosphere for decades…..
We cannot afford those that stand in the way of
legislation and initiatives that All 100% need to lower carbon levels enough to
protect our own childrens' futures.
We can't blame G_d for human carbon emissions that
have caused earth to bake and drown. This is an emergency and we need to
act, to pass legislative and incentives to change the course of history.
We need all hands on deck, both public and private
sectors asap, now, immediately, yesterday to help prevent climate
catastrophes….instead of mopping up dead bodies. God will help us then.
We need the coal, nuclear risk, oil, gas industries
to help with expertise and resources to change the course of history, please,
thanks!
Thank you to industries, CEOs and civic leaders of
vision who have already invested in technologies and infrastructures of vision
to help to change the course of history from negative tailspins to a more
positive course upwards for All.
We need scientific literacy, vision, wisdom,
nature’s amazing logic and genius impossible to count in cash to find a safer
course for the many into an uncertain future…..to protect our own childrens'
futures from our selves.
Fact: Causes do cause consequences and
costs…and we cannot blame G_d for unprecedented human carbon emissions and
heating of the last 150 years of industrialization, urbanization and
destruction of carbon-absorbing lands…for the destruction of critical natural
systems such as virgin forests and wetlands and prairies of deep, rich soils
and natural ecological economies that humans do need to produce critical flows
such as air, O2, H2O, soil, soil makers, food, shelter for humans in cities to
consume…..
Prevention pays…..and nature’s production of
positives fills hungry voids of the negative.
But nature will grow back if we protect those
hidden genetic potentials and logic of life and land of the wild.
We cannot afford the cash-driven destruction of
scientific literacy of, by, for privatized profiteering…as the Koch brothers
and others have spent millions, billions of dollars to confuse the unsuspecting
about links between carbon emissions and catastrophic changes in our common
climate. We need the cash-driven fossil
fuel industry to love their neighbor and help with this critical transition to
renewables now asap immediately yesterday please thanks.
This is a financial decision…..a refusal to
transition to renewables causing financial ruin for many……investing in
renewable energy use, infrastructure, dreams returning many more positive
dividends for All now and generations from now…including your own children….a
common future impossible to count in cash….
Count more than cash, more than the private, more
than the short term, more than the obvious….to protect your own childrens’
futures from our selves.
Thanks!
Holly M. Berkowitz
Iowa City, Iowa
Holly M. Berkowitz
Iowa City, Iowa
LEGISLATION: CALL: Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2013 S. 1595 Introduced 10/29/13 by Sen. Tom Udall Referred to Committee
I think I know why this bill has failed to make it out of committee. Thanks, Big Oil. Can you help us transition to a renewable economy, instead? This is one of the most important pieces of legislation in our nation's and world's history to show the world that America has become a leader in the critical transition from dirty energy that has caused so many sorrows of the 20th century….into a brave, courageous leader able and willing to guide the many toward a more positive future….instead of destroying U.S. with catastrophic climate change….and dirty energy too costly and difficult to access.
We need leaders of vision and wisdom able and willing to lead U.S. toward a more renewable economy of, by, for All 100% to share now and generations from now:
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