This documentary was so moving I was crying. It's so important to please at least watch parts of it when you have nothing to do. Our planet is SO PRECIOUS and everyone is in immediate danger from climate change and humanity's depletion of our Earth's resources. Please pass this on because it was such an amazing and real documentary.Wao. What an endorsement. I should check it out.
I know, I know. I'm being ridiculous, but I'm really excited about this one. Thank me later.
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The NYLS Center for Real Estate Studies & the Environmental Law Society of NYLS invite you to---
Lunch with Michael E. Gerrard: Climate change, its impacts on New York and where lawyers fit into this whole mess.
Michael E. Gerrard is the leading legal-theorist on Climate Change and the Law. He is Director of Columbia Law School's Center for Climate Change Law, and teaches courses on environmental law, climate change law, and energy law.
He has written or edited eight books, including Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, the leading work in its field. His eighth book, The Law of Green Buildings (with Cullen Howe), was published in August 2010. Since 1986 he has been an environmental law columnist for the New York Law Journal.
Join us, as we discuss climate change.
Wednesday, February 9th / 12:50pm - 1:50pm / Room: TBD (but at NYLS)
Lunch will be provided.
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"Climate change is real, and man is causing it,” Mr. Hill said, echoing most climate scientists. “That is indisputable. And we have to do something about it.”
A rain of boos showered Mr. Hill, including a hearty growl from Norman Dennison, a 50-year-old electrician and founder of the Corydon Tea Party.
“It’s a flat-out lie,” Mr. Dennison said in an interview after the debate, adding that he had based his view on the preaching of Rush Limbaugh and the teaching of Scripture. “I read my Bible,” Mr. Dennison said. “He made this earth for us to utilize.”
The National Law Journal reports that environmentalists are concerned that the Supreme Court may grant review of the landmark decision Massachussetts v. EPA (2007), setting the stage for a "reversal of the rare, recent high court victory for environmentalists."
Columbia University, within its Earth Institute, has a Climate Center. The Climate Center seeks to:
"... improve humankind's capacity to understand, predict, and respond to climate variability and change within a multidisciplinary approach to sustainable development. By integrating basic and applied research in climate science, engineering, public health, economics, social science and political science conducted throughout Columbia University, the Center will develop strategies for adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, while communicating the science and impacts of climate change to society and providing policy analysis and advising to stakeholders and decision makers."They have some great events coming up and their calendar can be accessed here: http://climate.columbia.edu/?id=events
Gasland is a movie about fracking and its actual and potential effects on drinking water, our environment and the tectonic plates. The director will be having a screening and a question and answer session after the screening on Wednesday September 29, 2010 at the Arsenal Gallery - 830 5th Avenue at East 64th St.
This interesting blog-post (Fighting Climate Change with a 'Stuff Tax') makes the argument that the U.S. should consider divorcing itself from the traditional tax model we currently have (which taxes employment and productivty), and start taxing consumption (a "Stuff Tax"). This, in turn, will take into account the "true costs" of producing "stuff" and will provide a better tax-base for our government.
This is not a bad concept...focus our taxation on consumption instead of production. Unfortunately, this would take some SERIOUS political power to pull off in this country. Overhauling our entire tax-system would turn our world upside-down. But maybe that's what we need. The current system seems broken, with too many loop-holes for those that make a lot of money and does not seem to account for the "true" costs of making "stuff".
Maybe we should start letting people keep more of their paychecks and taxing them more when they want to buy expensive "stuff". Thoughts?
-JA
It's about time that EPA/DOT did this, but we're they not aggressive enough? U.S. auto manufacturers should be able to do better than 34.1 mpg by 2016...
The plaintiffs claim these companies had a responsibility to void endangering environmental and human health, as well as personal property and public property.
"The amount of methane currently coming out of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is comparable to the amount coming out of the entire world’s oceans. Subsea permafrost is losing its ability to be an impermeable cap."See the Mother Jones post.
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