Archive for October, 2009
Sexy Friday: Supermodels (Weather)Strip for Climate Change!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, friday, stripping for climate change, super models, video, youtube on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spooky Fun Rallies in 5 Texas Cities on Saturday, October 31
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged alpine, Austin, beaumont, bike ride, clean air, corpus christi, dallas, green jobs, halloween, Public Citizen, quit coal, roll beyond coal, Sierra Club, Texas on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Texans Concerned about Clean Air and Building the new Green Jobs Economy ROLL BEYOND COAL across Texas this Halloween — Fun Events on Saturday, October 31 WHO: Public Officials, Businesses, Sierra Club and their Environmental Partners such as Public Citizen, and Bicycling Communities across Texas WHAT: Roll Beyond Coal Rallies, Bike Rides, & Hikes for [...]
Austin City Council Coal Action Success
Posted in Coal, tagged austin city council, austin has a dirty secret, austin texas, city hall, Coal, facebook, fayette coal plant, health impacts of coal, quit coal, ryan rittenhouse on October 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Many thanks to everyone that made it to the Austin City Council meeting yesterday for an anti-coal demonstration! Twenty five to thirty concerned citizens stood up in City Council chambers, dressed in black to represent the yearly moralities from our Fayette Coal Plant, as Ryan Rittenhouse addressed the Council. Check out the video below for [...]
Come out tomorrow (Oct 24th) for the International Day of Climate Action!!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 10/24/09, 350, 350.org, cap and trade, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming, International Day of Climate Action, October 24 2009, Texas, Texas Impact on October 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow – October 24, 2009 – will be the largest day of climate action in the history of the world, and something you don’t want to miss. If you do not yet have anything planned for 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action, please join one of the 4641 events happening around the world. In 171 [...]
Climate Change: Vets Are “On Board”
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Afghanistan, climate change, climate change legislation, Global Warming, homeland security, national security, operation free, Public Citizen, terrorism, veterans, veterans climate change movement, vets, votevets on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You would think that the Veterans of the United States would be mostly outspoken about traditional war issues, such as pulling the troops out of Iraq or sending more of them to Afghanistan, but a few groups of veterans have decided to take a different route. Operation Free is the name of a veterans’ movement [...]
Green-Up your life! Start a compost pile…even in your freezer.
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Agriculture, climate, climate change, compost, food, garbage, Global Warming, landfill, methane on October 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
By Kirsten Bokenkamp Did you know that in the United States, the average person throws away around 100 pounds of food scraps per year? According to the USDA, “just over a quarter of the country’s food — about 25.9 million tons — gets thrown in the garbage can every year.” But food is biodegradable, and [...]
Participate in an anti-coal demonstration at Austin City Council meeting Thursday!
Posted in Coal, Energy, tagged asthma, Austin, Austin Energy, austin has a dirty secret, City Council, city of austin, clean air task force, Clean Energy, coal kills, day of the dead, fayette coal plant, health impacts of coal, quit coal, Texas on October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With the Day of the Dead just around the corner, it’s the time of year to remember friends and family members who have died. That’s why we’ve decided to hold a demonstration at City Hall on Thursday at noon, wearing black, to recognize those who have died from complications related to living around the City [...]
Rick Perry Paying Volunteers in Gubernatorial Campaign
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Austin, campaign, gubernatorial election, kay bailey hutchinson, money, profit, Public Citizen, Rick Perry, Texas, volunteers on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do you need some extra cash? Then Rick Perry’s campaign is the place to “volunteer” these days. Governor Rick Perry of Texas is rewarding his volunteers in the governor’s race, not with the usual candidate goods or an opportunity to meet with the candidate, but with flat-out cash. Though not a common practice, paying campaign [...]
Banking on Coal?
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged banks, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, coal plant, corporate responsibility, Energy, Peabody Energy, Rainforest action network, renewable energy, World Bank on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Take a quick look at this article/video. After the showing of a comedic political documentary, a speech is made about mountain-top removal mining and its ill effects. The crowd of enthusiastic movie-goers then canvasses the sidewalks of a nearby JP Morgan Chase bank with coal graffiti. It brings up an interesting point about who’s surreptitiously [...]
Blog Action Day 2009
Posted in Global Warming, tagged blog action day, climate change, coffee muses, french lique, Global Warming, google, huffington post, only in it for the gold, Public Citizen, texas cloverleaf, texas vox, think progress, this life in austin on October 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It is blog action day! In case you don’t know, on this day, 15th of October of every year, bloggers from all over the world unite in writing about a common important issue. It started in 2007 by Collis & Cyan Ta’eed. Their first year, they recruited as many as 20,000 bloggers to write about [...]
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