The Waxman-Markey Climate Bill is a political compromise that makes Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in the Climate Bill Deal, but simply doesn't address the factual scientific reality. Corporate funded Big "Enviro" groups say compromise is good because before now, we had no climate bill at all. However, a review by critics of the bill's provisions indicates that no bill may be better than this bill.
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BBC’s environmental correspondent reports: The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.
It puts the annual cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion. The figure comes from adding the value of the various services that forests perform, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide.
Speaking to BBC News on the fringes of the congress, study leader Pavan Sukhdev emphasised that the cost of natural decline dwarfs losses on the financial markets. “It’s not only greater but it’s also continuous, it’s been happening every year, year after year,” he told BBC News.
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Midge Grinstead of the Lawrence Humane Society has made a formal request to the city to END the raising of chickens within city limits of Lawrence, KS, ostensibly because of Zoonotic diseases (e.g. Avian Flu) that transmit from animals to humans. Unfortunately, this matter falls on two sides of the sustainability issue. In response to Peak Oil and climate change, the emerging relocalization movement is creating local networks to provide local energy, health care, transportation, food, water supplies, etc. This is because local production is generally more energy efficient, less mechanized, has a smaller carbon footprint, and a greater economic multiplier effect. All of these enrich the local populace and culture.
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A local energy system will be more resilient in the face of fossil fuel energy uncertainty, and it will look different for different places. A careful consideration of the qualities of a place -- including what people do there or have done there -- can result in surprising sources of energy.
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