Dee Stofko | February 28, 2010
This month, two distinctly different items interested me enough to want to write about them. One was the “Bloom Box”, featured on CBS 60 Minutes and known as “a little power plant-in-a-box”. Its inventor, K.R. Sridhar, says a Bloom Box the size of a refrigerator in everyone’s back yard could do away with the energy [...]
Melissa Bartell | February 1, 2010
During the month of December, every other news story seemed to be about the Copenhagen Climate Conference where heads of 193 industrialized and developing countries were hammering out an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol due to expire in 2012. Since the Conference has concluded, there has been very little “in the spotlight” about what [...]
Melissa Bartell | January 20, 2010
Regarding “Your Green Tip” by Dee Stofko in the January UUCOC Newsletter. The report that is quote titled: “The Global Warming Debate – A Layman’s Guide to the Science and Controversy” has apparently moved. To access the report in slide form, go to the link below: http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/26660/The-Global-Warming-Debate—Introduction?private_key=665a-54a6-1b4a-2fc5-336c-9e78-af1a-4fda All slides labeled “cce1976” pertain to this report.
Melissa Bartell | December 21, 2009
http://heardmuseum.org/theheard/petition.asp The Heard Preservation Campaign We urge you to take action on preserving the 289-acre wildlife sanctuary for wildlife, you, your family, and future generations at the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney, Texas. The North Texas Municipal Water is suing the Heard for eminent domain. They want to put a 3,500 [...]
Melissa Bartell | November 30, 2009
[Click image for Renewal Project website] Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow’s film from the 1st Tuesday Social Action Film Festival is RENEWAL, and it’s all about faith communities acting as stewards of the earth. From the official description Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment. Evangelical Christians are fighting [...]
Melissa Bartell | October 28, 2009
Those of you who were at church on the 25th heard our choir singing this song – 350 – and learned what it meant: it’s the number of parts per million that is considered the upper safety limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and currently we’re at 387. For more information, visit 350.org. The [...]
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