“Limiting family size is the simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet for our grandchildren.”
“Each child born in a rich country like Britain or the United States is likely to be responsible for 160 times as much carbon emitted as a child born in Ethiopia, said John Guillebaud, a British [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘environmentalism’
August 28, 2008
reduce your carbon footprint, have less children
August 26, 2008
Soot in our lungs – IDEM fails us again and why this matters
Following on the heals of IDEM accusations of being too cozy with business interests in the state, our department of environmentalbusiness management gets trumped by the EPA and the federal agencies inclusion of 14 counties.
Why does this matter?
Via McClatchy:
Even a day of air that meets federal standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency exposes people to as many [...]
August 16, 2008
Did Indiana’s leadership think of carbon legislation with the state’s newest coal plant partnership?
Did the Daniels administration factor in carbon legislation taxes in the strategic decision to introduce yet another “clean” (clean…ha!) coal plant in the state? Could be trouble in paradise for the state of Indiana after some basic sleuthing a $2-$4.7 billion dollar cost for Indiana’s CO2 emissions from its 54 coal fired power plants [...]
August 15, 2008
Rep. Michele Bachmann insults Christian’s intelligence
This troublesome statement from right-wing Rep. Michele Bachmann comes to us from Talking Points Memo. She had this to say regarding a conversation around House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats leanings towards environmentalism and acknowledging global warming for the real man-made threat it is,
“[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she [...]
August 8, 2008
Kankakee Sands Project – preserving the last of Indiana’s prairie ecosystem
Every now and then, I’m able to take a step a back and realize that it’s not all environmental doom and gloom in the state. Reading up on the Kankakee Sands Project is just such a welcome example. An initiative of the Nature Conservancy of Indiana, the land is a 7200 acre parcel amidst a larger 22,000 acre chain [...]
