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		<title>By: Adonis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edf.org/greenroom/2009/01/13/whats-your-message-for-washington-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-5536</link>
		<dc:creator>Adonis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I salute certain significant figures that help people become aware of the divinity of our planet and the explanation of the ingenious and intelligent system of our Planet and Nature. I also salute U.S President Barrack Obama for setting the environmental issue as one of his main priorities in the extremely difficult line of tasks that lay on his desk. I see him as a man with incredible courage and true spirit and fair, a man who understands moral values as well as the essence of life and is very intelligent. I believe in him and feel that is not a coincidence that his moral values and courageous spirit at such critical times are touching the souls of billions of people around the world. We should all pray for him and other leaders that acknowledge the need of ethical and values and wish them courage and wisdom for their road ahead! Sighing Kyoto would be a good start!!!
The Era of the Aquarius is the Era of Hope, Spirituality, Wisdom and Devine awareness

Aquarius; a new Era with Springs of Devine hope that evolution and development can derive to us as moral and conscious Intelligence and who we may be entitled to develop to a higher spiritual level!


The proclaimed beginning of our new era is a big hope that Conscious evolution is going to be proved as the beginning of the era of the Aquarius. This is the time of reentering into the concept of spirituality and the beginning of a hope for a higher Sense of things! The Evolution that derives into our Consciousness just by processing other attributes like Moral Consciousness, Moral intelligence, valor love and respect. The same attributes that ancient civilizations we recall as legends, concede as vital to reward their higher consciousness for allowing them to enjoy and preserve the harmony and order of their Natural world by keeping the power as knowledge and not abuse but also in alliance with wisdom and love. 


Attributes that helped our new civilizations to created positive attitudes and set certain important values that helped us improve for as long those values stood moral and high and our commitment to them remained noble and true! Most of those values today are sunk into the depths of our souls, because our connection with them has long been forgotten. This Era is a very positive Era for Humanity and all life, most probably the Era of our most vital test as a species.

Could we in that transit period find that the reason and purpose of our species existence is far more important and valuable that we ever imagined or thought?

Probably the idea that a Positive part of the Universe may somehow count on us and the fact that we consciously acknowledge its existence.

 Could this be a time chosen for us, to determine our own Destiny, or also the Destiny of all life as we now know it, or the destiny of all life on this planet? 

Why not even something higher than that? A time we chosen for us from a higher power to test if we are a successful and worthy part of the Universe or if we will vanish completely or turn into dark matter?

Can we take it that Nature has given us a chance because somewhere deep inside we are still moral.

Can we use our moral judgment adopt our actions and become a positive part of Nature and life cycle by introducing new Economic systems that are not exploiting our Natural world in such an unfair manner but also invest in it and give back to it more than we take to show our respect and make up for our negative  impact?

Can the challenge to save our planet be a challenge from nature to see if we are still part of it or not, or would it be wise to stop taking for granted the privileges that Mother Nature gifted us and ask ourselves if we are given them to serve a specific reason or even a specific purpose? 


Can we recreate order threw values and become a positive part of our planetary system and Nature?

Could moral thinking and moral order be considered as one of the most important human traits and attributes needed to help life and push our direction to a higher sense of things?

Can we by helping life and nature, succeed maintain the harmony needed for our planet to be willing to reward us for proving to act like an improved species?

If we hypothesize that our planet and life is an important part of a higher and more Devine Hiriearcical system which is sourced and directed threw a higher intelligence and order, could the existence of this system be within our whole solar system?

Can Order and Universal intelligence hierarchically exist between all planets of our solar system and how Devine can this be? Or could our solar system be part of our Galaxy and so maybe our Galaxy is the part of the Universe? Could this be that if we prove noble moral and wise we one day in thousands of years from now as a successful part of our Devine system, start feeling that we have been allowed to dream and hope that we can serve successfully in the order of our Galaxy while our success could be rewarded fairly in a balanced Galactic system where we are a big semi Devine conscious part of it? 
 
Why do we consider alien life so alien could it be that there are other civilizations even far more advanced and more friendly  that ours living or existing in other galaxies?
 
Could threw moral intelligence and Conscious Evolution prove worthy of our planet and eventually open the gates to the Unknown or the Pillars of Paradise? Another planet which it is in its pure Natural stage and where we can wisely carry life there as an Improved species with much more wisdom and charm if we ever need to leave our majestic Earth?

If we know that the water, water temperature, plants, animals, air, light and soil all work together. to create our ecosystems and also that our ecosystems are vital for the existence of all life why aren’t all people informed and educated of their significance so we can make a rightful conscious choice on how we perceive them or act upon them. Why should the few decide  the fade of our whole species as well as the whole planet  by insisting to impose our negative impact on Nature threw are now saturated, hostile and in many occasions today corrupted Economic system.
Maybe this Economic crises was not just a coincident, maybe is our chance to prove to our planet and the Universe we are a successful life form and not just a destructive one.
Also to remind ourselves that we have inside us other attributes than Greed and quest for power for the selves, that we have valor,  we respect life, that we love, and that we can live free no matter how many we are, ten billion or twenty as long as we reach a state of consciousness that can be common and reached by all people. 
Our imagination and curiosity will always exist as long as we exist unless if we ever reach a Devine state where everything is explained. Nobody can doubt today human nature has a tendency to create and progress but at least we can start by making our materialistic world less materialistic by creating only wise materialism. 
Reality today is that elephants are murdered for the Ivory, Sharks are killed for the Fin soup and other products, Dolphins are sick from pollution, and Gorillas are literally brutally murdered. I saw the brutality we use to slaughter the seals and I felt nothing could shock and move me more. Unfortunately I saw worse and believe me you don’t want to witness the actions we perform to kill Whales for their oil and other nutrients.

Some people do not even wonder  any more every time they pick up the paper to read the news and see hundred  pages of  bad news and maybe one to two pages with  articles of a sweet story of a child being saved or a cute cuff  being born, or even a cure found, and which are also the only good news but also create a mirage in our consciousness for the real picture, which is, how many millions of innocent people and children fall as war victims or die out of hunger and diseases, how many people live without food,  water and medicine, sometimes from diseases we created our selves. How much time do we have left to save our planet? How cruel and immoral we are to Nature and the other species.  Not to mention the economic crisis, the corruption scandals etc, etc, etc. In Fact if I go on maybe 100 pages would not be enough. Maybe it’s better if we don’t buy the paper anymore, save the Trees.
Yet again we don’t care, we carry on with our lives and as long we have fish or cow on our table and all other “comforts “we are fine. We are fine with the idea that certain things are not right. Like wars, corruption scandals, certain species of Whale and Elephant population is extinct up to 90 % and that more than  half of the species of animal kingdom run a great risk to reach full extinction in the near future, also that half of our forests that produced  the 25 % of the oxygen we breath and refresh the composition of our atmosphere has vanished because we consciously or unconsciously pollute them, burn them, or exploit them to roof and furnish our new homes, and the waste of our foods and other “necessities” are so vast that millions of tons of polluted garbage are released into the rivers, oceans and lands destroying the priceless in importance as well as money ecosystems of our own Planet. All environmental Scientists and other Scientist are very wary and clear on the lines that by doing so we also directly negatively affect our Nature system.
Today we attack our whole planet’s Natural operating system with every means possible and have the nerve to say and to expect that we can discover a new planet until we completely destroy our own.
Did ever occur to us that it’s that destructive side of us that is blocking our way into the unknown, and that maybe Life, God, or Universal intelligence would not allow us to find another planet unless we ethically and morally consciously mature and prove we are worthy of the life and the planet we have ? If we continue proving to be a destructive life form towards our Natural system especially now that we think we are in a developed stage of evolution then it means we would be would be destructive to any natural system in the quest for power, greed and materialism. The only thing we miss in our conscious life today is that we are a part of that system. That of course doesn’t mean that we should walk on the safety of our streets and think we are a part of that system but we definitely ought to think of all that for a while and then we can find out who we really are or who we really want to be.
To put things right I say that right now we proved to be the only part of the whole life system of nature that is constantly immorally and consciously destroying and exploiting life without giving anything back but pollution and we are now doing it in a significant level that we can in the very near future ignite the system to collapse. We are basically not only useless but the enemy of our mother nature and our own Planet.
We may seem like the disease on our planetary system but are also the ones chosen to decide and define all mankind’s fade and History! With the right spirit and attributes we can make the right choices be our own doctors,  help heal ourselves  unite with common moral ideals and prove useful life, Nature and our planet again .and while achieving that, find that we are also achieving a higher purpose without feeling  proud, but something even  greater than that!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I salute certain significant figures that help people become aware of the divinity of our planet and the explanation of the ingenious and intelligent system of our Planet and Nature. I also salute U.S President Barrack Obama for setting the environmental issue as one of his main priorities in the extremely difficult line of tasks that lay on his desk. I see him as a man with incredible courage and true spirit and fair, a man who understands moral values as well as the essence of life and is very intelligent. I believe in him and feel that is not a coincidence that his moral values and courageous spirit at such critical times are touching the souls of billions of people around the world. We should all pray for him and other leaders that acknowledge the need of ethical and values and wish them courage and wisdom for their road ahead! Sighing Kyoto would be a good start!!!<br />
The Era of the Aquarius is the Era of Hope, Spirituality, Wisdom and Devine awareness</p>
<p>Aquarius; a new Era with Springs of Devine hope that evolution and development can derive to us as moral and conscious Intelligence and who we may be entitled to develop to a higher spiritual level!</p>
<p>The proclaimed beginning of our new era is a big hope that Conscious evolution is going to be proved as the beginning of the era of the Aquarius. This is the time of reentering into the concept of spirituality and the beginning of a hope for a higher Sense of things! The Evolution that derives into our Consciousness just by processing other attributes like Moral Consciousness, Moral intelligence, valor love and respect. The same attributes that ancient civilizations we recall as legends, concede as vital to reward their higher consciousness for allowing them to enjoy and preserve the harmony and order of their Natural world by keeping the power as knowledge and not abuse but also in alliance with wisdom and love. </p>
<p>Attributes that helped our new civilizations to created positive attitudes and set certain important values that helped us improve for as long those values stood moral and high and our commitment to them remained noble and true! Most of those values today are sunk into the depths of our souls, because our connection with them has long been forgotten. This Era is a very positive Era for Humanity and all life, most probably the Era of our most vital test as a species.</p>
<p>Could we in that transit period find that the reason and purpose of our species existence is far more important and valuable that we ever imagined or thought?</p>
<p>Probably the idea that a Positive part of the Universe may somehow count on us and the fact that we consciously acknowledge its existence.</p>
<p> Could this be a time chosen for us, to determine our own Destiny, or also the Destiny of all life as we now know it, or the destiny of all life on this planet? </p>
<p>Why not even something higher than that? A time we chosen for us from a higher power to test if we are a successful and worthy part of the Universe or if we will vanish completely or turn into dark matter?</p>
<p>Can we take it that Nature has given us a chance because somewhere deep inside we are still moral.</p>
<p>Can we use our moral judgment adopt our actions and become a positive part of Nature and life cycle by introducing new Economic systems that are not exploiting our Natural world in such an unfair manner but also invest in it and give back to it more than we take to show our respect and make up for our negative  impact?</p>
<p>Can the challenge to save our planet be a challenge from nature to see if we are still part of it or not, or would it be wise to stop taking for granted the privileges that Mother Nature gifted us and ask ourselves if we are given them to serve a specific reason or even a specific purpose? </p>
<p>Can we recreate order threw values and become a positive part of our planetary system and Nature?</p>
<p>Could moral thinking and moral order be considered as one of the most important human traits and attributes needed to help life and push our direction to a higher sense of things?</p>
<p>Can we by helping life and nature, succeed maintain the harmony needed for our planet to be willing to reward us for proving to act like an improved species?</p>
<p>If we hypothesize that our planet and life is an important part of a higher and more Devine Hiriearcical system which is sourced and directed threw a higher intelligence and order, could the existence of this system be within our whole solar system?</p>
<p>Can Order and Universal intelligence hierarchically exist between all planets of our solar system and how Devine can this be? Or could our solar system be part of our Galaxy and so maybe our Galaxy is the part of the Universe? Could this be that if we prove noble moral and wise we one day in thousands of years from now as a successful part of our Devine system, start feeling that we have been allowed to dream and hope that we can serve successfully in the order of our Galaxy while our success could be rewarded fairly in a balanced Galactic system where we are a big semi Devine conscious part of it? </p>
<p>Why do we consider alien life so alien could it be that there are other civilizations even far more advanced and more friendly  that ours living or existing in other galaxies?</p>
<p>Could threw moral intelligence and Conscious Evolution prove worthy of our planet and eventually open the gates to the Unknown or the Pillars of Paradise? Another planet which it is in its pure Natural stage and where we can wisely carry life there as an Improved species with much more wisdom and charm if we ever need to leave our majestic Earth?</p>
<p>If we know that the water, water temperature, plants, animals, air, light and soil all work together. to create our ecosystems and also that our ecosystems are vital for the existence of all life why aren’t all people informed and educated of their significance so we can make a rightful conscious choice on how we perceive them or act upon them. Why should the few decide  the fade of our whole species as well as the whole planet  by insisting to impose our negative impact on Nature threw are now saturated, hostile and in many occasions today corrupted Economic system.<br />
Maybe this Economic crises was not just a coincident, maybe is our chance to prove to our planet and the Universe we are a successful life form and not just a destructive one.<br />
Also to remind ourselves that we have inside us other attributes than Greed and quest for power for the selves, that we have valor,  we respect life, that we love, and that we can live free no matter how many we are, ten billion or twenty as long as we reach a state of consciousness that can be common and reached by all people.<br />
Our imagination and curiosity will always exist as long as we exist unless if we ever reach a Devine state where everything is explained. Nobody can doubt today human nature has a tendency to create and progress but at least we can start by making our materialistic world less materialistic by creating only wise materialism.<br />
Reality today is that elephants are murdered for the Ivory, Sharks are killed for the Fin soup and other products, Dolphins are sick from pollution, and Gorillas are literally brutally murdered. I saw the brutality we use to slaughter the seals and I felt nothing could shock and move me more. Unfortunately I saw worse and believe me you don’t want to witness the actions we perform to kill Whales for their oil and other nutrients.</p>
<p>Some people do not even wonder  any more every time they pick up the paper to read the news and see hundred  pages of  bad news and maybe one to two pages with  articles of a sweet story of a child being saved or a cute cuff  being born, or even a cure found, and which are also the only good news but also create a mirage in our consciousness for the real picture, which is, how many millions of innocent people and children fall as war victims or die out of hunger and diseases, how many people live without food,  water and medicine, sometimes from diseases we created our selves. How much time do we have left to save our planet? How cruel and immoral we are to Nature and the other species.  Not to mention the economic crisis, the corruption scandals etc, etc, etc. In Fact if I go on maybe 100 pages would not be enough. Maybe it’s better if we don’t buy the paper anymore, save the Trees.<br />
Yet again we don’t care, we carry on with our lives and as long we have fish or cow on our table and all other “comforts “we are fine. We are fine with the idea that certain things are not right. Like wars, corruption scandals, certain species of Whale and Elephant population is extinct up to 90 % and that more than  half of the species of animal kingdom run a great risk to reach full extinction in the near future, also that half of our forests that produced  the 25 % of the oxygen we breath and refresh the composition of our atmosphere has vanished because we consciously or unconsciously pollute them, burn them, or exploit them to roof and furnish our new homes, and the waste of our foods and other “necessities” are so vast that millions of tons of polluted garbage are released into the rivers, oceans and lands destroying the priceless in importance as well as money ecosystems of our own Planet. All environmental Scientists and other Scientist are very wary and clear on the lines that by doing so we also directly negatively affect our Nature system.<br />
Today we attack our whole planet’s Natural operating system with every means possible and have the nerve to say and to expect that we can discover a new planet until we completely destroy our own.<br />
Did ever occur to us that it’s that destructive side of us that is blocking our way into the unknown, and that maybe Life, God, or Universal intelligence would not allow us to find another planet unless we ethically and morally consciously mature and prove we are worthy of the life and the planet we have ? If we continue proving to be a destructive life form towards our Natural system especially now that we think we are in a developed stage of evolution then it means we would be would be destructive to any natural system in the quest for power, greed and materialism. The only thing we miss in our conscious life today is that we are a part of that system. That of course doesn’t mean that we should walk on the safety of our streets and think we are a part of that system but we definitely ought to think of all that for a while and then we can find out who we really are or who we really want to be.<br />
To put things right I say that right now we proved to be the only part of the whole life system of nature that is constantly immorally and consciously destroying and exploiting life without giving anything back but pollution and we are now doing it in a significant level that we can in the very near future ignite the system to collapse. We are basically not only useless but the enemy of our mother nature and our own Planet.<br />
We may seem like the disease on our planetary system but are also the ones chosen to decide and define all mankind’s fade and History! With the right spirit and attributes we can make the right choices be our own doctors,  help heal ourselves  unite with common moral ideals and prove useful life, Nature and our planet again .and while achieving that, find that we are also achieving a higher purpose without feeling  proud, but something even  greater than that!</p>
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		<title>By: Adonis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edf.org/greenroom/2009/01/13/whats-your-message-for-washington-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-5534</link>
		<dc:creator>Adonis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Imposing new Universal values respected commonly by all countries and all people despite of what race, nationality or religion could proove not only wise but also a binding rule under which the kingdom of men could unite as one if unexpectedly needed.

If achieved the bonding of our species as 1 under a set of moral values commonly respected and apreciated by all could be the key of the success in our evolution. 


Lets make NATURE the 1st Universal value respected and protected by all people.We should if we want to survive,
and we should because we owe it and its also worth it.

UNIVERSAL VALUE can be any moral value which is naturally apreciated and respected by all people worlwide.

If we include Nature into our Economic system wisley, moraly and cleverly we could surcrifice certain things, now for something that could exist both our expectations and imagination.I think that the combined advanced intelligence we now have and a set of conious moral values
can help reset the necessay Universal values that could slowly create the world we all want to and deserve! 

Today every time we pick up the paper to read the news and see hundred  pages of bad news and maybe one to two pages with  articles of a sweet story of a child being saved or a cute cuff  being born, or even a cure found, and which are also the only good news but also create a mirage in our consciousness for the real picture, which is, how many millions of innocent people and children fall as war victims or die out of hunger and diseases, how many people live without food,  water and medicine, sometimes from diseases we created our selves. How much time do we have left to save our planet? How cruel and immoral we are to Nature and the other species.  Not to mention the economic crisis, the corruption scandals etc, etc, etc. In Fact if I go on maybe 100 pages would not be enough. Maybe its better if we don’t buy the paper anymore, save the Trees.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imposing new Universal values respected commonly by all countries and all people despite of what race, nationality or religion could proove not only wise but also a binding rule under which the kingdom of men could unite as one if unexpectedly needed.</p>
<p>If achieved the bonding of our species as 1 under a set of moral values commonly respected and apreciated by all could be the key of the success in our evolution. </p>
<p>Lets make NATURE the 1st Universal value respected and protected by all people.We should if we want to survive,<br />
and we should because we owe it and its also worth it.</p>
<p>UNIVERSAL VALUE can be any moral value which is naturally apreciated and respected by all people worlwide.</p>
<p>If we include Nature into our Economic system wisley, moraly and cleverly we could surcrifice certain things, now for something that could exist both our expectations and imagination.I think that the combined advanced intelligence we now have and a set of conious moral values<br />
can help reset the necessay Universal values that could slowly create the world we all want to and deserve! </p>
<p>Today every time we pick up the paper to read the news and see hundred  pages of bad news and maybe one to two pages with  articles of a sweet story of a child being saved or a cute cuff  being born, or even a cure found, and which are also the only good news but also create a mirage in our consciousness for the real picture, which is, how many millions of innocent people and children fall as war victims or die out of hunger and diseases, how many people live without food,  water and medicine, sometimes from diseases we created our selves. How much time do we have left to save our planet? How cruel and immoral we are to Nature and the other species.  Not to mention the economic crisis, the corruption scandals etc, etc, etc. In Fact if I go on maybe 100 pages would not be enough. Maybe its better if we don’t buy the paper anymore, save the Trees.</p>
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		<title>By: elisabeth</title>
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		<dc:creator>elisabeth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was wondering if the Obama administration has said anything about asking the military to become more green. This is one place where the President absolutely has the authority to demand changes in practice, and actually, under the right orders, the military can be quite efficient at implementing change.

I was thinking for instance of the inordinate amount of jet fuel the Airforce uses, and how much that contributes to greenhouse gases.  

If Obama wants to show me he is serious about going green, he should start with the military.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was wondering if the Obama administration has said anything about asking the military to become more green. This is one place where the President absolutely has the authority to demand changes in practice, and actually, under the right orders, the military can be quite efficient at implementing change.</p>
<p>I was thinking for instance of the inordinate amount of jet fuel the Airforce uses, and how much that contributes to greenhouse gases.  </p>
<p>If Obama wants to show me he is serious about going green, he should start with the military.</p>
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		<title>By: flwrgirl66</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edf.org/greenroom/2009/01/13/whats-your-message-for-washington-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-5489</link>
		<dc:creator>flwrgirl66</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a native Californian and since my youth I have watched as the land has slowly been devoured by over development and massive malls so people don&#039;t have to travel far to shop. 

It is horrible that as a nation we are allowing corporations to take over with mas consumerism stores like Wal-Mart. It is critical to the future of our country and the world that we stop the current trend of paving over forests and wet lands for consumers and corporate greed.

To me the top priorities to stop environmental corruption are:
1) Mas Transit- Make it greener, more convenient and offer incentives to tax payers willing to park and ride. Offer tax breaks to states that make mas transit a priority
2) Levy greater taxes against companies who aren&#039;t striving for greenability. Penalize companies and corporations who over use electricity, water and have large amounts of waste. I get so frustrated when CA residents are expected to experience power outages or brown outs because we are conserving energy when Wal-Mart is lit up greater that 1,000,000 christmas trees!
3) Protect and rehabilitate forests and wet lands to promote healthy environments for wild habitat and the production of oxygen.
4) Force car makers, oil companies and gasoline manufactures to pay some of their profits to the school districts to fund music, art, and gardening.

I get so furious that more has not been done sooner. That green house gases, global warming and natural resource issues have not been at the fore front all along.
 
It makes so much sense to me to start back at the basics.

As for the economy, maybe it is time to start bartering with one another again back before corporate greed and industrialization ruined capitalism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a native Californian and since my youth I have watched as the land has slowly been devoured by over development and massive malls so people don&#039;t have to travel far to shop. </p>
<p>It is horrible that as a nation we are allowing corporations to take over with mas consumerism stores like Wal-Mart. It is critical to the future of our country and the world that we stop the current trend of paving over forests and wet lands for consumers and corporate greed.</p>
<p>To me the top priorities to stop environmental corruption are:<br />
1) Mas Transit- Make it greener, more convenient and offer incentives to tax payers willing to park and ride. Offer tax breaks to states that make mas transit a priority<br />
2) Levy greater taxes against companies who aren&#039;t striving for greenability. Penalize companies and corporations who over use electricity, water and have large amounts of waste. I get so frustrated when CA residents are expected to experience power outages or brown outs because we are conserving energy when Wal-Mart is lit up greater that 1,000,000 christmas trees!<br />
3) Protect and rehabilitate forests and wet lands to promote healthy environments for wild habitat and the production of oxygen.<br />
4) Force car makers, oil companies and gasoline manufactures to pay some of their profits to the school districts to fund music, art, and gardening.</p>
<p>I get so furious that more has not been done sooner. That green house gases, global warming and natural resource issues have not been at the fore front all along.</p>
<p>It makes so much sense to me to start back at the basics.</p>
<p>As for the economy, maybe it is time to start bartering with one another again back before corporate greed and industrialization ruined capitalism.</p>
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		<title>By: lgdicus</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edf.org/greenroom/2009/01/13/whats-your-message-for-washington-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-5409</link>
		<dc:creator>lgdicus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know that there are a lot of priorities that may seem more important than thess ideas but I think they deserve a good hard look.  We talk about economic stimulus packages, bail-outs and the type of requirements that should be built-in in order for businesses to get help from the government.  We talk about tax incentives for established businesses, the need for new jobs and how long these things will take - mostly dependant upon re-tooling factories.

I want us to add another facet to these considerations.  Let&#039;s support businesses that are willing to make a commitment to products that are built to last.  Items that can be repaired at a lower cost than replacing a perfectly good item that now ends up in our landfills.  Items that can be upgraded in a service shop rather than throwing out the old to take advantage of new and improved editions. Give these businesses incentives to create repair services and train staff to do those repairs.  Adding another &quot;R&quot; to the 3 R&#039;s - repair - will make a big dent in some of the problems we face today.  I truly believe this.


Let&#039;s also support businesses that make a commitment to the &quot;built in America&quot; sticker that used to be a major selling point, one that stood for quality.  Let&#039;s support businesses that focus on using local materials and markets, and using green transport companies.

And let&#039;s stomp down hard on the areas of the country that have no recycling programs in place.  And stomp down hard on areas of the country who limit their &quot;we recycle!&quot; to newspaper and aluminum cans.  Oh, yeah... and those recycling trucks that spew plastic bags, bottles and cans along their routes?  Give &#039;em tickets for littering!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know that there are a lot of priorities that may seem more important than thess ideas but I think they deserve a good hard look.  We talk about economic stimulus packages, bail-outs and the type of requirements that should be built-in in order for businesses to get help from the government.  We talk about tax incentives for established businesses, the need for new jobs and how long these things will take &#8211; mostly dependant upon re-tooling factories.</p>
<p>I want us to add another facet to these considerations.  Let&#039;s support businesses that are willing to make a commitment to products that are built to last.  Items that can be repaired at a lower cost than replacing a perfectly good item that now ends up in our landfills.  Items that can be upgraded in a service shop rather than throwing out the old to take advantage of new and improved editions. Give these businesses incentives to create repair services and train staff to do those repairs.  Adding another &#034;R&#034; to the 3 R&#039;s &#8211; repair &#8211; will make a big dent in some of the problems we face today.  I truly believe this.</p>
<p>Let&#039;s also support businesses that make a commitment to the &#034;built in America&#034; sticker that used to be a major selling point, one that stood for quality.  Let&#039;s support businesses that focus on using local materials and markets, and using green transport companies.</p>
<p>And let&#039;s stomp down hard on the areas of the country that have no recycling programs in place.  And stomp down hard on areas of the country who limit their &#034;we recycle!&#034; to newspaper and aluminum cans.  Oh, yeah&#8230; and those recycling trucks that spew plastic bags, bottles and cans along their routes?  Give &#039;em tickets for littering!</p>
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		<title>By: sandysanders</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edf.org/greenroom/2009/01/13/whats-your-message-for-washington-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-5359</link>
		<dc:creator>sandysanders</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our ecological problems are holistic to our entire dysfunctional civilization at this time. Therefore solutions are, like ecology, holistic to entire system reform. Under this circumstance the following 12 point plan of reforms is suggested:

1) Green New Deal. (Subsidized rooftop solar fueling the grid regionally &amp; hooked to hydrogen tanks locally; wind, geothermal, wave and cogeneration; and no nukes, no coal, no toxics! Subsidize bike usage, de-subsidize personal automobile use.) 

2) Lobbying Reform: Eliminate corporate personhood.

3) Monetary Reform: Re-regulate markets and nationalize the monetary system with accurate tracking of real resources to fund all banking activity. Dismantle the phantom currency monetary system. 

4) Vote Reform: Invent a fool proof voting, election and citizen participant democracy reconfigured from our current system. Return all voting, except constitutional reform, to be based upon simple majority vote.

5) Earth Charter: Sign the Earth Charter and implement completely with 10 years.

6) Work Place Reform: Reduce the full time work day to 20 hours a week; stop taxing labor, start taxing carbon, natural resouce usage and toxicity; instittue mandatory fractional employee ownership of all businesses (this can be in lieu of, or in additional to, under conditional provisions, but would be institution of proportional sharing profits with ownership and management.

7) Health Care Reform: Install Single Payer Health Care.

8) Pension Reform: Refurbish Social Security as a universal penson system so the private sector can&#039;t use it for gaming the Wall Street Casino. And stop borrowing from it!!!!

9) Tax Reform: Refurbish the IRS with contemporary computers and enough resources to recover the 200 billion a year in lost revenues obsconded by the wealthy. Stop taxing labor and start taxing carbon, natural resource use and toxicity.

10) Defense Department Reorganization: Reduce Defense Dept. budget by 90%, create a Dept of Peace, and withdraw from all wars and bases in foriegn countries who democratically vote by simple majority to have our troops removed.

11) Transportation Reform: Create a new national high speed train system with multiple parallel tracks separate from shipping traffic. Work together with regional transportation agencies to make all local public transportation free. 

12) Media and Internet Reform: Institute our airwaves and internet to become non-profit public infrastructure. The internet would be cabled to be freely provided to all citizens and 50% of bandwith access will be sold to commercial business. The internet would cabled to be freely provided to all citizens and 50% of bandwith access will be sold, at profit to us, to commercial business. Likewise all public airwaves will be public property with non-profit citizen use will occupy 50% while the other 50% will be sold, at profit to us, to commercial businesses.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our ecological problems are holistic to our entire dysfunctional civilization at this time. Therefore solutions are, like ecology, holistic to entire system reform. Under this circumstance the following 12 point plan of reforms is suggested:</p>
<p>1) Green New Deal. (Subsidized rooftop solar fueling the grid regionally &amp; hooked to hydrogen tanks locally; wind, geothermal, wave and cogeneration; and no nukes, no coal, no toxics! Subsidize bike usage, de-subsidize personal automobile use.) </p>
<p>2) Lobbying Reform: Eliminate corporate personhood.</p>
<p>3) Monetary Reform: Re-regulate markets and nationalize the monetary system with accurate tracking of real resources to fund all banking activity. Dismantle the phantom currency monetary system. </p>
<p>4) Vote Reform: Invent a fool proof voting, election and citizen participant democracy reconfigured from our current system. Return all voting, except constitutional reform, to be based upon simple majority vote.</p>
<p>5) Earth Charter: Sign the Earth Charter and implement completely with 10 years.</p>
<p>6) Work Place Reform: Reduce the full time work day to 20 hours a week; stop taxing labor, start taxing carbon, natural resouce usage and toxicity; instittue mandatory fractional employee ownership of all businesses (this can be in lieu of, or in additional to, under conditional provisions, but would be institution of proportional sharing profits with ownership and management.</p>
<p>7) Health Care Reform: Install Single Payer Health Care.</p>
<p> <img src='http://blogs.edf.org/greenroom/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Pension Reform: Refurbish Social Security as a universal penson system so the private sector can&#039;t use it for gaming the Wall Street Casino. And stop borrowing from it!!!!</p>
<p>9) Tax Reform: Refurbish the IRS with contemporary computers and enough resources to recover the 200 billion a year in lost revenues obsconded by the wealthy. Stop taxing labor and start taxing carbon, natural resource use and toxicity.</p>
<p>10) Defense Department Reorganization: Reduce Defense Dept. budget by 90%, create a Dept of Peace, and withdraw from all wars and bases in foriegn countries who democratically vote by simple majority to have our troops removed.</p>
<p>11) Transportation Reform: Create a new national high speed train system with multiple parallel tracks separate from shipping traffic. Work together with regional transportation agencies to make all local public transportation free. </p>
<p>12) Media and Internet Reform: Institute our airwaves and internet to become non-profit public infrastructure. The internet would be cabled to be freely provided to all citizens and 50% of bandwith access will be sold to commercial business. The internet would cabled to be freely provided to all citizens and 50% of bandwith access will be sold, at profit to us, to commercial business. Likewise all public airwaves will be public property with non-profit citizen use will occupy 50% while the other 50% will be sold, at profit to us, to commercial businesses.</p>
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		<title>By: mercury</title>
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		<dc:creator>mercury</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are many wonderful ideas expressed in the above comments, and the controlled use of flood waters would be a boon to dry States and to states subject to flooding. I am not sure that pumps would always be necessary. As long as the land was level floods would cause water to flow through pipes or canals to the dry areas.
Mike Kernagis comments interestingly on Passive Houses without explaining exactly what they are. 
Of greater interest would be the construction of tornado and hurricane proof homes. One such home survived Hurricaine Ike, while all the homes around were flattened.
It has always puzzled me why more attention has not been addressed to this problem when so many homes have been destroyed annually from this cause for at least a hundred years.
Annette Kay appears to be a lone survivor of the belief that global warming is not really happening and that &quot;a majority of scientists believe that global warming is nonsense&quot;, when exactly the opposite is the case - the majority is on the other side. It is interesting how successful the brainwashing by Big Oil can be! I suppose that the melting of the polar ice caps, glaciers and mountain snows is occasioned by fairies flying over and producing too much heat by the flapping of their wings.
Grajekk talks interestingly of Cyclone Power without a full description of what this is, but it sounds a little like the hydrolysis of water forming instant hydrogen?
I must look that Company up. The electric cars seem to be gathering steam (metaphorically speaking), and plugin.org describes a show in which no less than 75 different electrically powered vehicles were displayed. I commend Green Room for this valuable site.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many wonderful ideas expressed in the above comments, and the controlled use of flood waters would be a boon to dry States and to states subject to flooding. I am not sure that pumps would always be necessary. As long as the land was level floods would cause water to flow through pipes or canals to the dry areas.<br />
Mike Kernagis comments interestingly on Passive Houses without explaining exactly what they are.<br />
Of greater interest would be the construction of tornado and hurricane proof homes. One such home survived Hurricaine Ike, while all the homes around were flattened.<br />
It has always puzzled me why more attention has not been addressed to this problem when so many homes have been destroyed annually from this cause for at least a hundred years.<br />
Annette Kay appears to be a lone survivor of the belief that global warming is not really happening and that &#034;a majority of scientists believe that global warming is nonsense&#034;, when exactly the opposite is the case &#8211; the majority is on the other side. It is interesting how successful the brainwashing by Big Oil can be! I suppose that the melting of the polar ice caps, glaciers and mountain snows is occasioned by fairies flying over and producing too much heat by the flapping of their wings.<br />
Grajekk talks interestingly of Cyclone Power without a full description of what this is, but it sounds a little like the hydrolysis of water forming instant hydrogen?<br />
I must look that Company up. The electric cars seem to be gathering steam (metaphorically speaking), and plugin.org describes a show in which no less than 75 different electrically powered vehicles were displayed. I commend Green Room for this valuable site.</p>
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		<title>By: Crispin Pierce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Crispin Pierce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My hope is that we recognize the extremely dangerous health and economic risks that global overpopulation poses.  I urge our country to remove the global &quot;gag rule&quot; preventing US-supported clinics from discussing abortion, to support family-planning efforts worldwide, and to support the empowerment of women to become educated, hold jobs, own land, and run for public office.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My hope is that we recognize the extremely dangerous health and economic risks that global overpopulation poses.  I urge our country to remove the global &#034;gag rule&#034; preventing US-supported clinics from discussing abortion, to support family-planning efforts worldwide, and to support the empowerment of women to become educated, hold jobs, own land, and run for public office.</p>
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		<title>By: Dr. J. Singmaster</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr. J. Singmaster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is gray waste messes to turn into charcoal jobs and economy that has to be gotten to Obama&#039;s attention.  We are losing the battle to keep our water supplies free of the germs, toxics and drugs escaping from ever-expanding massive messes of organic wastes and sewage. I have posted several times on Green Room warnings of these messes pointing out that they can be a resource in the battle against GW.  Present handling of them lets most of the trapped biochemical carbon to be biodegraded to needlessly be reemitting GHGs mainly carbon dioxide.  No one at ED seems to understand this basic biochemical fact of nature.  If someone did, ED would be calling for using the pyrolysis process on those messes,which I have detailed in e-mails to many of the ED staff.
   Pyrolysis, the process to make charcoal, will destroy just about all the germs, toxics and drugs in the messes, while some of the energy to fire the process can be recovered
in electricity via turbochargers and heat exchangers.  Somehow nobody among thousands of &quot;environmentalists&quot; seems to understand the fundamental process of biodegrading of organic wastes as being a needlessly source of GHG emissions that can be controlled by calling for a charcoal jobs program.  Dr. J. Singmaster</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is gray waste messes to turn into charcoal jobs and economy that has to be gotten to Obama&#039;s attention.  We are losing the battle to keep our water supplies free of the germs, toxics and drugs escaping from ever-expanding massive messes of organic wastes and sewage. I have posted several times on Green Room warnings of these messes pointing out that they can be a resource in the battle against GW.  Present handling of them lets most of the trapped biochemical carbon to be biodegraded to needlessly be reemitting GHGs mainly carbon dioxide.  No one at ED seems to understand this basic biochemical fact of nature.  If someone did, ED would be calling for using the pyrolysis process on those messes,which I have detailed in e-mails to many of the ED staff.<br />
   Pyrolysis, the process to make charcoal, will destroy just about all the germs, toxics and drugs in the messes, while some of the energy to fire the process can be recovered<br />
in electricity via turbochargers and heat exchangers.  Somehow nobody among thousands of &#034;environmentalists&#034; seems to understand the fundamental process of biodegrading of organic wastes as being a needlessly source of GHG emissions that can be controlled by calling for a charcoal jobs program.  Dr. J. Singmaster</p>
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		<title>By: Stephanie Sigerfoos</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edf.org/greenroom/2009/01/13/whats-your-message-for-washington-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-5296</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Sigerfoos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe that most of our problems that are causing this recession can also be tied into what is causing global warming. Our dependence on oil is a threat to both our planet, our pocket books, and our security as a nation. We need to be dependent upon the renewable resources that we have on this planet. Wind and solar power are the two most important that come to mind. These resources are not going to &quot;run out&quot; and they do not poison the planet in the way that other sources of energy do. 

Using materials that are food sources (such as corn) are not the answer either. There are people starving everywhere around the globe, even in our own nation. The introduction of this has already started to make food prices spike globally. That is not even mentioning what would happen if the corn belt of this country had a few bad years. This &quot;clean coal&quot; idea is ridiculous to me. There is no such thing as &quot;clean coal&quot;. Please don&#039;t mislead the nation into thinking it is green energy. It&#039;s not.
 
I would really like to see a big push for solar and wind energy in this country. It is already in use in many places and it is working! The government needs to give homeowners and businesses incentives like tax credits to help push these into the mainstream. It could create jobs, help us all keep a little more money in our pocketbooks, help to clean up the planet, and help to end this nations dependence on energy sources from unfriendly nations. This is the nation that has lead the way in so many other fields. It is an embarrasement that we should not be the leader in new technologies for energy. Please help make this world a better place for my children and their children!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe that most of our problems that are causing this recession can also be tied into what is causing global warming. Our dependence on oil is a threat to both our planet, our pocket books, and our security as a nation. We need to be dependent upon the renewable resources that we have on this planet. Wind and solar power are the two most important that come to mind. These resources are not going to &#034;run out&#034; and they do not poison the planet in the way that other sources of energy do. </p>
<p>Using materials that are food sources (such as corn) are not the answer either. There are people starving everywhere around the globe, even in our own nation. The introduction of this has already started to make food prices spike globally. That is not even mentioning what would happen if the corn belt of this country had a few bad years. This &#034;clean coal&#034; idea is ridiculous to me. There is no such thing as &#034;clean coal&#034;. Please don&#039;t mislead the nation into thinking it is green energy. It&#039;s not.</p>
<p>I would really like to see a big push for solar and wind energy in this country. It is already in use in many places and it is working! The government needs to give homeowners and businesses incentives like tax credits to help push these into the mainstream. It could create jobs, help us all keep a little more money in our pocketbooks, help to clean up the planet, and help to end this nations dependence on energy sources from unfriendly nations. This is the nation that has lead the way in so many other fields. It is an embarrasement that we should not be the leader in new technologies for energy. Please help make this world a better place for my children and their children!</p>
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