Carbon Footprint

www.tagtvonline.com features the entire video program. Watch the final Q&A where, at a recent TAG Smart Grid meeting entitled “Jobs and Economic Growth Opportunities in Georgia,” a panel of experts discussed the impact of Smart Grid technologies, the effect on green jobs and aspects of economic growth in the state, with a focus on economic stimulus opportunities associated with the strategies and experiences of organizations in the Smart Grid ecosystem. The featured speaker, Dr. Deepak Divan, Director-Intelligent Power Infrastructure Consortium and Professor School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology was joined by a panel of executives including - Ivan Urlaub, Executive Director, North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA); - Michelle Mindala-Freeman, VP Marketing and Product Management, Landis & Gyr; - Bob Ray,CEO and President, Flint Energies (Member Oglethorpe Power Corporation EMC); - Ken Van Meter, Business Development Director -Enterprise Integration Group, Lockheed Martin; - Chris Womack, President External Affairs, Southern Company. The Q&A ranged from how to cost justify the Smart Grid, the timeframe for adoption and which technologies come first, Smart Grid program challenges and opportunities in Georgia and more. The Smart Grid uses communications and computing technology to transmit and distribute energy more efficiently to reduce our carbon footprint through energy efficiency and renewable sources of energy.

Complete video at: fora.tv Amory Lovins argues that reducing carbon emissions would be doable and profitable if the focus was on energy efficiency. He says the US is already cutting its energy intensity without even trying. “Everybody I can think of the last forty years or so who has done energy efficiency has made money at it.” —– It is now generally agreed that human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are very likely to cause global warming. This will have serious consequences in the next fifty to one hundred years. What should be done? Some economists argue that taking steps now to mitigate this problem is likely to drive up energy costs and result in reduced economic growth. They suggest that in the interests of economic equality - and particularly to foster economic growth in developing countries - it is better to let growth happen as quickly as possible and rely on future increased technological capacities to solve the problem. Others argue that we need immediate and decisive action on this issue. - Whole Earth Films Amory Lovins is the Cofounder and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute. Lovins is a consultant experimental physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford. He has received an Oxford MA (by virtue of being a don), nine honorary doctorates, a macarthur Fellowship, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood (”Alternative Nobel”), World Technology, and TIME Hero for the Planet awards, the Happold Medal, and the Nissan, Shingo, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes. His …

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The chemtrail conspiracy theory holds that some contrails are actually toxic chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitude for a purpose undisclosed to the general public. Versions of the conspiracy theory circulating on the internet and on some radio talk shows theorize that this activity is directed by government officials, and they have received thousands of complaints from people who have demanded an explanation. The existence of chemtrails has been repeatedly denied by Government agencies and scientists. Anyone living near a major metropolitan airport has gazed up at the sky and seen them: patchworks of crisscrossing contrails left by passing jetliners. Most of us don’t give a second thought to this common sight of a scratched-up sky. If we do, it’s likely to reflect on the explosion in air traffic and its growing contribution to air pollution. Do hanging contrails represent something much more sinister than increased carbon emissions? Since the late 1990s, a flourishing conspiracy theory subculture has been ringing the alarm that many of these contrails aren’t normal vapor-and-exhaust contrails at all. Rather, they are chemtrails, mysterious and menacing chemical evidence of secret government programs to modify the weather and depopulate the planet.

Barack Obama, the US president, has reached a non-binding agreement with four other nations on limiting future carbon emissions. The accord has been angrily criticised by developing nations, who say that it is not enough to prevent environmental catastrophe due to global warming. The US president will also have a tough time selling the climate agreement back home. With the country’s economy sluggish and unemployment in double digits, energy companies say it isn’t the time for new regulations. As Sebastian Walker reports from Texas, those firms say tougher rules would cut into their bottom line and keep them from creating new jobs.

I’m like “It’s a world WIDE web!” and then I go on to talk solely about Australia and New Zealand. Still, it’s applicable to YOU because (to the best of my knowledge) most countries have not set their new emissions targets yet, so Australia and New Zealand are probably going to set the trend. “DON’T TAKE MY PAVLOVA BRO!”: www.youtube.com Music is “Take out the Trash” by Brad Sucks, used under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike: www.bradsucks.net Links to the news stories: Wong defiant as Senate rejects carbon trade laws: www.abc.net.au NZ announces emissions targets: www.abc.net.au Quake Brings New Zealand Closer to Australia: www.livescience.com Alright so that’s all from me. I’ll see you next week!

ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann speaks with Insiders as he prepares to join the Pope on a flight to Australia.

A discussion on the science behind global warming and the problems of treaties designed to limit carbon emissions.

You shouldn’t hurt people who disagree with you. But a little urine never hurt anybody who wasn’t drowning in it.* Stay warm, everybody. ©2010 Second City Inc./Andy Cobb. All Rights Reserved. www.youtube.com Featuring Second City Alumni Andy Cobb and Nyima Funk *Anyone drowning in urine probably has more pressing issues to worry about then their carbon footprint anyway, and can be excused from this whole nasty climate argument. Good luck to them all.

www.pivotfarm.com Doug Stanhope hilariously rants about the carbon footprint of procreating Americans. Segment taken from bbcs Newswipe programme.