Green, Green, and More Green
"He highly valued the natural world, the historical objects of this world as they exist in the present and strong-willed people."
~about Andrew Wyeth~ |
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From Sheryl Eisenberg's "This Green Blog":
"One objection to compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) that people often raise is the problem of disposing of them safely due to the mercury they contain. Mercury is a toxin that is particularly dangerous to the developing brains of children (and babies in utero) and is suspected of posing a heart risk to adults. ...I was therefore delighted to learn that you can now recycle CFLs at any Home Depot store."
Does knowing that there is a safe, convenient location for recycling of CFLs make you more or less likely to buy CFLs?
| Less likely | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | More likely |
Help Build a Clean Energy Future that Curbs Global Warming... from the Union of Concerned Scientists:
"Urge the new president to build a clean energy future that will break our dependence on oil, create millions of new jobs, and cut global warming pollution."
Should Barack Obama's proposal to put people to work by rebuilding infrastructure and schools, require use of clean energy, environmentally friendly products?
Absolutely
>OK, as long as it doesn't get in the way of economic recovery
No
From the Kaid Benfield's blog at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Andrew Wyeth, 1917-2009:
Andrew Wyeth, among the most "American" of artists, and from a distinguished family of artists, has passed away. He leaves behind a vast legacy of enduring works, many of them of the rural American landscape that so many of us in the environmental world endeavor to preserve.
How important is the rural landscape to you?
| Not very | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | Really important |
In Greenpeace's Staff Blog, Billy Rich writes about Forever Princess, the final book in the bestselling Princess Diaries series that was released January 9th.
Princess Mia, the main character of the Diaries series, in the final book during her senior year of high school. If you?ve read the series, you?ll know that Mia is a big fan of Greenpeace, at one point dreaming of spending her gap year working for Greenpeace and riding motorized inflatables to help save the whales.
How much do children's fictional characters (books, TV, games, etc.) that support environmental issues affect the future of those issues?
| Not at all | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | A lot |
From The Becker-Posner Blog, Richard Posner's entry "Do Depressions Have a Silver Lining?:
The combination of low [gas] prices with low demand is optimal from the standpoint of U.S. (and probably world) welfare. The low demand reduces the amount of carbon emissions, thus alleviating (though only to a slight extent) the problem of global warming. The fall in the price of oil has reduced the wealth of the oil-producing nations?a goal that should be central to U.S. foreign policy because of the hostility to us (Russia, Iran, Venezuela), or the political instability (Iraq, Nigeria, Algeria), of so many major oil-producing nations.
Which is more important to you, energy independence or the global warming problem?
>energy independence
global warming
