greenhouse gases

If you think the virtual, online world helps reduce energy consumption in the real world (a topic we’ve touched on before here at Green Options Media), think again: a new study by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company provides scary insights into how Internet computing is devouring more and more power and spewing out more and more greenhouse gases.

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) renews his effort to take a new look at combating global climate change. In his speech to the Senate, Barrassostresses the importance of developing technology to remove existing excess green houses gases from the atmosphere andpermanently sequester them. The "Greenhouse Gas Emission Atmospheric Removal Act," or GEAR Act, will establish an award system for scientists andresearchers.

Very, very cool website.

A video showing the reality behind the Sunrise Powerlink. Crank up The Who's "We Don't Get Fooled Again" as you watch. Get the truth at www.sdsmartenergy.org, or any of the other websites listed at the end.

Malcolm Woolf, Director, Maryland Energy Administration, is interviewed about Maryland's experience with electric power deregulation, energy and environmentlegislation to come out of the 2008 session of the state legislature, and Maryland's involvement in a multi-state lawsuit against the federal government aimed at being able to regulate vehicle tailpipe emissions to control global climate change.

Like their neighbors in Carmel Valley, Rancho Penasquitos is also concerned about the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

It's not just Imperial County desert, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and San Diego's rural communities that will be degraded by the Sunrise Powerlink -- as if that weren't bad enough -- but San Diego's suburban neighborhoods and precious urban open spaces as well. The Sunrise Powerlink is destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary. Don't buy SDG&E's greenwashing campaign.

An article published online by the Center for Biological Diversity, full of details on why the Sunrise Powerlink isn't the clean, green, renewable-energy-delivering machine SDG&E makes it out to be.

A coalition of communities united to promote better alternatives to the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

A page on the website of the Anza-Borrego Foundation & Institute about how the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink would affect Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Surf from there to pages about programs in the park, classes for adults and children, and this spring's widlflower bloom.

One of the first websites devoted exclusively to stopping the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

The website of the Protect Our Communities Fund, one of the groups fighting to stave off the destructive, unnecessary, and anti-green Sunrise Powerlink. The group is centered around Santa Ysabel, Ranchita, Julian, Mesa Grande, and other communities in San Diego's backcountry.

A slideshow video from a San Diego activist showing some of the public lands and National Forests that would be destroyed by one routing of the proposed Sunrise Powerlink (the other route goes through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park). The text is a little hard to read, but the photos are beautiful. For more complete info on the Sunrise Powerlink, go to www.sdsmartenergy.org.

The "global cooling" hoax was a debacle, which has left a tragic legacy for environmental advocates.

Just one year ago the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA had the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on cars and trucks. Apparently not much had done by the EPA in the past year to reduce this contributor to global warming, so 18 U.S. states are seeking justice for the environment.