Greenies huddle on global warming and growth
Hoping to push through legislation in Annapolis tackling global warming and curtailing suburban sprawl, the Maryland Leaguge of Conservation Voters Education Fund is holding a reception and discussion on the issues at Goucher College on Wednesday, Sept. 24.
Environmental activists, policy experts and some elected officials are expected to be on hand to discuss warming and growth and prospects for legislation in the General Assembly session that starts in January.
The event will be in the Kelley lecture hall of the college's Hoffberger Science Building, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road. The reception begins at 6:30, while serious discussion starts at 7:15 p.m. For more information, go to www.marylandconservation.org or telephone 410-280-9855.
I report on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, I have focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, I've crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. Recently, I have been covering the growth and development transforming the landscape. I love seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. I hope to share some here.
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Posted by: Norris | September 12, 2008 2:31 PM
Instead of attempting to clean up polluting fossil fuels, there are concrete actions that can be adopted in United States to shift away from fossil fuels and advance alternative renewable energy sources. These specific measures will advance the use of alternative renewable fuels to move our society toward achieving sustainable CO2 levels.
Initially, we must make substantial, strategic investments allowing our population to work to replace 19th-century energy technologies that depend on dangerous global-warming carbon-based fuels with modern 21st-century technologies that use fuels that are essentially free and carbon-free: the sun, the wind and the natural heat of the earth.
If we make these commitments, we should be able to produce the bulk of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10-20 years. At the same time, this action plan would offer solutions to our global warming, climate crisis as well as our economic crisis by creating a million or more new jobs that will not be outsourced.
Environmental concerns over global warming and solutions are discussed at http://www.onebiosphere.com
President-elect Obama and the new Congress should offer substantial incentives for investment in construction of concentrated solar thermal plants in the Southwestern deserts, wind farms in the corridor stretching from Texas to the Dakotas and geothermal plants in thermal locations that could generate substantial electricity. At the same time, we should encourage the development and use of small solar systems.
Posted by: G. Gosden | December 9, 2008 7:02 PM