Comments on: The Origins Of Earth Day http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085 for environmentalists who don't take themselves too seriously Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:21:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jimi http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-38793 Jimi Thu, 01 May 2008 16:14:19 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-38793 Don't forget it was Senator Gaylord Nelson's idea to bring environmentalist ideas into politics and onto the national agenda. I hope in 08 we make sure these candidates stay focused on some of our current environmentalist issues. Don’t forget it was Senator Gaylord Nelson’s idea to bring environmentalist ideas into politics and onto the national agenda. I hope in 08 we make sure these candidates stay focused on some of our current environmentalist issues.

]]> By: Chad Gunter http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-36315 Chad Gunter Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:18:32 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-36315 Ahhh Earth Day! What a great holiday! My dream is to one day see Earth Day as a major holiday for the whole world... a day where everyone takes the time to reflect on clean living and reverence of nature. I don't think that’s too unrealistic. A woman by the name of Marilyn Laurie recently gave a talk on globalization at the College of Charleston. She was a co founder of Earth Day back in 1970 and now works to encourage corporate social responsibility. Thought that would be worth mentioning. To learn more check this out http://www.cofc.edu/news/storyDetail.html?id=716 Ahhh Earth Day! What a great holiday! My dream is to one day see Earth Day as a major holiday for the whole world… a day where everyone takes the time to reflect on clean living and reverence of nature. I don’t think that’s too unrealistic. A woman by the name of Marilyn Laurie recently gave a talk on globalization at the College of Charleston. She was a co founder of Earth Day back in 1970 and now works to encourage corporate social responsibility. Thought that would be worth mentioning. To learn more check this out http://www.cofc.edu/news/storyDetail.html?id=716

]]> By: Tony Rusi http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-36017 Tony Rusi Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:59:33 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-36017 The most visionary ideas for renewable energy involve making energy from devices INTEGRATED with public roads and bridges and buildings. I hope you see the value in promoting this. Future public works projects can literally "pay for themselves" with future energy revenue. This changes everything. Since the fuel is free, "it's the gift that keeps on giving." A company in the Netherlands is putting solar thermal collection tubing systems directly in road pavement. A company in Idaho is putting PV cells in the road bed. A company in Vancouver, CA wants to put underwater current turbines under the Tacoma Narrows bridge. A company in Bahrain is integrating windmills into city buildings. Large freeway signs can have windmills built into them. http://www.ooms.nl/english/pages/divisie_gww/road_energy_systems.html http://www.azonano.com/Details.asp?ArticleID=1969 http://www.bluenergy.com/projects.html http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/10/bahrain-world-trade-center-turbines-activate/?=rssfeed http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/30/proposals-would-turn-highways-into-wind-farms/ Let's work together, and build an environmentally sustainable future for ourselves, and our children! Here's how: Varna of Canada streamlined bikes currently operate under human power alone on the flats at up to 80 mph. http://www.varnahandcycles.com/hpv.htm By adding a compressed air engine onboard, they could go up to 100 mph and you could get to work without even working up a sweat. General Compression, of Boston, is working on Windmill farms that don't generate electricity, they store energy as compressed air in vast underground caverns. http://www.generalcompression.com/what-we-do/index.aspx Infinia, of Kennewick, WA makes solar stirling collectors that could be placed along side freeways to act as sound barriers. http://www.infiniacorp.com/applications/clean_energy.php You have to start visualizing transportation as a tree. A tree has roots, a trunk, then branches, and leaves. Roots would be individual transporation like a streamlined bicycle, a trunk might be mass transit and freeways and even more advanced things like a vactrain, http://www.et3.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain branches might be two and three passenger vehicles, leaves might be moving sidewalks. We need a system that makes sense from step to step. And there are many other answers. The most visionary ideas for renewable energy involve making energy from devices INTEGRATED with public roads and bridges and buildings. I hope you see the value in promoting this. Future public works projects can literally “pay for themselves” with future energy revenue. This changes everything. Since the fuel is free, “it’s the gift that keeps on giving.”

A company in the Netherlands is putting solar thermal collection tubing systems directly in road pavement. A company in Idaho is putting PV cells in the road bed. A company in Vancouver, CA wants to put underwater current turbines under the Tacoma Narrows bridge. A company in Bahrain is integrating windmills into city buildings. Large freeway signs can have windmills built into them.
http://www.ooms.nl/english/pages/divisie_gww/road_energy_systems.html
http://www.azonano.com/Details.asp?ArticleID=1969
http://www.bluenergy.com/projects.html
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/10/bahrain-world-trade-center-turbines-activate/?=rssfeed
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/30/proposals-would-turn-highways-into-wind-farms/

Let’s work together, and build an environmentally sustainable future for ourselves, and our children!

Here’s how: Varna of Canada streamlined bikes currently operate under human power alone on the flats at up to 80 mph.

http://www.varnahandcycles.com/hpv.htm

By adding a compressed air engine onboard, they could go up to 100 mph and you could get to work without even working up a sweat.

General Compression, of Boston, is working on Windmill farms that don’t generate electricity, they store energy as compressed air in vast underground caverns.

http://www.generalcompression.com/what-we-do/index.aspx

Infinia, of Kennewick, WA makes solar stirling collectors that could be placed along side freeways to act as sound barriers.

http://www.infiniacorp.com/applications/clean_energy.php

You have to start visualizing transportation as a tree. A tree has roots, a trunk, then branches, and leaves. Roots would be individual transporation like a streamlined bicycle, a trunk might be mass transit and freeways and even more advanced things like a vactrain,

http://www.et3.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain

branches might be two and three passenger vehicles, leaves might be moving sidewalks. We need a system that makes sense from step to step. And there are many other answers.

]]> By: Kat food is right http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-35998 Kat food is right Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:04:04 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-35998 Kat Food is right on. LOOK IT UP! Kat Food is right on. LOOK IT UP!

]]> By: Bizz http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-35996 Bizz Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:57:02 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-35996 You mean this is an actual holiday? What a joke! For all the carbon foot printers out there, check this out!: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/europe/23coal.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5088&en=7350eac89a46ac57&ex=1366689600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss You mean this is an actual holiday? What a joke!
For all the carbon foot printers out there, check this out!:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/europe/23coal.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5088&en=7350eac89a46ac57&ex=1366689600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

]]> By: Kat Food http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-35993 Kat Food Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:09:28 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-35993 Earth Day was really an event started by corporations whose factories were polluting the air, water and earth all around them. They were getting a bunch of flak from environmentalists, so they decided that having one day a year where they could pretend to care about the environment would be a sufficient act of contrition. For more information, please refer to the book "Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the PR Industry" by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber Earth Day was really an event started by corporations whose factories were polluting the air, water and earth all around them. They were getting a bunch of flak from environmentalists, so they decided that having one day a year where they could pretend to care about the environment would be a sufficient act of contrition.

For more information, please refer to the book “Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the PR Industry” by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

]]> By: GeologyJoe http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-35986 GeologyJoe Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:34:58 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-35986 The progress has been good but there is still a LONG WAY to go. The progress has been good but there is still a LONG WAY to go.

]]> By: How http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-35983 How Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:58:35 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-35983 A great tradition was started by a smart individual dreaming of the future. A great visionary who recognized that we ARE the Earth... and to respect ourselves and move forward to change the history of disrespect and destruction to the Earth (and ourselves) required awareness of our connections, and a pledge to respect the Earth from which we come and of which we are. http://www.Changing-History.com A great tradition was started by a smart individual dreaming of the future. A great visionary who recognized that we ARE the Earth… and to respect ourselves and move forward to change the history of disrespect and destruction to the Earth (and ourselves) required awareness of our connections, and a pledge to respect the Earth from which we come and of which we are.

http://www.Changing-History.com

]]> By: Michael Baccarat http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-35982 Michael Baccarat Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:58:01 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-35982 It's a great young holiday - and it's great that it's become so accepted! Just since 1970 - great progress. It’s a great young holiday – and it’s great that it’s become so accepted!

Just since 1970 – great progress.

]]> By: Spunky Kneebiter http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085/comment-page-1#comment-35978 Spunky Kneebiter Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:28:59 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/origins-of-earth-day/1085#comment-35978 Amazing how they did not mention how Earth Day was started to combat Global Cooling. This kind of Selective Reporting is why the news is such a joke. Amazing how they did not mention how Earth Day was started to combat Global Cooling.
This kind of Selective Reporting is why the news is such a joke.

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