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More good news from US: 10m solar rooftops? |
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Written by Bob Audette
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
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Reports of a visionary proposal to install 10m solar rooftop panels in the US are significant not only for their own news value, but as a further indicator that the green revolution is bursting onto centre stage in a polity long dominated by fossil fuel interests. And it is certainly "a good start", as one advocate for renewable energy put it -- perhaps wryly.
“It’s a brilliant and visionary idea to put solar energy into the
middle of the discussion on energy,” said Arjun Makhijani, the
president of the Institute of Energy and Environmental Research. “A
goal like that is very important because it will mean the solar
manufacturing industry will have certainty that there will be a demand
at the other end."
Makhijani was responding to a local newspaper, the Battleboro Reformer (03 07 08), with comments on a proposal from Vermont Senator, Bernard Sanders to encourage the installation of 10 million
rooftop solar units on homes and businesses over the course of 10 years. At one kilowatt-hour a unit, that could supply up to 10,000
megawatts of energy, or approximately the output of 13 nuclear reactors.
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Slow Food Arrives in US at Last |
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Written by Stacy Finz
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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A major exhibition planned for San Francisco at the end of August is being called "the largest celebration of American food in history" -- and it's not fast food but Slow Food. Its message is that Americans need to fix the food system or risk destroying their health and the planet.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle 50,000 people are expected to participate, including some of the world’s leading food
authorities, health care experts, farmers and policymakers.
"Slow Food Nation is the first such event to be held in the United
States, although it’s patterned after similar events in Europe." the newspaper reported on June 30.
The exhibition will be held over the American Labor Day weekend (August 30 to September 1).
"Slow Food, a philosophy that food should be not only savored, but also
produced with a social and environmental conscience, started as an
Italian protest movement in 1986.
"Furious that McDonald’s had come to Rome, political activist Carlo
Petrini organized a demonstration against the fast-food chain.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 July 2008 )
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Changing Games in the Global Casino |
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Written by Hazel Henderson
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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The recent FAO Summit in Rome called for $10
billion more to pay for higher food prices. Yet, without financial
reforms, this money will merely fatten the players in the global casino.
The games of traders, speculators, hedge funds, private equity and even
pension funds and charitable foundation and university portfolio
managers, driving up prices of oil and food, invoke increasing outrage
and demands for reform.
Ever since the 1980s when Britain’s Margaret Thatcher and US President
Ronald Reagan spurred de-regulation of global finance and
privatization, market fundamentalism became the main game.
But at last the world is seeing the difference between money and real
wealth, between “demand” in markets and the real needs of people
without money. We cringe at the tragic pictures of poor people eyeing
abundant, tempting supplies of food in the local markets around the
world but who are forced to go away hungry or make their children
patties made of mud, spices and whatever scraps of vegetation they can
find.
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