And for the sake of our health, please keep raising and selling your pastured beef.

The system of producing feedlot beef requires antibiotics to keep the cattle alive because the unnatural food they’re forced to eat makes them sick. Michael Pollan has illustrated this clearly.

So what you provide us is non-sick beef.

Looking across America we see an increasingly unwell population. And sick beef is cheap enough everyone can eat it all the time.

Poor, foolish, overweight, health-impaired America.

We are in a silent crisis in America because our food supply chain is being poisoned, and will ultimately be destroyed. What’s causing this is the action of corporate practices that exist only to strip every last dollar out of farming until the land is dead. Then the buyers of food will eat whatever they are fed to survive.

This crisis needs to become louder. It needs to turn into the scream it really is. We are being killed by bad food, and the answer for each one of us lies within a few miles of where we live.

For any first-time visitors here because of the Rolling Stone special section “RS100: The people who are reinventing America,” this post is intended as an introduction to Climate Progress.

[My apologies to regular CP readers for yet another introductory piece — and of course, for the tasetless RS cover — but I’ve kinda started hangin’ with a bad crowd now. And who doesn’t like ice cream?]

Because these cars of tomorrow require the batteries of tomorrow, I am announcing that the Department of Energy is launching a $2 billion competitive grant program under the Recovery Act that will spark the manufacturing of the batteries and parts that run these cars, build or upgrade the factories that will produce them, and in the process, create thousands of jobs right here in America.

Show us that your idea or your company is best-suited to meet America’s challenges, and we will give you a chance to prove it. And just because I’m here today doesn’t exempt all of you from that challenge — every company that wants a shot at these tax dollars has to prove their worth.

We are also making a $400 million down-payment on the infrastructure necessary to get these cars on the road; and because these cars won’t leave the showroom unless consumers buy them, the Recovery Act includes a new tax credit of $7,500 to encourage Americans to plug one in at home.

Summary





The invention suggests employing a super tall chimney to facilitate heat exchange in
the atmosphere as a remedy to Global Warming. Calculations show that if we construct a chimney 5 kilometers (3 mile)
tall and 1 kilometer (0.7 mile) in diameter, we can expect the following amazing results:



• Just 10 chimneys like the one proposed will offset
  Global Warming.
  
  
• Each chimney will produce ~330,000 Mega Watts of
  electricity, which is equivalent to the amount of energy 15 super powerful nuclear
  stations produce
  
  
• Each chimney will induce rain generation in
  surrounding areas and will produce roughly 70 million tons of water
  precipitation every day, which is equal 4% of Mississippi river flow in New
  Orleans or about 80 Jordan Rivers.
  
  
• Each chimney will transform at least 300 square miles
  of desert into arable land.
  
  
• Each chimney will trap approximately 1,500,000 tons of CO2 per year in the newly created arable area.



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The goal of this website is to explain the idea of
utilizing super-chimney technology as a unique way to avert global warming
catastrophe at the same time as generating clean energy and irrigation. After
looking through the information on this site you will understand how this
technology works, and -- in fact -- how simple it is!










I suspect you might have questions, concerns, or criticism. In this
regard, I urge you not to hesitate to contact me at mike@superchimney.org. I
promise to do my best in replying to you in a timely fashion with more detailed
explanations and discussion.




Sincerely,




Michael Pesochinsky

It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change?

They begin by forming an initiating group and then adopt the Transition Model (explained here at length, and in bits here and here) with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community to kick off a Transition Initiative.

After going through a comprehensive and creative process of:


• awareness raising around peak oil, climate change and the need to undertake a community lead process to rebuild resilience and reduce carbon
  
• connecting with existing groups in the community
  
• building bridges to local government
  
• connecting with other transition initiatives
  
• forming groups to look at all the key areas of life (food, energy, transport, health, heart & soul, economics & livelihoods, etc)
  
• kicking off projects aimed at building people's understanding of resilience and carbon issues and community engagement
  
• eventually launching a community defined, community implemented "Energy Descent Action Plan" over a 15 to 20 year timescale
  

What is Repower America?

Repower America is the bold clean energy plan to “repower” our country with 100% clean electricity within 10 years.

First described in a speech last July by Al Gore, Repower America means new industries with high-paying jobs. It means lower energy costs. And, it means substituting clean domestic sources of energy and a transition away from dirty coal and foreign oil. Read about the goal here.

By making buildings and homes more efficient, ramping up renewable energy generation, constructing a unified national smart grid, and transitioning to clean and affordable plug-in cars, we can address our country’s economic and national security challenges—all while making huge strides to solve the climate crisis.

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The banks, the Fed and Treasury are playing a hiding game, if they do actually have a good idea of what the assets are worth - they don't want the share prices to collapse (more than they have).

The astronomical amounts involved in credit default swaps are often mentioned, as in the WaPo piece referred to by JHM. But who are these amounts owed to, people on Mars? If someone is obliged to pay, someone else has to receive. To a considerable extent there is a colossal bookkeeping problem, which won't be cleared up as long as people have reasons to hide the true situation.

What's the best way to give Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds a tangible stake in fighting for issues like global warming?

Easy: Make it their livelihood. Every day, about 135 million people go to work in the U.S. Imagine what would happen if millions of those jobs — plus new ones created for people who are currently unemployed — were in fields like renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and green building.

Our two crucial concerns about survival — the environment and making a living — would be combined. A person's commitment to their job would also be their commitment to the planet.

Circumstance: The Age of Exuberance is over, population has already overshot
carrying capacity, and prodigal Homo sapiens has drawn down the world's savings
deposits.

Consequence: All forms of human organization and behavior that are based on the
assumption of limitlessness must change to forms that accord with finite limits.

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The Industrial Revolution made us precariously dependent on nature's dwindling
legacy of non-renewable resources, even though we did not at first recognize
this fact. Many major events of modern history were unforeseen results of
actions taken with inadequate awareness of ecological mechanisms. Peoples and
governments never intended some of the outcomes their actions would incur.

At the current rates, the world economy will be twice as big as it is today in seventeen years. That carries the potential for enormous additional destruction. The environmental movement has a lot of wonderful things about it, and it’s accomplished a lot. But it’s not up to this challenge of dealing with this amount of environmental loss and destruction.

The fundamental thing that’s happened is that our efforts to clean up the environment are being overwhelmed by the sheer increase in the size of the economy. And there’s no reason to think that won’t continue. So we have to ask, what is it about our society that puts such an extraordinary premium on growth? Is it justified? Why is that growth so destructive? And what do we do about it?

Capitalism is a growth machine. What it really cares about is earning a profit and reinvesting a large share of that and growing continually. Profits can be enhanced if the companies are not paying for the cost of their environmental destruction—so they fight [paying it] tooth and nail. The companies themselves are now quite huge, quite powerful, quite global, and no longer just the main economic actors in our society. They are the main political actors also.