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Our guest today is a leader in the world of faith-based responses to climate change. He has logged many miles traveling the world educating people about the realities of climate change and campaigning for personal involvement. He is the Director of the Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change and a fellow presenter with the Climate Project, welcome to Newlygreens on the Morning Blend, Stuart Scott.
More about his work can be found on the site for the Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change
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It’s a re-post from last winter but in light of the developing nations walking out of the Copenhagen talks today it seemed appropriate.
Let’s get back to the table and iron out some legally binding commitments for carbon reduction!
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Our guest today is volunteer for The Climate Project and lifelong resident of NJ. She is working to arrange a vigil this Friday Dec 11 to draw attention to the climate negotiations in Copenhagen that began this past Monday.
Also, candlelight vigils are being planned on Dec. 11 and 12 with the help of 350.org for solidarity re: Copenhagen. You can get more information at 350.org I encourage you all to plan a vigil or if you can, attend the one I’m organizing in Asbury Park on Friday, December 11th from 6-7 PM on the Boardwalk at 5th and Ocean Avenues. Below is the message I’m sending out if you want to share it with anyone or use part of it for your own action.
Another Vigil is planned in our area at Bloomfield Post Office December 12th
The Essex Greens will be holding a vigil from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, December 12th, in front of the main Bloomfield Post Office at the corner of Bloomfield Avenue and Montgomery St.
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Heating homes with dung! Hooray!
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/cow-dung-heating-dutch-homes.php
It’s a fun treat for us to get to tell you about poop-projects, and today is no exception! From Treehugger.com, biomass projects (plant materials and animal waste used as a fuel source) are sweeping the Netherlands with last year’s launch of the world’s largest biomass plant which provides 90,000 homes with chicken-poop-fueled power.
Now a new project is beginning with the Dutch focusing on cow dung. Another plant is taking cow-leavings from a local dairy farm and converting them into “biogas” which will be used to heat 1,100 new homes being constructed in the area.
Touted as an “experimental dairy farm”, a special 5.5 kilometer-long biogas pipeline will be used to bring power to the local thermal plant’s wind turbines as well. The experiment could open new possibilities for farmers who are interested in the profits of converting agricultural residues into energy.
The Green Ponzi Scheme
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These are challenging times to be sure but I have some news I think speaks to what is possible if we commit to sincere action.
As time is short I will open with a humble request that requires your action by Tuesday Nov. 24th. Please send a letter of support addressed to Pope Benedict using this form (http://bit.ly/popetocopenhagen) expressing the desire for the Pope to enter the discussion of responding to Climate Change.
Below is an explanation of what is going on.
Our friend (and past guest), Stuart Scott has an audience with the the Pope, Pope Benedict, this Wednesday Nov.25th where he will be encouraging his eminence to take a firm position on Climate Change by asking him to attend the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen Denmark in December. This is where world leaders are meeting to determine the course of our response to climate change over the next decade. Stuart’s journey began about a month ago when he felt a calling to ask the Pope to get involved in solving climate change. He had the vision to get on a plane to Italy and undertake a 209km pilgrimage from Assisi to the Vatican figuring the namesake of St. Francis of Assisi would be an appropriate place to start his quest (St Francis is known as the patron saint of animals and the environment). He left with nothing but good intentions, no commitments, no guarantees. After negotiating through a half dozen gate-keepers, this Wednesday Stuart will personally hand deliver an invitation from UN Climate Secretary Yvo de Boer,as well as the the email responses he gets from us, directly to the Pope as part of the audience he has been granted. This is no joke. If you have something you would like to say to the Pope, now is your chance. Thank you for your time.
If you want to know more about Stuart’s work we will have him on the radio show talking about his work with the Interdenominational Climate Commitment in December. Also look for our interview with his compatriot in the IDCC, Rob Kinslow in two weeks.
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