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Overall Segment #3 – 12:00
Twas the night before Xmas – 4:00 Sponsored by: Option Insurance Group
Twas the night before Christmas and all through our dwelling,
nothing was cooking… at least nothing worth smelling
I thought some hot chocolate might help make me sleepy,
using fair trade cocoa, of course. To not would be creepy
I, in my polar fleece made from unwanted plastic
and my love in her bamboo pjs, with recycled elastic
Had just settled down on this cold, frosty eve
When a chill ran up her fully renewable sleeve
“Where on earth is that draft from?” she asked, so petite
“I don’t know” I replied, “but we’re wasting some heat”
It was nearing our bedtime now that the gifts had been wrapped
with post-consumer recycled paper, it was done in a snap
We finished our beverages and headed for bed
With visions of radiant solar heat all up in my head
We thought ourselves green, you know, environmentally friendly
Though we both knew there was much more we could do, and plenty
We’d already moved away from incandescent lighting
The battle for compact fluorescents, worth fighting
We now put a dry towel in the dryer when drying
We emphasized walking over driving or flying
So up to the bedroom adorned with low VOC paint
Done with my wife’s own hands, ain’t she a saint
I went to the thermostat and lowered the heat
Then pulled down the old, organic cotton sheet
I had just finished pulling on my comfortable flannels,
When I heard someone crash-land on my new solar panels!
I ran to the window and pulled the sash in a hurry
Double-paned, low E glass, no need to worry
I stuck out my head and what should I see?
Tom Marston from those guys over at ESG
“What on earth are you doing here, on this of all nights”
I asked rather harshly, like I was ready to fight
“Sorry for the noise”, he said sort of meekly
“I was supposed to be quiet and stealthy and sneaky”
“I recommended to your wife, and thankfully she bought it,
An Energy Services Group Home Energy Audit”
“I was going to come in all quiet and quite without warning,
And leave the Audit Report for you to read in the morning”
“Your wife thought it quite an appropriate gift
But it appears that I now may have caused a small rift”
“No need to worry Tom”, I said, now feeling badly
“I’ll come up there right now and help you quite gladly”
“Just one thing”, I begged, “before you leave here today
Could you call someone to come fix my solar array?”
Well, we found out what caused that draft in the house
And lucky it was, for both me and my spouse
That we found all the spots in that old place, so creaky
That caused it to be all kinds of drafty and leaky
Insulation was needed in several places
Others just a little caulk or foam in some spaces
We had no idea how much energy was needlessly spent
And it doesn’t really matter if you own or you rent
We all should be conscious of the energy we use
Not to waste it is the path it’s important to choose
So this year at Christmas, when you turn on those lights
Turn them off before bedtime, I mean, it’s only right
We just need to think before we throw it away
And maybe we’ll have some left for another Holiday
Items of Interest – 8:00 Sponsored by: myecoagent.com
WASHINGTON, DC – One landmark development in an otherwise disappointing energy bill are the provisions for the phase out of the 125 year old Thomas Edison incandescent bulb. The energy bill contains light bulb efficiency performance standards that will phase out the traditional incandescent light bulb, saving consumers more than $40 billion in energy costs. The phase out will eliminate the need for at least 12-15 new coal-fired power plants, a top priority for Earth Day Network and much of the environmental community.
“The lighting section of the energy bill is a bright light in an otherwise underachieving piece of legislation,” said EDN President Kathleen Rogers. “Along with the requirement that automobile fleets average 35 miles per gallon and building efficiency improvements, Congress took a very modest step in the right direction, but sold out to the oil and gas industries by approving huge subsidies to companies that are experiencing record profits.“
The energy bill, which was signed y President Bush this morning, requires that by 2012 to 2014, all light bulbs must use 25% to 30% less energy than they do today. Traditional incandescent light bulbs use almost 90% of the energy they use to produce heat, not light. The phase-in will start with 100-watt bulbs in 2012 and end with 40-watt bulbs in 2014. By 2020, bulbs must be 70% more efficient.
Compact fluorescent bulbs already meet that efficiency standard, and last at least five to ten times longer than Thomas Edison’s bulbs. While the cost is higher, consumer can expect to save money even over the short term. Consumers will see other technologies competing for their dollars almost immediately, as halogen bulbs and LEDs (light emitting diodes) hit the market.
The United States joins Australia, Ireland, and other countries that are phasing out the incandescent bulb. The legislation also allows California and Nevada to maintain their more progressive laws that require a faster phase out of the bulb instead of pre-empting their right. Preservation of these laws was an important victory in the ongoing battle to allow states to act more stringently than the federal government in the environmental arena.
“The American public can choose to push industry to act even faster than Congress by rewarding those companies with the most efficient bulbs available today with their business,” Rogers added. “Once Congress senses the tide of public opinion and action supporting swifter solutions to climate change, it is more likely to increase the pressure on other industries contributing to the problem.”
In March 2007 Earth Day Network joined with industry and a handful of environmental organizations to craft a legislative effort to phase out the bulb. EDN also launched Project Switch to harness the buying power and political determination of thousands of grassroots partners around the world. Through this initiative, thousands of individuals and households from around the world have replaced their inefficient incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving ones.
You have to go out and watch The Story of Stuff. If you don’t go to another site all year, go to storyofstuff.com
Overall Segment #4 – 9:00
Green News (if necessary)
October 26, 2007 research on a dire problem carbon capture and I quote “without carbon capture and sequestration we are all toast”
Wow! I'm not even sure what sequestration is but let's see if we can understand it better. Chang Lin a scientist with the China sustainable energy program and the Berkeley Lab issued that gloomy proclamation a few weeks ago and it's a fitting description of the current world situation when it comes to global warming. To make it worse, Lin added that the world is not responding to the challenge. Well, at least not yet.
We have invested in deep research or spend much money in testing out the scenarios he said there are a lot of uncertainties
Still it's not over yet and the University of Texas this week announced it has received a $38 million grant to study the feasibility of injecting carbon dioxide into Brine filled underground wells over a 10 year period.
Sequestration is the storage of the carbon dioxide that we're going to be capturing so that it doesn't go back into the atmosphere and create global warming. So if we produce carbon dioxide we have to have a place to put it so worried an opponent where it will get into the atmosphere. Looks like a bit of using old empty wells to inject the carbon dioxide and to liquids that will hold and keep it from escaping into the atmosphere.
The Texas project is part of the Southeast regional carbon sequestration partnership funded by the national energy technology laboratory of the Department of Energy their goal is to study carbon dioxide injection and storage capacity at the Tuscaloosa Woodbine geological that stretches from Texas to Florida region has the potential to store more than 200 Billion tons of this guest which the department says is equal to about 33 years of emissions beginning in the fall of 2008 SECARB scientists will start to inject 1,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year into a Brian reservoir near Natchez Mississippi the brine is up to 10,000 feet below the surface in some ways the US is in Saudi Arabia of gaping holes more in the future.
B. So How did we get so Isolated.... The Car? I think yes... and some other things, I think the individualism deepened with the advent of the TV and also with more of an emphasis on personal mobility, individual travel options, and the individual accumulation of things for personal amusement. And I'm not saying that any of this is bad, I'm not judging it at all, what I am saying is that I think the direction that the popular culture has taken us whether intentioned or not is in one of isolation in part from the people who live closest to us. And it cost us in dollars and cents plus more
And this consequent cost of this individuation has been higher than any of us could have calculated. I know we can argue this but I think that in a lot of cases this may be true. So without extended families around us we've lost touch with a much larger closer group that we used to hang out with and rely on and work with in order to reduce the cost of living for all.
So in this vein we are encouraging people to get together in their communities and neighborhoods and start organizing around saving energy. The neighborhood website should be finished soon and available as a template to do so.
We will be talking about other ways to organize, have fun deepen your relationships with your neighbors have potluck supper's and reduce your personal energy consumption and costs by getting together with your neighbors. Just like they used to do in the good old days.
And don’t forget… recycle, conserve, and share…
And use technology!
Global News / New Tech. Report – 2:00
Hopeful and Up stuff from around the planet and right here in our backyard
- USO of Dover book out www.USO Dover and look for the program that supports the troops it's a donation program where you can send money and have different items that are needed by people in Iraq were serving such as toiletries T-shirts underwear socks everything up to them together enough money a bulletproof vest so of check out the program in its www.USO and go to the Dover section and a portion our profits will go to the troops....not for profit.... Jon Stewart
- BOGO Light : sunnnightsolar.com $30 for two....
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