People along hill slope near waterways and in lowland of the lower Northeast and the Central are warned of severe weather and possible flash flood. Flooding conditions in lowland of the Northeast and the East remain warned.
The ridge of high pressure areas from China will cover northern and northeastern Thailand causing cooler weather and drop 2-4 C.
At 0400 UTC today, typhoon “MEGI” in the middle South China Sea was centered at latitude 16.8 °N and longitude 118.7 °E. It is mov
About the climate cover-up
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy. There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And
McKibben goes on to say “This won’t solve climate change overnight—but it’s one big step in building a movement strong enough to compete with the power of oil and coal money.”
Some highlights of events taking place in the 10/10/10 Global Work Party today include:
* 7,000+ events in 188 countries
* 2,000+ events in the United States
* 200 events in India
* 300 events in China
* 200 events in California pushing back on Prop 23
* 10 in Burma, 10 in Iran
* 100,000+ trees plan
I thought I'd post these two TED videos together because Khun Mechai and Thai villagers are practicing what Mr. Tim is talking about, sustainable economics.
Tim Jackson's economic reality check
Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place
Solar may or may not be able to completely replace less environmentally friendly means of energy production one day, but there is no doubt that it is already quickly becoming a significant part of the energy equation in many parts of the world. Why not Thailand?
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/199399/let-the-sun-shine-on-energy-policy
Most people think we should be holding polluters accountable, but the American Petroleum Institute is fighting back. This video takes satirical approach to lampooning what big oil is really trying to say.
Big oil and their allies are lying to Americans. They are spending millions of dollars in advertising with one goal: to spread lies and misinformation about the benefits of clean energy in order to protect their profits. And they are using front groups with innocent sounding names to hide thei
Hankey's film, Dark Legacy, examines the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and makes the claim that George Herbert Walker Bush was involved by examining the former President's CIA relationships and where and what he was doing at the time of the assassination.
Hankey points out how Bush rose to the top in the CIA and was in Dallas at the time Kennedy was assassinated, according to documentation found in a letter from the F.B.I.
Edelman quotes Republican Brice Willi
Two things are clear if you visit America’s leading “science museum” — the National Museum of Natural History. First, the Smithsonian downplays or ignores the risks posed by human-caused climate change in a number of exhibits. Second, the worst of the exhibit is the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins.
Yes, the Smithsonian took $15 million from a billionaire polluter — who is an even bigger funder of disinformation on climate science than Exxon Mobil — to fund a misleading exhibit on evolutio
Where on Earth is it unusually warm? Greenland and the Arctic Ocean, which is full of rotten ice.
The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished….
'I would argue that, from a practical perspective, we almost have a seasonally ice-free Arctic now, because multiyear sea ice is the barrier to the use and development of the Arctic,” said Barber [Canada's Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba].
http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/06/science
(Superadobe Homes)How to build with arches, vaults, and domes Architect Nader Khalili reveals the secrets behind the elements of designing with nature.
www.calearth.org
About every 1 or 2 years, the Thai government is drafting a new PDP for the following 15 years. This plan shows which source of energy will be used to generate energy, how much energy is needed, and who produces, transmits and distributes the energy. The planned installed capacity is the peak demand (of the highest month) plus an additional 15% reserve margin.
To ensure a correct and democratic procedure, democracies usually have different bodies responsible for the calculation of the ener
Link to: TED: Cradle To Cradle Design Journal http://www.thailandfriends.com/index.php?op=modload&name=Journal&view=journal&juid=43336&jid=71567
I visited William McDonough website and found speech he gave to the US-China Center in China, "A New Design for Human Enterprise." This speech paralells his TED presentation.
Url: http://www.mcdonough.com/writings/new_design.htm#
I made a .pdf of his speech, pls see download link.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/574010/A-New-Des
