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  	 The Third Annual California Interfaith Power and Light Energy Oscars
Grace Cathedral, Gresham Hall
1100 California Street
San Francisco

6:00 pm • Wine & Hors d’oeuvres
7:15 pm • Program

Featuring Rabbi Michael Lerner
Rabbi Michael Lerner is the editor-in-chief of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish and
interfaith magazine and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco.

Join us as we honor our outstanding congregations for their efforts to be good
stewards of energy and fight climate change.

Energy Oscars will be awarded to one finalist in each of the following
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education
Camp Stevens, San Diego
Metropolitan Community Church, San Francisco
Muslim Eco Team, SF Bay Area

green building
Universalist Church of Berkeley
Campbell United Church of Christ
St. Michaels & All Angels Episcopal Church, Studio City

energy efficiency
Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco
First Chinese Baptist, San Francisco
Temple Isaiah, Lafayette

advocacy
Universalist Church of Riverside
Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento
Chadeish Yameinu, Santa Cruz
Christ Church UMC, Santa Rosa

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global warming through the promotion of energy conservation, energy efficiency
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  	 Coming up from the Roots - Women and Agriculture
David Brower Center - Kinzie Room
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Berkeley

Weaving the Worlds Fall 2009 Event Series at the David Brower Center

3 Tuesday Evenings featuring 3 of WEA’s International Advisors
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Melinda Kramer, Caitlin Sislin, Amira Diamond
Music and Food from the 3 regions where WEA works
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Women and Agriculture
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Featuring:
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On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, David F <david@...> wrote:

> China understands the consequences of global warming, but it certainly isn't
> adopting policies that will lead to any reduction in emissions.

True.

And...without consciousness, there's not much possibility that things can
change...half the battle is admitting there's a problem.  The distinction
between knowing and acknowledging something and being in denial and lying
to the populace is the prime difference that has me call one more mature
than the other.

Cal

Recall that I said "economically or strategically advantageous."  (The
relevant word here is "or".)  So it could be strategically advantageous
for them, even if they were still making a profit.

And this was an extract from a more general comment about our government
and wars (I was not intending to single out any one war).

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, Dennis Brumm <brumm@...> wrote:

> [Sideways Change of tune: By the way, Cal, a while back, you stated
> that the US left Vietnam because it had become unprofitable. I would
> like some proof of that, it's not what I remember being true... it
> was a) - we got our butts kicked at the end (our technology wasn't up
> to their "lack of it") and b) the cynicism and sentiment against the
> war, pretty universal in vast swaths of the US, had actually made
> corporations fearful they could not harvest a new crop of "safe"
> employees.  I can't believe that we were not still "making a profit."]

 

The bubbles are rising to the surface...

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/we-entered-peak-oil-iea-source-reportedly-claims/

At 07:53 PM 11/9/2009, you wrote:
>
>
>China understands the consequences of global warming, but it
>certainly isn't adopting policies that will lead to any reduction in
>emissions.

Sounds to me like their culture is no more "grounded" or "mature"
than ours. Or, to quote icky Charleston Heston, "it's people!" :) A
little blurb today on Jay Hansen's die off group mentioned that
during some famine, the Chinese did exchange children with their
neighbors so that they would not have to kill and eat their own
children, but someone else's. I have no idea if that is "true," and
actually don't wanna know.

‘We have already entered peak oil,’ IEA source reportedly claims

Two International Energy Agency whistleblowers have come forward with startling
claims about the world's supply of crude oil, according to a report published
Tuesday.

"We have [already] entered the 'peak oil' zone," an unnamed former IEA official
told British newspaper The Guardian. "I think that the situation is really bad."

A second whistleblower reportedly claimed that the IEA's current figures are
inflated due to pressure from the United States and a pervasive fear that the
announcement of falling oil output in the future could cause markets to respond
with panic.

The claims come on the same day the IEA plans to publish it's annual "World
Energy Outlook" report for 2009. [...]

Mehr unter

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/we-entered-peak-oil-iea-source-reportedly-claims/

--

Herzlichen Gruß,

paulnellen

At 04:52 PM 11/9/2009, you wrote:
>
>
>
>"The world is much closer to running out of oil than official
>estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International
>Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a
>looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.

Bingo.

>>Look at China.  It took seeing the glaciers disappearing very rapidly
>>(on their own land) before they realized the extent of what they were
>>doing.
>
>
>So now that they are no longer in denial they can continue
>consuming, but with a green label slapped on.

Um, yeah. :)

>Look at China. It took seeing the glaciers disappearing very rapidly
>(on their own land) before they realized the extent of what they were
>doing. And China is a much older (and arguably mature and grounded)
>culture, with millenia of experience (compared with our hundreds of years).

They are more grounded. I doubt it. They wanna make a buck like
everyone. I think this greed germ is an unfortunate part human nature
that may not be evident in all, but has an evolutionary advantage
over those who don't possess it. At least until things get used up
and the irreplaceable is gone...

[Sideways Change of tune: By the way, Cal, a while back, you stated
that the US left Vietnam because it had become unprofitable. I would
like some proof of that, it's not what I remember being true... it
was a) - we got our butts kicked at the end (our technology wasn't up
to their "lack of it") and b) the cynicism and sentiment against the
war, pretty universal in vast swaths of the US, had actually made
corporations fearful they could not harvest a new crop of "safe"
employees.  I can't believe that we were not still "making a profit."]

At 05:03 AM 11/9/2009, you wrote:
>
>
>And what's coming?
>
>And I gotta ask -- Does the whole world deserve what is coming?

Quite frankly, in some ways it does. Everyone does, and everyone
doesn't. It's not an easy question, really.


>(Embedded in that question is the assertion that whatever is coming
>that we deserve will affect the whole world.)

It seems pretty likely parts of it will. And other parts of the world
are not benign either, even if they don't have the full force of
power and "influence" that we do.

At 11:51 PM 11/7/2009, you wrote:
>Article on the 1918-20 Spanish flu which addresses the over-use of
>asprin, which greatly depletes Vit. C.

I've heard that too, lately. Possibly some truth in it, but mostly
the people who were older didn't get it so much because they were
exposed to a similar strain in the late 1850s or 1860s and that
provided some immunity for them.

>Additionally there were boxcars and virtual cargo-holds of soldiers
>and refugees being moved across country and continental borders at
>the same time, with very little health and sanitation precautions.


Possibly. Plenty of farmers and young fairly urban folks who weren't
at war died too. I know, I read obituaries a lot from then. And yet
they knew about sanitation by then. Funny how powers that be really
don't care about those in "their charge."

I was reading another article about a week ago, there was a June
flood of the Mississippi River, a huge one, evidently (year, either
1902 or 1903 I think), and so much rain that somehow garbage
collection in Burlington (pop. the same as now, about 20,000-30,000)
had broken down. Fearful of "an outbreak" from the garbage, they
asked everyone to bring the garbage downtown and they took it out on
the bridge and dumped it into the river.

Um, that's where everyplace downstream got its (unchlorinated) water supply.

 

The Club of Rome met in Amsterdam at the end of October.
http://www.clubofrome.at/2009/amsterdam/
 
Key conclusions from the conference include:

• Target CO2 level to aim for is 350 ppm, not 450 ppm.
• Corruption in the financial industry must be reigned in, and finance motivated to help society rather than be and end in itself.
• Wealth and human well-being must be measured by something different from GDP in order to start.

 
Bad news is that they still seem to worship growth. Even though their "Limits to Growth" report is held in high regard, they still seem to speak of continued growth. Eh?
 
This declaration will be presented in Copenhagen, for whatever that's worth.
http://www.clubofrome.at/2009/amsterdam/files/declaration.pdf
 
--Michael P.
 

At 07:34 PM 11/7/2009, you wrote:
>
>
>Seems a lot more efficient. Many times I've seen buses running with
>less than a half dozen  passengers. if MUNI could keep to a schedule
>that's fairly accurate, it would make commuting and trip planning easier.
>
>Sharon


To some extent they (buses that is) really are at the mercy of
traffic. They aren't going to reach a stop on time if traffic is real
light, real heavy, or in any way "unaverage." I must say I do like
the bus stops now that have the bus info ("this bus #, 3 minutes,
that bus # 36 minutes"). If it's going to be too long a wait I walk
to some other bus line. It really isn't too hard to get anyplace in
SF most of the time.

Of course sometimes the numbers lie. Sometimes an entire run doesn't
show. It does have issues, and soon will probably have bigger and bigger ones.

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/50632
 
Published Nov 5 2009 by The Oil Drum, Archived Nov 6 2009

Dr. Albert Bartlett's "Laws of Sustainability"

> How long before we ignore the lobby from big business and start
> facing  the global ecological situation, as other countries are
> beginning to?

Given how regressed we are collectively -- with our tendency towards
collective narcissism (resulting in lack of interest in much outside
our own "backyard") and lack of accountability for (or interest in)
our impact on ourselves, let alone outside of ourselves, I'd say...

Not until it becomes a crisis that we can directly feel.

Look at China.  It took seeing the glaciers disappearing very rapidly
(on their own land) before they realized the extent of what they were
doing.  And China is a much older (and arguably mature and grounded)
culture, with millenia of experience (compared with our hundreds of years).

Cal

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, Michael Poremba <michael_poremba@...> wrote:

> How much longer until the US recognizes that its non-response to
> climate change and pandering to near-term economic concerns is
> actually a national security risk of the first order? How long
> before we ignore the lobby from big business and start facing the
> global ecological situation, as other countries are beginning to?
>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Cal <mainevent@...> wrote:
>
> And what's coming?
>
> And I gotta ask -- Does the whole world deserve what is coming?
> (Embedded in that question is the assertion that whatever is coming that
> we deserve will affect the whole world.)
>
> On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, Michael Poremba <michael_poremba@...> wrote:
>
>> Leaders in China are increasingly sensitive to the effects of global
>> climate change. Yet the US is still unwiling to bend. Nation of
>> assholes. We deserve what is coming.
>>
>> http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/31763/23478/40787/0/
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

 

And what's coming?

And I gotta ask -- Does the whole world deserve what is coming?
(Embedded in that question is the assertion that whatever is coming that
we deserve will affect the whole world.)

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, Michael Poremba <michael_poremba@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Leaders in China are increasingly sensitive to the effects of global
> climate change. Yet the US is still unwiling to bend. Nation of
> assholes. We deserve what is coming.
>
> http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/31763/23478/40787/0/
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

And what's coming?

And I gotta ask -- Does the whole world deserve what is coming?
(Embedded in that question is the assertion that whatever is coming that
we deserve  will affect the whole world.)

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, Michael Poremba <michael_poremba@...> wrote:

> Leaders in China are increasingly sensitive to the effects of global
>  climate change.  Yet the US is still unwiling to bend. Nation of
> assholes. We deserve what is coming.
>
> http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/31763/23478/40787/0/
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

When I might be a little more susceptible, for me it's lots of water, '
garlic capsules and a lot of Emergen-C.  Oh yeah, and 12 to 24 hours
of grapefruit only.

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009, sharon kulz <s_kulz@...> wrote:

> Article on the 1918-20 Spanish flu which addresses the over-use of
> asprin, which greatly depletes Vit. C.
>
>     Additionally there were boxcars and virtual cargo-holds of
> soldiers and refugees being moved across country and continental
> borders at the same time, with very little health and sanitation
> precautions.
>
>    Unlike the seasonal flu, which mainly targets the very young,
> whose immune systems have not fully developed, and the elderly, who
> may also have weak immunity, the Spanish flu and the Swine flu hit
> those in their prime. These strains target strong immune systems and
>  make them turn on themselves in an overkill called cytokinic storm.
>  Herbs like tumeric and cumin specifically counteract  this phenomena.
>
> Here's a nice recipe for a really vile, but effective anti-viral. (
> Also good as a marinade)
>
>
> Put the following in a blender...
> 1 cup cider vinegar
> 1 cup honey
> 8 cloves garlic
> ¼ cup fresh Ginger
> Mix on high speed for 60 seconds. Pour mixture into another glass container..
> Seal and leave in the refrigerator for five days.  Normal dosage is two
> tsp. in a glass of water or fruit juice, grape or orange juice is
> best before breakfast.
>
> Sharon
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Dennis Brumm <brumm@...>
> To: sfbayoil@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, November 6, 2009 3:01:53 AM
> Subject: [sfbayoil] Flu vs. War, 1918
>
>
>
> It appears to be an article, but mostly it's an ad for Witte's Drug
> Store:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Leaders in China are increasingly sensitive to the effects of global climate
change.  Yet the US is still unwiling to bend. Nation of assholes. We deserve
what is coming.

http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/31763/23478/40787/0/