The Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies recently released an opinion poll on African-American viewpoints on Climate Change and the Mid-Term elections that shows that YES African-Americans really do care about the environment and want our political candidates to also care about the environment. Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus put his two cents in on the matter and gave the mainstream enviro-world a big fat “I told you so” in an article he posted on the Huffington Post.
Visit the links to the article and opinion poll below and watch the video from the closing press conference of the Clean Energy Now Bus Tour featuring the likes of Biz Markie, Indianapolis Congressman Andre Carson, Rev. Yearwood and more.
Okay it’s official, Something crazy is going on with our environment. Yesterday yet another major earthquake hit, this time in Turkey. The 6.0 magnitude earthquake killed at least 51 people and more updates are coming in by the hour. Check out the CBS report below for more information.
“It’s about seeing the world as it can be, not as what it is.”- Dr. KR Sridhar
Yes, Yes Ya’ll! This dude right here is about to change the world and how we look at energy. From CBS’s 60 minutes to Facebook Fan Pages the world is abuzz about Bloom Energy and it’s innovative founder Dr. KR Sridhar.
Sridhar introduced the Bloom Box to the world last week after almost nine years of working on the project in secrecy in the middle of Silicone Valley California. The Bloom Box is a box that uses fuel cell technology to create electricity. the product has gained a huge amount of attention and high profile investors including former Secretary of State Colin Powell and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Bloom Box is already being used for a small percentage of the electricity needs for big name corporations such as eBay, Google and Wal-mart. However, the Bloom Box does face its fair share of critics. Check out CBS’s 60 minutes piece below:
Whoa! This year the earthquake’s ain’t no joke. A 8.8 Magnitude hit Chile this morning killing at least 16 people but the death toll is still rising. The epicenter of the earthquake was just 70 miles from Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city. In Santiago, the capital, telephone and power outages made it difficult to determine the extent of the damage.
There has been an overwhelming amount of large magnitude earthquakes this year especially in the Caribbean and Latin America. The most damaging of course was the earthquake in Haiti in January that killed over 200,000 people.
You can read more about today’s earthquake in Chile by following the link to the washington post below.
Story Update: BBC news has reported at least 64 and counting. People from Santiago have been e-mailing and tweeting BBC with updates check the story out here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8540309.stm
Fox News couldn’t wait to find a reason to hate on Al Gore and Global Warming! As soon as the recent record breaking snowstorms hit the east coast, Fox News broadcast a report stating that that the storms were proof positive that Global Warming is a lie. Steve Colbert of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” and The Union of Concerned Scientists both immediately provided statements as to why that claim is OVERLY false. Watch the clip from “The Colbert Show below and click read more after to the find out why the Union of Concerned Scientists are tired of commentators on Fox News putting on costume lab coats and fronting like they know science.
All across the east coast a state of emergency was called due to the winter Snowpocalypse. Everything from corner stores to subway stations never opened yesterday and over the past weekend leaving many major cities to shut down almost completely. Although the winter snow is starting to slow down Checktheweather.net wants to make sure our readers know what to do in case of an emergency and/or natural disaster. Come on ya’ll know Haiti could be the Bay Area any day so here are our tips for staying woke.
1. Visit Ready.gov
Ready.gov is a site managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency aka FEMA (they getting it together ya’ll). On Ready.gov you can find out tips on creating a an emergency kit, making a plan and staying informed during an emergency. Check out the widget below for more helpful tips courtesy of ready.gov.
2. Get trained in Emergency Prep!
Ready to take the next step and be even more prepared? Sign up for a free training via Citizen Corps. Citizen Corps is also a program of FEMA and offers a more in-depth training on Emergency prep. Visit Citizencorp.gov to find the next class near you!
National TV Special Investigates the Color Lines in Recession and Recovery, Feb 12, 9:30 PM EST
Tune in to Link TV Friday, February 12, for ColorLines: Race and Economic Recovery on DIRECTV Channel 375 or DISH Network Channel 9410 at 6:30 Pacific, 7:30pm Central and 8:30 pm Eastern. For those without DIRECTV/DISH, the entire show will also be available online at colorlines.com starting Feb 12. Then join Colorlines on Twitter @racialjustice, as they host a roundtable discussion on what we’ve seen. More info at Link TV.
Almost 100 African youth and representatives from intergovernmental organizations stormed the halls of the Bella Center where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is being held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The youth chanted “1 degree now, 2 degrees suicide”. This was reportedly in response to one of the lead negotiators of the Group of 77 least developed nations (G77) Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping of Sudan walking into a meeting of non-governmental organizations from Africa crying. Di-Aping stated that the current state of the international negotiations would mean suicide for Africans. Checktheweather co-founder Kari Fulton reported that the African representatives and youth in the meeting walked out and began chanting “1 degree now, 2 degrees suicide”. This is major because many of the developing and developed nations including the United States have stated that 2 degrees of increase in global warming was an acceptable increase. Currently global warming has caused the temperature of the earth to rise 0.6 degrees celsius since the beginning of the Industrial Age. Check out some exclusive clips clips from the action and an interview with one of the youth leaders at COP15.
