To begin with, congratulations to Barack Obama on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. Obama received the award, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”And while there are some who feel the award may be premature, my belief is that this award is probably delivered at just the [...]
The women below are exercising their constitutional right to Freedom of Speech — or are they? These ladies — who won an international Bridge competition last month — put together their sign in response to questions they got from other teams in the tournament. Members of teams from other countries were questioning how the American [...]
digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/31/energy-bill-2007-gas-mileage-standards-petition/”; The energy bill under debate currently has the possibility to make some major changes in this countries environmental policy. What’s in the 2007 Energy Bill? The standards that are set up by the bill for fuel efficiency and renewable electricity standards are sufficiently aggressive to make a big difference in out planet’s [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags government environment digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/07/31/governments-role-in-global-warming-no-idle-vancouver-9344/”; This sign is from the city of Vancouver in British Columbia and it’s purpose is to inform motorists that letting their cars idle is against the law and punishable by a fine of $50 to $100. Vancouver’s “Motor Vehicle Noise and Emission Abatement By-Law No. [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags environment motivation change toread Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/03/the-power-of-young-people-to-change-the-world-global-warming-environment/”; It surprises me how many people believe that their individual actions make no difference to the world. In a recent poll on this site, 45% felt that their personal actions “make no difference” with respect to Global Warming. (Of course, [...]
Corporations in America are recognized by the government as having many of the same rights as people. They are actually considered ‘people’ for legal purposes in many situations. Corporations claiming ‘freedom of speech’ are among the largest funders of elections and campaign advertising in America. And, as a result, they influence politicians to put corporate [...]
A new study was released today that revealed some interesting trends among Americans. According to the study, 87% — or “the vast majority” — of Americans are now “seriously concerned about the environment“. This demonstrates what many of us in the ‘green blogosphere’ have known for a while — that there are radical changes underway [...]
Sometimes readers send me links. I think it’s great because I get to know what interests people. Here are some recent ones: Our twitter follower bythebayou @replied me a link to Co-op America. They look interesting — I like that they encourage people to take action. Another twitter follower monkchips, sent this link on saving [...]
In an earlier post, we asked the question “What is Government’s role?” when it comes to forcing the behavior changes that will be required to get people to conserve resources. The discussion threads on that post debated whether government should reward good behavior, or punish poor behavior. As a follow up, I thought it would [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags government environment digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/07/31/governments-role-in-global-warming-no-idle-vancouver-9344/”; This sign is from the city of Vancouver in British Columbia and it’s purpose is to inform motorists that letting their cars idle is against the law and punishable by a fine of $50 to $100. Vancouver’s “Motor Vehicle Noise and Emission Abatement By-Law No. [...]
