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Image via WikiIt's bad enough they pimped affordable housing and encouraged lending institutions to give excessive mortgages to people who couldn't afford them.

Then they played partisan politics with the financial markets and said to hell with Main Street. (Hey, I have problems with the bailout plan, too; I like Fred Wilson's suggestion on A VC last week.)

Now Congressional leaders are holding renewable energy tax credits hostage.

Who are these people and how did they get elected?

I'm not taking any party sides here, it's happening on both sides of the aisle. They are both to blame.

As The New York Times reported this morning, "The House and the Senate are caught up in a bitter fight over legislation to extend various expiring provisions of federal tax law. The tax breaks for renewable energy are not controversial. But in the current debate, they are tied to many other tax breaks for businesses and individuals, including an extension of the tax credit for research and development, expansion of the child tax credit and relief from the alternative minimum tax, which threatens to snare millions of middle-income families next year."

Tax credits for investing in solar energy and producing wind energy will expire in December unless the stalemate is broken. And that can lead to more jobs lost -- at a time when the country is facing massive layoffs associated with the collapse of the credit market.

Now is the time to act on something that can continue the momentum of investment in renewable energy and in the new green economy.

But instead, Congress is getting caught up in debate and posturing.

"Congress is furthering our dependence on foreign sources of energy — dirty, polluting sources of energy," Rhone Resch, president of the trade group Solar Energy Industries Association, told the Times. "It's scaring away investment, just as our industry is beginning to get a toehold. Solar projects are already being delayed."

The legislation also provides incentives for homeowners and home builders to adopt more energy efficient practices.

"Our members build homes that are significantly more energy efficient than those of a generation ago," Jerry M. Howard, executive vice president of the National Association of Home Builders, told the Times. "But in today's economic climate, home builders need incentives to spur them to even more action."

We need real leadership on this issue in Washington, but it is folly to expect we'll get it from the children playing playground politics in the two chambers.

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This is not a bottle of Talisker.
Image via WikipediaToday is Monday, September 29, 2008, a day that will live, well, infamy is not harsh enough for it...the bottom fell out and the Dow dropped to 10,365.45, -777.68 (or -6.98 percent.)

Meanwhile, November crude fell $10.52, or 9.84 percent, to settle at $96.37 a barrel, trading from $95.04 to $106.91.

Could we be heading for $80/barrel? And, if so, what then?

Will it take renewable energy with it?

Or will there be enough of a bounce from renewable energy tax credits to keep up momentum? (That is, if Congress gets back to the energy tax credits Bill again this session! See "Lame Duck and Cover" below.)

Will $80/barrel oil cause a splurge that sends demand sky high and the price back up with it?

And what happens to the new green economy now?

These are just a few of the questions with which I am wrestling this afternoon.

And now to pour that glass of Talisker.

(Note: The photo above is decidedly not a bottle of Talisker.)

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Let's be honest: we are getting screwed by the Bush Administration. Again. I don't know about you, but I'm starting to get a little sore.

What does the government bailout have to do with being green? Well, as you may have already found from experience, being green is hard to do if you ain't got no green (as in money.) This affects us not just on a personal level but on a world-wide scale as well, because if the government is spending money on stupid things there is little money left for the things that are truly important. Priorities are rearranged. Green issues - arguably the most important issues when it comes to our health and our future - are shoved, once again, to the back burner.

This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, found at FocusOrganic.com: "Only after the last tree has been cut down ... the last river has been poisoned ... the last fish caught ... only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." That is so true.

Speaking of truth, here is an email I received today from Michael Moore. Say what you will about this man, I know he's not everyone's cup of tea, but sometimes you just can't ignore The Facts no matter who is presenting them:

"Friends,

Let me cut to the chase. The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken. Make no mistake about it: After stealing a half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their war-profiteering backers for the past five years, after lining the pockets of their fellow oilmen to the tune of over a hundred billion dollars in just the last two years, Bush and his cronies -- who must soon vacate the White House -- are looting the U.S. Treasury of every dollar they can grab. They are swiping as much of the silverware as they can on their way out the door.

No matter what they say, no matter how many scare words they use, they are up to their old tricks of creating fear and confusion in order to make and keep themselves and the upper one percent filthy rich. Just read the first four paragraphs of the lead story in last Monday's New York Times and you can see what the real deal is:

"Even as policy makers worked on details of a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, Wall Street began looking for ways to profit from it.

"Financial firms were lobbying to have all manner of troubled investments covered, not just those related to mortgages.

"At the same time, investment firms were jockeying to oversee all the assets that Treasury plans to take off the books of financial institutions, a role that could earn them hundreds of millions of dollars a year in fees.

"Nobody wants to be left out of Treasury's proposal to buy up bad assets of financial institutions."

Unbelievable. Wall Street and its backers created this mess and now they are going to clean up like bandits. Even Rudy Giuliani is lobbying for his firm to be hired (and paid) to "consult" in the bailout.

The problem is, nobody truly knows what this "collapse" is all about. Even Treasury Secretary Paulson admitted he doesn't know the exact amount that is needed (he just picked the $700 billion number out of his head!). The head of the congressional budget office said he can't figure it out nor can he explain it to anyone.

And yet, they are screeching about how the end is near! Panic! Recession! The Great Depression! Y2K! Bird flu! Killer bees! We must pass the bailout bill today!! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Falling for whom? NOTHING in this "bailout" package will lower the price of the gas you have to put in your car to get to work. NOTHING in this bill will protect you from losing your home. NOTHING in this bill will give you health insurance.

Health insurance? Mike, why are you bringing this up? What's this got to do with the Wall Street collapse?

It has everything to do with it. This so-called "collapse" was triggered by the massive defaulting and foreclosures going on with people's home mortgages. Do you know why so many Americans are losing their homes? To hear the Republicans describe it, it's because too many working class idiots were given mortgages that they really couldn't afford. Here's the truth: The number one cause of people declaring bankruptcy is because of medical bills. Let me state this simply: If we had had universal health coverage, this mortgage "crisis" may never have happened.

This bailout's mission is to protect the obscene amount of wealth that has been accumulated in the last eight years. It's to protect the top shareholders who own and control corporate America. It's to make sure their yachts and mansions and "way of life" go uninterrupted while the rest of America suffers and struggles to pay the bills. Let the rich suffer for once. Let them pay for the bailout. We are spending 400 million dollars a day on the war in Iraq. Let them end the war immediately and save us all another half-trillion dollars!

I have to stop writing this and you have to stop reading it. They are staging a financial coup this morning in our country. They are hoping Congress will act fast before they stop to think, before we have a chance to stop them ourselves. So stop reading this and do something -- NOW! Here's what you can do immediately:

1. Call or e-mail Senator Obama. Tell him he does not need to be sitting there trying to help prop up Bush and Cheney and the mess they've made. Tell him we know he has the smarts to slow this thing down and figure out what's the best route to take. Tell him the rich have to pay for whatever help is offered. Use the leverage we have now to insist on a moratorium on home foreclosures, to insist on a move to universal health coverage, and tell him that we the people need to be in charge of the economic decisions that affect our lives, not the barons of Wall Street.

2. Take to the streets. Participate in one of the hundreds of quickly-called demonstrations that are taking place all over the country (especially those near Wall Street and DC).

3. Call your Representative in Congress and your Senators. (click here to find their phone numbers). Tell them what you told Senator Obama.

When you screw up in life, there is hell to pay. Each and every one of you reading this knows that basic lesson and has paid the consequences of your actions at some point. In this great democracy, we cannot let there be one set of rules for the vast majority of hard-working citizens, and another set of rules for the elite, who, when they screw up, are handed one more gift on a silver platter. No more! Not again!

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
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P.S. Having read further the details of this bailout bill, you need to know you are being lied to. They talk about how they will prevent golden parachutes. It says NOTHING about what these executives and fat cats will make in SALARY. According to Rep. Brad Sherman of California, these top managers will continue to receive million-dollar-a-month paychecks under this new bill. There is no direct ownership given to the American people for the money being handed over. Foreign banks and investors will be allowed to receive billion-dollar handouts. A large chunk of this $700 billion is going to be given directly to Chinese and Middle Eastern banks. There is NO guarantee of ever seeing that money again.

P.P.S. From talking to people I know in DC, they say the reason so many Dems are behind this is because Wall Street this weekend put a gun to their heads and said either turn over the $700 billion or the first thing we'll start blowing up are the pension funds and 401(k)s of your middle class constituents. The Dems are scared they may make good on their threat. But this is not the time to back down or act like the typical Democrat we have witnessed for the last eight years. The Dems handed a stolen election over to Bush. The Dems gave Bush the votes he needed to invade a sovereign country. Once they took over Congress in 2007, they refused to pull the plug on the war. And now they have been cowered into being accomplices in the crime of the century. You have to call them now and say "NO!" If we let them do this, just imagine how hard it will be to get anything good done when President Obama is in the White House. THESE DEMOCRATS ARE ONLY AS STRONG AS THE BACKBONE WE GIVE THEM. CALL CONGRESS NOW."

As they say, if you aren't pissed off by now then you haven't been paying attention. I leave you with another one of my favorite political pundits and his take on the government bailout:



***RSS readers: a video is posted here from hulu.com


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PassionateGreen recognizes Paul Newman today because he was a pioneer in the area of prepackaged organic foods as well as restaurants that serve locally grown, organic foods. He was also very active with several charities, even donating the entire value of his ownership in Newman’s Own just a few months ago.

From People.com: Paul Newman, a screen hero for more than half a century and the head of a philanthropic food empire for the past 25 years, has died, it was announced Saturday. He was 83.

Surrounded by his family and close friends at his farmhouse near Westport, Conn., Newman succumbed Friday after a long battle with cancer, according to a statement from publicist Jeff Sanderson.

Famed for his intense blue eyes, his love of car racing and one of the coolest demeanors ever to heat up the silver screen, Newman was nominated for Oscars ten times.

But perhaps his proudest accomplishment, besides his 50-year marriage to actress Joanne Woodward, was starting Newman's Own, which since 1982 has made popcorn, spaghetti sauce, lemonade and salad dressing and has donated more than $250 million to charities selected by Newman himself.


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When a major company does something great for the environment it makes me want to stand up and cheer. I received this notice from Collen Goepfert,  Account Research Manager at Swirl in San Francisco, CA.  It is a great pleasure and honor to share this outstanding information with you. Hi Barbara, I thought that it might be [...]

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Image via WikipediaVan Jones is one of my heroes, as readers of The Green Skeptic know. He has done some remarkable things at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and now is trying to focus attention on one of the critical needs of our economy: jobs.

Specifically, Green Jobs. Van's premise is that Americans can be put to work in the New Green Economy; that, in fact, it can help lift people out of poverty.

And there may be something to his assertion. While the manufacturing of materials and products associated with alternative energy or energy efficiency can be done overseas, the installation and servicing of those products needs to be done on site.

Now Van and his cohorts have conceived of a National Day of Action calling for Green Jobs Now. Tomorrow, Saturday, September 27, they are asking people to step up and say, "I'm ready for the green economy."

The objective is to foster a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.

Here are Van's own words, from the Green Jobs Now blog:

George W. Bush's house of credit cards is falling down - on the heads of the American people. We need dramatic action - but not just to bail out financial titans who destroyed the economy.

We need to throw a green life-line to the people who want to rebuild it.

There is only one comprehensive solution to the present mess: put America back to work retrofitting and repowering America with millions of green-collar jobs.

A new study from the Center for American Progress and PERI shows that it can be done.

Saturday, tens of thousands of people in all 50 states will be rallying, demanding real solutions for our communities. We are calling the events: "Green Jobs Now! A day to the build the new economy."

This massive green jobs day of action is being co-produced by Green for All, 1Sky and Al Gore's WE campaign - with more than 100 partner organizations. It is the first of its kind in the history of the country, and it will include people from all walks of life (including low-income people and people of color).

As of today, we have more than 600 events planned. You can pull up event details (and see a cool animated VIDEO) on www.greenjobsnow.com.

Now is the time for the USA to pivot away from an economy based on borrowing and toward one based on building. We need to rely less on credit from abroad and more on creativity here at home.

Please sign the petition! And join us!

And here is more detailed info:

Green Jobs Now, a national day of action this Saturday, September 27 to advance a socially just and inclusive green economy.

In collaboration with Green for All, 1Sky, and Al Gore's We Campaign, and many more organizations, we have organized nearly 600 Green Jobs Now events in all 50 states! Together we are building a movement to lift millions of people out of poverty and solve the climate crisis.

Our actions will send the message that people of all classes and colors are ready for a new economy - one that uplifts people and honors the planet. These events will call for building green pathways out of poverty and into prosperity for millions of people. From coast to coast, tens of thousands of people will tell the world: "Were ready for the green economy."

Goals for the National Day of Action:

1. Encourage elected leaders and presidential candidates to prioritize green jobs and an inclusive green economy.

2. Build a powerful and diverse base of organizers, promoting the movement for green jobs as the best way to fight poverty and global warming.

3. Elevate the voices of low-income people, people of color and other vulnerable constituencies in the movement for green jobs.

For more information and to find an event near you, visit: www.GreenJobsNow.com .

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When a large, well-known company actually does something good (which, if you keep up with the news these days, you know is very rare) they deserve to be recognized.


JohnsonDiversey, one of the world's largest providers of commercial cleaning products and services, announced earlier this month that it has joined The World Wildlife Fund's Climate Savers program, pledging to significantly reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions from their operations. Virtually everyone's lives are affected by the practices adopted by restaurants, nursing homes, schools, etc. A big business leaves a big footprint.

The Climate Savers program is only one way JohnsonDiversey is showing that it cares: they also sponsor Habitat for Humanity; a link to their 2007 Global Responsibility Report is easily found on the front page of their website; their cleaning products are created with the latest innovations in green technology; and they don't just make the products, they teach you how to use them in an environmentally responsible manner.

JohnsonDiversey Chairman S. Curtis Johnson says, "Our objectives have always extended beyond financial growth to include promoting the health and well being of our planet and the people who share it ... By joining Climate Savers, JohnsonDiversey is demonstrating that the world's leading companies will find even greater success competing in the global marketplace when they operate in an environmentally responsible way. We hope and expect the rest of their industry will take notice and follow the powerful example being set by JohnsonDiversey to reduce emissions and help preserve the health of our planet."

Finally - a company that "gets it!"

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Who doesn't love a sale? I've done some searching and found some sites having sales and/or coupons, and thought it would be nice to share.

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Image via WikipediaLate Tuesday afternoon the Senate voted to extend renewable energy tax credits for the wind and solar industries. The final tally: 92-3; a surprising slam dunk.

Surprising because the tax credits had been held hostage by partisan politics for much of this year and, as deadlines loomed, it didn't look good for getting it passed.

But concern on both sides of the aisle about the economy and energy forced the hand of compromise. Extending the credits now also happens to secure something on the order of 115,000 jobs and at least $19 billion in renewable energy investments.

This is a good thing and has largely gone unnoticed in all the hullabaloo around the $700B Bailout plan. And, I believe, this has the potential to have more and longer impact on the economy than Paulson's Power Play.

Why? Because this investment in the new green economy can unleash opportunities for alternative energy investors and companies, opportunities that have been waiting in the wings for too long.

The Bill, known as the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, stipulates

* $18 billion in tax credits for using wind, solar, and geothermal
energy sources.
* 30 percent tax credit for the purchase of residential, commercial, and
utility-scale solar PV systems with no cap for eight years.
* Extension of the production tax credit for wind for one year.
* Extension of tax credits for wave and ocean tidal energy.
* Qualification for residential and commercial small-scale wind and geothermal heat pumps.
* Taxpayers subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax are now eligible for the tax credit.

Removing the cap for the maximum available 30 percent tax credit is a big deal for for both residential and commercial solar project developers. The previous cap was a paltry $2,000, which doesn't go far with most solar projects.

Now financiers of larger projects are eligible to get back at least 30 percent of their investment with no cap. And those who were on hold waiting for tax credits to pass, may now be gearing up.

In addition, utilities, which heretofore were not allowed to receive solar tax credits, are now able to realize the benefits. This could increase solar spending among utilities in states requiring minimum percentages of electricity from renewable resources.

Effects of the passing of this legislation were already having an impact on solar stocks yesterday.

Now it's up to the House to polish it up and for President Bush to put his veto stamp away. He has, according to sources familiar with the situation, expressed his support for renewable energy tax credits and even the ATM provisions.

We'll see.

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I have never purchased organic food from the grocery store as I can not stomach the prices (we buy from the local farmers market instead). If buying organic is a priority to you then here are some tips on how best to spend your money based on the amount of pesticides used on that particular produce. If you can't buy all organic produce pick the one's that would use the highest pesticides if weren't organic.

The Environment Working Group released a study of the pesticide loads in produce. Recently the Nest published an article on the study and I found it to be very interesting and thought I would pass it along.

The Top 10 produce with the highest pesticide loads are:

1. Peaches
2. Apples
3. Sweet Bell Peppers
4. Celery (is this why I think it tastes like soap??)
5. Nectarines
6. Strawberries
7. Cherries
8. Lettuce
9. Grapes
10. Pears

The Bottom 10 produce with the lowest pesticide loads are (#1 being lowest):

1. Onions
2. Avocado
3. Sweet Corn
4. Pineapples
5. Mango
6. Sweet Peas
7. Asparagus
8. Kiwi
9. Banana's
10. Cabbage

I can't help but notice that half of the produce in the bottom 10 are typically not grown in our climate. Maybe we are just pesticide happy up here.

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Consider digital versions of your magazine subscriptions

The paperless world promised by computers sure does use a lot of paper.  If your office is anything like mine, you have people printing emails - often many emails - and then just leaving the paper on the printer, forgetting all about it.  Even though we have a digital copy of nearly every document ever sent to us, businesses and individuals just don’t feel quite right unless there is also a hard copy filed away somewhere.

And then there are magazines.  There are trade magazines which are often offered for free to anyone who works in a specific industry.  These magazines are very easy to subscribe to (and often hard to STOP subscribing to), which means that businesses generally receive many copies of the same issue, when only a couple would suffice.  We also all have our own personal subscriptions.  Trade magazines have begun to offer electronic versions, which, if used, cuts down significantly in trash generated by businesses, as well as virgin paper used to print the hard copy version of the magazine.

But what can be done about the personal magazine subscriptions that come to your home?  Enter Zinio.  Zinio offers a pretty substantial number of popular magazines in a digital format.  When you subscribe to a magazine, you have two options:

1. You can view the magazines through the Zinio website - instantly.  No waiting for the issue to be mailed to your house or to pick it up on the newsstand.  You will need to be connected to the internet to use this option.
2. Download and install the Zinio Reader - this option allows you to download the issues of the magazine onto your computer. They will be available anytime even if you are not connected to the Internet.

Zinio actually does have some trade magazines available as well: http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/105/10501

Here are a few of the environmental magazines available through Zinio:

• Ode
• Good
• Yoga Journal
• Green Source

Additionally, here is a post on Sustainablog that includes a review of someone who sampled Zinio’s service and what she thought about it.

Namaste,
A. Caleb Hartley

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Do you use any digital subscriptions? Would you consider doing so? Why or why not? Deliver your opinions to the comment section and tell people what you think!