Comments on: Clean Energy Acts http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2007/12/20/clean-energy-acts/ Ed Ring's EcoWorld Posts Sun, 5 Jul 2009 03:12:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Ed Ring http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2007/12/20/clean-energy-acts/comment-page-1/#comment-79949 Ed Ring Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:56:59 +0000 http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2007/12/20/clean-energy-acts/#comment-79949 Sheila: I love that you love the site. But which part of that post translated for you into "killing huge sections of wilderness?" Biofuel? What about "And where is the discussion of biofuel certification, so we can restore tropical rainforests?" EcoWorld has been raving about the problem of tropical deforestation in the name of saving the planet for years. It is one of our mantras. So please elaborate - what specifically has aroused your ire? We love decentralized solutions - for many reasons not the least of which is it will necessarily shrink the public sector... Sheila: I love that you love the site. But which part of that post translated for you into “killing huge sections of wilderness?” Biofuel? What about “And where is the discussion of biofuel certification, so we can restore tropical rainforests?”

EcoWorld has been raving about the problem of tropical deforestation in the name of saving the planet for years. It is one of our mantras. So please elaborate - what specifically has aroused your ire? We love decentralized solutions - for many reasons not the least of which is it will necessarily shrink the public sector…

]]> By: sheila http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2007/12/20/clean-energy-acts/comment-page-1/#comment-79946 sheila Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:55:49 +0000 http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2007/12/20/clean-energy-acts/#comment-79946 WTF, man? i love this site, but you can not really be falling for this astroturfed CRAP, can you? these guys are proposing to kill off billions of acres of healthy ecosystems to site their "cradle to cradle clean" killing fields. i love how you show a photo of a condor and cheer for environmentalists and at the same time, talk as though killing the entire CA wilderness is the greenest thing since three mile island's radioactive glow. what CA and the entire country need are DECENTRALIZED, LOCAL RENEWABLE solutions, SOLELY ON PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED LAND, like the rooftop PV so many of your articles advocate, and utility-scale projects only on "brownfields," old airfields, marginal agricultural lands, etc. it is incredibly serious to advocate killing huge, huge, huge sections of wilderness in a senseless stampede from coal to "renewables." if you are killing the planet, you cannot call it green. there is a smart, fiscally responsible way to do this - 100% power buybacks at peak rates (not "net metering"), subsidies, easy financing, etc. - let's have the people get a little something for their tax dollars, instead of always our land, our sun, our wind, and all our money flowing cheaply to utilities to bottle and sell back to us at extortionate profits, and a net loss of open space, plants, species, groundwater, etc. WTF, man? i love this site, but you can not really be falling for this astroturfed CRAP, can you? these guys are proposing to kill off billions of acres of healthy ecosystems to site their “cradle to cradle clean” killing fields. i love how you show a photo of a condor and cheer for environmentalists and at the same time, talk as though killing the entire CA wilderness is the greenest thing since three mile island’s radioactive glow.

what CA and the entire country need are DECENTRALIZED, LOCAL RENEWABLE solutions, SOLELY ON PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED LAND, like the rooftop PV so many of your articles advocate, and utility-scale projects only on “brownfields,” old airfields, marginal agricultural lands, etc.

it is incredibly serious to advocate killing huge, huge, huge sections of wilderness in a senseless stampede from coal to “renewables.” if you are killing the planet, you cannot call it green. there is a smart, fiscally responsible way to do this - 100% power buybacks at peak rates (not “net metering”), subsidies, easy financing, etc. - let’s have the people get a little something for their tax dollars, instead of always our land, our sun, our wind, and all our money flowing cheaply to utilities to bottle and sell back to us at extortionate profits, and a net loss of open space, plants, species, groundwater, etc.

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