Monday October 19, 2009, 7:52 pm
Ohhhhhh the missing link on climate change I thought you meant me....LOL

Big gorilly Hugs

Monday October 19, 2009, 9:23 pm
Of course we can all help with this issue by making good choices about what we buy in the first place - keep the carbon footprint in mind when buying goods - and this includes the packaging :)

Monday October 19, 2009, 11:37 pm
We're getting really good at taking in our own cloth bags to the stores (after running back to the car a few times, we've really got it down). And we also take in smaller bags for fruits and veggies so we never use the plastic ones in the produce aisle. We also make choices based on animal testing, recyclable containers, reusable containers, and lack of packaging. We filled out surveys and talked to the managers and now our local stores have stopped packaging produce - so we can use our own bags (our neighbor kept calling and asking, about twice a week and she probably is the motivation for that!). When I saw some items now sold with no packaging, I decided that we are doing better and making a difference. Plastic is so awful and it's a petroleum product too. Buying in bulk is good and so is buying concentrated versions! It's easy to make a difference right away.
Gorilly, you're not missing, you're a member of the family!!

Tuesday October 20, 2009, 2:38 am
great post daphna

Tuesday October 20, 2009, 10:04 am
“Personal carbon rations would have to be mandatory, imposed by Government in the same way that food rationing was introduced in the UK in 1939… Each person would receive an electronic card containing their year’s carbon credits …see the Tyndall Centre’s study on “domestic tradable quotas”… and their recent establishment on the political agenda…the card would have to be presented when purchasing energy or travel services, and the correct amount of carbon deducted. The technologies and systems already in place for direct debit systems and credit cards could be used.”

(Environmental Audit Committee minutes-House Of Commons-London)

Preface. This is a factual account of the highly politicised concept of catastrophic man made climate change. The views quoted above are supported in principle by the UK govt but said to be ahead of their time. However, the means to achieve them are now being quietly introduced into main stream thinking through the systematic use of a political agenda that uses the alarming notion of catastrophic man made climate change as the means to force through a measure of social engineering unequalled in the UK in modern times.

In promoting this notion, alternative and well researched views that oppose the science lying behind the unproven hypothesis are stifled, and derision heaped on those pointing out previous well documented warming and cooling periods that occur in, as yet, little understood cycles throughout our history.
read the rest
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/20/revealed-the-uk-government-strategy-for-personal-carbon-rations/