Comment on the Keystone XL pipeline - until March 7, 2014
30-day public comment period for State Dept Final SEIS started yesterday:
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=DOS-2014-0003-0001
A future of community centers and free Internet books is brighter than a future of coal trains and pipe lines!
Nature is our partner and basis for future survival, not a free good, external or sink.
According to environmental economist Hans Christoph Binswanger, the three crises - mass unemployment, environmental destruction and trade balance - can only be solved by abandoning the model of quantitative growth and embarking on qualitative growth. A job in education costs 1/10 what a joy in a capital intensive industry like chemical dyes costs.
Conservation saves more energy than building power plants. An we mend our own pockets and rescue the world from financialization/commodification and short-term profit worship?