Sustainability

 Considering some of the climate change  efforts...

Some videos to share about the Green Wall being built tree-by-tree across Africa.

..and I enjoyed seeing the following video which shows the 4 year training efforts of planting just a small area of trees at a time, then other plants for food and other sources.

These videos were shared with me by Cathy Holt, a former Asheville NC resident, who now lives in South America and publishes an occasional blog post through "Medium." Here's the link to her latest post: https://cathyholt.medium.com/earth-us-africas-great-green-wall-food-forest-barichara-s-water-ea501489c38d

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And my new newsletter "The Contrarian" selected Al Gore for their weekly standout figure for democracy last week.

"Climate change deniers have derided Vice President Al Gore for decades. And yet with each new climate change-enhanced disaster, his warnings about global warming seem more prescient...

Slamming President Trump’s climate denial and “phony” energy emergence, he declared, “These performative acts show the pervasive influence that the fossil fuel industry will have in the United States over the next four years. But make no mistake, the global Sustainability Revolution is unstoppable.” He slammed withdrawal from the Paris Accords as “shortsighted abdication of leadership that will only serve to put our nation at a disadvantage.

“Trump officially barred new offshore wind leases and will review federal permitting of wind projects, making good on a promise to ‘end leasing to massive wind farms that degrade our natural landscapes and fail to serve American energy consumers,’” Vox reported. Even his own party members may dissent. (“The top four states for wind generation — Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Kansas — are solidly red, and unlikely to acquiesce. Even Trump’s pick for Interior secretary, Doug Burgum, refused to disavow wind power during a hearing last week, saying he would pursue an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy.”)

Meanwhile, in targeting credits for EV’s Trump is handing China a gift. Rattner notes that while the U.S. lags in EV production, only 10 percent of our car production is electric. In China, that number is 50 percent. China dominates the world market with 76 percent of the global market.

The rest of this article "Undaunted: A champion for truth, science, and responsible stewardship" was published Jan. 24, 2025, by Jennifer Rubin.

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Today's quote:

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers. 

-Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)

Today's art:

Unknown photographer

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You may notice I'm posting more that will share the efforts all over the world to better our possible chance of survival from the climate crisis, and oh yes, the political one as well.

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Today is day 3 after dental work, and the area where novocaine was pumped is still sore and swollen, and my lower left lip is somewhat "frozen" and it's hard to talk. So I'm trying to get in to see my doctor sometime today...and taking ibuprofen. It's been hard to talk with only 3/4 of my lips working, not to mention my looking quite gorilla -ish!