Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Hot & Now - Really, Now, I mean it.

Okay, so for a while there it looked like my grand plans to start posting exciting hot off the press opportunities to be your very own progressive patriot were all part of an oafish scheme to commemorate Scott Mclellan's departure as White House Spokeperson by having this post become "inoperative."

Well, think again you darned cynic you. Here's your creme-filled, chocolate frosting activism. And thanks Lance for explaining the mishap with BlueNC, and not dropping a boatload of smackdown on me for not acting sooner.

Help Mother Earth, God's Creation or those natural areas that hide what you do when you don't want your mother or God watching:

NC Conservation Network: Quick, run little children, go help lobby for Clean Water - tomorrow. Sorry, that's piss poor, NC Conservation Network was on this a while back, and I should have moved a lot quicker. But I'll make it up to nature, because one way or the other, nature is going to even things up for us.

Why should you care about water, well, for one thing, not having enough clean public water supply is going to decimate our planet's supply of plastic. And I don't think I need to point out that there are some pretty bad side-effects to using up your plastic. And not just making that line in The Graduate seem even more dated. Where, pray tell, do you think most bottles end up. (Hint, Tony Soprano gets his health insurance from the proprieter.)

In addition to promoting clean pulbic water, you also should help promote safe well-water. As someone who deals with low-income housing issues, I can say from experience, this is a major health and financial issue for North Carolina's rural poor.

We also need smart energy . That's why Brian Busby's NC Conservation Network's executive director, says we need:

* Greater investment in renewable and efficient sources of energy.
* Encouragement of alternative fuels and hybrid vehicles with tax exemptions and credits.
* A commitment to using state-of-the-art energy efficiency techniques before building costly and polluting new power plants.
* More funding for education and other programs that help North Carolinians make smart energy choices.

So, donate your ducats over to NC Conservation Newtork. Or take action, and push for North Carolina to provide incentives for energy efficiency.

Because, we've tried plenty of Dumb Energy here in the Bush-Cheney era, we need Smart Energy.

Also, check out Bike-to-Work week, see if there's a Starbucks near you offering free lattes for skipping the caily grind of traffic. The weather's nice, you're nice, you both should be together more.


More action coming to you soon. But I've got to roll some dough to put the sign back on.

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