Happy Christmaramadakwaanzakuhstice!

Yes, It’s 6 months early, but I wanted to call your attention to a campaign initiated by Green Jenni and City Hippy that encourages as many people as possible to purchase and use energy saving light bulbs as gifts for the holiday season.

Check out the details here.

I was scheduled to see the film “An Inconvenient Truth” featuring Al Gore last night, but had to miss it due to the arduous task of moving my school (which is taking longer than I imagined, involving long strenuous hours to accomplish). I hope to be able to see the film sometime over the next week after my moving responsibilities are completed.

Jen’s Green Journal has an account of the movie and discussion following.

I am fortunate to be on the Green Party of the United States’ Eco Action Committee, as secretary, members of which are diligently working on position statements for the GPUS and for candidates around the nation in efforts to address the seriousness of the effects of global warming on our planet and its life.

Not surprisingly, the United States has refused to join new talks
aimed at producing a new set of binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions that would take effect beginning in 2012, according to a Washington Post article reprinted in today’s Deseret News.

All other industrialized nations have agreed to participate in this new round of talks on the issue. The U.S. has agreed, however, to engage in “non-binding” dialogue without any commitments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions associated with climate change.
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