Tag: electricity
How Many Mountains Has Your MP3 Player Destroyed?
by director on Feb.08, 2009, under Ecology
Okay, maybe it’s not just your MP3 player, and maybe it’s not just you, but the American appetite for cheap electricity has indeed destroyed mountains. That’s not a figurative statement.
I Love Mountains logs 470 mountains that have been destroyed through mountaintop coal mining.
In a particularly useful tool for encouraging accountability, the site allows a person to enter in their zip code and see whether their own local power company burns coal from mountaintop removal. Mine – NYSEG – does, at the AES Cayuga coal burning power plant.
That gives me information about how my energy conservation can make a real impact in reducing mountaintop removal, air pollution and global warming.
Earth Hour Not Quite Yet Upon Us
by director on Jan.30, 2009, under Ecology
The hour of the Earth is not quite yet here… It’s on March 28th at 8:30 PM. That’s the time of Earth Hour this year.
During Earth Hour, people across the world will make a simple act: They will turn off the lights. Wherever they are, at home or at work, they will choose not to participate in the unsustainable economy of artificial energy.
Will this one hour make a big difference, in the economy or in the ecology of the planet? Well, for that one hour it will.
Think of it as a warmup exercise. Right now, the idea that we can exist without artificial lights after dark is perceived as something radical. In fact, it’s the most natural thing there could be.
With 6 billion people on Earth, an Earth Hour is something we need a lot more of. Maybe after this year, people could celebrate a true Earth Day, expending no artificial energy. In 2010, we could extend that to an Earth Week, and from there on in, we might start to actually make a difference.
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