My goodness, this is the best story I have read in a long time. It was sent to me via the SRJC website which I am a member of. I will post this on SRJC Human Services Network to get the word out. Keep dreaming.
And I'd love it if PG&E were on this list, to weigh these companies fairly, and if Bohemian asked Sonoma Clean Power to talk about what it's like to try to buy cleaner power with a cheaper price in a market known for being dirty in general -- we as citizens just didn't push hard enough to demand a nation-wide clean energy supply, so now we're stuck with playing in the dirty muck of the energy market as it is.
I'm down in Long Beach and I'm starting to spread the word down here.
I like this article and I love the fact that the Bohemian is investigating something so important to all of us, but I'd love it EVEN MORE if your reporter looked into the labor practices of each company. You can't be a GREEN ENERGY provider if you don't pay workers decent wages and benefits and give them a voice at work (especially in jobs like this where public safety is at risk- do you want a worker to have to choose between speaking up about shoddy safety standards or losing his or her job?) Workers rights standards should be a part of any criteria in picking a "Green Energy Partner"
Why is it that nowhere in this story is AMGEN (the tour sponsor) mentioned as the manufacturer and clandestine provider of the primary drug in the scandal? Why do the riders get slammed over and over while the creator and pusher of EPO gets the publicity, and praise, for TOC despite being deeply and darkly implicated in some seriously ugly drug controversy? http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/armstr…
Power words that come from the heart!
The people who care need to coordinate with a bunch of friends with the right equipment and implements and cut the damn netting down yourselves. Do it at night if you have to. It should be obvious by now that these government idiots aren't going to do anything. Why are you surprised - it's what they do best.
You better get out there and help those birds or there will be thousands of dead ones in that netting. GET RID OF IT AND DO IT YOURSELf.
And if you are asked about it, respond like the governent agencies do: deny, deny deny.
“When the Swallows Come Back to Petaluma”
sung to the tune of “When the swallows Come Back to Capistrano”
When the swallows come back to Petaluma
That’s the time you need to to take down all those nets
When you look at the bridge in Petaluma
You will see poor little birds killed in the nets
All the people on the ground are calling all around
The cruelty it astounds even hearts made of lead.
When the swallows come back to Petaluma
That’s the time you need to to take down all those nets
If you care about birds in Petaluma
Please sign on, raise your voice, save the birds.
Meant the petition to remove the nets. It is located on the NSCC website (native songbird care & conservation).
Broderick
I have pledged $100 to NSCC to help Bowers her staff and her mission. I have signed the petition to remove the nets on the NSCC website. I have shared this horrible problem with over a hundred conservationists....If you can please help. Please sign the petition, please spread the word....
Thank-you.
Broderick
West County Hawk Watch.
Re: “The Final Four”
Yes, I too would like PG&E to be compared with the 4 companies being considered by SCE. I am shocked at the heavy involvement in nuclear and would never support that. And i grew up in NYC with ConEd, which I associate with belching smokestacks. I suspect that PG&E might look angelic in a comparison with Con Ed. Although I spoke last night in favor of Petalumans having some choice, what I have read here is looking like "out of the frying pan and into the fire." I am concerned and would like to hear what Sonoma Clean Energy has to say about the advantages of going with their plan.