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Stop Chase from funding the destruction of America
Social Media Can Move Mountains, Or Keep Them In Place
Today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) hosts PUT CHASE ON THE RUN, a social media day of action, to convince Chase bank to stop funding mountaintop removal coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains.
JP Morgan Chase is the biggest U.S. financier of Mountaintop Removal (MTR). Mountaintop removal is the highly destructive mining practice that blows apart the tops of mountains in order to access coal in the cheapest way possible. MTR has buried over 2000 miles of rivers and streams and destroyed nearly 1.2 million acres of the Appalachian range. MTR has severely contaminated the air and drinking water, causing increased rates of mortality and disease for local people in the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.
Join dozens of organizations and thousands of online activists in convincing Chase to stop destroying American mountains. Take a simple action on your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, blog or email to end mountaintop removal in 2010. Go to www.DirtyMoney.org for instructions and PUT CHASE ON THE RUN!
Tags: Chase, Chase Bank, JP Morgan Chase, mountaintop removal, MTR, coal, mining, dirty energy, pollution, global warming, destruction, Appalachia, Jamie Dimon, Crandall Bowles, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Put Chase On The Run, Rainforest Action Network, RAN, ran.org
Tickell Vs. Starbuck & Harper
Follow the instructions in this book and run a very serous risk of being poisoned, blinded, burned and even killed!
I loved Joshua Tickell’s book “From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank”, indeed back in about 2000 it it not an exaggeration to say that it did nothing short of change my life.
However as time has passed research has been done and methods perfected which make Joshua’s book extraordinarily dated. Even though Joshua has had several opportunities the rework the book it still contains, among other things, plans for a DIY biodiesel processor which expose the user a very serous risk of being poisoned, blinded, burned and even killed!
It is time From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank was either rewritten or removed from sale, it is dangerous!
Back in 2007 I and my friend Gavin set out to write an up to date book on running diesel engines on biofuels, biodiesel and vegetable oil.
The giant publishing house McGraw -Hill liked our pitch and bought our book. Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels was published in October 2008.
I am very proud of our book, it was an enormous undertaking and we both worked very hard to make it the best, most complete, most accurate, friendly and readable book on DIY biofuels, biodiesel and SWO on the market.
Buy this book, it is much better, much more accurate and much more up to date.
Nevertheless one year on our book is not selling half as well as Joshua’s one. Despite it being ten-years-old and ten-years-out-of-date, people still seem to prefer to buy Joshua’s book…. with something like ten-times as many people buying his book on Amazon.com… over ours.
If you are one of the folks who has bought a copy of my book then thank you! We would appreciate you taking the time to review it for us… preferably favourably, but not necessarily… even just a few lines is going to be very helpful.
Either send the review directly to us, or go on line and review it at www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com (depending on whether you are a US or UK coustomer, they don’t seem able to integrate these things) or at one of the thousands of other places you could review a book on diesel engines and biofuels.
HHOTec bring their scam from Carolina to the UK
HHO Tec’s website has improved massively since I last saw it, and so has the sophistication and language used, but it is all risible nonsense, all bullshit dressed up as science, all a complete scam, con men after your money while pretending to be trying to save you cash and the environment at the same time.
WaterMotive Ltd, Water4GasUK, Tranztec UK - more Hydrocharger websites
Samantha and Neil Prendergast of Hydrocharger are also responsible for WaterMotive Ltd and Water4GasUK and Tranztec UK, three more UK based HHO scams. Neil and Sam Prendergast were also the founders of “Water Fuel Expert“, an old USA based HHO scam. I wonder if there are any more I have missed? Read the rest of this entry »
Magnets4Energy.com is a scam.
Another Joseph W. Newman style scam: http://www.magnets4energy.com/ has appeared, there is a new one just about every month. Read the rest of this entry »
Eco Scams on Facebook
earth4energy.com and homemadeenergy.org are the owners of the latest adverts on Facebook to piss me off; to argue if it is a scam or not is splinting hairs, what they claim to be able to teach you is grossly exaggerated and extraordinarily disingenuous nonsense, it is a con and a definite waste of money.
Coal
I have every intention of bloging something here properly one day……….. but for the time being here are a couple of links:
Oxfam come out against coal, Kinsnorth
Time to bury the ‘clean coal’ myth
Fred Pearce exposes how energy companies and governments are trying to rebrand coal as a clean fuel of the future despite the evidence.
Who came up with the term “clean coal”? It is the most toxic phrase in the greenwash lexicon. George W Bush, by promising to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the pursuit of advanced “clean” coal technologies, certainly popularised it. But I’d love to know where it came from. Any thoughts out there?
It is, of course, oxymoronic. Coal is about acid rain and peasouper smogs, asthma and mercury contamination, radioactive waste emissions and ripping apart mountains, killing trees, lung cancer and, of course, global warming.
George Monbiot has gone nuclear! (not)
Back in 2004 (?) Amanda Roll-Pickering (now Amanda Starbuck, my wife) was the media officer at C.A.T. when, as I remember events, Peter Harper, a C.A.T. employee, publicly made reference to the idea that, depending on the way you look at it, nuclear may be bad but not be as bad as the worst effects of climate change.
Greenpeace’s Rolling Sunlight Global Warming Story Tour
The last couple of weeks of July 2008 I am spending on board Greenpeace’s Rolling Sunlight for its The Global Warming Story Tour, I will be cruising up and down the West Coast of the US with some folks from Greenpeace for twenty days while they collect personal video stories about how global warming is affecting ordinary American’s and getting them to ask the Congress to legislate to stop global warming by not investing in dirty or dangerous technologies and instead to use the money in clean, safe renewable energy!
