You may use this content (better still, argue with me!), but please cite the the PRNewswire, © 2007. I have expressed no opinions in this post--Dr. Bruce Klopfenstein. It's interesting that this article suggests consumers may be "easily" persuaded to buy "green" products.
I certainly can NOT vouch for this product in any way, shape or form, but here is their news release that sounds good anyway:
Environmentally-Friendly GreenPan Cookware Sells Out in Four Hours During the World Launch Exclusively on HSN
Issue: 08/27/07 | From: Backchannelmedia
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GreenPan(TM) cookware with breakthrough Thermolon(TM) non-stick coating made history on HSN and http://www.HSN.com when it debuted Thursday, July 26th and sold 24,000 pieces in just under 4 hours.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070214/CLW048LOGO-b )
HSN's "Mother of Invention" Joy Mangano and celebrity chef Todd English unveiled GreenPan(TM), the first environmentally-friendly, PTFE-free non-stick cookware, selling out 4 products during the live TV shopping debut. Sold out items included:
-- 6-piece GreenPan(TM) cookware set consisting of an 8 inch Fry Pan, 11
inch round Grill Pan, 11 inch Fry Pan, and 11 inch Steamer Insert
-- 8 inch Fry Pan
-- 12 inch Fry Pan
-- 3-piece Wok Set
"With GreenPan(TM), we are changing the future of cookware. This launch was the culmination of a remarkable year spent developing this incredible technology and applying it to everyday products," said legendary HSN on-air personality Joy Mangano. "Consumer response was heartwarming and encouraging. People are trying to do their part for the environment and thinking towards the future!"
GreenPan(TM) cookware with Thermolon(TM) non-stick coating was developed in partnership between HSN and manufacturing company, GreenPan(TM) LTD. Thermolon(TM) is the first patented, ceramic-based nano non-stick coating that performs at high temperatures without deterioration. It is PTFE-free, and uses no PFOA in manufacturing, making GreenPan(TM) cookware "green" in manufacturing.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Lowest Streamflow in 110 Years Recorded in North Carolina
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Lowest Streamflow in 110 Years Recorded in North Carolina
RALEIGH, North Carolina, August 31, 2007 (ENS) - The lowest average August streamflow in 110 years of North Carolina recordkeeping was measured last month on the Tar River at Tarboro, in the east-central part of the state.
Streamflow figures released by the U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, on Friday show that the hot, dry days of August brought record lows to many of the state's rivers and streams amidst worsening drought conditions. People across most of eastern North Carolina are being asked to conserve as much water as they can.
Environment News Service, http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2007/2007-08-31-091.asp
The USGS and its federal, state, and local cooperators maintain 270 streamgaging stations and 39 monitoring wells throughout North Carolina.
These measurements show that the lowest average August streamflow on record occurred at 12 other monitoring stations in the state, but not compared to a 110 year period as on the Tar River.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Q&A With Al Gore
Here's a very recent interview with Al Gore appearing in Rolling Stone magazine. It still seems fashionable to make light of, if not outright bash Gore. It really does seem like the right person, for the right job, at the right time. I'm not sure how anyone can comment on "An Inconvenient Truth" without seeing it, but they do. I caught even left-leaning comedian Bill Maher literally saying "Al Gore's just to easy to be made fun of." OK, so he said he invented the Internet. Get over it. By now, Gore has the resilience of a prize fighter, I'm sure. At any case, anyone under 60 or with children will experience the effects of Global Warming (someone tell me about the genesis of "Climate Change." I realize it somehow took the wind out of the sails of the anti-Global Warming myth making machine: insert politically conservative organization here).
I want to post a link here to the Rolling Stone recent Rolling Stone article which includes an interview with Vice President Gore.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15051572/al_gores_fight_against_the_climate_crisis. Interesting, Al Gore argues that this is not a political issue.)
I want to post a link here to the Rolling Stone recent Rolling Stone article which includes an interview with Vice President Gore.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15051572/al_gores_fight_against_the_climate_crisis. Interesting, Al Gore argues that this is not a political issue.)
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
The "Global Warming Is a Myth" Crowd
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While researching funding sources for my desire to produce an interactive television program about Global Warming, I found this from an independent/liberal web site, http://www.democracynow.org:
Image above courtesy of http://www.vincedorse.com/gallery/GlobalWarmingMyth.html.
While researching funding sources for my desire to produce an interactive television program about Global Warming, I found this from an independent/liberal web site, http://www.democracynow.org:
A new investigation by Mother Jones magazine has revealed that ExxonMobil has spent at least $8 million dollars funding a network of groups to challenge the existence of global warming. We speak with the author of the report, a member of one the organizations that receives money from Exxon and a journalist covering environmental and climate change issues.You can go to the site, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/22/1338256&mode=thread&tid=25, to listen to an archived newscast that includes this discussion.
As is not atypical in U.S. politics, groups choose names that confuse the audience. For example, who do you think is behind http://www.globalwarming.org/? Well, it's certainly not people who are trying to educate the population about Global Warming and what to do about it. Instead, it cleverly has links to resources that challenge the position that we are experiencing Global Warming and that human activity is a major cause of the phenomenon. For an example, see http://www.cato.org/research/nat-studies/global-warming.html Here is a gem from globalwarming.com:
Consumer AlertWhat a great exercise for rhetoricians. The assumption that "reducing emissions would likely cause great economic damage" should be held up to scrutiny. The mainstream media have been very slow to take-up the Global Warming issue, but if you check English language news sites around the world, Global Warming is not portrayed as a "debate" but rather a problem that we need to address.
November 11, 2000
The Global Warming Debate [Debate?]
In 1992 the United States and nations from around the world met at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio and agreed to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The Rio Treaty was not legally binding and, because reducing emissions would likely cause great economic damage [emphasis added], many nations will not meet the goal.
The goal of the reactionaries to the science of Global Warming have cleverly cast it as a "debate." This debate would be about the same as the "debate" as to whether the sun rises in the east or rises in the west. Wired magazine ran a story last year about how some scientists are being paid off by "grants" from utilities to offset the "alarmist" Global Warming scientists http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2006/07/71486
This is discouraging because this site politicizes Global Warming. Is Global Warming really a political issue? The answer would seem to be "yes" to those who assume all the scientists in the world are part of a liberal underground that somehow wants to bring down the U.S. economy in particular by, presumably, taking all the cars and trucks off the highways for starters. What a shame that these otherwise bright people aren't putting their energies into developing profitable technologies that put less greenhouse gases into the air and maybe even remove it. If you are scratching your head about why there are so many skeptics about Global Warming, The Wichita Eagle asks the same question.
My question to the oil and coal industries is why are you so worried that addressing Global Warming is a threat to you? No one is predicting a reduction in the demand for energy globally, quite the contrary. Where is the corporate conscience on this issue? Any energy company that develops new technologies that reduce carbon emissions will be cheered by everyone, especially investors. Oh, well, all the CEOs once told a Congressional hearing that there was no link between smoking and lung cancer.
Image above courtesy of http://www.vincedorse.com/gallery/GlobalWarmingMyth.html.
Al Gore, Stand-up Comedian
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There is a web site called http://www.ted.com that calls itself "TED: Ideas worth spreading."
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). It presently includes a presentation by Al Gore that was created after An Inconvenient Truth. The first half is Al Gore, the stand-up comedian. I was always perplexed at the critics that called his personality to be "wooden." I personally was pleasantly surprised at how animated he was in the 2000 campaign, especially the "debates" (I agree that they are really joint press conferences). You can see an update to his famous PowerPoint presentation at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/1.
Sounds like a winner to me.
There is a web site called http://www.ted.com that calls itself "TED: Ideas worth spreading."
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). It presently includes a presentation by Al Gore that was created after An Inconvenient Truth. The first half is Al Gore, the stand-up comedian. I was always perplexed at the critics that called his personality to be "wooden." I personally was pleasantly surprised at how animated he was in the 2000 campaign, especially the "debates" (I agree that they are really joint press conferences). You can see an update to his famous PowerPoint presentation at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/1.
The site says
About this Talk
With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways we can address climate change, from buying a hybrid car to inventing a hotter brand name for global warming. First, though, comes a hilarious set of stories from The New Gore, who turns out to be a stand-up comedian. The former Vice President has plenty of joke material, and he's funnier than you've ever seen him. Then he gets down to grittier matters with a list of actions ordinary people can take to stem the tide of global warming. His message: Doing something is easier than you think.
Sounds like a winner to me.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Global Warming: A Divide on Causes and Solutions
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From the highly respected Pew Research Center for the People and the Press comes a research article from January 2007 showing that a large majority of Americans (77% and more) report they believe the earth is warming, but under half believe it is due to human activity. The information about this article comes from The Pew Research Center.
Ironically, the article begins by noting the unusual weather that had preceded its publication in the winter of 2006-2007 and before the incredible summer weather we are experiencing from serious flooding in the midwest to unprecedented heat in a very larger portion of the central and southern U.S. Amazingly, "global warming" ranked dead last in a list of 23 items about which the respondents were polled. Only the Chinese in an earlier study expressed less concern than U.S. citizens. That's alarming when you consider that the U.S. and China are at the very top of the list of polluters contributing to global warming.
All images are courtesy of Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and were accessed from http://pewresearch.org/pubs/282/global-warming-a-divide-on-causes-and-solutions. on 27 August 2007.
From the highly respected Pew Research Center for the People and the Press comes a research article from January 2007 showing that a large majority of Americans (77% and more) report they believe the earth is warming, but under half believe it is due to human activity. The information about this article comes from The Pew Research Center.
Ironically, the article begins by noting the unusual weather that had preceded its publication in the winter of 2006-2007 and before the incredible summer weather we are experiencing from serious flooding in the midwest to unprecedented heat in a very larger portion of the central and southern U.S. Amazingly, "global warming" ranked dead last in a list of 23 items about which the respondents were polled. Only the Chinese in an earlier study expressed less concern than U.S. citizens. That's alarming when you consider that the U.S. and China are at the very top of the list of polluters contributing to global warming.
In addition, the Pew Research Center found that conservatives are far less concerned about global warming than liberals. Although it comes as no surprise, when I consider it I would like to better understand why conservatives are far more sanguine about global warming than liberals. Some probable answers are the misperceptions that addressing global warming means more government spending and, therefore, an issue conservatives would rather ignore or, perhaps worse, discredit. As I recall Al Gore explaining when he ran for president in 2000, the irony here is that there is money to be made in the private sector by companies that work on technologies to "fight" global warming such as any technologies that reduce the introduction of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and technologies (including plants) that will help suck CO2 out of the atmosphere. I invite the experts to comment here on technologies to lower carbon emissions, and the one elephant in the living room are the oceans that cover 2/3 of the earth. Perhaps they hold the key, but I won't pretend to be an expert on oceans and CO2. I plan to become one, however.
All images are courtesy of Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and were accessed from http://pewresearch.org/pubs/282/global-warming-a-divide-on-causes-and-solutions. on 27 August 2007.
Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real
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Greetings and salutations from Atlanta where we seem to have put an end to the 2 weeks or more of 100 degree plus temperatures. We're now in the mid-90s, nearly 15 degrees above normal. Certainly any give day's weather is not necessarily an indication of climate change (or calling a spade a spade, Global Warming), but I'll bet there are plenty of farmers in the U.S. who have to wonder if 2008 will be the next year to break the string of hottest years on record that we have seen in the last decade.
In an article published over a year ago, Amanda Griscom Little wrote from
http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2006/05/19/gore/index.html:
Greetings and salutations from Atlanta where we seem to have put an end to the 2 weeks or more of 100 degree plus temperatures. We're now in the mid-90s, nearly 15 degrees above normal. Certainly any give day's weather is not necessarily an indication of climate change (or calling a spade a spade, Global Warming), but I'll bet there are plenty of farmers in the U.S. who have to wonder if 2008 will be the next year to break the string of hottest years on record that we have seen in the last decade.
In an article published over a year ago, Amanda Griscom Little wrote from
http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2006/05/19/gore/index.html:
Think you've been hearing a lot about global warming lately? If a new climate-focused group hatched by Al Gore has its way, you ain't seen nothin' yet.It is my personal desire to "get certified" as an expert on "climate change" but the last I checked, the Gore folks had been overwhelmed with recruits and they weren't taking any more. I will see if I can climb about the train anyway (and remember, it's always better to climb on board the train than to get run over by it).
After nine months of behind-the-scenes planning and wrangling, the Alliance for Climate Protection is now nearly ready for prime time. Gore spoke about the alliance in an exclusive interview with Muckraker. He said the group aims to raise big bucks for a single goal: "To move the United States past a tipping point on climate change, beyond which the majority of the people will demand of the political leaders in both parties that they compete to offer genuinely meaningful solutions to the crisis."
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