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Barry Commoner, another Legislative Update on Energy, plus Investment in Renewables

Barry Commoner , The "NY Times" has a great offering this week in its science section:  A Conversation With Barry Commoner – At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope.  In my post from April 5, Renewable Energy, I wrote "When I read Barry Commoner's The Politics of Energy, published in 1979, I […]

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Sierra Leone court to hand down first war crimes verdict.

Sierra Leone court to hand down first war crimes verdict.

UPDATE: As expected,  charges were handed down to the defendants for 11 of the 14 counts today. BBC has more here. The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) is expected to hand down its first convictions for war crimes today. Three former militia leaders are to be convicted on a 14-count indictment for crimes against […]

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The Plight of Unacompanied Child Refugees

The Plight of Unacompanied Child Refugees

Photo by Mark Edwards In honor of today being International Refugee Day, I want to draw your attention to the millions of child refugees, who are parentless and alone in their struggle for safety and a home. For millions of children home is a word has very little meaning, or serves only as a painful […]

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Legislative Update

Dingell v Pelosi – This is from the Center for American Progress today: “Two senior House Democrats — facing opposition from their party’s top leader, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — have abandoned their legislative effort to block California and a dozen other states from regulating greenhouse gases from cars and trucks.” Energy in the Senate […]

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Agent Orange case in US appeals court

Agent Orange case in US appeals court

The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals yesterday heard a class action claim against 37 producers and suppliers of the chemical herbicide, dioxin, which was used as a component in the defoliant, Agent Orange. Agent Orange, so named for the markings on its shipping containers, was used as a defoliant to destroy cover by communist forces […]

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World Refugee Day, June 20th

World Refugee Day, June 20th

Photo: Karel Prinsloo – AP There are 12 million refugees, as of 2005, and an additional 21 million Internally displaced persons scattered across the globe today, approximately 44% of which are children. Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 is World Refugee Day, a day set to honor the plight and resilient struggle of refugees around the […]

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World Clean Energy Awards

The same folks who brought you the solar boat that crossed the Atlantic in May (see my post of May 14, Solar Boating and Green Building) have just had the inaugural "World Clean Energy Awards."  This prestigious event had worthy folks such as Amory Lovins and Nicky Gavron as jury members (both of whom have […]

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Generals face war crimes charges in Croatian court

Generals face war crimes charges in Croatian court

A Croatian district court today opened the trial of two suspected war criminals in the first case transferred from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to a domestic court system. Mirko Norac and Rahim Ademi, two Croation army generals, face war crimes charges for atrocities allegedly committed during a land seizure campaign […]

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International Pedaphile Ring Broken Wide Open Today

International Pedaphile Ring Broken Wide Open Today

This morning British police after 10 months of investigations, with agencies around the globe, finally broke through an international internet pedophile ring. The internet site was dishearteningly called, “Kids the Light of Our Lives”, and its founder went by the screen name “Son of God”. Membership of the internet pedophile ring was is over 700, […]

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Vlastimir Djordjevic, Serbian war criminal, arrested

BBC: Montenegro has arrested a former Serbian security chief accused by the UN war crimes tribunal of ordering the killing of Kosovo Albanians. Vlastimir Djordjevic is due to be transferred to The Hague where he is one of four Serbian generals accused of crimes in the breakaway province. The arrest may mark another step by […]

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HAPPY FATHER's DAY!

HAPPY FATHER's DAY!

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16th International Day of the African Child

16th International Day of the African Child

Children in Africa are faced with a plethora of human rights violations in their daily struggles for survival. Parents and children in the west often take our freedoms, health and educations for granted, while on the continent of Africa diseases of the past still run rampant, child labor and the use of child soldiers impacts […]

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Miscellany

Energy in the Senate – Following up on my last post, on the energy debate in Congress, there were a couple of interesting developments yesterday. In the Senate, an amendment offered by John Warner of Virginia to allow offshore drilling was narrowly defeated. More importantly, an amendment offered by the ranking Republican on the Senate […]

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Ex U.N. chief, suspected Nazi, Waldheim dies at 88.

Ex U.N. chief, suspected Nazi, Waldheim dies at 88.

Former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim died yesterday of heart failure.  Waldheim served at the head of the world body from 1972-1981 and later held the largely ceremonial presidency of Austria from 1986-1992.  His tenure was tarnished by his service in German high command during World War II.  In response, the U.S. Justice Department placed […]

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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. -Walt Disney

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. -Walt Disney

Fear not the power your words have on your children, you are their teachers, idols and role models. Whether a parent or not, their are children out there looking up to you for guidance, be open, be honest and most of all allow children those same rights as they express their own ideas and thoughts.

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