Look up and the sky is beautiful but we should not forget that the heavens are key to the global struggle for survival .... look, chat, discover
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Gray Skys
What they say:
"To reduce environmental impacts, we address wildlife protection, wetlands preservation, reducing hydroelectric facilities’ impact on fish, plant relicensing, and bird interactions with power lines and wind turbines. We also use land reclamation techniques to restore habitat after completing mining operations."
What they do:
Friday, September 10, 2010
Coal Consumption is increasing
Thursday, September 9, 2010
lookupchat: Beware of Green Washing
Yes, so true. Remember that PacifiCorp with its Blue Sky campaign
gets most of its power from coal power plants.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Coal Power - Alphabet Soup
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Clean Coal is an oxymoron
Thursday, August 5, 2010
We share a sky that does not recognize national borders and therefore we share both its beauty and its corruption.
This is a series of woodcuts that grew out of my outrage at a local green washing campaign sponsored by Portland General Electric. PGE has a media campaign that extols their wind power and green energy while in realty, wind is only a small percentage of the electricity is generated and 40% is comes from a coal plant, Boardman. This antiquated plant was grandfathered in before the Clean Air Act and produces an astonishing array of pollutants that create a haze that hovers over the Columbia River. A miasma containing unsafe levels of mercury, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and tons of particulate matter is continually released contributing to global warming and public health concerns.