Lame play on words, but I wanted to write a brief commentary on the energy, emotionally, of our nation post Tuesday’s election. Tuesday itself was a holiday to me, commanding more honor than so many national holidays, I have looked forward to Election 2008 since summer of 2007. I compiled a short video of Marc’s [...]
The film here was filmed in mid-September, as Green Grounded and the Triangle were suffering from $5 a gallon gasoline. “Drill Baby Drill!” was a popular chant (or source of criticism), and I was still driving Gina. I planned on airing it before registration deadline, but life (and car accidents) got in the way.
I waited [...]
Green Grounded got a great sticker from Toastie regarding the environment, and it’s timely, due to the upcoming election.
It’s horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~ Ansel Adams
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The deadline for voter registration in North Carolina is FRIDAY, 10 October 2008, so Green Grounded encourages you North Cackalackians to GET REGISTERED. Otherwise, you don’t get to make that difference… and for the first time in history, North Carolina could be an important link in the Presidential Elections! We could even end up a [...]
According to the NC State Board of Elections:
Voter Registration as of 10/03/2008
Democratic: 2,736,668
Republican: 1,960,138
Libertarian: 1,603
Unaffiliated: 1,332,583
Total: 6,030,992
So, if Democrats outnumber Republicans here in NC, why are we notoriously a Red State? Are those “unaffiliated” voters primarily closet-Republicans? Or are Democrats just not voters?
Just curious if you have any thoughts…
Sustainably yours, [...]
Don’t vote. Do not vote. As much as Green Grounded has previously taken the stance that you need to vote, we’ve changed our tune.
Don’t vote. Not like it matters anyhow. After all, this whole last week has shown me what good it all does anyhow. Right?
Now tell all your friends… don’t vote.
Sustainably yours, Ashley Sue
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For Car-Free Day, I will share with you a (partisan) photobucket pic I ran across about Obama and McCain and their transportation footprint:
On that note, I also mentioned that DATA and Wolfline Bus trips were free today. I saw over on David’s New Raleigh that Raleigh’s CAT busline was too, and tomorrow at the Moore’s [...]
Back to the overfishing conundrum, I just received an email from Elizabeth Ouzts of Environment NC:
Hi ,
The Pacific leatherback turtle is on the brink of extinction.
There are only 350 northern right whales left off the Atlantic coast.
Red snapper populations in the Gulf of Mexico are down to 5 percent of the species’ historical numbers.
The list [...]
Here in the Triangle, the housing market isn’t our biggest financial woe. Energy costs is.
As the price of energy goes up incrementally every day, we are less concerned with foreclosures (though some do face this nightmare, we are significantly lower in foreclosures than the national average) and far more concerned with the cost of going [...]
Voting literally took about as long as it will take you to watch this, and NC has now heard two more voices during this all important election. Seriously… get out there, or cram it next time you want to complain about gas prices, food prices, school systems or transportation. :) Happy Tuesday Voting!
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