Environment

This spring, the White House challenged youth to share their stories about how they were promoting sustainability in their communities. Several winners of that challenge were highlighted during events at the Rio+20 Conference in Brazil in June and then came together at a White House event to discuss the work they are doing around environmental stewardship. August 31, 2012.

If there's one issue that hasn't been talked about enough in this election, it's the environment.

Emily from Englewood, CO, asks, "How can we get green parts manufactured here instead of [in] other countries? We need a green economy which includes parts manufacturing."

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The servers that host the Fort Bend Democrats website are environmentally "green" through the use of Texas wind power.

These servers are powered in an environmentally responsible way via Green-e certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) purchased from a Texas wind farm representing over 100 percent of the electricity used to both power and cool the web servers. RECs offset energy production through a renewable energy resource. The green energy is then fed into the electrical grid.

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science & Technology, Subcommittee on Energy & Environment, will hold a field hearing titled, “Energizing Houston: Sustainability, Technological Innovation, and Growth in the Energy Capital of the World.” The hearing will be held on February 29, 2008, 10:00 a.m., at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas. 

So many people these days have been exposed to harsh chemicals that they have developed serious reactions to them whenever they are exposed again. Certainly the earth has had its share of exposures. Some of us just want to not only take it easier on our families, but on the earth too. So according to the “Queen of Green”, Karen Ironkwe recommends the following:

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Last night I finished a fascinating book titled Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization, by W. Hodding Carter. In it, Mr. Carter not only writes how plumbers have changed history but that they have the ability to greatly help save our future. Simple technology in India is solving the horrendous problems of massive amounts of toxic and pathogenic excreta entering water supplies. Today as I'm working the polls and waiting for the mere less than 1% of my precinct's eligible voters to crawl from the woodwork and vote, I read in the Houston Chronicle where that has precisely started yesterday big time--in Texas!