The event was taped by LexMedia, look for it on your LexMedia LETV cable station. Click here to go to the schedule of showings, listed as “Cary Library Lecture, 4/9/2012.
Topics covered:
How has the Solar market changed?
• What are the options for going solar – leasing and buying?
• Learn 3 simple steps to determine your rooftop’s solar potential
• Solar Power Success Stories
• Powering our Town Buildings with Solar
Speakers
Mark Sandeen, Chair, Sustainable Lexington
Ben Cumbie, Solar PV Director for Transformations, Inc.
To learn more about what was presented:
Click here to see Mark Sandeen’s presentation.
Contact Ben Cumbie at ben@transformations-inc.com.
What does environmental devastation actually look like? At TEDxVictoria, photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos of the Alberta Tar Sands mining project — and the beautiful (and vital) ecosystems under threat.
This powerful talk is for anyone who thinks the tar sands are just another source of oil — and that the only source of greenhouse gases from the tar sands come from burning gas and oil.
Learn more by watching this Ted Talk: Garth Lenz: The true cost of oil
The answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change is that it is the wrong question. All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be….
The air is on average warmer and moister than it was prior to about 1970 and in turn has likely led to a 5–10 % effect on precipitation and storms that is greatly amplified in extremes. The warm moist air is readily advected onto land and caught up in weather systems as part of the hydrological cycle, where it contributes to more intense precipitation events that are widely observed to be occurring.
-Joe Romm’s ThinkProgress Climate Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/issue/
-Weather Underground with Jeff Master’s blog on extreme weather
www.wunderground.com/
-Daily Climate
www.dailyclimate.org/
Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It — Paul R. Epstein MD, Dan Ferber and Jeffrey Sachs
Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble – Lester R. Brown
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth —Mark Hertsgaard
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet —Bill McKibben
