http://www.perrycountygreens.org The Green Party of Perry County, Tennessee Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:17:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I mentioned village economics last week writing that our first priority should be food and water. One can live more than a month without food but will die in four days without water so let’s think about water. Water is what allowed life to happen on this planet ... http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2009/08/06/water-letter-to-the-editor/ This was a letter to the editor of The Buffalo River Review... The debate on health care is being put aside as the Senate takes the month off. Clearly it is an issue they would rather avoid altogether, after all they are covered very well themselves and the industry ... http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2009/07/28/health-care-debate/ I had to laugh when I read “Climate Change is a bigger issue than cow burps,” but thought it was a little misleading to speak of it in terms of grass fed cattle.  This is because 80% of the beef consumed in the US comes from factory feed ... http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2009/07/06/climate-change-is-a-bigger-issue-than-cow-burps/ Back on January 13 th, 2009, my wife and partner Katey had come up with an idea for the theme of an art program, The Forest that Feeds Us.  Since I often write topical songs she asked me to write one for the forest.  So that evening I ... http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2009/01/31/the-forest-feeds-us/ Brian Czech President, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy  The First Hundred Days:  A Precedent for the Next Hundred Years  The first thing Greens would do in office is continue leveling with Americans and resonating with their common sense.  We would clarify for all that the Wall Street obsession with economic growth ... http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2009/01/21/the-first-hundred-days-a-precedent-for-the-next-hundred-years/ Gaza is being bombed by Israel. Frightened children, their hungry mothers and the rest of their poor families are being bombed.  Schools, hospitals, mosques, markets and other public places are being bombed.  The cover for this, the terrible excuse, is that they are attacking terrorists.  But what could ... http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2009/01/10/the-vicious-silence/ It’s being called a huge environmental disaster but, unlike Katrina, the TVA coal ash pond dam collapse disaster was not caused by the environment.  Rather, this disaster was caused by the continued use of a dirty, poisonous fuel used in an outdated and inefficient mode of energy production, ... http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2009/01/10/the-coal-disaster/ Green Party leaders strongly criticized the Environmental Protection Agency's response to the recent spill of 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant. http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2009/01/08/greens-blast-epa-lack-of-preparedness-in-handling-tva-plants-coal-ash-spill/ Alison Duncan, the Green Party of New York State's 2006 candidate for Lieutenant Governor, has rated Governor David Paterson on 25 Green Party challenges for his first year in office. The challenges, which are listed below, were first issued to Eliot Spitzer after he was elected to office in 2006. ... http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2009/01/08/duncan-rates-paterson-says-ny-needs-sustainable-funding/ The Green Party of the United States calls for an immediate end to Israel's bombing attacks on Gaza, which in the past four days has already caused at least 364 deaths, including Palestinian women and children, with hundreds more wounded. http://www.perrycountygreens.org/2008/12/29/green-party-condemns-israels-massive-air-attack-on-gaza-calls-on-us-to-rein-in-israel-and-seek-a-ceasefire/