avenger, plus two

So, the Toxic Avenger dropped by the Current office this week. He had a lot to say about CPS’s backpeddle on nuke investments being included in that rate hike the San Anto Council votes up, down, or to the side next week.

Weird, you know. He’s from Jersey. Now-solvent NRG Energy is based there. Maybe he’s onto something.

moore, morals, & nucleai

Former Greenpeace member Patrick Moore and reborn nuclear power champion has had a busy schedule as a paid promoter of atomic energy, most recently glad-handing with the Victoria Economic Development Corporation.

Excelon wants its next plant to be in Victoria County. The company, you may remember, is the owner of the leaky old nuker that was discovered to have flushed millions of gallons of radioactive effluent into Illinois groundwater undetected for a decade.

recognize!

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brown & green (my favorite colours)

Here’s some good news for the minority majority. Middle-class white greenies don’t want to deport you anymore.

You’ll recall the national Sierra Club had a near-fatal meltdown over the immigration question a few years back. Radical elements, thankfully, won out: those believing human rights and dignity to be a prerequisite to a healthy environment reclaimed the organization from racist and anti-human pretenders.

solarfest love-in

So I’m not always grousing and cracking bads on my good- and ill-intentioned brethren. Yesterday I let my hair down at Maverick Park and rocked a wee bit with the Krayolas, damned a brew or two to deeper digestions, and tried to hotwire a Mercedes/Swatch-produced Smart Car, rollcage-encapsulated older brother to the IPhone with seats, a/c, and wheels.

In between the understated and somewhat subliminal hijinx, I shot embarrassing photos of embarrassed people all gathered to give up thumb love for the energy answer radiating all over our park-pastoralized and slightly stinky selves, that matriarch of greenies: solar power.

uranium refreshment

South Texas Opposes Pollution (STOP) and the Coastal Bend Sierra Club are sponsoring a teach-in on uranium mining in Kingsville on May 17. The course will be led by Dr. Richard Abitz (resume clip below), who has worked for years on problems related hazardous and radioactive contamination.

gas tax bitch-slapped

You know where I stand on the McCain/Clinton idiocracy of a gas-tax-free summer on ozone alone. But this week, as Clinton danced around gargling free petroleum cake and running ads bad-mouthing Obama for taking the sober view, the economists spoke.

climate, water, texas

Those of us concerned about these little words — water, future, living, etc. — were happy to see that the three-day conference, Forecast: Climate Change Impacts on Texas Water, got repeat coverage in the daily journo world of Tejas.

Reports and blogs from dedicated enviro writers at both the Austin and San Antonio papers (I know I’m missing others) shared just enough color and data (some stoic, some silly, some honorable mentionable) for the rest of us to hold our heads informedly and tremble.

starved for turtle love

Remind me to tell you sometime about the Reiki practitioner who found the stranded adult sea turtle and — not finding a park ranger to assist in a rescue — nakedly splayed herself across his arching shell, settling her hair and lips across his soft neck, to do her energy work on this brilliant creature… while her weight slowly suffocated him to death.

presidential stock pics

As McCain cozies up with San Antonio’s evangelical warmonger John Hagee (a relationship likely not to catch a media blaze the way Obaman’s radical Rolodex has) other less altruistically motivated participants are busily trying to weed out the likely stock market winners each candidate represents.

Not surprisingly, McCain represents the nuclear option.

goliad needs you (again)

There will be a uranium mining teach-in down in Goliad this Saturday. It promises to shed more light on UEC’s efforts to mine uranium from shallow water drinking aquifers downriver from San Antonio. That would place it in prime cattle country and upriver from the oysters, shrimp, and wading birds of San Antonio Bay, fellas.

drinking ourselves dry

Okay. Time to take stock. How many earth’s are you worth?

I came in at 2-point-something. Damn take-out meals and dirty daily commuting.

The aerial evidence of our place on the planet is not always obvious outside Google maps, but once our side of the sphere turns her back on the Light our dominance is painfully obvious from space.