Feb. 11th: I planted this spearmint on
my porch, mostly in hopes I'd
get some spice value out of it.
My favorite part of
the Governor's speech was the part where he said "We hear so much about
climate change. One area where we definitely need the climate to change
is the national government’s attitude about global warming. It would
not act so California did. California has taken the leadership in
moving the entire country beyond debate and denial… to action. As
California goes, so goes the rest of the nation." I've taken that to
mean 'we aren't waiting for leadership from Washington on the Climate
Change issue.' I'm not sure what the "low carbon fuel standard" is all
about, but I hope it means bicycling is an even more important part of
the solution to our problems than it used to be. I'm glad he took the
time to talk about this issue.
My main bone to pick with the media was in that summary. What I heard
was that the Governor himself was calling for "post-partisanship" the
media interpreting that as "Bipartisanship" is a slap in the face to
the grass roots. If you search on the word "part" in the actual speech
transcript, you get to "I ask you to appropriate the funds to implement
this global warming legislation, so that we can become part of the
world market that is already trading credits for the reduction of
greenhouse gases. " long before you get to the word "party". My feeling
is, when I as a car free individual can sell pollution offsets from my
car free lifestyle on ebay to fuelish commuters for at least lunch
money, then the grass roots will be part of the solution. Until then
calls for "Bipartisanship" are just rearranging deck chairs on the
titanic!
