Same as it ever was.  Get the politicians to believe their election depends on it.

Politicians are realizing this is a no brainer. If they really want a green economy, one that is truely free market supported and could blow up in a matter of years, they should support industrial hemp.

Per our friends over at “Vote Hemp”, here is what our Federal and State governments are doing to move on this:

At the Federal Level: Resolution 1009

At the State Level: 8 States have Working Resolutions for 2009

The key is to start making some noise. Use contact tool at “Vote Hemp” to let your representative know.

HempCement?  HempCrete?

The Egyptians used broken down hemp hurds (the leftover material after the fiber has been extracted), mixed with cement lime, to create a stone hemp cement. It’s 1/6th the weight of normal concrete and much stronger.

Madam France Perrier is depicted in the below video, doing remarkable things. However, she, in France like in the United States, is hampered by bad policy.

Hypothetically, how does this policy get changed? I mean, our nation is kinda in a crisis, and like Rham Emanuel said, “”Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”

“Oooh sluuuudge!” That’s what Ralphie from the Christmas story meant to say when he looked out his Tennessee window and saw 500 million gallons of leftover burned coal “goop” pouring downhill towards his house.

What the heck do you do with all that “goop”? That’s 8 olympic swimming pools. We’re talking delicious, thick, coal ash pudding with mercury, arsenic, and benzine for “flavor”.

According to CNN, fish are literally just floating in the Cinch River (a Tennessee River tributary) but TVA spokesman Gil Francis is telling people that “in terms on toxicity, until an analysis comes in, you can’t call it toxic”. I’m making the call here. Gil is a jerk. Why wouldn’t you just say, “yes, 500 million gallons of our goop just went everywhere, I wouldn’t drink the water”. Friggin Gil.

Keep advertising, “America’s Power”. Just keep telling yourself that you believe in technology. But when your technology is based on merely capturing the “bad stuff” after burning the “dirty coal”, eventually, that “bad stuff” is going to make a mess. You might as well just club a baby seal.

Call 1-800-Hot-Clean-Coal for some 1 on 1 action that will fuel your fire. Energize, dirty style.

Don’t you just hate it when people ask you to explain your advertising? It appears environmental heavy hitters ThisIsReality.org are going after the coal industry heavy hitters AmericasPower.org for their clean coal ads seen here:

Who’s right on this? We know the new administration ran on clean coal as a positive. We know clean coal technology is clean-ER, but it still involves burning dirty stuff. We know that there’s a ton of money in the industry, and we know there’s a ton of coal in the United States.

All advertising aside, what we really know is it’s not the energy source we want. It may help keep us off the juice, but it’s not clean, and it’s not the future. We should keep that in our minds and keep plugging along towards more efficiency, conservation, wind, solar, and geothermal.