President Obama: we here in Kentucky will take the money turned down by Florida and Ohio! We need to make some green technology steps to offset our role in the proliferation of coal and it's many detrimental effects on our ecology.
Read more about the debate on high speed rail here:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2011-02-15-businesstravel15_ST_N.htm
Do we need high speed rail? Do we even ask if we need high speed Internet? Of course we need High-speed Rail! History clearly shows that during our economic downturns investments in infrastructure later paid great dividends when things picked up. Then not only will we get a moderate recovery - but we could have a boom economy once business and citizen consumers latch onto the ease, economy, ecology and joy of rail travel!
Imagine being able to catch a train from downtown Lexington to Cincinnati or Louisville and being able to read, listen to music, chat with fellow travelers or just snooze for the length of the trip?! UK has the hones to be a top twenty research institution (an unfunded economic development plain foisted on UK! Having this type of transportation infrastructure will be a great boon to this goal as many folks who are used to East Coast commuter rails are the target audience for helping us achieve those academic/economic goals!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
A note to Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear on Valentine's Day 2011
Governor Beshear,
There is no such thing as responsible surface mining. Clean drinking water is more precious than coal. The culture of Appalachia will be devastated if the people lose their Mountains!
Coal only seems cheap it's true cost is unbearable, planetary heat load changes, acid oceans, destruction of shellfish and coral, mercury in seafood: UNBEARABLY EXPENSIVE! We must change our thinking: the cost of maintaining outdated beliefs to our children and children's children will be UNIMAGINABLE.
Govenor Beshear, I believe you to be a man of good conscience. Now we we need you to be a leader of vision and wise steward of our only true wealth - the health of our home, planet earth.
Respectfully,
Jonathan Gilpin
Lexington KY
There is no such thing as responsible surface mining. Clean drinking water is more precious than coal. The culture of Appalachia will be devastated if the people lose their Mountains!
Coal only seems cheap it's true cost is unbearable, planetary heat load changes, acid oceans, destruction of shellfish and coral, mercury in seafood: UNBEARABLY EXPENSIVE! We must change our thinking: the cost of maintaining outdated beliefs to our children and children's children will be UNIMAGINABLE.
Govenor Beshear, I believe you to be a man of good conscience. Now we we need you to be a leader of vision and wise steward of our only true wealth - the health of our home, planet earth.
Respectfully,
Jonathan Gilpin
Lexington KY
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In Greek mythology, Gaia was the personification of Mother Earth. In response to the devastation brought forth by the irresponsible mining practice of mountaintop removal and valley fills, Chapman-Crane created this life-sized figurative sculpture depicting Mother Earth suffering from the abuses of strip mining.
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