This morning on NPR radio the Earth and Sky segment presented a good piece on making $green with green.

Has your investment portfolio gone green?
http://www.earthsky.org/humanworld/shows.php?date=20060418

How do I start investing green?
http://www.earthsky.org/features/greeninvesting.php

I am so proud of Al Gore. :good: Honest, I have never in my life felt so strongly about anyone that ran for or was president. How frustrating though, I feel like I've bet my life savings on a horse that might not even be in the race.
Al Gore is to Bush as clean is to dirty. Gore is so focused, Bush can't see anything past what Rove (his brain) will allow.

You have probably seen this but I'm including this as a connection to the Earth and Sky piece I heard this morning on NPR radio. I borrowed this quote from a May 2006 article on the Wired Magazine website. Just before I joined the GSC group, a friend sent me this URL pointing to it and when I saw this I was hooked and consequently ended up at this GSC website.

"...Gore has become a neo-green
entrepreneur, taking his messianic faith in the power
of technology to stop global warming and applying it
to an ecofriendly investment firm. The company,
Generation Investment Management, which he cofounded
nearly two years ago, puts money into businesses that
are positioned to capitalize on the carbon-constrained
economy Gore and his partners see coming in the near
future."
The whole thing is at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/gore.html

On the opposite end of the spectrum we have the insane like PPG Industries!
Yesterday I read this article about PPG Industries legally pumping 30 pounds of mercury into the Ohio River.
But Kentucky and West Virginia environmental gropus have found that a PPG Industries plant that produces chlorine in West Virginia would be allowed to keep discharging about 30 pounds of mercury into the water each year.


Companies that had "mixing zones" in the river have been allowed to keep using them for pollutants such as mercury for another 10 years under commission rules adopted three years ago.


The PPG plant has been seeking an approved mixing zone from West Virginia authorities, but so far have not won approval. A mixing zone is a designated area where a water quality standard wouldn't apply because of anticipated dilution of a pollutant.


Peter Tennant, deputy executive director of the Ohio River agency, said the 10-year grandfather provision established three years ago is intended to apply to mercury discharges regardless of whether a plant had obtained a designated mixing zone. But he acknowledged the language in the current rules does not reflect that.

Read the whole article at
http://www.whas11.com/news/local/stories/0...y.1d0bd5ac.html

and if you're really interested in this mercury discharge story check out the time line on these following 2 articles.
Dec. 14,2004
Fish mercury poisoning warning goes statewide; W.Va. residents advised to limit eating of sport fish
http://www.appalachian-center.org/media/2004/12_14.html

One year later

Dec. 16, 2005
State asked to get tough on mercury pollution
http://www.appalachian-center.org/media/2005/12_16.html

And speaking of $$ (if any GSC official has made it this far) can we talk private about the problem I have trying to chip in for the GSC site?