How Many Global Warming Deniers Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?
The Sierra Club is launching a new video-driven online campaign called Lightbulbs to Leadership on Tuesday, which aims to remind Americans that it takes more than changing lightbulbs to fix global warming, it takes changing the will of our leaders.
This video is the first of three during the six-week campaign, all themed around lightbulb jokes (“How many lawmakers does it take…”) that document the current lack of leadership on global warming, the fact that the people are ahead of the policymakers on climate change, and the opportunities that will be created by transitioning to a clean energy economy. To get a better idea of what the campaign is about, the first video features “in the dark” Senators John Sununu, George Voinovich, Mitch McConnell, and James Inhofe. These guys are pretty much “dead enders” fighting for a way of life that has come and gone. It’s like they still advocate bleeding as a way to solve medical problems long after drugs and surgery have been invented.
The second video will cover the lack action from lawmakers on Global Warming, and the third one is about the potential of “Gr$$ning” America and the economic benefits of moving towards a Clean Energy Economy.
Across the U.S., more and more people are taking steps to fight global warming. Americans are changing their light bulbs – but to really solve global warming, we need to change more than light bulbs: we need to change direction. We need action that is strong, urgent and bold enough to get the job done.
We need action that cuts global warming emissions 80% by 2050, makes polluters pay for putting their carbon in our atmosphere, and invests the money raised from auctioning those permits in building a clean energy economy using efficiency and renewable energy power, and in helping people and their communities — and wildlife and their habitat — adapt to the changing climate.
Fighting global warming is a priority to Americans. We want clean energy solutions and we believe the U.S. should take the lead in combating global warming. Global warming is real and we need to demand real leadership.
The Sierra Club has never done a video-driven online campaign like this before, it should be interesting to see if they can make this effective and ensure lawmakers take Global Warming seriously in the future.
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Ask The Sietch – WordPress Background Image Help
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I got this fun question from Casey today.
Message: Hi there. I’m new to WordPress, CSS, PHP, etc. but I’ve had some nominal success so far. I have a question for you regarding your Sietch Blog site:
How do you go about tiling a repeating image on the background, as you have on your blog? What code should I put into my stylesheet? I’m working on a theme template called fSpring Widgets.
Any direction you might be able to provide would be terrific!
Thanks,
Casey
Lets start from the start. CSS (cascading style sheets) allow you to have one file (or a couple of files) that controls the look and feel of your whole site. One of the main reasons you would use CSS is that it makes changing the look and feel of your whole site very easy. Imagine if you had 1000 pages in your site and you had to go in and change the red title to blue. Not only would this be very boring it would take ages (sorry for going over all that if you already know it, like I said, I like to start at the start).
So I went and downloaded your theme, and found that, your theme uses a wide thin image that is repeated vertically to create the illusion of a long single column, a technique sometimes called “fake columns” or “faux columns”. You need to find and open the .css file for your theme. For your theme it is called, style.css.
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Upgrade To WordPress 2.1
I have upgraded to wordpress 2.1 and so far so good. I am sorry the site was a bit screwy earlier today, but who knew that upgrading from wordpress 1.5.1.3 straight to 2.1 would cause your theme and umm everything else to break. Oh well, everything seems to work now and lucky for me the database tables all seem to have survived.
My fist impressions with 2.1 are that its very slick on the back end, I really am digging the widgets feature, I am going to writing a few of them, I had custom hacked my old upload file feature so this new one is going to need a little hacking as well. Frankly its horrible that the thumbnail feature is so bad after so long. But you know a little hacking keeps you strong.
If you notice anything that seems to be broken let me know.
Author Profile Pic Plugin
Hannah over at geekgrl has helped me integrate a wonderful author picture plugin for wordpress author profiles check it out. As some of you might have noticed, you can on access author profiles by clicking on there names under the permalink to each post.
If you are running the latest version of wordpress it should integrate with little or no trouble, if however you are running an older version of wordpress (1.5.x) you may need a bit of help getting it working, which Hannah was very nice in helping me with. it involved a bit of profile.php hacking and some changes to author.php if you theme has one, or the creation of one if it doesn’t feel free to contact me and I will be happy to pass on what Hannah showed me.
Give it a try and see for yourself how nifty this little plug in is.
WP Autoblog Excerpt Functionality
I have been using WP Autoblog to auto generate posts here using the RSS feed from my photoblog. It works pretty well, except for one thing. I use excerpt posts here for my rss feed and I wanted to be able to carry over the excerpts from my photo-blog posts to here.
In this way I would not have to re-type in the excerpt and my feeds would be more interesting. To solve this problem was easy enough simply add
// excerpt
$post['post_excerpt'] = strip_tags(trim($item['description']));
some place in the function wp_autoblog(){ section of wp-autoblog.php
Easy as pie.
Now the excerpts follow the rest of the post over, and they end up in the rss feed just as they should.
RSS XML Feed
