1:39 AM
May 4, 2010


The immensity of the national and international environmental
crisis we are in right now is just beginning to be fathomed.

We need new thinking.
I would turn to the up and coming State, National, and
Global leaders of San Diego State Uniersity (SDSU),
and the youth who came to the recent Student Sustainability
Coalition meeting at UCSD, April 30-May 2 for the answers.

Overlooking the football field where New Orleans Running
Back Marshall Faulk put SDSU on the map as a football running back
during the late 90's, Louisiana's Jerome Ringo gathered with alumni and
current Greenfest leaders of SDSU at a reception on Earth Day, April 22.
In a rousing talk, he spoke of SDSU as the #1 Sustainability
campus. Twenty minutes later, he gathered with alumni and
the current Greenfest Leadership to literally plant beet seeds
in a beet plant pot to ground his vision. Ringo applauded the students
of SDSU for voting in the first to-be platinum Leed Environmental
building on a campus. Then he told the students to not stop there
but go the distance to transform the campus through every conceivable Green agenda possible. He said he would be taking the inspiration
he received here with him.

One of the nation's leading environmental advocates and a man
who knows well environment trauma in his own state, Ringo
was invited by President Barack Obama to the White House to spend Earth Day. Jerome Ringo called back the President to tell him he was the
keynote Earth Day speaker at SDSU.

While here he met with SDSU President Daniel Weber and other leaders in the
San Diego Sustainability movement. In many meetings during his stay, he
was seeding the future. While at SDSU, he walked the monument where decades ago JFK had spoken. After spending the next 48 hours on campus and around town, Ringo affirmed he would be back in San Diego.

Ringo who works for one of the nation's most electrifying
and forward thinking biofuel companies came into San Diego knowing
he had the assignment to green more than 30 seaside ports
with a budget of more than $43 Billion. 48 hours later, on his flight
back to East, he felt like a billionaire himself, infused with the vitality
of youth.

GAME CHANGING DAY FOR OIL
APRIL 21, 2010

Little did Ringo, the students of SDSU, or the students who gathered
at UCSD April 30-May 2 at UCSD realize, the extent
that history was being made as they converged during this rich
period of San Diego history. April 15 was
the day First Lady Michelle Obama came to San Diego and toured
the New Roots Community Garden. April 18-23, those were the days
of the San Diego State Greenfest, and Earth Day events throughout
our city; April 24-25, those were the days of the history making
2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference at SDSU, April 30-May2,
those where the days that more than 200 Students from around
the state converged at UCSD.


those were the days of the 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference.

at the end
of what was an extended Earth Week in San Diego

The day before, in what
will likely go down in history as the Day the Seed was Planted for
the End of "Oilcoholism" in the US, BP international Oil
sealed the fate of alternative Green energy in America and nailed
the coffin on the future of oil extraction as a way to meet US
energy needs.

For many years now, many visionaries have read the signs of the times.
They were saying that Oil had peaked. They were saying that large
multi-national corporations both in the area of food as well as energy
could not be trusted with our future. On April 21, these forebodings
were affirmed when those oil rigs, due to negligence and attempts to
save dollars went down. A mere $500,000 spent by Haliburton, the
contractor for the BP project could have prevented a disaster that will
cause the company more money that he has in its deep pockets.

Belly up my friend. Read the writing on the wall.
OIl, that we imagined would was already on the way out as an energy
resource, can no longer be our #1 choice for energy investment, nor
can coal. The future now is green, and that future has arrived
on the backs of a deathblow given to countless industries that
depended on a semi healthy Gulf Region for sustain themselves.

A Sierra Club spokeperson from Mississippi, when interviewed
on the Rachel Maddow MSNBC show May 3, called the environmental
catatrophe off the coast of the Gulf a came changer.

Others on the MSNBC used the words America's Chernobyl, refering
to the nuclear disaster in the then Soviet Union that cause millions
of lives.

The Corporate mentality that sucked profit and was out to save
shareholders dollars through cutting corners, is now reeling.
Whistleblowers are stepping forward to speak their truth.
BP, typical of many large multi-nationals in both the arena
of food justice and environment, have been taking risks with
our money that they could not be trusted to take.
BP, and many others will be shown to have left a trail of
negligence, and represent a history of negligence. Our Government
was betting on them to save us from ourselves. We gambled.
The environment--our very air supply, our very water supply, our very
way of farming is now in crisis.

What will we do with all the industries who not face unemployment?

Industry is now helpless through his technology to stop the bleed
that some suspect could go on for 90 days, and effect the livelihood
for years.

Engineering thinktalks of professionals are scratching their heads
for answers. They are being asked to solve solve a condition that
may be beyond their capacity to invent a solution.

Only reinvention can save us now.

I advise turning to the students for new solutions and answers.

We need a new national agenda that is Green all over,
We now need Generation We--from SDSU--to student leaders
everywhere to save us from ourselves.


leaders everywhere







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This is a historic photo, says Keep The Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant, in whose pot Jerome Ringo planted the the seeds of SDSU as
the Natio's #1 Flagship Sustainability University.Read the Plant Your Dream Blog on this here:



 

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