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Synagro, according to its website, is the largest processor of sewage sludge in the United States. [1] The company is owned, since 2007, by The Carlyle Group, a formal corporate partner of the Environmental Defense Fund. [2]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmental_Defense_Fund
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Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), run by Fred Krupp, is a US-based Environmental organization and is considered a Big Green environmental group, one of the largest and most prominent in the world. It describes itself as being "dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem. Guided by science, Environmental Defense evaluates environmental problems and works to create and advocate solutions that win lasting political, economic and social support because they are nonpartisan, cost-efficient and fair." EDF prides itself on the formal corporate partnerships it forms with companies such as McDonald's, Walmart, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and most recently The Carlyle Group, home of Synagro the sewage sludge giant.
EDF Partners with Synagro, The World's Leader in Dumping Sewage Sludge on Farms and Gardens
EDF creates formal corporate partnerships between itself and major corporations, such as the Carlyle Group with which it partnered in March, 2010. [3] The Carlyle Group, a private investment corporation, owns Synagro, the world's largest company producing sewage sludge "compost" and "fertilizer," often called "biosolids," that is dumped on farms and gardens.http://www.edf.org/people/fred-krupp
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In his 26 years as head of Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp has overseen the growth of EDF from a small nonprofit with budget of $3 million into a recognized worldwide leader in the environmental movement. Under his direction, EDF’s full-time staff has increased from 50 to 350, membership has expanded from 40,000 to more than 500,000 and new offices have opened in Raleigh, Austin, Boston, Sacramento and Beijing, China.
Fred is widely recognized as the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends, such as the market-based acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act that The Economist hailed as “the greatest green success story of the past decade.” Today, this approach has become the leading model for solving the problem of global warming.
Fred broke new ground by engaging American companies to lessen their impact on the environment. Strategic partnerships with McDonald’s, FedEx, and DuPont, among others, have resulted in the elimination of millions of pounds of waste, the adoption of hybrid delivery vehicles, and an accord to reduce the environmental risks of nanotechnology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Krupp
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He has served on the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
http://www.marcgunther.com/tag/fred-krupp/
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Business is business, they say, but I’m often reminded that business is personal, too.
Back in about 2005, Lee Scott, who was then Ceo of Walmart, traveled with Fred Krupp, the president of the Environmental Defense Fund, to the top of Mount Washington, to visit a weather research station and meet with environmental scientists, including Steve Hamburg, who’s now the chief scientist at EDF. On their way, Scott stopped to visit with a New Hampshire maple farmer who told him that warmer weather was threatening the maple syrup business his family had operated for four generations. By the end of the trip, Scott had seen the impacts of climate change for himself – and seen how they could evolve into business issues for Walmart.
http://www.theclimategatebook.com/ice-cold-lies-the-glacier-chapter-i-choose-to-leave-out/
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THE HILLARY/MCCAIN BIPARTISAN PROPAGANDA TOUR
In August, 2005, network television newscasts and major newspapers carried the story of the U.S. Senators who visited Alaska in search of evidence for man-made global warming. Led by Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain, this trip was nothing more than a well-planned photo-op designed to pretend that these politicos were on the cutting edge of environmental issues. But the reports, themselves, actually exposed them for what they were.
The Anchorage Daily News reported, “Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton, touring Alaska this week to view melting permafrost and shrinking glaciers, said the evidence is mounting that global warming is real and human activity is significantly to blame.”[21]
Now, my guess is that Clinton and McCain weren’t shown the growing Hubbard Glacier.
The story included this “insight” from McCain: “‘The question is how much damage will be done before we start taking concrete action,’ McCain, R-Ariz., told reporters at the Hotel Captain Cook Wednesday morning. ‘Go up to places like we just came from. It’s a little scary.’”[22]
Note, also, that the senators were visiting in mid-August—a time when Alaska usually experiences its most significant melting. Even advancing glaciers look a bit weepy when the summer temperatures get above freezing. Those not knowledgeable about the contour and climate of the region, like the caring senators, can easily be duped into believing that what they were witnessing was actually global warming in action, rather than the normal August melt that it was.
The media tour didn’t get much better.
“Clinton, D-N.Y., said the scientists and Native people she’s spoken to on this trip to Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory make the case with convincing and moving particulars. ‘So I don’t think there’s any doubt left for anybody who actually looks at the science,’ she said. ‘There are still some holdouts, but they’re fighting a losing battle. The science is overwhelming.’”[23]
Clinton’s response was a typical tactic used by global whiners, that is, using labels such as “holdout” or “fighting a losing battle” against anyone who questions or disagrees with their “informed” conclusions. But no one dared ask how much or how little science was actually presented to the Washington delegation. For example, were they told that the highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska (91°) occurred in 1931 in Anchorage? What was occurring in the blistering global heat-up of the planet back in the 1930s to have caused such unprecedented warmth? Seems to me the constituents of these “public servants” would want to know.
How about the actual temperature trends in Alaska? If the senators were honestly concerned with the science, certainly it would have been valuable to visit the Alaska Climate Research Center (ACRC) and speak with some of their brilliant people. Dapper white lab coats and professorial black horn-rimmed safety spectacles would have made a great photo-op. But they passed on that one because they would have no doubt heard a lecture from scientists regarding a well-known phenomena called Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
Every two to three decades water currents in the Pacific Ocean mysteriously shift dramatically enough to allow Arctic air temperatures to sharply spike upward. Like the much-publicized El Nino weather pattern, which periodically warms the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the western United States by many degrees, the PDO does the same thing in its northern waters and lasts longer. It was last “switched on” between 1976 and 1977.
We can imagine that Hillary might have interrupted, “Obviously what we are talking about is a correlation between anthropogenic CO2 concentrations and the PDO,” and that the news media would have been awestruck at her knowledge.
But her “brilliant” moment surely would have been left on the cutting room floor as the ACRC scientists would have assured her there is no such correlation. The PDO just occurs. Again, climate happens. The pattern has been observed in temperature data derived from tree rings, reaching back at least 1,000 years.[24] Moreover, a look at the temperature data in Alaska after the PDO kicked in shows something the global warmers want to hide: “since 1977 little additional warming has occurred in Alaska.”[25]
The following graph illustrates ACRC’s findings regarding the giant temperature jump associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation in Alaska. Notice after the 1976 rise, the average temperature is at least flat or perhaps slightly cooling.
The Hillary/McCain story does not end here, but rather gets more Hillary-ous. Covering their coverage of the propaganda tour, the press reported, “She [Hillary] was struck by the account of a 93 year-old woman she met at a fish camp they helicoptered to from Whitehorse, Yukon. The woman told her she’d been fishing there her whole life but that lately the fish have strange bumps on them, growths Clinton said sounded like some sort of tumor.”
In their desperation to provide an ad hominem example of climate change, they risked the life of the 93 year-old woman by flying her in by helicopter to meet with Hillary. And there, before God and man, “Dr.” Clinton distinctly diagnosed the first man-caused, global warming fish tumors! And no one in the media even questioned it! Something they are prone to do, even when the irony is glaring.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq_Foundation
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-05/merchantbridge-ceo-al-rahim-dies-in-iraq-plane-crash-update1-.html
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MerchantBridge & Co., a London-based private equity group, said founder and Chief Executive Officer Basil Al-Rahim was killed in a plane crash in Iraq that also claimed the lives of a business partner, two JPMorgan Chase & Co. bankers and three crew.
Group partner Abdallah Lahoud was among those who died in the incident yesterday, MerchantBridge said in a PRNewswire statement today.
Fred is widely recognized as the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends, such as the market-based acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act that The Economist hailed as “the greatest green success story of the past decade.” Today, this approach has become the leading model for solving the problem of global warming.
Fred broke new ground by engaging American companies to lessen their impact on the environment. Strategic partnerships with McDonald’s, FedEx, and DuPont, among others, have resulted in the elimination of millions of pounds of waste, the adoption of hybrid delivery vehicles, and an accord to reduce the environmental risks of nanotechnology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Krupp
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He has served on the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
http://www.marcgunther.com/tag/fred-krupp/
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Business is business, they say, but I’m often reminded that business is personal, too.Back in about 2005, Lee Scott, who was then Ceo of Walmart, traveled with Fred Krupp, the president of the Environmental Defense Fund, to the top of Mount Washington, to visit a weather research station and meet with environmental scientists, including Steve Hamburg, who’s now the chief scientist at EDF. On their way, Scott stopped to visit with a New Hampshire maple farmer who told him that warmer weather was threatening the maple syrup business his family had operated for four generations. By the end of the trip, Scott had seen the impacts of climate change for himself – and seen how they could evolve into business issues for Walmart.
http://www.theclimategatebook.com/ice-cold-lies-the-glacier-chapter-i-choose-to-leave-out/
Excerpt:
THE HILLARY/MCCAIN BIPARTISAN PROPAGANDA TOUR
In August, 2005, network television newscasts and major newspapers carried the story of the U.S. Senators who visited Alaska in search of evidence for man-made global warming. Led by Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain, this trip was nothing more than a well-planned photo-op designed to pretend that these politicos were on the cutting edge of environmental issues. But the reports, themselves, actually exposed them for what they were.
The Anchorage Daily News reported, “Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton, touring Alaska this week to view melting permafrost and shrinking glaciers, said the evidence is mounting that global warming is real and human activity is significantly to blame.”[21]
Now, my guess is that Clinton and McCain weren’t shown the growing Hubbard Glacier.
The story included this “insight” from McCain: “‘The question is how much damage will be done before we start taking concrete action,’ McCain, R-Ariz., told reporters at the Hotel Captain Cook Wednesday morning. ‘Go up to places like we just came from. It’s a little scary.’”[22]
Note, also, that the senators were visiting in mid-August—a time when Alaska usually experiences its most significant melting. Even advancing glaciers look a bit weepy when the summer temperatures get above freezing. Those not knowledgeable about the contour and climate of the region, like the caring senators, can easily be duped into believing that what they were witnessing was actually global warming in action, rather than the normal August melt that it was.
The media tour didn’t get much better.
“Clinton, D-N.Y., said the scientists and Native people she’s spoken to on this trip to Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory make the case with convincing and moving particulars. ‘So I don’t think there’s any doubt left for anybody who actually looks at the science,’ she said. ‘There are still some holdouts, but they’re fighting a losing battle. The science is overwhelming.’”[23]
Clinton’s response was a typical tactic used by global whiners, that is, using labels such as “holdout” or “fighting a losing battle” against anyone who questions or disagrees with their “informed” conclusions. But no one dared ask how much or how little science was actually presented to the Washington delegation. For example, were they told that the highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska (91°) occurred in 1931 in Anchorage? What was occurring in the blistering global heat-up of the planet back in the 1930s to have caused such unprecedented warmth? Seems to me the constituents of these “public servants” would want to know.
How about the actual temperature trends in Alaska? If the senators were honestly concerned with the science, certainly it would have been valuable to visit the Alaska Climate Research Center (ACRC) and speak with some of their brilliant people. Dapper white lab coats and professorial black horn-rimmed safety spectacles would have made a great photo-op. But they passed on that one because they would have no doubt heard a lecture from scientists regarding a well-known phenomena called Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
Every two to three decades water currents in the Pacific Ocean mysteriously shift dramatically enough to allow Arctic air temperatures to sharply spike upward. Like the much-publicized El Nino weather pattern, which periodically warms the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the western United States by many degrees, the PDO does the same thing in its northern waters and lasts longer. It was last “switched on” between 1976 and 1977.
We can imagine that Hillary might have interrupted, “Obviously what we are talking about is a correlation between anthropogenic CO2 concentrations and the PDO,” and that the news media would have been awestruck at her knowledge.
But her “brilliant” moment surely would have been left on the cutting room floor as the ACRC scientists would have assured her there is no such correlation. The PDO just occurs. Again, climate happens. The pattern has been observed in temperature data derived from tree rings, reaching back at least 1,000 years.[24] Moreover, a look at the temperature data in Alaska after the PDO kicked in shows something the global warmers want to hide: “since 1977 little additional warming has occurred in Alaska.”[25]
The following graph illustrates ACRC’s findings regarding the giant temperature jump associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation in Alaska. Notice after the 1976 rise, the average temperature is at least flat or perhaps slightly cooling.
The Hillary/McCain story does not end here, but rather gets more Hillary-ous. Covering their coverage of the propaganda tour, the press reported, “She [Hillary] was struck by the account of a 93 year-old woman she met at a fish camp they helicoptered to from Whitehorse, Yukon. The woman told her she’d been fishing there her whole life but that lately the fish have strange bumps on them, growths Clinton said sounded like some sort of tumor.”
In their desperation to provide an ad hominem example of climate change, they risked the life of the 93 year-old woman by flying her in by helicopter to meet with Hillary. And there, before God and man, “Dr.” Clinton distinctly diagnosed the first man-caused, global warming fish tumors! And no one in the media even questioned it! Something they are prone to do, even when the irony is glaring.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq_Foundation
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Neoliberal agenda
"Digging a little deeper, however, reveals powerful ties between the Iraq Foundation and the neo-liberal agenda. The two founders of the Iraq Foundation are merchant bankers and currency traders. One of these individuals, Basil Al Rahim, heads MerchantBridge, one of the most high profile investment banking groups in the Middle East. MerchantBridge was the first private equity fund to focus on the Middle East and in 2004 was appointed by the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Materials to advise on the leasing of state owned firms to the private sector. (http://www.mbih.com/)"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-05/merchantbridge-ceo-al-rahim-dies-in-iraq-plane-crash-update1-.html
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MerchantBridge & Co., a London-based private equity group, said founder and Chief Executive Officer Basil Al-Rahim was killed in a plane crash in Iraq that also claimed the lives of a business partner, two JPMorgan Chase & Co. bankers and three crew.
Group partner Abdallah Lahoud was among those who died in the incident yesterday, MerchantBridge said in a PRNewswire statement today.
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