Welcome to my website! September 15, 2009
Posted by lizveazey in general info.1 comment so far
I hope to start blogging 
here at least a couple times a month soon. And, I hope that this site will help keep friends and colleagues up to date on what I’m up to. Learn more about me, work I’m involved with, organizations I support, and connect with me in a variety of ways online.
Lots of Good Recipes March 15, 2010
Posted by lizveazey in cooking.Tags: biscuits, bread, cookies, recipes
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I haven’t blogged here in a while, but I have been cooking a lot. 
Just this weekend, I tried 3 new recipes within 24 hours and they were all great, so I wanted to share them . Friday, I made Speedy No Knead Bread (I was going to make this Golden Wheat Bread, but it sounded like too much work), the Best Chocolate Chip cookies ever, and then on Saturday morning we had Sweet Potato Biscuits (& I just made another batch of these for tomorrow morning.) I would highly recommend them all. I was skeptical of the cookies with a name like “the best . . ever” but they are definitely the best ones that I’ve ever made. Read on for the recipes with my notes about them. And, here’s a link for homemade English Muffins I made recently that are also great. Enjoy & share!
Blog Action Day on Climate October 15, 2009
Posted by lizveazey in action, global warming.Tags: 350, blog action day, global warming
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I’ll start with my blog action day tweet. This is what I would say if I only had 140 characters:
take action on Oct 24 for the www.350.org global day of action. This is our best chance for getting bold policy out of COP15 in Copenhagen.
Don’t Nuke the Climate October 14, 2009
Posted by lizveazey in action, energy.Tags: nuclear energy, political action
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from email alert from Nuclear Information and Resource Service:
Dear Friends, October 14, 2009
Tomorrow is the National Don’t Nuke the Climate Call-In Day!
Please call both of your Senators offices and tell them to keep nuclear power out of the Senate climate bill. Recent events, like the John Kerry/Lindsay Graham op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times calling for more nuclear power in the bill, add to the urgency of this call-in day.
Help keep the Senate’s phones ringing all day long!
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
And keep your letters and faxes to your Senators coming, and keep forwarding the action url to all of your lists:
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Climate Cover-Up October 13, 2009
Posted by lizveazey in book review, energy.Tags: al gore, climate change, exxon, public relations
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crossposted from itsgettinghotinhere.org
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the long-standing deception campaign against global warming. Although, you may think it’s over–just as Ross Gelbspan did in 2005 and Gwynne Dyer in 2008–but James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore’s Climate Cover-Up tells us it’s now going stronger than ever (at least in terms of funding). Hoggan is a partner in a Canadian PR firm and, as a co-founder of the Desmogblog.com, he has been digging up dirt on climate deniers since 2005.
Although, I had some understanding of of this “climate cover-up” I liked to think of it as mostly over, too. It was sobering and frustrating to learn more details about this ongoing campaign and its success in the minds of a majority of the public. I think as someone fighting for bold climate action it is really helpful to better understand folks fighting against you and how they are organized. I would definitely recommend the book, especially if you, like me and many others, felt like the climate denial campaign was mostly over. Read on for more details about the book, my thoughts and links to recent related news.
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NW Power Plan on Track, but must go Further! September 30, 2009
Posted by lizveazey in energy, Northwest, Oregon.Tags: coal
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crossposted from itsgettinghotinhere.org
I have recently moved to Oregon and I just attended my first energy hearing on the West Coast. As someone who comes from the Southeast US, it was extremely refreshing to be at a hearing that was about The Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s regional energy plan focused on efficiency, conservation and renewable energy and NOT about any new coal or nuclear plants or reducing mining protections! The plan is definitely more on the right track than anything I’ve seen in the Southeast, but considering the dire status of our climate (a new study predicted that even with some carbon cuts we will see 6.3 degrees F of warming by 2100) including our need to reach 350 ppm of CO2 from our current 387, the plan must go further.
