Two paragraph excerpt from the link:

“(Tom) Friedman writes: “It’s about jobs. The more government requires buildings to be more energy efficient, the more work there will be retrofitting buildings all across America with solar panels, insulation and other weatherizing materials. Those are manual-labor jobs that can’t be outsourced.”

According to Van Jones, one of the leaders of the campaign: “You can’t take a building you want to weatherize, put it on a ship to China and then have them do it and send it back…So we are going to have to put people to work in this country — weatherizing millions of buildings, putting up solar panels, constructing wind farms. Those green-collar jobs can provide a pathway out of poverty for someone who has not gone to college. [A] big chunk of the African-American community is economically stranded. The blue-collar, stepping-stone, manufacturing jobs are leaving. And they’re not being replaced by anything. So you have this whole generation of young blacks who are basically in economic free fall.”

2.  Blue Green Action Alliance – 1133 jobs for La Porte County, 39000 for Indiana

The Steelworkers and the Sierra Club – what a winning combination! Another quote:
“This report shows more than 25,000 Hoosier jobs would come from manufacturing wind turbines and close to 7,500 from solar panel manufacturing. In La Porte County alone, as many as 1,133 jobs could be created.”

 3. Do we need green jobs in Indiana?  Can we REALLY be this bad? Forbes is a business man's magazine. This sends the message to those industrialists who pollute that Indiana just doesn't care. 

 4. The China Syndrome.  Where did YOU shop today? Our economy is a house of cards - one puff of contrary wind can bring the structure down.

5.   Pictures.

6.  Stop Intermodals - Save Our County.    A coalition of persons opposed to a massive intermodal or logistics facility in LaPorte County.

7.  Ironic. Lake Michigan may be draining (to near record lows) due to effects of dredging St. Clair River near Detroit. Dredging was done so larger intermodal cargo ships could access upper great lakes. Decline of lake level causes lake ports (including Burns Harbor) to be unable to accomodate the very ships for which the St. Clair was dredged.

Inbound ships at Burns harbor have struck bottom, stirring up sediment and increasing pollution which drifts eastwards (towards LaPorte County) along the lakefront. If water levels gets lower, then ships will have to operate at reduced capacity.

The lake in northwest Indiana was closed to swimming 111 times in 2007 - nearly twice as many times as in 2006. Washington Park was closed 42% of the time e-coli samples were taken. Maybe we shouldn't test so often?
(News-Dispatch, July 31, 2008, top of page A5)

Positive spin: Hey, our beaches are bigger - more people can get sunburned at the same time! You just don't want to go in the water. 

8.   CANCER 

Cancer and intermodal facilities.  LISTEN to a short program about CANCER and INTERMODAL facilites in California. From All Things Considered: August 16th, 2007.

Cancer from diesel exhaust in LaPorte County. County ranks 145th highest of 3109 US counties WITHOUT an intermodal. Other medical side effects of pollution from diesel exhaust include juvenile asthma, adult asthma, high blood pressure, heart disease and emphysema.

Location of LaPorte County schools within a short distance of proposed site for intermodal or logistics facility.

DID YOU KNOW THAT INDIANA LAW requires that schools must pump "fresh" outside air into each class room under positive pressure to insure ambient air quality for our children? Is there ANY system in place to monitor possible carcinogenic content? Has anyone ever examined the effects of adding 10,000 to 12,000 diesel powered semis PER DAY to the mix? Where is YOUR neighborhood in regards to where they want to build the logistics park?

Don't you just love how they call these abominations PARKS? There is nothing PARK like about them but the word sounds green.

8.  Really Angry Kids by Thomas L. Friedman.