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Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (Revisited)

October 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (Revisited)

Do you love those displays of Christmas (or Hannukah or Kwanza or …) lights?  Are you awed by those so impassioned that they string up 1000s of lights in awesome displays worthy of a city center? I once did, pausing on cold winter nights, white clouds issuing from my mouth, enjoying being in the glow […]

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Tags: electricity · energy efficiency · LED · lighting

“Take your canvas bags …” viral videoing to change the world

October 22nd, 2007 · 4 Comments

There are many ways to take action to change the world’s heedless path toward the precipice of Catastrophic Climate Change (and Peak Oil, Peak Water, etc …).  We can act as individuals, families, communities, businesses, nations …  And, we can foster action by others through our own actions … directly and indirectly. When it comes […]

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Tags: plastic · pollution

“Take your canvas bag” … A video to send viral …

October 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on “Take your canvas bag” … A video to send viral …

While I’m writing something more substantive related to this, a note to encourage all to spend a few moments watching this video … and to share it with as many friends as possible.

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Tags: Uncategorized

Plodding past Peak?

October 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Plodding past Peak?

The Guardian reports that data about oil production, globally, shows conclusively that the world has past Peak Oil and we are now in the post-Peak Oil era.  This is based on an Energy Watch Group report scheduled to be released Monday in London. The report, which predicts that production will now fall by 7% a […]

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Tags: peak oil

Planet “on a hair trigger” …

October 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

“Things are on more of a hair trigger than we thought.” Ted Scanbos, Univ of Colorado So ends a Washington Post article for Monday morning, At the Poles, Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate.  This article (the latest in the Post series In the Greenhouse: Confronting a Changing Climate) lays out many reasons for concern about […]

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Tags: Global Warming