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In his most recent stint at the U.N., from 1997-2005, [...]

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Here is a new one – GreenPunk:
GreenPunk envisions a world in which the detritus of consumer culture as propagated by the Elite is appropriated and re purposed by the masses toward the reconstruction of a devastated ecology and the address of social ills.
The above is from the blog post – A [...]

Look, I am not going to get all hippie, liberal on you about renewable energy. In fact, I would be last person most of my friends would consider the go to person about renewable energy – I don’t even believe in global warming. Here is the problem – the United States is dependent [...]

April 24 – Things I m reading
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Image via Wikipedia Tricky old Mother Nature seems to have reminded humans that nothing is certain and trends are sometimes head fakes. Coldest Summer Ever in Anchorage:
Right now the so-called summer of ’08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 [...]

From Weather.com:

10-Day Forecast for Fairfax, VA
Today Partly Cloudy 71°/45°
Mon Partly Cloudy 73°/48°
Tue Mostly Sunny 76°/54°
Wed Isolated T-Storms 78°/61°
Thu Isolated T-Storms 74°/55°
Fri Scattered T-Storms 65°/52°
Sat Partly Cloudy 74°/52°
Sun Mostly Sunny 75°/56°
Mon Mostly Sunny 75°/54°
Tue Scattered Showers 74°/55°
Last Updated May 4 09:07 a.m. ET
Really? Global Warming? I know I will regret this in the future, but this is the mildest Spring weather that I can remember in decades.

On October 15th – Blog Action Day, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind. In its inaugural year, Blog Action Day will be co-ordinating bloggers to tackle the issue of the environment.
Okay, don’t get me started – I will wait until 15 October [...]

Hmmmm…  So, instead of “send a man to the moon” in 10 years – it is reduce gasoline consumption by 20% in ten years.  Really?  Is that going to really have an impact?  Sounds kind of lame to me.

Dang it! Looks like oil might close above $54 after a couple of weeks of moving towards – breaking briefly – but not closing below $50 a barrel. Of course the big story is going to be ethanol with the President’s State of the Union speech tonight. Will he announce more unfunded [...]

Through the wonders of Netflix, I finally took the time and sat down to watch An Inconvenient Truth – staring Al Gore.  Golly, and what a star.  I though the movie was about global climate change – but it ended up being a movie about Al Gore’s ill-fated run for the presidency.  I also learned [...]