• 13:14 www.echovermont.org/events/cafescitopics/topic10.html
  Soon: we detect food pathogens & more ourselves. Consequences? Discuss @ECHO
• 17:30 Yesterday, we went to the student matinee of Momix ( http://www.flynncenter.org/show_pages/SMN10M.shtml ). Fabulous, fantastic, phenomenal!

• 10:34 is enjoying this series of grammar posts: http://ozarque.livejournal.com/tag/american+english+grammar
• 11:01 is in awe (again): hotlink.ellenmilliongraphics.com/ellen/bannerpostcardshow.jpg She does so much and does it so well!
• 20:34 "Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food" by Bryan Walsh (Time Mag Online) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1917458,00.html
  I wonder if it's coming time to write another post about me, choices, values, analogies, predictions (in my ongoing desire to be clear, right, and yet not arrogantly bossy). Hm.

• 05:47 Took Orca to vet on Saturday: tumor on bladder. This explains lots from last half-year. Dr Ellen says maybe a month. I'm not ready.
• 07:24 Hacker changes road sign's message www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090503/NEWS02/90503012/1007/RSS02
• 12:40 Swam again... joined the gym. Must work more to afford it, but on all the other hands, I can't not do *something* and so far this draws me.
• 16:02 Organic farms are ...where? Fancy that! Check out the graphic at www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/business/03metrics.html
• 16:26 "The Great Disruption": www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08friedman.html + tinyurl.com/cqt68u
• 19:12 Home again, home again...

lepi

turbocat

ruthling

Portland [the one in Oregon] is rolling out onstreet bike parking to accommodate the myriad of cyclists who need a place to stash their bikes while they work, shop, and plot to change the world.

when at customs, the officer of Homeland Security asks about the goal of my visit, I proudly tell him about the training. He goes: “Why that’s a mistake! They will brainwash you! They claim it's all about that carbon dioxide...but do you even know how much carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere?” I do - 380 ppm (parts by million) - but quite frankly, I’m thrown. I get myself together and tell him that there’s a non-controversial correlation between the CO2 levels and the global temperatures averages, and also about how CO2 triggers the atmosphere to take up more water vapor, which in turn also works as a greenhouse gas ... but to no avail. The people in line behind me are stunned, and so am I. I thought I was going to Tennessee, but somehow I landed in the State of Denial.

...Two hundred people coming from all fifty US states, from Slovenia, Uganda, Bali, Mexico, Canada and Belgium (supposedly, out of 4500 applicants for that session). The youngest is 14, the oldest must be the mid to late sixties. There are scientists, business-owners, students, editors, post-doc researchers, sales executives, professors, lawyers, architects, engineers, actors, nurses, writers, physicians, ministers, etc. All committed to do something about the climate crisis.

According to a current piece on My San Antonio, there are still people living in the sets George Lucas abandoned after filming Star Wars in Tunisia in 1977 -- and they happen to offer relatively green living.

Taxing Carbon in Boulder, CO

...Boulder passed a carbon tax with 60 percent of the votes on November 7, apparently making it the first in the country to do so.

The Boulder tax targets home and business electricity use, authorizing an extra charge based on the number of kilowatt hours used by residences and businesses. City officials say the tax will add $16 a year to the average homeowner’s electricity bill ($46 for businesses). The ballot language also gives City Council the flexibility to more than double the rates on residential and commercial usage after the first year, if it chooses. In order to reward people doing the right thing by other means, it includes an exemption for people and businesses who voluntarily purchase wind from the local monopoly utility Xcel or other green marketers.

The Latest Fashion from London: Domestic Wind Turbines

Domestic wind turbines are gaining in popularity in Britain, where some 80,000 homes now use small renewable power generation units to provide energy for residents, reports a recent Reuters
article. Donnachadh McCarthy, who last November earned distinction as the first Londoner permitted to put a wind turbine on his house, is using the unit and other renewable energy devices to feed surplus power back to the grid. “I have exported 20 percent more electricity than I’ve imported this year,” he boasts, noting that his carbon footprint is less than half a ton, far below the European Union average of 8.5 metric tons.

Building Green in DC

Sarah Rich
November 20, 2006 8:11 AM

The capital city is having a green streak this fall, from the National Building Museum's sustainable architecture and design exhibition, The Green House, to the recent news that the district Council has a bill pending which -- if passed -- would make DC the first major U.S. city to enforce strict green building standards for government and private development alike.

• acre & a half
• small borders
• mudroot
• wood&water
• listening leaves
• treelight
• treewise
• pebble practice