I am the Quality Manager for an aircraft parts company. I fully support local sustainable lifestyles. I am a Lane County Master recycler. I believe that we all should pay more attention to how we interact with our world and each other, and do those things with consideration.
Are Americans Cooling on Global Warming?
16 comments |
October 24, 2009
| Posted in Environment and Society
Global warming is falling out of fashion. There has been a 20 point drop in support, across the board for Global Warming legislation.
Documentary Film: The Unforeseen
2 comments |
August 10, 2009
| Posted in Books, Mags, Music & Film
Directed by Laura Dunn and executive produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, The Unforeseen was the 2008 Winner of the Independent Spirit Award "Truer than Fiction" Prize.
Farmer Saves $200,000 With Poo Power
August 7, 2009
| Posted in Environment and Society
Dairy farmer saves money by converting manure from 600 cows to electricity. The remaining waste is used as fertilizer and mulch.
Nestle Gets 10,000 Messages in a Bottle
2 comments |
April 29, 2009
| Posted in Environment and Society
Communities Demand Bottling Giant Stop Undermining Local Control of Water
Birds Voice Complaints Regarding Environmental Abuse
March 4, 2009
| Posted in Creation Care, Environment and Society
Unprecedented numbers of birds of all feathers have gathered at national capitals around the world this week to protest appalling conditions for food resources.
Review of Documentary: FLOW - For the Love of Water by Irena Salina
5 star rating
February 14, 2009
| Posted in Books, Mags, Music & Film
Water Rights and Groundwater Abuse....FLOW pulls back the covers FLOW starts out with a bang. The Swiss company Syngenta (think Euro-Monsanto) produces Atrazine, a weed killer. The E-U has banned it. America sprays 80 million pounds a year on our corn and soy crops. It is a possible gender-bender for frogs and carcinogen. Remember it when you have you non-organic...
Review of Documentary Film: Fuel by Josh Tickell
4 star rating
February 3, 2009
| Posted in Books, Mags, Music & Film
Bringing the Crusade Home Josh Tickell's documentary about the problems of oil, and possible solutions is personal. This is not a documentary planned on storyboards in a corporate office. Having grown up in a pristine Australia, it was a complete shock to move to Louisiana and find undrinkable, polluted rivers. He spent many...
Greening the Mexico City Dump
2 comments |
January 25, 2009
| Posted in Recycling & Reusing
Mexico City decides to recycle and reuse their mountain of garbage....700 trucks per day of garbage, besides the remains of...oh, yes, a tremendous earthquake.
Legacy of Agent Orange - genetic deformities follow generations
1 comment | January 17, 2009 | Posted in Environment and SocietyDioxin causes birth deformities beyond immediate contact. Children of affected victims carry deformed genes. Pesticides and chemical agents have risks that might not show in this generation but only in the future.
Review of PlayPumps International
5 star rating
January 11, 2009
| Posted in Environment and Society
Sustainable Water Village Pumping System that uses the energy of Children Playing While visiting an agricultural fair in 1989, Trevor Field "discovered a child’s roundabout, or merry-go-round, attached to a water pump. As it turned, water pumped from beneath the ground into the field."
Trever saw this clever system, negotiated rights, and put together a system that even...