date:20060605

Well, I'm by no means an expert, but I have worked quite a bit in the 
foreign aid field.
It wasn't a total failure by any means, but I'd say out failures 
outweighed our successes.
My father, who is a PhD in Development Economics, and was known as a 
radical for such dangerous ideas
as arguing that money is not the only metric that can be used to 
determine development, once observed:
The US has never realized that you can't just go in and impose prosperity

In addition to the articles below I recommend the work of Joseph 
Stiglitz and William Easterly.

-Weaver

Keith Addison wrote:

See also:

http://snipurl.com/rcij
[Biofuel] Bushfood

http://snipurl.com/rcik
[Biofuel] Myth: More US aid will help the hungry

http://snipurl.com/rcim
Re: [Biofuel] US Foreign aid
Food Dumping [Aid] Maintains Poverty

http://snipurl.com/rcig
[Biofuel] The US and Foreign Aid Assistance

http://snipurl.com/rcih
[Biofuel] Famines as Commercial Opportunity

http://snipurl.com/rcii
[Biofuel] Famine As Commerce

http://snipurl.com/rcin
[Biofuel] Inequality in wealth

-

New at Anup Shah's Global Issues web site.
http://www.globalissues.org

Home
* Trade-Related Issues
* Sustainable Development
* US Foreign Aid

Is foreign aid failing because of the lack of accountability of 
donors as well as problems in recipient countries?

Much is said of the corruption, lack of democracy and other ills in 
developing countries as the reasons for aid and other forms of 
generous assistance never working. But, could it also be that the 
type of foreign aid (the conditions and prescriptions tied to the 
aid) is also a problem? Furthermore, there is very little 
accountability to the poor countries if the prescriptions and 
policies themselves are not the right ones and good intentions fail. 
This and other issues are explored further in the updated foreign aid 
section.

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp

Governments Cutting Back on Promised Responsibilities

* Rich Nations Agreed at UN to 0.7% of GNP To Aid
* Almost all rich nations fail this obligation
* Some donate many dollars, but are low on GNI percent
* Aid beginning to increase but still way below obligations

* Foreign Aid Numbers in Charts and Graphs

* Side note on private contributions
* Side Note on Private Remittances
* Adjusting Aid Numbers to Factor Private Contributions, and more
* Ranking the Rich based on Commitment to Development
* Private donations and philanthropy
* Aid money is actually way below what has been promised

* Are numbers the only issue?

* The Changing Definition of Aid Reveals a much Deeper Decline than 
What Numbers Alone Can Show
* Aid is Actually Hampering Development

* Aid has been a foreign policy tool to aid the donor not the recipient

* Aid And Militarism
* Aid Money Often Tied to Various Restrictive Conditions
* More Money Is Transferred From Poor Countries to Rich, Than From Rich To Poor

* Aid Amounts Dwarfed by Effects of First World Subsidies, Third 
World Debt, Unequal Trade, etc
* But aid could be beneficial

* Trade and Aid
* Improving Economic Infrastructure
* Use aid to Empower, not to Prescribe
* Rich donor countries and aid bureaucracies are not accountable
* Democracy-building is fundamental, but harder in many developing countries
* Failed foreign aid and continued poverty: well-intentioned 
mistakes, calculated geopolitics, or a mix?


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Re: [Biofuel] Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?

Next they'll be charging us for air...

Keith Addison wrote:

12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, 
and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.

Same as energy, same as food, same as money.

Actually there is only one problem, IMHO, and this is it.

For a glimpse at water issues worldwide in 2002 see:
http://snipurl.com/qcpd
Re: [biofuel] Sewage  Waste Water - was: Somewhat OT: Animal Waste

Best

Keith


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New at Anup Shah's Global Issues web site.
http://www.globalissues.org

* Trade-Related Issues
* Sustainable Development
* Water

Much of the world lives without access to clean water. A recognized 
global water crisis appears to come not so much from water scarcity 
and over-population but from management of this precious resource. 
Privatization has long been encouraged as the means to efficient 
management and provision of service. However, the result has been 
that often prices have increased, out of reach from poor people 
around the world. This commoditization of water goes to the heart of 
safe water access issues. This article looks into this issue in more 
detail.

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Development/water/

Introduction-A Water Management Crisis Leading to Lack of Access to 
Safe Water for Much of the World
* Coca Cola vs. Indian Farmers: Luxury vs. Necessity
* Privatization in both rich and poor countries can mean many cannot 
access safe water
* Water Access Policy: Following Neoliberal Ideology
* Privatization vs. Democratic Accountability of Management of a 
Fundamental Resource
* Water: A Human Right or a Commodity?
* Water and Environmental Issues
* International Agreements and Action
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[Biofuel] Energy Futures

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/22/energy_futures.php

Energy Futures

K.C. Golden

May 22, 2006

K.C. Golden is the policy director of  Climate Solutions, which is 
devoted towards working for practical solutions to global warming and 
a new, sustainable prosperity.

The signs of a new, brighter energy future are everywhere.

Wind and solar power are the fastest growing electricity sources. 
NASDAQ just launched a clean energy index. Leading venture 
capitalists are making big bets on low-carbon energy sources. Auto 
dealers are carrying more hybrid and flex-fuel vehicles. 
Forward-looking communities are planning a future around people 
instead of cars. Farmers, entrepreneurs, investors-they're all 
planting seeds for a cleaner, more secure energy future.

But they're going too slow. Promising solutions are emerging, but our 
addiction to fossil fuels is getting worse and it's killing us. War, 
climate disruption and economic insecurity are among its symptoms.

Now that we can see real pictures of the post-fossil fuel 
future-since it seems so tantalizingly possible-what can we do to 
accelerate it?

We can start by squaring up to a simple truth, fossil fuels are very 
costly. We pay some of the tab at the pump and in our utility bills. 
But we pay much more in the form of chronic national insecurity due 
to dependence on oil. We pay in the form of climate disruption-more 
intense storms, water shortages, ocean sterilization. We pay through 
the nose, through our lungs and through our declining standing in the 
world.

The price of oil may cycle down again-after all, suppliers don't want 
to price us out of our addiction. Peak oil  may be more like a long 
ridge, with lots of price volatility to keep us guessing. The people 
who have the most control of oil prices also have the greatest 
incentive to discourage investment in alternatives-so don't expect a 
smooth ride up the price curve. But when the price drops, it's lying.

No matter how energy prices spike or plunge, fossil fuels are 
exorbitantly expensive. Their impact on our climate alone is an epic 
heist of the planet's wealth-a hocking of our worldly treasure for a 
few decades' fix. The geopolitical costs of fossil fuel addiction are 
literally bleeding us. Whatever is driving oil prices-greed, 
economics, supply disruption, all of the above-the rising price at 
the pump is finally communicating some fraction of the truth: fossil 
fuels are a colossal rip-off.

This truth can set us free. High, truthful fossil fuel prices send a 
signal to consumers, investors, and entrepreneurs, stop pouring more 
money into the fossil fuel hole. Put it into things that won't run 
out-like the sun and the wind and more efficient vehicles and 
buildings. Put it into transportation choices. Put it into our 
endless capacity to innovate.

President Bush flirted with the truth when he said we're addicted to 
oil. But now he proposes to treat our addiction by expanding supply! 
Democrats have suggested price controls and suspending fuel taxes. 
Political consultants in both parties feed our leaders the same 
advice: people don't want to hear the truth of costly fossil fuels. 
Tell them anything, but not the truth.

One enterprising e-mail campaign proposes that consumers boycott 
Exxon-Mobil. The theory is that if we don't buy from Exxon, they'll 
have to lower prices, touching off a price war. An economist quoted 
on NPR says it won't work. The announcer asked, Well, what can 
consumers do about gas prices? The economist responded, Drive less.

Won't the truth of high fossil fuel prices fall hardest on those who 
can least afford it? Yes. That's why we should invest in alternatives 
that are practical and affordable for everyone. The people who can't 
afford $3 gas are the same people who pay in blood to defend our 
access to the next fix. They're the ones who can't move to higher 
ground when the water rises. If there's one thing they can't afford 
more than the truth, it's our failure to confront the lie of cheap 
fossil fuels.

We can do something about high fuel prices. We can buy less. We can 
drive efficient cars and trucks. We can use biofuels-not a free 
lunch, but an increasingly attractive alternative to petroleum 
(especially with the commercialization of cellulosic ethanol, made 
from plant waste instead of corn). We can build communities where 
people can live, work, shop, and go to school by bike, public 
transit, or foot. We can build a prosperity that is less 
about simply producing more and more about community, health and 
quality of life-which are inversely related to fossil fuel 
consumption.

Fossil fuels don't just power our cars-they power the production and 
transportation of every material good. As consumers, we can decide 
that being consumers isn't our defining affiliation. We can 
disenthrall ourselves from Madison Avenue's formulas for profligate 
consumption: virility is not a function of horsepower; freedom is not 
driving

[Biofuel] Green Fuel's Dirty Secret

Green Fuel's Dirty Secret
Sasha Lilley
June 1st, 2006

Ethanol made from corn has been touted as the green fuel of the future.
Archer Daniels Midland, the largest U.S. producer of ethanol, stands to make a
fortune from environmentally conscious car drivers. But is ethanol really as
environmentally clean as it is hyped to be?
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13646


Green Fuel's Dirty Secret
by Sasha Lilley, Special to CorpWatch
June 1st, 2006

The town of Columbus, Nebraska, bills itself as a City of Power and 
Progress. If Archer Daniels Midland gets its way, that power will be 
partially generated by coal, one of the dirtiest forms of energy. 
When burned, it emits carcinogenic pollutants and high levels of the 
greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

Ironically this coal will be used to generate ethanol, a plant-based 
petroleum substitute that has been hyped by both environmentalists 
and President George Bush as the green fuel of the future. The 
agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is the largest U.S. 
producer of ethanol, which it makes by distilling corn. ADM also 
operates coal-fired plants at its company base in Decatur, Illinois, 
and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is currently adding another coal-powered 
facility at its Clinton, Iowa ethanol plant.

That's not all. [Ethanol] plants themselves - not even the part 
producing the energy - produce a lot of air pollution, says Mike 
Ewall, director of the Energy Justice Network. The EPA (U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency) has cracked down in recent years on 
a lot of Midwestern ethanol plants for excessive levels of carbon 
monoxide, methanol, toluene, and volatile organic compounds, some of 
which are known to cause cancer.

A single ADM corn processing plant in Clinton, Iowa generated nearly 
20,000 tons of pollutants including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, 
and volatile organic compounds in 2004, according to federal records. 
The EPA considers an ethanol plant as a major source of pollution 
if it produces more than 100 tons of any one pollutant per year, 
although it has recently proposed increasing that cap to 250 tons.

Sulfur dioxide is classified by the EPA as a contributor to 
respiratory and heart disease and the generation of acid rain. 
Nitrogen oxides produce ozone and a wide variety of toxic chemicals 
as well as contributing to global warming, according to the EPA, 
while many volatile organic compounds are cancer-causing. Last year, 
Environmental Defense, a national environmental group, ranked the 
Clinton plant as the 26th largest emitter of carcinogenic compounds 
in the U.S.

For years, ADM promoted itself as the supermarket to the world on 
major U.S. radio and television networks like NPR, CBS, NBC, and PBS 
where it underwrites influential programs such as the NewsHour with 
Jim Lehrer. Now, as it actively promotes its ethanol business, ADM 
has rolled out its new eco-friendly slogan, Resourceful by Nature 
which reinforces our role as an essential link between farmers and 
consumers.

Fueling Exploitation:

ADM in Brazil and the Ivory Coast

Greenpeace International recently accused Archer Daniels Midland of 
funding, along with two other agricultural commodities traders, much 
of the razing of the Amazon rainforest for soy production. The group 
claims that that ADM, along with Cargill and Bunge, are responsible 
for 60 percent of the financing of soy production in the vital 
rainforest ecosystem. ADM lends money to farmers who plant in areas 
of the rainforest that have been illegally cleared, alleges 
Greenpeace, and then finances the shipping of soy out of the region. 
ADM has set up four grain silos in the Amazon, for the export of soy 
from Brazil. The primarily destination of the soy is Europe where it 
ends up as high protein cattle feed.

ADM is also currently being sued by the International Labor Rights 
Fund for alleged involvement in the trafficking, torture and forced 
labor of children who cultivate and harvest cocoa beans in the Ivory 
Coast. The suit, which is being filed on behalf of Malian children 
brought against their will to the Ivory Coast, argues that the 
company, as well as Nestle and Cargill, has knowingly turned a blind 
eye to the use of forced child labor in the cocoa plantations where 
the agricultural processor's chocolate originates.

It is unconscionable that Nestle, ADM and Cargill have ignored 
repeated and well-documented warnings over the past several years 
that the farms they were using to grow cocoa employed child slave 
labor, says International Labor Rights Fund attorney Natacha Thys. 
They could have put a stop to it years ago, but chose to look the 
other way. We had to go to court as a last resort.

For more information:

Greenpeace's report Eating Up the Amazon

Human Rights Watchdog Sues Nestle, ADM, Cargill For Using Forced Child Labor

Despite the company's attempts at green packaging, ADM is ranked as 
the tenth worst corporate air polluter, on the

[Biofuel] The Alt Fuels Distraction

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/25/the_alt_fuels_distraction.php

The Alt Fuels Distraction

David Roberts

May 25, 2006

David Roberts is a staff writer at Grist Magazine. His blog is  
http://gristmill.grist.org.

In the next 50 years, give or take, those of us in the United States 
will face two challenges. We must wean ourselves off of oil and we 
must cut our carbon-dioxide emissions by around 60 percent. Either 
would be difficult in isolation; together, well ... imagine patting 
your head and rubbing your belly at the same time, only with 
trillions of dollars and millions of lives at stake. And with one arm 
tied behind your back.

What's the best way to meet these challenges? If you were the 
proverbial Martian, visiting our planet to dispassionately assess our 
options, what would you find most promising?

Would it be nuclear power? Clean coal? Ethanol? You'd only decide 
on those options if you happen to be an uncommonly gullible Martian 
(or one in the pay of big industry-but more on that later).

Substantially increasing the amount of electricity we get from 
nuclear power would mean building dozens of expensive new plants, 
none of which would be completed for at least 10 years. Each would be 
a huge risk for investors and virtually uninsurable without 
government assistance-and once it had run its course, would cost a 
fortune to decommission. Each would produce tons of waste-when we 
don't even know what to do with the waste we already have-and each 
would produce fissile material that could fall into the wrong hands. 
By some estimates, the CO2 emitted in the full lifecycle of a nuclear 
plant-taking into account the oil burned mining, transporting and 
processing uranium, not to mention constructing the plants 
themselves-would be only a third less than that released by a 
coal-fired plant.

Burning coal releases CO2. To avoid climate catastrophe, clean coal 
plants would have to sequester their CO2 emissions underground. This 
technology is speculative, untested and at least 10 years out.

Corn-based ethanol is the result of an extremely energy-intensive, 
CO2-emitting, polluting process. Corn is grown in massive 
monocultures with petroleum-based herbicides, pesticides and 
fertilizers, which are busy accumulating in an enormous dead zone 
in the Gulf of Mexico. Ethanol refining plants consume enormous 
amounts of natural gas or coal; their product is distributed across 
the country in oil-burning vehicles. In the end, grain-based ethanol 
produces little more energy than what's required to make it, and does 
virtually nothing to reduce CO2 emissions.

What about cellulosic ethanol, the oft-cited, eco-friendlier cousin 
of grain-based ethanol? Well, it's-wait for it-largely speculative, 
untested and at least 10 years out.

Would a smart Martian choose these uneconomical and/or inefficient 
and/or unproven fuel sources as its primary means of addressing 
America's immediate energy challenges? Would he be willing to wait 10 
years to ramp up supply, in a quixotic attempt to keep up with 
burgeoning demand? Not unless he'd been paid off by big energy 
companies. (Which, let's face it, would inevitably happen.)

Our Martian would probably suggest we focus first on reducing our 
energy use-and might be delighted to discover several simple, at-hand 
ways to do so. Some low-hanging fruit: boost energy efficiency 
standards for cars, appliances, industrial equipment and buildings. 
Institute feebates, which would tax the purchase of 
fuel-inefficient vehicles and apply the revenue to rebates on 
fuel-efficient vehicles. Mandate that all government purchases-of 
vehicles, buildings, appliances, or anything else-be tied to strict 
energy-efficiency requirements. Pass a federal renewable portfolio 
standard, mandating that the feds get a certain percentage of their 
energy from renewable sources.

And if our Martian wanted to get a little bit more ambitious, he 
might emphasize these broader policy and technological initiatives:

* Quit subsidizing fossil-fuel industries. Period.

* Impose a gas or carbon tax. It would put uniform pressure on the 
market to reduce oil consumption, without favoring any particular 
alternative. (The impact on low-income Americans could be offset with 
reduced payroll taxes.)

* Encourage density by reversing land-use policies at all levels of 
government that subsidize road-building and sprawl at the expense of 
compact, walkable, mixed-use communities served by effective public 
transportation.

* Drop perverse agricultural subsidies that overwhelmingly favor 
petro-heavy industrial agriculture and long-distance food transport 
at the expense of organic farms and local food systems.

* Scrap electricity-market regulations that virtually mandate 
centralized power production at large, inefficient plants (by some 
estimates, up to two-thirds of energy is wasted en route to end 
users); instead, encourage decentralized production from small-scale,

[Biofuel] Kicking the oil habit

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/30/redford.oil/index.html
Commentary: Kicking the oil habit

By Robert Redford
Special to CNN

Tuesday, May 30, 2006; Posted: 4:55 p.m. EDT (20:55 GMT)


Editor's note: Robert Redford is an award-winning actor, director, 
producer and founder of the Sundance Institute and Film Festival. 
Redford also is a businessman and philanthropist and has long 
supported various environmental causes.
Robert Redford: America is ready to kick the oil habit.

SUNDANCE, Utah (CNN) -- Today the American people are way out in 
front of our leaders. We're ready to face our toughest national 
challenges, and we deserve new and forward-looking solutions and 
leadership.

The recent surge in gas prices has touched a raw nerve for many 
around the country, reminding us of an economy that is increasingly 
uncertain for the middle-class, a growing addiction to oil that draws 
us ever closer to dictators and despots, and a fragile global 
position with a climate that is increasingly out of balance. I 
believe America is ready to kick the oil habit and launch a new 
movement for real solutions and a better future.

Something is happening all across the country. People are coming 
together and demanding new answers. A grassroots movement is 
gathering today to promote solutions, like renewable fuels, clean 
electricity, more efficient cars, and green buildings that use less 
energy -- all of which are exciting alternatives that rebuild our 
communities even as they cut pollution and create good jobs. And, 
when people come together to invest themselves in building a better 
future, we are not only helping to solve our energy crisis, but we 
are taking back our democracy itself.

You can see this change in many places.

In California this November, voters will be offered an initiative 
that cuts the use of oil by 25 percent and creates new funding to 
support innovation and cutting edge technology.

Austin, Texas, is leading a growing number of cities in calling for 
car companies to produce plug-in hybrid vehicles that can go hundreds 
of miles on a gallon of gas.

New Mexico has joined the Chicago Climate Exchange, pledging to 
reduce its carbon emissions, and at the same time becoming a national 
leader in creating a state-of-the-art clean energy economy.

In Minnesota they have jump-started a new biofuels industry driven by 
farmer-owned co-ops that are putting more money back into rural 
communities and lifting up people's lives.

Cities like Seattle are joining with others around the world and 
taking on goals for green development, while states like Colorado are 
passing bond initiatives for transit and new requirements for clean 
energy.

Recently, a dynamic new campaign launched to seize and grow these 
opportunities and break our energy dependence. It's called 
KickTheOilHabit.org, and it has the backing of a diverse coalition of 
organizations. Its first action was to challenge oil companies to 
double the number of renewable fuel pumps at their stations within 
the year and pledge to offer E85 ethanol fuel at half of all gas 
stations within the decade.

This is a simple clear action that the oil companies can do today. 
But it is only a first step. Many others are ready to be put in 
action despite industry claims to the contrary.

In coming months, this campaign, which is based at the Center for 
American Progress and works with partners from the Natural Resources 
Defense Council to Consumers Union, MoveOn.org to the Apollo 
Alliance, will launch new challenges to our elected leaders, but it 
will also point to good work that is already going on all around the 
country. It will illuminate efforts on Capitol Hill by those who are 
concerned about the public good as well as the work of a myriad of 
grassroots groups effectively pushing innovative technological and 
public policy solutions alike.

Kick the Oil Habit will bring forth the dynamic narrative of American 
innovation and inspired thinking. It will give everyone who believes 
we can free ourselves of our dependence on oil, real solutions which 
embody real opportunity.

There is so much we can do right now. And there is a new groundswell 
of good organizing and real world actions that we can take today to 
make this change a reality. The Campaign to Kick the Oil Habit is one 
way to connect to this growing movement. I hope you will join in 
transforming the face of America and in working to leave a better 
world for all of our children. I hope you will join me in signing on 
to this growing campaign at KickTheOilHabit.org.

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[Biofuel] Fuel fears puncture US car sales

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5040562.stm
BBC NEWS | Business |
2 June 2006, 10:25 GMT 11:25 UK

Fuel fears puncture US car sales

SUVs have fallen out of favour amid concerns over fuel prices

Surging fuel prices have weighed on demand for sports utility 
vehicles (SUVs)and trucks, cutting into US sales for big name Detroit 
automakers.

Both General Motors (GM) and Ford have cut production as total May 
sales fell 16% and 6% respectively. Sales at Chrysler Group also fell 
11%.

But Japanese carmaker sales continued to grow as consumers opted for 
smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles.

Toyota revealed sales surged 12.3% while sales at Honda grew 11.4%.

Meanwhile, overall sales at South Korean carmaker Hyundai rose 5% 
during the month, despite a sharp drop in SUV and truck sales.

The market share of the so-called Big Three - GM, Ford and 
DaimlerChrysler - sank to 52.9% in May compared with 57.6% a year 
ago, while Asian carmakers now account for 40.2% of US sales.

Fuel worries

The trio have traditionally relied on SUVs and larger vehicles to 
drive sales, but concerns over rising fuel prices - which are nearing 
$3 a gallon - has crimped demand.

Meanwhile, overall consumer thirst for new vehicles has slipped as 
Americans face up to increased utility bills, anxieties over job 
prospects, and the short-term prospects for the economy.



  This was a challenging month for us

Paul Ballew, GM

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The overall industry in May was dampened by rising fuel prices and 
interest rates, said Mark LaNeve, GM's head of North American sales.

According to Autodata Corp, overall industry sales slipped to a 
seasonally adjusted 16.1 million units for the year to May, compared 
with 17.2 million at the same time in 2005.

I think it's totally due to consumer nervousness about gas prices, 
Burnham Securities analyst David Healy said. People get scared by 
seeing that $3 (per gallon) sign.

In order to cut fuel bills, buyers are downsizing from the bigger 
gas guzzlers to medium and small sized vehicles - the market sector 
dominated by Asian carmakers.

As a result, sales of Toyota branded passenger cars surged almost 20% 
during May.

Promotion drive

In an attempt to reverse their fortunes, GM and Ford announced they 
would be cutting production levels in the coming quarter.

Both carmakers have been struggling under the weight of rising wage 
and raw materials costs, developments which have prompted the pair 
drastic cost cutting drives leading to a series of swingeing job cuts.

The two have also attempted to boost sales by offering incentives to buyers.

On Thursday, Ford announced it would be giving $1,000-worth of fuel 
to new buyers across the US, while GM is trialling a similar scheme 
in California.

This was a challenging month for us, conceded Paul Ballew, GM 
director of global marketing and industry analysis.

However, the picture was not all rosy for Asian manufacturers.

Nissan announced sales slipped 7% in May with sales of both cars and 
SUVs falling.


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[Biofuel] Pilger, Fisk, Glass, and Hersh on the failure of the world's press

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13492.htm

Normalizing the Unthinkable

John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Charlie Glass, and Seymour Hersh on the 
failure of the world's press

By Sophie McNeill

06/03/06 Information Clearing House -- -- The late journalist 
Edward R. Murrow might well have been rolling in his grave on April 
21. That's because Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a lecture 
that day in Washington, DC to journalists at the Department of 
State's official Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists.

For the Bush administration to use the memory of a person who stood 
up to government propaganda is ironic to say the least. Secretary 
Rice told the assembled journalists that without a free press to 
report on the activities of government, to ask questions of 
officials, to be a place where citizens can express themselves, 
democracy simply couldn't work.

One week earlier in New York City, Columbia University hosted a panel 
on the state of the world's media that would have been more in 
Murrow's style than the State Department-run symposium. Reporter and 
filmmaker John Pilger, British Middle East correspondent for the 
Independent Robert Fisk, freelance reporter Charlie Glass, and 
investigative journalist for the New Yorker Seymour Hersh appeared 
together at this April 14 event.

Before the afternoon panel began, I met up with John Pilger at his 
hotel. He'd just flown in from London and was only in New York for 
the panel before flying to Caracas, Venezuela the next day. A 
journalist for over 30 years, Pilger has reported from Vietnam, 
Cambodia, East Timor, Palestine, and Iraq-to name a few of the 
countries to which his investigative reporting and filmmaking had 
taken him.

Pilger told me that he'd never been as concerned about the state of 
the media as he was today. I think there's a lot of reasons to be 
very concerned about the information or the lack of information that 
we get. There's never been such an interest, more than an interest, 
almost an obsession, in controlling what journalists have to say.

Despite the fact that the war in Iraq is reported daily in most U.S. 
newspapers and networks around the world, Pilger didn't think the 
world's press accurately conveyed the reality of life for Iraqi 
civilians. We get the illusion that we are seeing what might be 
happening in Iraq. But what we're getting is a massive censorship by 
omission; so much is being left out, he said. We have a situation 
in Iraq where well over 100,000 civilians have been killed and we 
have virtually no pictures. The control of that by the Pentagon has 
been quite brilliant. And as a result we have no idea of the extent 
of civilians suffering in that country.

I asked Pilger what the untold story of Iraq was that's just not 
getting through. Well, the untold story of Iraq should be obvious, 
Pilger said. But it never is. The untold story of Vietnam was that 
it was an invasion and that huge numbers of civilians were killed. 
And in effect it was a war against civilians and that was never told 
and that's exactly true of Iraq.

With the majority of the world's press holed up behind 4.5 miles of 
concrete barrier in the green zone, it seems impossible for the 
standard of reporting to improve anytime in the near future. I asked 
Pilger if he blamed journalists for not wanting to put their lives at 
risk? No, I can't, he said. But I don't see the point of being in 
the green zone. I don't see the point of wearing a flak jacket and 
standing in a hotel in a fortress guarded by an invader.

But there have been journalists-and others-who have actually gone 
with the insurgents; who have reported about them. One of them, for 
instance, is a young woman named Jo Wilding, a British human rights 
worker. She was in Fallujah all through that first attack in 2004. Jo 
Wilding's dispatches were some of the most extraordinary I've read, 
but they were never published anywhere.

Pilger said the mainstream press needs to get over its hang up of 
our man in Baghdad and prioritize whatever information can be 
obtained by whoever is brave enough or has the best contacts. There 
are sources of information for what is happening inside Iraq. Most of 
them are on the web. I think those who give a damn in the mainstream 
really have to look at those sources and surrender their prejudice 
about them and say we need that reporter's work because he or she has 
told us something we can't possibly get ourselves. And I think that's 
the only way we will really serve the public.

We had talked too long and had to quickly jump in a cab to make it to 
the panel on time. The hall was packed with university students, 
professors, and the public.

Charlie Glass

The event quickly got underway with Charlie Glass as the first 
speaker. A former ABC America correspondent in the Middle East, Glass 
drew laughs from the crowd when comparing his experience to the other 
panelists. When I began journalism I approached it in the

[Biofuel] Net Hypocrisy

The telephone and cable companies are engaging in cynical wordplay 
when they cry hands off the Internet.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/02/net_hypocrisy.php

Net Hypocrisy

Art Brodsky

June 02, 2006

Art Brodsky is communications director for Public Knowledge, a public 
interest group working at the intersection of information and 
technology policy.

The legislative opposition to establishing net neutrality is the 
story of a mantra gone horribly wrong. An idea crafted 10 years ago 
to protect the Internet, then a new medium, is being morphed into a 
weapon that would destroy the not-so-new medium a few years from now.

This new Internet would be one controlled not by individual 
freedom, but by the whim of the telephone and cable networks' owners.

It is ludicrous for the telephone companies and their congressional 
allies, principally Republicans, to fight against net neutrality on 
the basis of the fraudulent don't regulate the Internet mantra. The 
industry has the gall to name one of their propaganda sites, 
www.dontregulate.org, part of the Hands Off the Internet 
family-brought to you by the telephone and cable industries . All of 
their other arguments hang from this one basic, misapplied concept.

The industry and their congressional allies argue that any number of 
horrible outcomes would flow from net neutrality regulation. You 
can pick your own fallacies from among the talking points: don't 
regulate the Internet because it would create volumes of new 
regulations governing content, don't regulate because it would be the 
first major government regulation of the Internet. Or, don't regulate 
the Internet because big Internet companies, want access for free, 
and so consumers will get stuck with the bill in the form of higher 
prices.

None of them are true. Transmission over the Internet has been 
regulated for years, until 2005 to be exact, when the FCC took away 
the rules. The Internet grew up in the dial-up days under common 
carrier regulation, when telephone companies had no control over 
content on their networks. No one wants to regulate the Internet-the 
regulation is of the services of the telephone and cable companies.

Congress passed the CAN-SPAM Act three years ago to attempt to 
regulate spam. You can argue that no one likes spam, but it's hard to 
argue that this is not regulating the Internet, because email is an 
integral part of the system. Many of those legislators who now oppose 
Net Neutrality on the basis of don't regulate voted to curb spam.

Additionally, consumers already pay for Internet access, as do 
Internet-based companies large and small. Their bills run into 
millions and millions of dollars. No one is asking for Internet 
access for free.

At the root of all of this nonsense is an original philosophy gone 
wrong. And what was the original mantra? The Internet is different.

The fledgling Center for Democracy and Technology had fought the 
restrictive Communications Decency Act of 1996 all the way to the 
U.S. Supreme Court. Their argument was that the Internet was 
different. The CDT website says:

The CDA imposed broadcast-style content regulations on the open, 
decentralized Internet and severely restricted the first amendment 
rights of all Americans. CDT strongly opposed this legislation 
because it threatened the very existence of the Internet as a means 
for free expression, education, and political discourse. Although 
well-intentioned, the CDA was ineffective and failed to recognize the 
unique nature of this global, decentralized medium.

On June 26, 1997, the Supreme Court threw out the CDA, and as it did 
so, enshrined the notion of a protective barrier around the Internet. 
The Supreme Court decision quoted a lower court ruling describing the 
Internet as a unique and wholly new medium of worldwide human 
communication.

All of those arguments from the telephone and cable industries and 
their allies about not regulating the Internet forget the original 
purpose of the defense and the character of the Internet.

What we're left with is a hollow argument. Republicans stick with the 
don't regulate reflex reaction, even though the result of minimal 
net neutrality rules would be to continue the freedom and openness 
that we have enjoyed, and the result of don't regulate would be 
industry gatekeeper control of the Internet. The industry twists the 
don't regulate meme into an excuse to create its own privileged 
tier of services.

The Internet that CDT, the American Civil Liberties Union and dozens 
of organizations defended is something far different from what the 
telephone companies would create. What's been lost, and where the 
industry arguments went astray, is that the don't 
regulate/hands-off philosophy was first invented as a way of 
protecting openness and diversity-exactly what the telephone and 
cable companies now want to whittle away.

The Internet that the telephone and cable companies want to create, 
built around their

[Biofuel] Chomsky: Video: Manufacturing Consent

Noam Chomsky: Video: Manufacturing Consent: :

How government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an 
effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of 
the United States populous.

Windows Media
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm

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[Biofuel] Preparing for the Post-Carbon Age

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053006S.shtml

Preparing for the Post-Carbon Age
By Doris Granny D Haddock
t r u t h o u t | Address

Tuesday 30 May 2006

Doris Granny D Haddock attended Healing Mountains, the 16th 
annual Heartwood Forest Council, in the dwindling forests of West 
Virginia this Memorial Day weekend.

Thank you.

What must it be like, do you suppose, to be a fireman rushing 
though a burning building, coming across a wealthy gentleman in his 
grand apartment who insists that, well, this is nothing, there is 
often smoke in the halls this time of the week - it is likely Mrs. 
O'Reilly burning her biscuits again. Besides, he insists, the fire 
department is filled with alarmists and he will not be leaving his 
apartment just now, thank you, but will be calling a complaint into 
the mayor, whose re-election campaigns he finances.

The question for environmental activists is this: can the planet 
be saved even if many of the people do not understand the problem or, 
despite the ready facts, are insistent upon staying the course of 
self-destruction because it profits them in the short term? Will the 
rising stormy seas, the spreading deserts and droughts, only prompt 
them to dig their heels deeper into the mud of the melting levees?

And as a species, are we not waddling toward the cliff? Why has 
no great leader stood upon a rock with sufficient persuasion to halt 
the march and save the day? Are the forces now too great against mere 
words? Are the zombie masses, holding the hands of their children, on 
a Jonestown-like death march we cannot fathom or halt? Is it 
evolution itself we are watching, with our species automatically 
pre-wired for extinction when there are, say, by God's count, more 
Washington lobbyists than tree frogs - and with stickier fingers?

It seems dark. Great electrical shovels, like invading space 
monsters, take apart our mountains. The monstrous machines called 
international corporations take apart the small farms and family 
businesses and democracies here and around the world, pushing people 
into cities and into powerless poverty, our global ecosystem and 
survival be damned. The great middle class employers like General 
Motors are purposely bankrupted by a behind-the-scenes elite so that 
manufacturing might move to more profitable lands without union and 
legal protections for human beings. The air is filled with warming 
poisons. Any attempt by the people to organize or even fairly vote is 
opposed and dismantled. Dark times. The government is now tracking 
our calls and putting barbed wire around us when we gather together 
as free men and women. A slave society, prison industries, yellow and 
black skies, great manipulations to kill off whole problem 
populations. A monstrous earth is the vision we can now imagine 
because, in fact, the great war between humans and the tumorous 
corporate monsters we let loose is raging. You will see in your 
lifetimes the outcome.

If we can learn something useful from nature in this battle, it 
is this: lemmings don't get to vote. Lemmings, these days, only get 
to watch Fox News. They don't have a chance, in other words. We can't 
win this battle from inside the pack.

Strategically, I can imagine two possible outcomes for this 
battle. One is dark and one is bright.

Here is the dark one. Global catastrophe builds upon global 
catastrophe. Democracies become dictatorships as the masses reach for 
leadership and rescue from storm, pestilence and famine. Shooting 
wars break out between those who follow and those who oppose. A time 
of violence and suffering falls upon the planet. The resources that 
could have been spent to repair the ecosystem are needed for police 
security and mass imprisonment or worse. The weakened species, as a 
whole, finds itself in no position to survive when agricultural 
systems collapse and anarchy overwhelms all authority. I cannot see 
much past that, though there is probably much to see.

Here is the bright one. Global catastrophe builds upon global 
catastrophe. (Yes, I know it starts out badly.) More and more people 
opt out of the carbon economy to join a rising society of people and 
communities who have moved rapidly toward an ethic of responsibility 
and sustainability. These communities produce the best leaders, more 
and more of whom are elected to national positions. Many existing 
national leaders begin to move toward the ethic of these communities 
and of sustainability. More and more towns and cities, led by 
goal-setting organizations dominated by young people, accept 
sustainable goals. The first President of the United States from such 
a community is elected in the same year that similar leaders are 
chosen in Europe, India and several other regions. The Untied Nations 
is rapidly reorganized around its own Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights and a post-carbon age economic model. Multi-national 
corporations are

Re: [Biofuel] Healing with light

2006-06-05 Thread bob allen

Howdy Kirk,

I looked over the report and although the claims sound promising, I am bothered 
by the rather
shallow explanation of the effect:

  So far, what we see in patients and what we see in laboratory cell cultures, 
all point to one
  conclusion, said Dr. Whelan. The near-infrared light emitted by these LEDs 
seems to be perfect
  for increasing energy inside cells. This means whether you're on Earth in a 
hospital, working on
  a submarine under the sea, or on your way to Mars inside a spaceship, the 
LEDs boost energy to
  the cells and accelerate healing.

just what the heck do they mean by boosting energy in the cell?  other than 
cells with a 
photosynthetic apparatus, there is no mechanism for turning electromagnetic 
energy into ATP, the 
energy currency of all cells.  near IR energy would warm the cells, but so 
would a 25 watt light 
bulb or a candle. If the light stimulates growth factors, protein synthesis, 
rna expression or 
whatever say so, but don't give me some lame claim as to increasing energy. 
This sound way too 
mystical.








Kirk McLoren wrote:
 
 *Mice were blinded with methanol and 95% had their sight restored.*
 
 Kirk
 
 
 **
 
 
 *http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002355.html*
 
 
 *Healing with Light Moves Beyond Fiction*
 
 
 
 
 Fans of the Star Trek television shows can recall many stirring scenes of 
 medical officers 
 treating patients without drugs or surgery, using instead a device the size 
 of a cell phone that
  sends out light rays to miraculously heal wounds and cure disease before 
 their very eyes. Now,
  the use of light emitting diodes (LED) in the practice of medicine has moved 
 well beyond science
  fiction and into the real world. Soldiers injured by lasers in combat, 
 astronauts in space and 
 children in cancer wards are already benefiting from the healing properties 
 of near-infrared 
 light in ways that could only be imagined a few years ago. Several research 
 projects at the 
 Medical College of Wisconsin are at the center of LED treatment development 
 and the application 
 of new technology to a wide range of injury and illness. The potential is 
 quite endless, said 
 *Harry T. Whelan, MD* http://doctor.mcw.edu/provider.php?1623, Medical 
 College Bleser Professor
  of Neurology, Pediatrics and Hyperbaric Medicine. I like to say that the 
 history of medicine, 
 since the beginning of time, has been poisons and knives. Drugs usually 
 poison some enzyme system
  for the benefit of the patient. Think about the drugs you take: Digitalis is 
 digitoxin; it's 
 from the foxglove plant and it poisons your heart gently to help you with 
 cardiac disease. Motrin
  and aspirin basically poison the prostaglandin system to decrease pain by 
 poisoning the 
 inflammatory cascade. Blood thinners basically poison the clotting system, 
 and on and on and on. 
 So all these drugs that we take are poisons carefully dosed to help the 
 patient. And then, of 
 course, knives. That's surgery, in which you have to cut the patient in order 
 to cure. In this 
 particular strategy, what we're trying to do is use the energy of certain 
 specific wavelengths of
  light, which are carefully studied in our research lab, to determine those 
 that will enhance the
  cells' normal biochemistry instead of poisoning something that is supposed 
 to occur or cutting
 at it. I consider that a paradigm shift in the entire approach to medicine 
 that has the
 potential, therefore, to alter all kinds of disease processes, particularly 
 any in which there's
 an energy crisis for the tissue. Light emitting diodes - commonly used for 
 clock displays and in
 many other electronic devices - produce near-infrared light, a form of energy 
 just outside the
 visible range. Cells exposed to LED light in this range have been found to 
 grow 150% to 200%
 faster than cells not given and LED bath because, in simple terms, the 
 light arrays speed up
 the healing process by increasing energy inside the cells. *Relief for Young 
 Cancer Patients*
 Much of the research into the use of LEDs in medicine has spun off from 
 projects funded by the
 Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
 (NASA). For example,
 when LEDs worked well in providing light to grow plants on the Space Station, 
 researchers found
 that the diodes also showed promise in many medical applications. NASA then 
 funded Medical
 College research and clinical trials using LEDs to treat cancer patients 
 following bone marrow 
 transplants. Mucositis, a very painful side effect of cancer treatment, 
 produces throat and mouth
  ulcerations and gastrointestinal problems so severe that health suffers as 
 chewing and 
 swallowing food and drink become difficult or even impossible. In the first 
 trial at Children's 
 Hospital of Wisconsin, LED treatment proved so successful in treating 
 mucositis in the young 
 patients that another round of trials has been funded. We have now at

Re: [Biofuel] R-2000 program gets mixed reviews

Hi Guys;

I had also heard that sealing up a house that tight leads to indoor air 
quality issues (especially if the ubiquitous OSB and MDFB materials are 
used along with all the carpet, and other textiles that are offgassing 
VOC's for a few years)and then heat exchangers are needed to recover 
heat from exhaust air and in the end it is not a great idea all things 
considered. I am enrolled in a course this summer on how to build a 
house from straw bales.  I am also interested in what you talked about 
Fritz. I have also heard about rammed earth construction but don't know 
anything about it.  I wonder if it is even suitable for cold climates??

Joe

Fritz Friesinger wrote:
 Hi Darryl,
 the R2000 Code wich says beside others :houses constructed using 
 airtight seals and thick insulation that
 keeps heat from leaking away
 is not the very best way of constructing a energie efficient 
 Home,because those Homes require forced Air Heating/Cooling!
 In Northamerica the Magic Formula seemes to be airtigth wrapings outside 
 and Vaporbarriers inside the House,but the most energie efficient houses 
 are Homes built with natural Materials who dont reqire Vaporbarriers 
 (Cob- Log-or Straw houses)
 Myself i am trying to get people interestet in my project of building 
 homes with double Log Walls from Larchwood (very cheep availible) filled 
 with natural Insulation wich keeps the Wall breeding.The key is not to 
 produce a thawpoint!
 This technique gives a totally natural Klimate in the home,better tha a 
 handcraftet Loghome!
 I got sofare the major equipment together the Place/Workshop,but the 
 constant Cashflow problem is slowly killing me!
 The conclusion therefore is,nowbody is interestet in good workmanship 
 and good technique,everything is measured on quick return and spend al 
 least to get the most!And this is the real american way of life!
 If you want to see my Portfolio go to www.traditionalwoodwork.ca 
 http://www.traditionalwoodwork.ca
 Fritz 
 
 - Original Message -
 *From:* Darryl McMahon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 *To:* Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
 mailto:Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
 *Sent:* Sunday, June 04, 2006 11:43 AM
 *Subject:* [Biofuel] R-2000 program gets mixed reviews
 
 R-2000 is the house construction standard developed in Canada decades
 ago to minimize energy use via insulation, weather-sealing and other
 technologies.  Uptake has been minimal.  Last I heard, less than 1/2 of
 one percent of new home construction in Canada meets this standard.
 Pity, because study after study shows it reduces life-time ownership
 costs, and would make a huge difference in making Canadians somewhat
 less of energy pigs.
 
 =
 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2006/05/28/pf-1602659.html
 
 May 28, 2006
 
 By DEAN BEEBY
 
 OTTAWA (CP) - One of Canada's oldest energy-conservation programs - the
 R-2000 standard for new homes - is under threat after an internal
 analysis found that very few homebuyers even care about it.
 
 The 25-year-old insulation standard has become one of the Kyoto-related
 programs that the new Tory government has put on hold as it conducts a
 sweeping review of greenhouse-gas spending.
 
 With rare exceptions, home-buying consumers are not interested in GHG
 (greenhouse gas) emissions reduction aspects of housing, and are
 usually
 less interested in energy-efficiency than in other features of the
 house, says an internal report on R-2000, obtained under the Access to
 Information Act.
 
 About 10,000 homes have been built in Canada to the R-2000 standard
 since the program was introduced in 1981. Interest peaked in 1993, with
 1,527 houses constructed using airtight seals and thick insulation that
 keeps heat from leaking away, but in recent years only about 300 have
 been certified each year.
 
 The standard originated in 1978, in the aftermath of the oil-price
 shocks, with a demonstration house built by the engineering faculty at
 the University of Saskatchewan that used half the energy of typical
 houses.
 
 But consumers have been wary of the standard. One federal study a
 decade
 ago found that energy savings were less than the higher construction
 and
 financing costs of R-2000, and that better returns were available in
 the
 stock market.
 
 Since 1995, the share of new housing built to the standard has
 fallen to
 a fraction of one per cent, even as energy prices rose substantially.
 
 Ottawa tried to put the program on a new footing after signing the
 Kyoto
 Protocol in 1997, making R-2000 part of basket of initiatives intended
 to help Canada cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
 
 But the Kyoto reorientation has also had little appeal for homebuyers,
 says the Jan. 26 internal report.
 
 R-2000 by

Re: [Biofuel] Grit plan to cut greenhouse emissions a dud: researchers

2006-06-05 Thread A. Lawrence

The only real plan (Liberal or Conservative) is to keep big business
feeding their election campaigns... They (big biz)  won't  feed the election
coffers unless they're allowed to continue business as usual... Us little
guys and home producers couldn't hope to contribute at big biz levels, even
if we were of a mind to...  Money talks. BS walks and big biz hasn't
the mindset to change anything - unless it increases the bottom line...
Cynical? You bet...

Al


- Original Message - 
From: Darryl McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 8:37 AM
Subject: [Biofuel] Grit plan to cut greenhouse emissions a dud: researchers


 The results of the study come as no surprise, sadly.  The Liberal
 administrations were more interested in photo-ops than results.
 While the new Conservative administration claims to have a
 made-in-Canada plan, suspicions are it's a made-in-neocon-USA plan.
   Personally, I'd welcome any real plan on the subject.

 
 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2006/05/28/pf-1602651.html

 May 28, 2006
 By DENNIS BUECKERT

 OTTAWA (CP) - The Liberals' $12-billion plan to implement the Kyoto
 Protocol over seven years would have been largely ineffective, says an
 as-yet unpublished report by the C.D. Howe Institute.

 The report, marked do not cite or circulate, was written before the
 current government axed Project Green, as the plan was dubbed, and may
 have been a factor in the Conservatives' decision to scrap it.

 Project Green largely relied on voluntary measures and incentives which
 have been shown not to work, says the study, which sarcastically calls
 the package Project Dream.

 This policy approach will fail dramatically to meet national objectives
 and yet will entail a substantial cost, says the report, whose lead
 author is Mark Jaccard of Simon Fraser University.

 The study was written in April and obtained by The Canadian Press on the
 weekend. It is finally expected to be made public this week.

 The report says Project Green would have cost $12 billion by 2012, with
 much of that money being spent outside Canada.

 It would have reduced emissions by 175 megatonnes compared with a
 business-as-usual scenario, far short of the 230 to 300 Mt. reduction
 required to meet Canada's Kyoto target.

 Efforts like the One Tonne Challenge advertising campaign, which urged
 individuals to reduce their own greenhouse emissions through lifestyle
 changes, have negligible effect, says the study.

 The policy approach of Canada since 1990 and continued with Project
 Green is clearly ineffective in causing the disconnection of GHG
 (greenhouse gas) emissions from the economic output that must take place
 if these emissions are to be reduced and their atmospheric
 concentrations stabilized at low risk levels.

 Canada's domestic emissions remain on a path that would miss its Kyoto
 target by at least 270 Mt. in 2010, equivalent to almost a 30 per cent
 emissions gap, the study says.

 Indeed, the policy approach epitomized by Project Green allows
 emissions to continue to grow at close to their BAU (business-as-usual)
 rate.

 Prime Minister Stephen Harper could use the report to buttress his
 claims about the ineffectiveness of the Liberal plan, but he probably
 won't like the alternatives it recommends.

 The most effective policy would likely be a gradually rising tax on
 greenhouse gas emissions, combined with reductions in other taxes to
 ensure no net tax increase, says the report.

 The main Conservative response to climate change so far has been to make
 transit passes tax deductible, which experts say will have little effect
 on emissions.

 Louise Comeau of the Vancouver-based Sage Climate Project said many of
 the criticisms in the report are valid but Project Green was not a total

 wash.

 She said a 175 Mt. cut in emissions would have been a start, adding that
 the plan had always been presented as a work in progress.

 Comeau said the real importance of the report is its call for tough
 regulations and tax changes to prevent greenhouse emissions.
 ==

 -- 
 Darryl McMahon  http://www.econogics.com
 It's your planet.  If you won't look after it, who will?


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Re: [Biofuel] Conversion tyo diesel Pt 1

Hi all

Sorry, these things take time.

Here are the photos Doug sent me, with his explanatory text below.

I optimised the photos so they're about one-sixth the kb's, quicker 
to download.

Best

Keith


http://journeytoforever.org/bflpics/Bellhousing1.jpg
http://journeytoforever.org/bflpics/Bellhousing2.jpg
http://journeytoforever.org/bflpics/Bellhousing3.jpg
http://journeytoforever.org/bflpics/Bellhousing4.jpg
http://journeytoforever.org/bflpics/Bellhousing5.jpg
http://journeytoforever.org/bflpics/SHengine1.jpg


From: lres1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Conversion tyo diesel Pt 1
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 21:43:37 +0700

Keith,
Sorry for the delay, had to do some very urgent work.

Please find attached some pictures of the bellhousing made for a Jeep
Cherokee to Toyota 2.8 NA engine. Notice the main thick plates front and
rear and the filling of the gaps with small flat bar. So easy to do once the
steps in my original mail for modification have been followed. The engine
ousted for both of the housings was one 4.0L MPEFI Cherokee and the other a
VM diesel to Toyota diesel. (VM being way too extravagant to buy parts for.)
S H engine is a donor set up on blocks and ready to be mated to a Jeep 4.0L
gear box and transfer box. The beauty of this type of transplant is there is
in general no cutting of the firewall or chassis. This means the integrity
of the recipient vehicle is maintained.

This is exactly the same exactly the same method I have used for F100, and
up, 351CID to 4.2 1HZ NA and others. This is the same for GM and most other
cars and light trucks. The bigger trucks like the IH need to have stronger
flat bar due to going to larger engines with huge torque factors. (V8 petrol
out and Large Gardner slow slugger diesel fitted).

A couple of important notes.

1/ You will need the fuel filter assembly with a Toyota Diesel conversion as
there is no fuel lift pump for bleeding the fuel system other than a small
diaphragm unit fitted to the top of the fuel filter housing. Hence the need
for the fuel filter and housing.

2/ A cast iron gearbox is snug and tight and has not much movement. To add a
lot of low down torque onto some aluminum boxes stretches the boxes causing
them to jump out of gear on steep inclines under low revs with heavy loads.
This is only applicable to those changing out 350 CID and larger GM units or
351 CID and larger Ford units in six wheel trucks (dual rear wheels) where
the standard gearbox is alloy. A major problem then in this scenario is the
parking brake as is Carden shaft type on the back of the alloy box. However
it is still possible to fit a diesel and cast iron box to such a truck (GMC
Sierra 351 on 825/20 tyres) by changing the box and fitting the Carden shaft
handbrake to the front end of the differential flange. No worries, it works
better there any way than at the gearbox end.

Hope they help.

Best regards to all.
Doug

- Original Message -
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Cc: lres1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Conversion tyo diesel Pt 1


  It's not easy to help Doug, no reply, no pictures. I'll try cc'ing
  this to him direct as well.
 
  This is good information Doug offered, in this thread and the
  American diesels thread, quite a few people said so.
 
  Who thinks it should all be available in the Biodiesel section of the
  Journey to Forever website?
 
  Best
 
  Keith Addison
  Journey to Forever
 
 
  Hello Doug
  
  snip
  
   Have pictures of bellhousing being made here but not sure where to
   put it or send.
   
   Doug
  
  Will you check this message please?
  
  http://snipurl.com/qq84
  [Biofuel] Conversion tyo diesel
  
  Impressive information you're providing.
  
  There's a folder at JtF reserved for photographs and so on for the
  use of the list. It's not actually part of the JtF website, it's just
  for us here at the list. Members can send me stuff the list wants to
  see and I'll put it there and post a link.
  
  Send me the pictures direct and I'll upload them and do that.
  
  I'm not against having this resource at JtF, and thanks for offering.
  I have to consider it though, also how to handle it, and just where
  to put it. Organising it would be quite a lot of work, and there's a
  queue. But don't be discouraged, let's see how it goes and we'll see
  what we can do.
  
  Quite a lot of people have been writing to Journey to Forever asking
  about diesel conversions, nearly all of them Americans. Quite a lot
  also want to know if biofuel (turns out to be biodiesel) will work
  in their gasoline motor. Some of them just get impatient when you
  tell them it won't. Why not? What do you expect me to do then?
  
  So it might be popular, but that's not the only criterion; it's not
  our focus, but we don't really make rules about it. People here like
  what you're doing, that's always a good

Re: [Biofuel] Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?

Next they'll be charging us for air...

You'll probably have to pay royalties on what you breathe it with, don't they own the patent on noses too? Oh, sorry, that's next week...

Multi-national corporations are busy privatizing public water utilities across the U.S. They now control 15% of our water. With concerns over price gouging and poor service, communities in Illinois and elsewhere are starting to fight back.
From: Chicago Tribune, May 28, 2006
http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_unprivatizing_water.060530.htm>PRESSURE TURNED UP IN THE WAR ON WATER
Towns push to make service public again
http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_unprivatizing_water.060530.htm

>From a previous message:

>For instance, in 2000 Bill Gates went through 4.7 million gallons of water - nearly 60 times the consumption of a typical US homeowner. His water bill was $24,828. Cheap, eh? So that puts US average annual household consumption at 78,000 gallons. 35 tons. Nearly three tons a month. How much of that goes down the toilet? Still, it's a drop in a bucket compared with Gates's overuse, and it's not hopeless, it can be fixed - as with energy, as we keep agreeing, energy use reductions and much greater efficiencies will make a big difference. But will that extend to the top 1%, and to the very top levels of that top 1%? Because that's exactly where you'll find these obscenely massive footprints that are trampling everything else to death. There's room for us here, plenty of it, and for nature, and enough food for us all, enough everything for us all, and not just for the moment but for forever. But there's no room for the super-greedy. Whether individuals or corporations, they're black holes. These averaging data like footprinting fudge that, but it can't be over-emphasized.

Best

Keith 


Keith Addison wrote:

>12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, 
>and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.
>
>Same as energy, same as food, same as money.
>
>Actually there is only one problem, IMHO, and this is it.
>
>For a glimpse at water issues worldwide in 2002 see:
>http://snipurl.com/qcpd
>Re: [biofuel] Sewage  Waste Water - was: Somewhat OT: Animal Waste
>
>Best
>
>Keith
>
>
>---
>
>New at Anup Shah's Global Issues web site.
>http://www.globalissues.org
>
>* Trade-Related Issues
>* Sustainable Development
>* Water
>
>Much of the world lives without access to clean water. A recognized 
>global water crisis appears to come not so much from water scarcity 
>and over-population but from management of this precious resource. 
>Privatization has long been encouraged as the means to efficient 
>management and provision of service. However, the result has been 
>that often prices have increased, out of reach from poor people 
>around the world. This commoditization of water goes to the heart of 
>safe water access issues. This article looks into this issue in more 
>detail.
>
>http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Development/water/
>
>Introduction-A Water Management Crisis Leading to Lack of Access to 
>Safe Water for Much of the World
>* Coca Cola vs. Indian Farmers: Luxury vs. Necessity
>* Privatization in both rich and poor countries can mean many cannot 
>access safe water
>* Water Access Policy: Following Neoliberal Ideology
>* Privatization vs. Democratic Accountability of Management of a 
>Fundamental Resource
>* Water: A Human Right or a Commodity?
>* Water and Environmental Issues
>* International Agreements and Action
>* More Information


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Re: [Biofuel] Why foreign aid is failing

Well, I'm by no means an expert, but I have worked quite a bit in the
foreign aid field.
It wasn't a total failure by any means, but I'd say out failures
outweighed our successes.

On the other hand, I suppose you could say that very much of it is a 
great success, since so much foreign aid is unabashedly aimed at 
benefiting US interests, like other countries' tied aid.

My father, who is a PhD in Development Economics, and was known as a
radical for such dangerous ideas
as arguing that money is not the only metric that can be used to
determine development, once observed:
The US has never realized that you can't just go in and impose prosperity

Yeah. Or democracy, eh?

In addition to the articles below I recommend the work of Joseph
Stiglitz and William Easterly.

Both former World Bank officials.

http://snipurl.com/rde2
biofuel - Search results for 'stiglitz'

http://snipurl.com/rde4
biofuel - Search results for 'Easterly'

Anup Shah gives a good overview, as usual.

Best

Keith


-Weaver

Keith Addison wrote:

 See also:
 
 http://snipurl.com/rcij
 [Biofuel] Bushfood
 
 http://snipurl.com/rcik
 [Biofuel] Myth: More US aid will help the hungry
 
 http://snipurl.com/rcim
 Re: [Biofuel] US Foreign aid
 Food Dumping [Aid] Maintains Poverty
 
 http://snipurl.com/rcig
 [Biofuel] The US and Foreign Aid Assistance
 
 http://snipurl.com/rcih
 [Biofuel] Famines as Commercial Opportunity
 
 http://snipurl.com/rcii
 [Biofuel] Famine As Commerce
 
 http://snipurl.com/rcin
 [Biofuel] Inequality in wealth
 
 -
 
 New at Anup Shah's Global Issues web site.
 http://www.globalissues.org
 
 Home
 * Trade-Related Issues
 * Sustainable Development
 * US Foreign Aid
 
 Is foreign aid failing because of the lack of accountability of
 donors as well as problems in recipient countries?
 
 Much is said of the corruption, lack of democracy and other ills in
 developing countries as the reasons for aid and other forms of
 generous assistance never working. But, could it also be that the
 type of foreign aid (the conditions and prescriptions tied to the
 aid) is also a problem? Furthermore, there is very little
 accountability to the poor countries if the prescriptions and
 policies themselves are not the right ones and good intentions fail.
 This and other issues are explored further in the updated foreign aid
 section.
 
 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp
 
 Governments Cutting Back on Promised Responsibilities
 
 * Rich Nations Agreed at UN to 0.7% of GNP To Aid
 * Almost all rich nations fail this obligation
 * Some donate many dollars, but are low on GNI percent
 * Aid beginning to increase but still way below obligations
 
 * Foreign Aid Numbers in Charts and Graphs
 
 * Side note on private contributions
 * Side Note on Private Remittances
 * Adjusting Aid Numbers to Factor Private Contributions, and more
 * Ranking the Rich based on Commitment to Development
 * Private donations and philanthropy
 * Aid money is actually way below what has been promised
 
 * Are numbers the only issue?
 
 * The Changing Definition of Aid Reveals a much Deeper Decline than
 What Numbers Alone Can Show
 * Aid is Actually Hampering Development
 
 * Aid has been a foreign policy tool to aid the donor not the recipient
 
 * Aid And Militarism
 * Aid Money Often Tied to Various Restrictive Conditions
 * More Money Is Transferred From Poor Countries to Rich, Than From 
Rich To Poor
 
 * Aid Amounts Dwarfed by Effects of First World Subsidies, Third
 World Debt, Unequal Trade, etc
 * But aid could be beneficial
 
 * Trade and Aid
 * Improving Economic Infrastructure
 * Use aid to Empower, not to Prescribe
 * Rich donor countries and aid bureaucracies are not accountable
 * Democracy-building is fundamental, but harder in many developing countries
 * Failed foreign aid and continued poverty: well-intentioned
 mistakes, calculated geopolitics, or a mix?


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Re: [Biofuel] Healing with light

2006-06-05 Thread Kirk McLoren

http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?DocID=1put light in the search box and you will have access to some pdf's of published papers. They say there is photochemistry besides chlorophyll. I remember an article at NASA said 40% of the mitochondrial chemical energy was instead supplied directly by photons. There has been testing at a childrens cancer hospital and others. Looks really good.Did you use the link at the bottom of the article?Kirkbob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy Kirk,I looked over the report and although the claims sound promising, I am bothered by the rathershallow explanation of the effect:So far, what we see in patients and what we see in
laboratory cell cultures, all point to oneconclusion," said Dr. Whelan. "The near-infrared light emitted by these LEDs seems to be perfectfor increasing energy inside cells. This means whether you're on Earth in a hospital, working ona submarine under the sea, or on your way to Mars inside a spaceship, the LEDs boost energy tothe cells and accelerate healing."just what the heck do they mean by boosting energy in the cell? other than cells with a photosynthetic apparatus, there is no mechanism for turning electromagnetic energy into ATP, the energy currency of all cells. near IR energy would warm the cells, but so would a 25 watt light bulb or a candle. If the light stimulates growth factors, protein synthesis, rna _expression_ or whatever say so, but don't give me some lame claim as to "increasing energy". This sound way too mystical.Kirk McLoren wrote: *Mice were blinded with
methanol and 95% had their sight restored.* Kirk ** *http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002355.html* *Healing with Light Moves Beyond Fiction* Fans of the Star Trek television shows can recall many stirring scenes of medical officers treating patients without drugs or surgery, using instead a device the size of a cell phone that sends out light rays to "miraculously" heal wounds and cure disease before their very eyes. Now, the use of light emitting diodes (LED) in the practice of medicine has moved well beyond science fiction and into the real world. Soldiers injured by lasers in combat, astronauts in space and children in cancer wards are already benefiting from the healing properties of near-infrared light in ways that could only be imagined a few years ago. Several research
projects at the Medical College of Wisconsin are at the center of LED treatment development and the application of new technology to a wide range of injury and illness. "The potential is quite endless," said *Harry T. Whelan, MD* , Medical College Bleser Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Hyperbaric Medicine. "I like to say that the history of medicine, since the beginning of time, has been poisons and knives. Drugs usually poison some enzyme system for the benefit of the patient. Think about the drugs you take: Digitalis is digitoxin; it's from the foxglove plant and it poisons your heart gently to help you with cardiac disease. Motrin and aspirin basically poison the prostaglandin system to decrease pain by poisoning the inflammatory cascade. Blood thinners basically poison the clotting system, and on and on and on. "So all these drugs that
we take are poisons carefully dosed to help the patient. And then, of course, knives. That's surgery, in which you have to cut the patient in order to cure. In this particular strategy, what we're trying to do is use the energy of certain specific wavelengths of light, which are carefully studied in our research lab, to determine those that will enhance the cells' normal biochemistry instead of poisoning something that is supposed to occur or cutting at it. I consider that a paradigm shift in the entire approach to medicine that has the potential, therefore, to alter all kinds of disease processes, particularly any in which there's an energy crisis for the tissue." Light emitting diodes - commonly used for clock displays and in many other electronic devices - produce near-infrared light, a form of energy just outside the visible range. Cells exposed to LED light in this range have been found to grow
150% to 200% faster than cells not given and LED "bath" because, in simple terms, the light arrays speed up the healing process by increasing energy inside the cells. *Relief for Young Cancer Patients* Much of the research into the use of LEDs in medicine has spun off from projects funded by the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). For example, when LEDs worked well in providing light to grow plants on the Space Station, researchers found that the diodes also showed promise in many medical applications. NASA then funded Medical College research and clinical trials using LEDs to treat cancer patients following bone marrow transplants. Mucositis, a very painful side effect of cancer treatment, produces throat and mouth ulcerations and gastrointestinal problems so severe that health

Re: [Biofuel] Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?

2006-06-05 Thread Jason Katie

isnt the basis of life (food,water,oxygen) considered a right? i mean there 
is a right to survive, isnt there?
- Original Message - 
From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?

 Next they'll be charging us for air...

 Keith Addison wrote:

12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water,
and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.

Same as energy, same as food, same as money.

Actually there is only one problem, IMHO, and this is it.

For a glimpse at water issues worldwide in 2002 see:
http://snipurl.com/qcpd
Re: [biofuel] Sewage  Waste Water - was: Somewhat OT: Animal Waste

Best

Keith

---

New at Anup Shah's Global Issues web site.
http://www.globalissues.org

* Trade-Related Issues
* Sustainable Development
* Water

Much of the world lives without access to clean water. A recognized
global water crisis appears to come not so much from water scarcity
and over-population but from management of this precious resource.
Privatization has long been encouraged as the means to efficient
management and provision of service. However, the result has been
that often prices have increased, out of reach from poor people
around the world. This commoditization of water goes to the heart of
safe water access issues. This article looks into this issue in more
detail.

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Development/water/

Introduction-A Water Management Crisis Leading to Lack of Access to
Safe Water for Much of the World
* Coca Cola vs. Indian Farmers: Luxury vs. Necessity
* Privatization in both rich and poor countries can mean many cannot
access safe water
* Water Access Policy: Following Neoliberal Ideology
* Privatization vs. Democratic Accountability of Management of a
Fundamental Resource
* Water: A Human Right or a Commodity?
* Water and Environmental Issues
* International Agreements and Action
* More Information

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Re: [Biofuel] The Alt Fuels Distraction

2006-06-05 Thread Jason Katie

this bothers me. people assume that corn is the only place to get ethanol. 
dont they read? cellulose might be better later, but corn wont ever be the 
answer now.

snip




 Corn-based ethanol is the result of an extremely energy-intensive,
 CO2-emitting, polluting process. Corn is grown in massive
 monocultures with petroleum-based herbicides, pesticides and
 fertilizers, which are busy accumulating in an enormous dead zone
 in the Gulf of Mexico. Ethanol refining plants consume enormous
 amounts of natural gas or coal; their product is distributed across
 the country in oil-burning vehicles. In the end, grain-based ethanol
 produces little more energy than what's required to make it, and does
 virtually nothing to reduce CO2 emissions.

 What about cellulosic ethanol, the oft-cited, eco-friendlier cousin
 of grain-based ethanol? Well, it's-wait for it-largely speculative,
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[Biofuel] darnit

2006-06-05 Thread mark manchester

Subsequent to the switch up to B-50, our dear '79 Benz is now leaking oil
vigorously, and our handsome 60-year-old Chinese mechanics are shaking their
fingers at me.  A certain triumph in the attitude, I'm afraid.  Head gasket!
Fuel lines!  What was I thinkin'?!  They say, if I can't take care of the
car properly, I should sell it to them.  I had a lotta 'spainin' to do.

It's a good thing.  Those gaskets must be due for replacement anyway.
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Re: [Biofuel] The Alt Fuels Distraction

2006-06-05 Thread Fred Finch

ARRGH!!!Why is everyone looking for THE ANSWER? Corn is a response, as is cellulose, as is soy for biodiesel, as is hemp, as is everything else. There will not be a single response to oil. It will be as each region can respond.
fredOn 6/5/06, Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this bothers me. people assume that corn is the only place to get ethanol.dont they read? cellulose might be better later, but corn wont ever be theanswer now.snip Corn-based ethanol is the result of an extremely energy-intensive,
CO2-emitting, polluting process. Corn is grown in massive monocultures with petroleum-based herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers, which are busy accumulating in an enormous dead zone
in the Gulf of Mexico. Ethanol refining plants consume enormous amounts of natural gas or coal; their product is distributed across the country in oil-burning vehicles. In the end, grain-based ethanol
produces little more energy than what's required to make it, and does virtually nothing to reduce CO2 emissions. What about cellulosic ethanol, the oft-cited, eco-friendlier cousin of grain-based ethanol? Well, it's-wait for it-largely speculative,
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Re: [Biofuel] darnit

Fuels lines, yes, head gasket no.

mark manchester wrote:

Subsequent to the switch up to B-50, our dear '79 Benz is now leaking oil
vigorously, and our handsome 60-year-old Chinese mechanics are shaking their
fingers at me.  A certain triumph in the attitude, I'm afraid.  Head gasket!
Fuel lines!  What was I thinkin'?!  They say, if I can't take care of the
car properly, I should sell it to them.  I had a lotta 'spainin' to do.

It's a good thing.  Those gaskets must be due for replacement anyway.
Jesse


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[Biofuel] R-2000 programm

2006-06-05 Thread Fritz Friesinger




Hi Joe,
you are rigth on with your comment!
Those"Airtigth" Homes need to be serviced by 
mechanical Aircontrol,wich create again a energieconsumption by 
itself.Considerin lots of fixt Windows and the great ability of american 
Windowmakers to trow away all phisical Laws,you end up with Windows of sometimes 
very big dimention and ridicule small openings for Ventilation at the Bottom of 
the Windows,so the warm,humid air stays trappet in the upper part of the room or 
house.It is common knowledge, it takes more energie to keep humid air warm than 
to reheat cold air!Drywallconstructin is creating also a unhaelty klimat,so you 
need a humidifier and so on.
Double Loghomes (machined dry Lumber T+G) can be 
built to Standards of Low-energie Homes with K-Value of 0,19W/m2k now i havnt 
been able to convert this into our R-Value but i am certain,it beats R 2000 by 
far.
Combined a good craftet double Loghome with my 68mm 
Windows,you have there a Energie efficien home.
Fore the Larchwood is to say,Larch is probably the 
best wood in the northern Hemisphere but have never beeing commercially used 
because it was in the old times to havy to float and it is so darn hard,that 
carpenters could not nail it.
But with good machines its a peace of cake!There is 
an other apect talking for Larchwood: one dont need to treat the wood chemically 
for protection,the most you need to du is applying a coat of Linseedoil (for 
esthetics only)
Windows and Doors from Larch are very durable 
to.
If you consider the Whole Picture: Larch built 
homes are higly energyefficient,
made from a readyly availible lowcostSource 
and for people with allergies the ideal Home.Combine this with excellent 
workmanship and you get a result that stand up for centurys (I know Larchbuilt 
homes with up to 800 years of age)

I have no experiance in rammed eart 
construction,but would raise some doubts about such a technique for canadian 
climate

Fritz
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Re: [Biofuel] Healing with light

2006-06-05 Thread bob allen

Kirk McLoren wrote:
 http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?DocID=1
  
 put light in the search box and you will have access to some pdf's of 
 published papers. They say there is photochemistry besides chlorophyll. 
 I remember an article at NASA said 40% of the mitochondrial chemical 
 energy was instead supplied directly by photons.


40%-wow, and how does this light get to the mitochondria?  what 
photosynthetic apparatus exists in the mitochondria that isn't reported 
in any current biochemistry textbook? This is an astounding revelation 
if true. I googled around a bit and find nothing. Any hints as to where 
to look for support for such a claim?


sorry if i find this hard to grasp but you suggest that NASA says that 
almost half of the energy required to run my body comes from photons- I 
bet calculations from first principles- caloric values of food eaten 
compared to body temperature for base metabolism wouldn't show a 40% 
discrepancy.  but I could be wrong.


  There has been testing
 at a childrens cancer hospital and others. Looks really good.


initial results nearly always look good, otherwise the wouldn't be 
reported. However, children are particularly susceptible to the placebo 
effect. Everything from acute pain to viral infections (warts) have been 
resolved via a placebo effect. Do you think these results included 
consideration of the placebo effect?


  
 Did you use the link at the bottom of the article?

yes but I didn't see much more to convince me.




  
 Kirk
 
 */bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote:
 
 Howdy Kirk,
 
 I looked over the report and although the claims sound promising, I
 am bothered by the rather
 shallow explanation of the effect:
 
 So far, what we see in patients and what we see in laboratory cell
 cultures, all point to one
 conclusion, said Dr. Whelan. The near-infrared light emitted by
 these LEDs seems to be perfect
 for increasing energy inside cells. This means whether you're on
 Earth in a hospital, working on
 a submarine under the sea, or on your way to Mars inside a
 spaceship, the LEDs boost energy to
 the cells and accelerate healing.
 
 just what the heck do they mean by boosting energy in the cell?
 other than cells with a
 photosynthetic apparatus, there is no mechanism for turning
 electromagnetic energy into ATP, the
 energy currency of all cells. near IR energy would warm the cells,
 but so would a 25 watt light
 bulb or a candle. If the light stimulates growth factors, protein
 synthesis, rna expression or
 whatever say so, but don't give me some lame claim as to increasing
 energy. This sound way too
 mystical.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Kirk McLoren wrote:
  
   *Mice were blinded with methanol and 95% had their sight restored.*
  
   Kirk
  
  
   **
  
  
   *http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002355.html*
  
  
   *Healing with Light Moves Beyond Fiction*
  
  
  
  
   Fans of the Star Trek television shows can recall many stirring
 scenes of medical officers
   treating patients without drugs or surgery, using instead a
 device the size of a cell phone that
   sends out light rays to miraculously heal wounds and cure
 disease before their very eyes. Now,
   the use of light emitting diodes (LED) in the practice of
 medicine has moved well beyond science
   fiction and into the real world. Soldiers injured by lasers in
 combat, astronauts in space and
   children in cancer wards are already benefiting from the healing
 properties of near-infrared
   light in ways that could only be imagined a few years ago.
 Several research projects at the
   Medical College of Wisconsin are at the center of LED treatment
 development and the application
   of new technology to a wide range of injury and illness. The
 potential is quite endless, said
   *Harry T. Whelan, MD* , Medical College Bleser Professor
   of Neurology, Pediatrics and Hyperbaric Medicine. I like to say
 that the history of medicine,
   since the beginning of time, has been poisons and knives. Drugs
 usually poison some enzyme system
   for the benefit of the patient. Think about the drugs you take:
 Digitalis is digitoxin; it's
   from the foxglove plant and it poisons your heart gently to help
 you with cardiac disease. Motrin
   and aspirin basically poison the prostaglandin system to decrease
 pain by poisoning the
   inflammatory cascade. Blood thinners basically poison the
 clotting system, and on and on and on.
   So all these drugs that we take are poisons carefully dosed to
 help the patient. And then, of
   course, knives. That's surgery, in which you have to cut the
 patient in order to cure. In this
   particular strategy, what we're trying to do is use the energy of

Re: [Biofuel] seasonal burning

We have a type of tree here in Canada called Jack pine.  I don't know if 
it grows in other places.  You can recognize it because the needles are 
about half the length of red pine and a little shorter than white pine 
but the really distinguishing characteristic is the cones which are 
smallish (3cm?) and are curved toward the tip. The cones are always 
tightly closed when you find them. Indeed they cannot open because it 
takes the heat of a forest fire to open the cones and release the seeds. 
  Jack pine is one of the first large trees that grows on a firewaste. 
It shows that nature, as always, has a way of incorporating such 
devastation into the grand scheme of things.

Joe


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[Biofuel] worst oil ever

So the latest batch of oil I picked up took 11.45 ml of 0.1% KOH (85% 
purity) solution to get an indication.  Adding this to my 5.8 g basic 
amount means a whopping 17.3 g per liter for a single stage process 
which is obviously out of the question.  The oil was just black. Don't 
ask me how these people sleep at night offering food to patrons after 
frying it in that swill. So I did a acid base process.
Wash test was crap so I did a further single stage with a little less 
than stoichiometric methanol amount and only 2 g KOH per litre since I 
expected there to be excess methanol and base still in the fuel (does 
anybody know how much I should expect it woud be?) I had a problem once 
in the past when I tried to reprocess partially reacted stuff and 
treating it as if it was virgin oil, the symptom was as if too much 
caustic was used and I assume this is because some catalyst was already 
present in the partially reacted fuel. I don't have a clue how to 
estimate how much it would be.  I hope someone here has an idea.
Anyways I got a further bunch of glycerin after that and the subsequent 
wash test was good. Doing acid-base and then a second single stage still 
used less caustic overall than the calculated amount that would have 
been required for a single stage (not that such terrible oil could even 
be done in single stage)I need better feed stock but it is interesting 
now that I am gaining experience, working with really difficult oil and 
seeing that this whole deal is something that can be tweaked and pushed 
one way or the other as the needs change. There's no substitute for 
experience. I feel like I have learned a lot.  It feels like arriving 
somewhere and I feel like once again it is time to thank everyone on 
this list for all the support that this community brings. I think I have 
satisfied that itch and now I can let it go and just go in search of 
better feedstocks.  I know at least that if it comes down to it I can 
deal with really crappy oil! As luck would have it I stopped for some 
frenchfries yesterday and the chip truck owner said I could have his 
waste and he changes oil very frequently.  His chips are really good!

Happy brewing
Joe




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Re: [Biofuel] darnit

2006-06-05 Thread mark manchester

Thankyou for your attention, sir.  I'll inform my earnest and adorable older
gentlemen mechanics.  They are bent on the Let's shampoo the engine and see
where the leaks are track, which I don't mind, as I dash out to get them
some peking duck takeout while they work.  (Oh, I love Toronto.)  Jesse

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 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] darnit

 Fuels lines, yes, head gasket no.

 mark manchester wrote:

 Subsequent to the switch up to B-50, our dear '79 Benz is now leaking oil
 vigorously, and our handsome 60-year-old Chinese mechanics are shaking their
 fingers at me.  A certain triumph in the attitude, I'm afraid.  Head gasket!
 Fuel lines!  What was I thinkin'?!  They say, if I can't take care of the
 car properly, I should sell it to them.  I had a lotta 'spainin' to do.

 It's a good thing.  Those gaskets must be due for replacement anyway.
 Jesse

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Re: [Biofuel] way off topic

Go through Lunenberg, and the state park (Kejimkijik or similar) in the 
middle is nice.  Last trip I just hugged the coast - it's hard to go 
wrong. 
I liked Halifax - particularly the Historic Properties.  Have a donair.  
There will fresh peas - they are wonderful.  The lobsters are also great.

It'll be a great trip.

-Mike

bob allen wrote:

anybody from Nova Scotia? I am heading that way in a couple of weeks for a 
family vacation and would 
like some advice.


  



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[Biofuel] way off topic

2006-06-05 Thread bob allen

anybody from Nova Scotia? I am heading that way in a couple of weeks for a 
family vacation and would 
like some advice.


-- 
Bob Allen
http://ozarker.org/bob

Science is what we have learned about how to keep
from fooling ourselves - Richard Feynman

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Re: [Biofuel] Healing with light

That's it!  I'm cutting work and heading out to sunbathe for a couple of 
hours.  I figure I can skip dinner if I get enough sun.

J

bob allen wrote:
 
 40%-wow, and how does this light get to the mitochondria?  what 
 photosynthetic apparatus exists in the mitochondria that isn't reported 
 in any current biochemistry textbook? This is an astounding revelation 
 if true. I googled around a bit and find nothing. Any hints as to where 
 to look for support for such a claim?
 


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Re: [Biofuel] way off topic

And watch you don't run into someone while driving.  Pedestrians rule on 
the east coast.  Cars will stop in front of you for no apparent 
reasonbecause a pedestrian shows a sign of wanting to cross.  I like 
that!  Enjoy your trip. The restaurant in the harbour where they moor 
the Bluenose II had great food when I was there but it was many moons 
ago
If you have the ability to cook your own, go to the wharf and buy your 
lobsters directly from the fishermen (fisherpeople).

Joe

Mike Weaver wrote:

 Go through Lunenberg, and the state park (Kejimkijik or similar) in the 
 middle is nice.  Last trip I just hugged the coast - it's hard to go 
 wrong. 
 I liked Halifax - particularly the Historic Properties.  Have a donair.  
 There will fresh peas - they are wonderful.  The lobsters are also great.
 
 It'll be a great trip.
 
 -Mike
 
 bob allen wrote:
 
 
anybody from Nova Scotia? I am heading that way in a couple of weeks for a 
family vacation and would 
like some advice.


 

 
 
 
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Re: [Biofuel] Kicking the oil habit

2006-06-05 Thread Steve Knox


  I wish that I shared Robert Redford's confidence that Americans are way 
out in front of our leaders in facing our toughest national challenges. 
After the Memorial Day Weekend, the Manchester Union Leader, which is a 
statewide paper, ran an editorial about speeding on New Hampshire's 
Interstate Highways. They suggested that since most people were driving 
between 70 and 80 mph, we should raise the speed limit. Several days later 
they said how the response to that editorial was overwhelming in support. 
They said it was one of the greatest responses they had ever gotten. Speed 
reduces even further the already low mpg that most cars get. We can wish and 
hope that a majority of the American people are ready to face the challenge, 
but I'm not convinced.

Steve Knox

- Original Message - 
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:26 AM
Subject: [Biofuel] Kicking the oil habit


 http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/30/redford.oil/index.html
 Commentary: Kicking the oil habit

 By Robert Redford
 Special to CNN

 Tuesday, May 30, 2006; Posted: 4:55 p.m. EDT (20:55 GMT)


 Editor's note: Robert Redford is an award-winning actor, director,
 producer and founder of the Sundance Institute and Film Festival.
 Redford also is a businessman and philanthropist and has long
 supported various environmental causes.
 Robert Redford: America is ready to kick the oil habit.

 SUNDANCE, Utah (CNN) -- Today the American people are way out in
 front of our leaders. We're ready to face our toughest national
 challenges, and we deserve new and forward-looking solutions and
 leadership.

 The recent surge in gas prices has touched a raw nerve for many
 around the country, reminding us of an economy that is increasingly
 uncertain for the middle-class, a growing addiction to oil that draws
 us ever closer to dictators and despots, and a fragile global
 position with a climate that is increasingly out of balance. I
 believe America is ready to kick the oil habit and launch a new
 movement for real solutions and a better future.

 Something is happening all across the country. People are coming
 together and demanding new answers. A grassroots movement is
 gathering today to promote solutions, like renewable fuels, clean
 electricity, more efficient cars, and green buildings that use less
 energy -- all of which are exciting alternatives that rebuild our
 communities even as they cut pollution and create good jobs. And,
 when people come together to invest themselves in building a better
 future, we are not only helping to solve our energy crisis, but we
 are taking back our democracy itself.

 You can see this change in many places.

 In California this November, voters will be offered an initiative
 that cuts the use of oil by 25 percent and creates new funding to
 support innovation and cutting edge technology.

 Austin, Texas, is leading a growing number of cities in calling for
 car companies to produce plug-in hybrid vehicles that can go hundreds
 of miles on a gallon of gas.

 New Mexico has joined the Chicago Climate Exchange, pledging to
 reduce its carbon emissions, and at the same time becoming a national
 leader in creating a state-of-the-art clean energy economy.

 In Minnesota they have jump-started a new biofuels industry driven by
 farmer-owned co-ops that are putting more money back into rural
 communities and lifting up people's lives.

 Cities like Seattle are joining with others around the world and
 taking on goals for green development, while states like Colorado are
 passing bond initiatives for transit and new requirements for clean
 energy.

 Recently, a dynamic new campaign launched to seize and grow these
 opportunities and break our energy dependence. It's called
 KickTheOilHabit.org, and it has the backing of a diverse coalition of
 organizations. Its first action was to challenge oil companies to
 double the number of renewable fuel pumps at their stations within
 the year and pledge to offer E85 ethanol fuel at half of all gas
 stations within the decade.

 This is a simple clear action that the oil companies can do today.
 But it is only a first step. Many others are ready to be put in
 action despite industry claims to the contrary.

 In coming months, this campaign, which is based at the Center for
 American Progress and works with partners from the Natural Resources
 Defense Council to Consumers Union, MoveOn.org to the Apollo
 Alliance, will launch new challenges to our elected leaders, but it
 will also point to good work that is already going on all around the
 country. It will illuminate efforts on Capitol Hill by those who are
 concerned about the public good as well as the work of a myriad of
 grassroots groups effectively pushing innovative technological and
 public policy solutions alike.

 Kick the Oil Habit will bring forth the dynamic narrative of American
 innovation and inspired thinking. It will give everyone who

Re: [Biofuel] Kicking the oil habit

My least favorite newspaper in the world.  Look up Hush, you Muskies 
on the web.

-Weaver

Steve Knox wrote:

  I wish that I shared Robert Redford's confidence that Americans are way 
out in front of our leaders in facing our toughest national challenges. 
After the Memorial Day Weekend, the Manchester Union Leader, which is a 
statewide paper, ran an editorial about speeding on New Hampshire's 
Interstate Highways. They suggested that since most people were driving 
between 70 and 80 mph, we should raise the speed limit. Several days later 
they said how the response to that editorial was overwhelming in support. 
They said it was one of the greatest responses they had ever gotten. Speed 
reduces even further the already low mpg that most cars get. We can wish and 
hope that a majority of the American people are ready to face the challenge, 
but I'm not convinced.

Steve Knox

- Original Message - 
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:26 AM
Subject: [Biofuel] Kicking the oil habit


  

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/30/redford.oil/index.html
Commentary: Kicking the oil habit

By Robert Redford
Special to CNN

Tuesday, May 30, 2006; Posted: 4:55 p.m. EDT (20:55 GMT)


Editor's note: Robert Redford is an award-winning actor, director,
producer and founder of the Sundance Institute and Film Festival.
Redford also is a businessman and philanthropist and has long
supported various environmental causes.
Robert Redford: America is ready to kick the oil habit.

SUNDANCE, Utah (CNN) -- Today the American people are way out in
front of our leaders. We're ready to face our toughest national
challenges, and we deserve new and forward-looking solutions and
leadership.

The recent surge in gas prices has touched a raw nerve for many
around the country, reminding us of an economy that is increasingly
uncertain for the middle-class, a growing addiction to oil that draws
us ever closer to dictators and despots, and a fragile global
position with a climate that is increasingly out of balance. I
believe America is ready to kick the oil habit and launch a new
movement for real solutions and a better future.

Something is happening all across the country. People are coming
together and demanding new answers. A grassroots movement is
gathering today to promote solutions, like renewable fuels, clean
electricity, more efficient cars, and green buildings that use less
energy -- all of which are exciting alternatives that rebuild our
communities even as they cut pollution and create good jobs. And,
when people come together to invest themselves in building a better
future, we are not only helping to solve our energy crisis, but we
are taking back our democracy itself.

You can see this change in many places.

In California this November, voters will be offered an initiative
that cuts the use of oil by 25 percent and creates new funding to
support innovation and cutting edge technology.

Austin, Texas, is leading a growing number of cities in calling for
car companies to produce plug-in hybrid vehicles that can go hundreds
of miles on a gallon of gas.

New Mexico has joined the Chicago Climate Exchange, pledging to
reduce its carbon emissions, and at the same time becoming a national
leader in creating a state-of-the-art clean energy economy.

In Minnesota they have jump-started a new biofuels industry driven by
farmer-owned co-ops that are putting more money back into rural
communities and lifting up people's lives.

Cities like Seattle are joining with others around the world and
taking on goals for green development, while states like Colorado are
passing bond initiatives for transit and new requirements for clean
energy.

Recently, a dynamic new campaign launched to seize and grow these
opportunities and break our energy dependence. It's called
KickTheOilHabit.org, and it has the backing of a diverse coalition of
organizations. Its first action was to challenge oil companies to
double the number of renewable fuel pumps at their stations within
the year and pledge to offer E85 ethanol fuel at half of all gas
stations within the decade.

This is a simple clear action that the oil companies can do today.
But it is only a first step. Many others are ready to be put in
action despite industry claims to the contrary.

In coming months, this campaign, which is based at the Center for
American Progress and works with partners from the Natural Resources
Defense Council to Consumers Union, MoveOn.org to the Apollo
Alliance, will launch new challenges to our elected leaders, but it
will also point to good work that is already going on all around the
country. It will illuminate efforts on Capitol Hill by those who are
concerned about the public good as well as the work of a myriad of
grassroots groups effectively pushing innovative technological and
public policy solutions alike.

Kick the Oil Habit will bring forth the dynamic narrative of American
innovation and

Re: [Biofuel] way off topic

2006-06-05 Thread Mike Redler

Hi Bob,

I'm kinda new at it too. I just booked a trip for the last two weeks of 
July.

I don't suppose you did a search at 
http://novascotia.com/en/home/default.aspx.

It has a descent search engine and helped me decide where to go.

Good luck!

-Redler

bob allen wrote:
 anybody from Nova Scotia? I am heading that way in a couple of weeks for a 
 family vacation and would 
 like some advice.


   


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[Biofuel] an apology

2006-06-05 Thread Mike Redler

Hi everyone,

I've been thinking about a few posts I made a short time ago.

Looking back, it is clear that frustrations in my personal life were 
vented toward the biofuels group. I made inappropriate remarks and 
baseless political positions in response to messages from Hakan and Keith.

Whatever my reasons, the remarks I made had no place in the biofuels 
group and I sincerely apologize. Most of all, I apologize to Hakan and 
Keith for being the recipients of such messages. They were angry, 
antagonistic, and offered no contribution except to poison the culture 
within the group.

I hope to make it up to you.

Respectfully,

Mike Redler

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Re: [Biofuel] an apology

2006-06-05 Thread Ken Provost


On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Mike Redler wrote:



 Looking back, it is clear that frustrations in my personal life were
 vented toward the biofuels group. I made inappropriate remarks



Apology accepted (even tho it was never MYSELF who might've
been offended :-)), with thanks..

Over the past several months I've been lying low on the list, just
because I'm so bummed out about a lot of things that my responses
would usually be too toxic for general consumption. It's comforting
(in a perverse way) to know that others are similarly afflicted.

-K

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Re: [Biofuel] way off topic

2006-06-05 Thread mark manchester

You were not specific, Bob, about what sort of advice you had in mind.

Naturally, I have a daughter at university in Halifax (I have daughters
everywhere).  Were you wondering about higher education, perhaps?

But I must add to the advice of these fine men that you'll find lovely food
and scenery (they don't call it new scotland for nothin').  Highlands?
Orchards?  Lobsters?  Breathtaking ocean vistas?  Within the city limits of
Halifax are TWO BIG FRESHWATER LAKES.  Bring a picnic, wear a hat.
Cheers, Jesse

 From: Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Organization: Unlisted
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 Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:25:54 -0400
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 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] way off topic
 
 And watch you don't run into someone while driving.  Pedestrians rule on
 the east coast.  Cars will stop in front of you for no apparent
 reasonbecause a pedestrian shows a sign of wanting to cross.  I like
 that!  Enjoy your trip. The restaurant in the harbour where they moor
 the Bluenose II had great food when I was there but it was many moons
 ago
 If you have the ability to cook your own, go to the wharf and buy your
 lobsters directly from the fishermen (fisherpeople).
 
 Joe
 
 Mike Weaver wrote:
 
 Go through Lunenberg, and the state park (Kejimkijik or similar) in the
 middle is nice.  Last trip I just hugged the coast - it's hard to go
 wrong. 
 I liked Halifax - particularly the Historic Properties.  Have a donair.
 There will fresh peas - they are wonderful.  The lobsters are also great.
 
 It'll be a great trip.
 
 -Mike
 
 bob allen wrote:
 
 
 anybody from Nova Scotia? I am heading that way in a couple of weeks for a
 family vacation and would
 like some advice.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [Biofuel] an apology

2006-06-05 Thread Doug Foskey

At times we all go through periods of stress or depression. On another 
(motorcycle) list I am on, we had a member suicide. Looking back now I can 
see the pain this particular person went through. It is incredibly difficult 
to reach people through the net to help them, and the geographical distances 
make matters worse. 
 I am glad that Mike is coming to terms with his problems, and I feel this is 
the start of the real healing process.
 I personally have suffered from Depression in the last few years (That was to 
do with feeling 'trapped' in a job (being in the country) and having a boss 
that was playing nasty psychological games with his staff. I had always been 
one to dismiss depression as something that people should be able to 'get out 
of', but having been there myself, I found it extremely psychologically 
debilitating. 
 The reason I brought this up is that when one is suffering from stress, 
depression, etc, one of the ways it manifests itself to the outside world is 
as aggression. This aggression is often mental, not physical.
 Anyway, Mike, if you have read this far I hope that you can get from me that 
there is always hope. There are a number of sites on the web explaining some 
elements of what we may feel at some times. (Google around a bit). However 
the main thing is that we are all friends, and if anyone feels that some 
things they wish to discuss are not suitable for the list, I am sure that 
personal contact via email is appropriate.

regards Doug  

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 9:36, Ken Provost wrote:
 On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Mike Redler wrote:
  Looking back, it is clear that frustrations in my personal life were
  vented toward the biofuels group. I made inappropriate remarks

 Apology accepted (even tho it was never MYSELF who might've
 been offended :-)), with thanks..

 Over the past several months I've been lying low on the list, just
 because I'm so bummed out about a lot of things that my responses
 would usually be too toxic for general consumption. It's comforting
 (in a perverse way) to know that others are similarly afflicted.

 -K

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Re: [Biofuel] way off topic

2006-06-05 Thread Mike Redler

Mark, et al

I don't know anything about the area and there are so many resorts, 
cabins, and general vacation spots, I ended up going by the list of 
activities.

Any chance you heard of Inverary Resort?
http://www.capebretonresorts.com/inverary.asp

Mike

mark manchester wrote:
 You were not specific, Bob, about what sort of advice you had in mind.

 Naturally, I have a daughter at university in Halifax (I have daughters
 everywhere).  Were you wondering about higher education, perhaps?

 But I must add to the advice of these fine men that you'll find lovely food
 and scenery (they don't call it new scotland for nothin').  Highlands?
 Orchards?  Lobsters?  Breathtaking ocean vistas?  Within the city limits of
 Halifax are TWO BIG FRESHWATER LAKES.  Bring a picnic, wear a hat.
 Cheers, Jesse

   
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 And watch you don't run into someone while driving.  Pedestrians rule on
 the east coast.  Cars will stop in front of you for no apparent
 reasonbecause a pedestrian shows a sign of wanting to cross.  I like
 that!  Enjoy your trip. The restaurant in the harbour where they moor
 the Bluenose II had great food when I was there but it was many moons
 ago
 If you have the ability to cook your own, go to the wharf and buy your
 lobsters directly from the fishermen (fisherpeople).

 Joe

 Mike Weaver wrote:

 
 Go through Lunenberg, and the state park (Kejimkijik or similar) in the
 middle is nice.  Last trip I just hugged the coast - it's hard to go
 wrong. 
 I liked Halifax - particularly the Historic Properties.  Have a donair.
 There will fresh peas - they are wonderful.  The lobsters are also great.

 It'll be a great trip.

 -Mike

 bob allen wrote:


   
 anybody from Nova Scotia? I am heading that way in a couple of weeks for a
 family vacation and would
 like some advice.
 


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Re: [Biofuel] Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?

2006-06-05 Thread Darryl McMahon

Additional reading (just pulled from my bookshelf).

Best overview of the subject to date IMO.
_Whose Water Is It? The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World_
Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl, Editors
ISBN# 0-7922-6238-7
Maude Barlow's piece in this book says:
'Both the World Bank and the United Nations state that water is a human 
  need not a human right.'

Also excellent IMO (winner of Canadian Governor General's Award).
_Water_
Marq de Villiers
ISBN#0-7737-6174-8

Solid coverage of the Walkerton Ontario scandal - public ownership gone bad.
_Well of Lies - The Walkerton Water Tragedy_
Colin N. Perkel
ISBN# 0-7710-7019-5

Quirky, but presents some very interesting history that makes good 
context for other reading.
_Water Wars - Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst_
Diane Raines Ward
ISBN# 1-57322-995-4

Strident, primary focus on privatization of water supplies.
_Blue Gold_
Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
ISBN# 0-7710-1086-9

Darryl

Keith Addison wrote:
 12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, 
 and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.
 
 Same as energy, same as food, same as money.
 
 Actually there is only one problem, IMHO, and this is it.
 
 For a glimpse at water issues worldwide in 2002 see:
 http://snipurl.com/qcpd
 Re: [biofuel] Sewage  Waste Water - was: Somewhat OT: Animal Waste
 
 Best
 
 Keith
 
 
 ---
 
 New at Anup Shah's Global Issues web site.
 http://www.globalissues.org
 
 * Trade-Related Issues
 * Sustainable Development
 * Water
 
 Much of the world lives without access to clean water. A recognized 
 global water crisis appears to come not so much from water scarcity 
 and over-population but from management of this precious resource. 
 Privatization has long been encouraged as the means to efficient 
 management and provision of service. However, the result has been 
 that often prices have increased, out of reach from poor people 
 around the world. This commoditization of water goes to the heart of 
 safe water access issues. This article looks into this issue in more 
 detail.
 
 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Development/water/
 
 Introduction-A Water Management Crisis Leading to Lack of Access to 
 Safe Water for Much of the World
 * Coca Cola vs. Indian Farmers: Luxury vs. Necessity
 * Privatization in both rich and poor countries can mean many cannot 
 access safe water
 * Water Access Policy: Following Neoliberal Ideology
 * Privatization vs. Democratic Accountability of Management of a 
 Fundamental Resource
 * Water: A Human Right or a Commodity?
 * Water and Environmental Issues
 * International Agreements and Action
 * More Information
 
 
 
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Re: [Biofuel] Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?

There's plenty of water.  It's just not in the right place and in the 
right form...

Darryl McMahon wrote:

Additional reading (just pulled from my bookshelf).

Best overview of the subject to date IMO.
_Whose Water Is It? The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World_
Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl, Editors
ISBN# 0-7922-6238-7
Maude Barlow's piece in this book says:
'Both the World Bank and the United Nations state that water is a human 
  need not a human right.'

Also excellent IMO (winner of Canadian Governor General's Award).
_Water_
Marq de Villiers
ISBN#0-7737-6174-8

Solid coverage of the Walkerton Ontario scandal - public ownership gone bad.
_Well of Lies - The Walkerton Water Tragedy_
Colin N. Perkel
ISBN# 0-7710-7019-5

Quirky, but presents some very interesting history that makes good 
context for other reading.
_Water Wars - Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst_
Diane Raines Ward
ISBN# 1-57322-995-4

Strident, primary focus on privatization of water supplies.
_Blue Gold_
Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
ISBN# 0-7710-1086-9

Darryl

Keith Addison wrote:
  

12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, 
and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.

Same as energy, same as food, same as money.

Actually there is only one problem, IMHO, and this is it.

For a glimpse at water issues worldwide in 2002 see:
http://snipurl.com/qcpd
Re: [biofuel] Sewage  Waste Water - was: Somewhat OT: Animal Waste

Best

Keith


---

New at Anup Shah's Global Issues web site.
http://www.globalissues.org

* Trade-Related Issues
* Sustainable Development
* Water

Much of the world lives without access to clean water. A recognized 
global water crisis appears to come not so much from water scarcity 
and over-population but from management of this precious resource. 
Privatization has long been encouraged as the means to efficient 
management and provision of service. However, the result has been 
that often prices have increased, out of reach from poor people 
around the world. This commoditization of water goes to the heart of 
safe water access issues. This article looks into this issue in more 
detail.

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Development/water/

Introduction-A Water Management Crisis Leading to Lack of Access to 
Safe Water for Much of the World
* Coca Cola vs. Indian Farmers: Luxury vs. Necessity
* Privatization in both rich and poor countries can mean many cannot 
access safe water
* Water Access Policy: Following Neoliberal Ideology
* Privatization vs. Democratic Accountability of Management of a 
Fundamental Resource
* Water: A Human Right or a Commodity?
* Water and Environmental Issues
* International Agreements and Action
* More Information



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Re: [Biofuel] way off topic

2006-06-05 Thread Darryl McMahon

I plan to be in N.S. end of the month and into July.  Both my parents 
are bluenosers.  It's been a while since I've had a good visit, so I 
can't guarantee everything is still the way I remember.

If you are near Truro and like ice cream or related products, find the 
Fundy Dairy Bar.  Puts Baskin-Robbins 31 flavours to shame.

Find some Stan Rogers tunes to play in the car, especially Barrett's 
Privateers and Rawden Hills.  My cassettes plain wore out - I'll be 
looking for CDs this trip.

Definitely tour the Citadel and other historic sights in Halifax.

Find time to visit Prince Edward Island.  I like the Woods Island Ferry 
from Pictou, but the bridge to New Brunswick is also something to see. 
The dunes off Cavendish Beach are quite something.  Near Pictou is the 
Balmoral grist mill, IIRC.  Used to have demonstrations of the working 
mill, and you could buy stone ground flour they milled there.  Also 
working steam equipment on the same site.  Not open every day, so you 
need to schedule around this one.

If you are in the Annapolis Valley, try scallops in Digby, visit Fort 
Anne at Annapolis Royal, follow the Evangeline Trail and check out the 
Fundy tides.  Cape Blomedin is spectacular, and you need to learn about 
Glooscap while there.  Acadian cultural history, dikes, salt marshes. 
Oh, Louisberg - must see!!

If you venture into Cape Breton, make sure you visit the A.G. Bell 
museum at Baddeck - much more than the telephone.  Lake Bras d'Or at 
sunset - I'll never forget that sight from the Cabot Trail.

Lunenburg and Peggy's Cove, both attractive, but touristy now IMO.

If there are any gatherings of clans or massed pipes playing, try to 
take them in.

So much more.  Visit the Tourist Information offices in each area, 
they'll treat you well.

Shift your life-speed down a gear, and enjoy!

Darryl

bob allen wrote:
 anybody from Nova Scotia? I am heading that way in a couple of weeks for a 
 family vacation and would 
 like some advice.
 
 

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