[Biofuel] My post
Hi all. I have been on this list for years, starting with an interest in developing biofuel from waste vegetation. In my community, this will not happen, and I am not equipped. I am, however, a storyteller and songwriter. I do read this list and get ideas, motivation (fuel) and even poetic and powerful phrases. So my interest has morphed from the scientific and practical to the artistic. My son and I are writing a series of rock musicals about the demise of our poor planet from the perspective of far-future alien archaeologists. I wish to stay on for that reason and for general education and knowledge. Thank you. Here is the POV of one character: Mitigation was never a hit So they built their domes And they built their ships And when all of that fails, What'll save us from hell Will be my DNA magic tricks. Best regards to all from Guam, USA Les Smith ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
Re: [Biofuel] Survey: Fox News Viewers Less Informed Than Those Who Don't Watch Any News
My daughter Stephanie, aged 17, laughed when I told her this bit of news. She says,It's the filters, isn't it? She knows it's not necessary to feed lies, just filter the truth. I have high hopes for her. Now we just gotta make sure there is a future for her on this planet Les On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've never seen it. Nor any of the others. I suppose I could access it online, I guess it would be educational, sort of, until my brain cells started melting. I'll give it a try. All best Keith Sorry, but Duh you can almost feel your brain cells melting when watching fox news (and to be fair, the other major TV news networks are not a lot better) On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/22-4 Published on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 by Democracy Now! Survey: Fox News Viewers Less Informed Than Those Who Don't Watch Any News A new survey from Fairleigh Dickinson University has found that viewers of Fox News are less informed about world events than people who do not watch any news. The study found viewers of Fox are 18 points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government and six points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government compared to those who watch no news. Fairleigh Dickinson political science Professor Dan Cassino said, The results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don't watch any news at all. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/2025/225e4719/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] State Department Tar Sands Pipeline Hearings Run By TransCanada Contractor
As someone else said, imagine a bar at closing time. A desperate alcoholic staggers in, rips up the threadbare carpet and sucks the last drops of alcohol out. That's tar sands. Pathetic. Les On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: http://www.truth-out.org/state-department-keystone-xl-hearings-run-transcanada-contractor/1317301341 State Department Tar Sands Pipeline Hearings Run By TransCanada Contractor Thursday 29 September 2011 by: Brad Johnson, ThinkProgress | Report In a stunning conflict of interest, public hearings on federal approval for a proposed tar sands pipeline are being run by a contractor for the pipeline company itself. The U.S. Department of State's public hearings along the proposed route of the TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline this week are under the purview of Cardno Entrix, a professional environmental consulting company that specializes in permitting and compliance. Cardno is not only running the State Department hearings, but also manages the department's Keystone XL website and drafted the department's environmental impact statement. Comments from the public about the pipeline go not to the government, but to a cardno.com email: Cardno Entrix was contracted by TransCanada Keystone XL LP (Keystone) to do the work for the Department of State (DOS): Keystone contracted with Cardno ENTRIX as the third-party contractor to assist DOS in preparing the EIS and to conduct the Section 106 consultation process. Section 106? refers to the section of the National Historic Preservation Act that considers impacts on historic places. Throughout the history of the DOS review of the Keystone pipeline, the work has been conducted not by civil servants but by representatives of the pipeline company. During the Bush administration, the Department of State appointed TransCanada and its subcontractors to act as its designated non-federal representatives to assess the potential impact of the Keystone pipeline on endangered species. Cardno Entrix contractors are running the public hearings from Port Arthur, Texas, to Glendive, Montana. It is not clear from media reports whether the State Department representatives at the hearing were in fact Entrix employees. ThinkProgress Green is awaiting information from the State Department. All of this adds up to the old saying, the fox is guarding the hen house, says Jane Kleeb, the Nebraska activist leading the fight to protect her state from the risks of the Keystone XL project. Update The American Petroleum Institute also worked on the environmental impact statements while lobbying on behalf of the pipeline, OpenSecrets reports: Some groups, such as the American Petroleum Institute, do more than just contribute to campaigns and lobby lawmakers, John Kerekes, the group's regional manager in the Midwest, told OpenSecrets Blog. Everybody chooses their own advocacy strategy, Kerekes told OpenSecrets Blog. We've been engaged from the beginning. We worked on the draft and supplemental and final environmental impact statement. In the final months of the process, Kerekes said the American Petroleum Institute would continue its active participation. He also brought up yet another source of groups can use to influence policy: outside spending. We've been running oil sands advocacy ads as part of our efforts over the past year, he said.I can't imagine we'll stop that anytime soon. Originally published on ThinkProgress ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20111001/9655ae35/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] 9/11 conspiracy theory
Thank you so much, Keith. This video is worthwhile; it made my wife sit up and take note. She has taken the red pill (I think that's the one that makes it all go away) so as to not have to think about things. But this video is too wicked to ignore. I also understand there was no plane debris at the Pentagon site; they had to truck in some debris. Les On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29110.htm ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110914/99df04f0/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Soaring Costs 'Forcing Drivers Off Road'
Soaring Costs 'Forcing Drivers Off Road' I am always delighted to see fuel prices go up even though it hurts my personal finances. Low-priced fossil fuels put alternative energy sources on the back burner. Someone recently said to me regarding biofuels, Why bother? Gas is still cheap. It is difficult to get support for plans to develop alternatives when almost everyone is blinded by their own addiction to convenience. High petrol prices are environmentally friendly, but me saying so does not enhance my social life, at least not where I live. Thanks for sharing this. Sorry for the late reply; I found it in my SPAM folder... Les On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Dawie Coetzee [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: This on Yahoo's What's New this morning, from Sky News. They're saying it like it's a bad thing ... Regards Dawie Coetzee http://uk.news.yahoo.com/soaring-costs-forcing-drivers-off-road-060942591.html Soaring Costs 'Forcing Drivers Off Road' Some 1.3 million people have been driven off the UK's roads this year as a result of rising motoring costs, according to new research. The staggering figure, released by Sainsbury's Car Insurance, suggests one in 30 drivers have given up their cars over the past 12 months. The report found the average car owner is now spending around £1,720 annually to fuel their vehicle - a rise of almost 23% year-on-year. It says three quarters of motorists have changed their driving habits in the last 12 months to accomodate the rise in bills, including 30% increases in insurance premiums. Sainsbury's puts the average cost of running a car annually at over £3,000 - a rise of 21% on a year ago. The UK has 31 million registered licence holders with 27 million cars, according to the AA. The motoring organisation believes the claim that there are now 1.3 million fewer cars on the roads is unlikely but it agrees with the findings that the vast majority of drivers have cut their costs. AA President Edmund King said: Although the AA figures broadly support the level of fuel-price hardship illustrated by this new survey, it is unlikely that one in 30 drivers no longer get behind the wheel. That in itself would be a growing disaster for retailers who rely on their customers to go to out-of-town superstores. In the study, 26% admitted not filling their petrol tanks while 45% were driving less often. 10% - that is 3.5 million people - had downgraded their car for one that is cheaper to run. The squeeze on consumers - a result of rising inflation - is mainly down to higher oil prices feeding into the wider economy at a time of slower wage growth. The average cost of petrol has fallen back from record highs earlier this year but the latest figures from Experian Catalist suggest unleaded currently stands at 133.68p a litre while diesel costs 137.59p. Mr King said: Clearly, petrol costing more than 130p a litre is more than a significant number of drivers can afford, but modern society depends on a high level of mobility. With alternative transport either being cut back or becoming more expensive, the AA thinks most drivers will hold on to their cars. He continued: They may leave the more thirsty car in the garage or at the top of the drive, but families cling on to the hope that somehow things will get better. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110705/6d3af7c1/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110708/be495d7d/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] The Earth is Full ( Thomas L. Friedman NY times)
Dawie, Thanks for the reading suggestion. I am not familiar with a Distributist philosophy or movement. I will check your recommendations. You are correct; social teaching is often neglected in religious education. It is popular for preachers and teachers to remind folks of mankind's authority to subdue the earth and have dominion, but without mentioning the responsibility of stewardship. So much of Christianity doesn't seem to make sense because the chair seems to always be missing a leg or two. They key to success and happiness is not in collecting and hoarding excess resources; success in relationships is. (If money was the key to happiness, that German billionaire would not have committed suicide. Obviously.) The author of the article suggests a happiness-driven economy instead of a consumer-driven economy. Of course, millions of people happily enjoying successful relationships is not going to yield much corporate profit, so this will have to remain an underground reality. It is difficult to break through to people whose thinking is so entrenched: Democracy=Capitalism=Christian=good. Slowly, some people are beginning to see my point of view, but others, when confronted with the reality of our collective environmental challenges, just declare that the end-times are upon us and it's time to turn in-ward and repent, blah, blah, blah. I can't work with that, unless they mean to repent from their consumptive and rapacious ways, which is not what they mean. Sigh. But I have identified a productive mission field. Churches are full of people who want to do good. I just have to help them see that we must all maintain our life-support systems or we all die and all the preaching in the world will not help a bit... Thanks for all the food for thought. Peace. On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Dawie Coetzee [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Les I agree with you entirely. And I believe that the trend to internalization of religion is a disturbing one in many Christian denominations. The personal renewal aspect of Christianity is overemphasized at the expense of social teaching; and to my mind this is analogous to the tendency to overemphasize praise at the expense of contrition and absolution, forgetting that it is the latter which enables us to live with our terrible liberty - which reflects back on how we ought to exercise our liberty. However, where social teaching is developed one continuously runs into the matter of circumstance, leading some to explore such notions as structural sin. I think the exercise has merit. The questions change radically as soon as we recognize ourselves as at least to some extent corporate livestock, however much we ought to be free agents. We are free enough to make a noise, however, if ostensible democracy places us in the position where we are effectively called to hold to account those authorities who exert an influence on the structures that shape our lives. It is then of no use if we do not see those structures, or deny the extent to which we are constrained by them - perhaps believing that choosing Brand Y or even Brand Z will solve the problem; moreover unless we understand HOW we are constrained we might just make the wrong noise altogether. Are you familiar with the Distributist movement of the early 20th century? It was an attempt to formulate a third model of social economics in opposition to both Communism and Capitalism, derived from a Christian (though largely Roman Catholic) world-view. I believe it was a definitive influence on EF Schumacher, and see the appropriate technology movement as a proper continuation of that tradition. (I once lamented that Marx had proceeded from the thought of GWF Hegel, and wondered if his subsequent ideology would have been more palatable had he proceeded from the thought of, say, St. Thomas Aquinas. I took Aquinas as a pretty much random example at the time. Only years later when I encountered Distributism did it occur to me that Distributism was precisely that: the aim and impulse of Marx's project applied to the basis of Thomist Aristotelianism instead of Hegelian idealism. Needless to say, the results literally differ fundamentally.) Likewise, are you familiar with the works of the late French Christian anarchist Jacques Ellul? The Technological Society is a book everyone should read. Regards Dawie Coetzee From: Les Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sun, 12 June, 2011 0:51:58 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Earth is Full ( Thomas L. Friedman NY times) I am using this article to illustrate some of the problems that concern me. I am sharing it. I know a lot of church people and right-wingers who are, so far, oblivious to the need for change. They are sleepwalking consumer zombies who live to purchase the next SUV that comes into fashion. This article is a good succinct
Re: [Biofuel] The Earth is Full ( Thomas L. Friedman NY times)
I am using this article to illustrate some of the problems that concern me. I am sharing it. I know a lot of church people and right-wingers who are, so far, oblivious to the need for change. They are sleepwalking consumer zombies who live to purchase the next SUV that comes into fashion. This article is a good succinct illustration, or introduction to the issues that I contemplate daily. I am starting to see that my role is to shake awake some of the religious people who are so vilified on CD's web site. The religious people I am talking about are not stupid (with exceptions!), but they are sleeping. And it is a big mistake to equate Christianity with right-wing ideology. In doing so, we separate the two armies that should be working together. (It is not just us who need to separate the two; so many church people accept right-wing nuttery as their default political position.) But to write them off as the enemy is to lose the battle. There are too many of them to ignore--they have immense voting power. If I can be a churchgoing Christian, and see that all is not as it should be, and can see what specific things need to change, then so can others. They just need some help. The words of Jesus clearly indicate that liberal ideas mesh with His teachings and warmongering, consumptive policies are NOT what he would expect to be supported by His followers. Anyway, this was not meant to be a religious rant, but an encouragement to use this article to show people who don't understand. The language and illustrations are clear, immediate and accessible. On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Not everybody wears such outsized boots as Mr Friedman imagines. In act most people fit the planet rather well. See, eg: Energy consumption http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_404.html#energyuse Best Keith FYI: ~~ www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=3src=meref=general Op-Ed Columnist The Earth Is Full By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: June 7, 2011 You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we'll look back at the first decade of the 21st century --- when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all --- and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we'd crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once? The only answer can be denial, argues Paul Gilding, the veteran Australian environmentalist-entrepreneur, who described this moment in a new book called The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World. When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required. Gilding cites the work of the Global Footprint Network, an alliance of scientists, which calculates how many planet Earths we need to sustain our current growth rates. G.F.N. measures how much land and water area we need to produce the resources we consume and absorb our waste, using prevailing technology. On the whole, says G.F.N., we are currently growing at a rate that is using up the Earth's resources far faster than they can be sustainably replenished, so we are eating into the future. Right now, global growth is using about 1.5 Earths. Having only one planet makes this a rather significant problem, says Gilding. This is not science fiction. This is what happens when our system of growth and the system of nature hit the wall at once. While in Yemen last year, I saw a tanker truck delivering water in the capital, Sana. Why? Because Sana could be the first big city in the world to run out of water, within a decade. That is what happens when one generation in one country lives at 150 percent of sustainable capacity. If you cut down more trees than you grow, you run out of trees, writes Gilding. If you put additional nitrogen into a water system, you change the type and quantity of life that water can support. If you thicken the Earth's CO2 blanket, the Earth gets warmer. If you do all these and many more things at once, you change the way the whole system of planet Earth behaves, with social, economic, and life support impacts. This is not speculation; this is high school science. It is also current affairs. In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today, China's environment minister, Zhou Shengxian, said recently. The depletion, deterioration and exhaustion of resources and the worsening ecological
Re: [Biofuel] U. S. Head of Military Intelligence Publically States 9/11 was Staged Event
Just so I am clear; the idea is similar to the movie JFK in which corporate masters assigned poloticians to maintain a war for the purpose of making tons of war profits. Or, the movie Canadian Bacon in which USA started a war of convenience to boost the economy for re-election of a sitting president. Absurd, but real? I know corporationsown the Congress, but how far would they take it for profit's sake? I think the whole establishment is against sustainability, biofuels and just about everything else we value. Know your enemy comes to mind when I think of why this conglomeration of issues might be relevant to the discussion. On Friday, September 11, 2009, Chris Burck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think you hit the nail, david. i remember i called in sick that day and slept in. when i rolled out of bed and turned on the tube, saw those endlessly repeating videos plastered over fvery channel. the very first thing that crossed my mind was that suddenly the whole business in florida, dragging in the supreme court, it all made sense. there's a lot of questions that need answering, and a lot to be answered for wrt the events of that day (well, a lot of other days, too). whether the buildings went down on their own, or needed a little extra help, is kind of beside the point. [btw, my apologies if i'm repeating myself here, i thought i said the above yesterday but the comment seems to be missing from the thread. . . .] I'm not suggesting that some agency wasn't aware of what was about to happen, and they could have used it to bury records in WTC7, it's just that I'm not convinced that the two main buildings were brought down by anything other than the planes. If you think otherwise, please include the fact that the buildings fell from the point of impact into your theory. David ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
