The Ecology of Water Consumption

Remember the old line about "water, water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink." Clean water seems to be in endless supply, but that is true only if you can desalinate seawater. That is expensive, but can be done. We take our seemingly endless water supply for granted and use it, but it is an issue of the environment. Although we’ve all heard about water conservation, or have had to turn off our sprinklers during dry seasons we get angry when there is not enough water.

Available water is a function of climate, rainfall, plus the infrastructure to catch it, clean it, reuse it, and as in desalination, create new supplies of fresh water.

Tipping Points to Global Warming

I am watching a video that says that Global warming is near a tipping point. It is going to get so hot, we could have temperature rises of 7-centigrade. He (Prof. Keohane of NYU) is saying that everything will collapse in the environment the same way that the financial derivative bubble collapsed.

This is a total fairy tale I think. The world needs to cut emission of greenhouse gases by 50-percent. You are also supposed to let developing countries grow. That means cutting USA emissions by 80-percent. That is insane, that is impossible. These people are nuts. Of course we could switch to nuclear power and artificial, nuclear manufacture of gas fuels. But the greenie, environmental mainstream wants renewal so-called sources. Impossible, beserk.

Eliminate Multiple Remotes for the Environment

Get your Yamaha neoHD to eliminate the need for mutiple remotes. When you cut down on multiple devices, you help the environment and save energy, at least personal energy. In any case, let's talk about it. My dear readers, why would you like to have one remote for all your gadgets? Do you get confused between the remote control for the TV, the VCR and the DVD player, or is there even more to play with?

With the Media Controller, you can program it to control a large number of sources. It becomes a true remote junction. You can control up to six audio-visual devices in this way. You use this neoHD remote control to run your TV, your blu-ray, your game system and something else too. You can program all the codes into it and become a very efficient couch potato, so don't forget to exercise! This way you have only one remote control device to hide from a small child, who likes to play with remote controls with sometimes disastrous results. You can choose channels, power, volume and what to mute. Keep everyone happy from mom and dad to the house dog. Having one device to control up to six audio-visual devices keeps the man or woman who knows how to manipulate all of these fun things in control and keeps the four fingered crazy people out of the loop. If you are a smart teenager, you can have the one neoHD remote control, and then you can respond to mom and dad's request to listen to some music or watch a television station.

You simply select, watch, listen and play what you want on each of the devices that are programmed into it. You can also view menus such as song lists with a Graphical User Interface that is simple and easy to understand. Get your pop-up menus out for your iPod and you are in your element.

Green Energy Magic in Boston

According to today's Boston Globe, there is a company in Cambridge Mass, the home of Harvard U., called Joule Biotechnologies Inc. that has a green secret to change sunlight to a liquid fuel. Reports from the company president are that it is not algae, but what could it be? Is this green energy possible?

The idea is to have some sort of algae that converts carbon dioxide and water into ethanol. It is a big fantasy I think, out of Jonathan Swift's Travels, but that is what makes speculative bubbles. The big lie is that the product could compete with $50-a-barrel petroleum. That is not possible for simple reasons. You have to deal with so much crap, even the cleaning bills will be higher.

Webhosting Choices for the Environment

Before you set up great websites about environmental issues or selling such products, it is best to know your webhosting options. It's also a good thing to look at some ideas for multiple domain hosting as well.

The good news is that it is cheaper than ever to set up a website, and buy domain names. Perhaps you'd like to set up several websites. You could set up one site just for your family and friends. Make announcements of family activities, and post pictures of outings and events. That way it's easy to keep everyone informed about activities involving beloved children and adults. So it's important when you choose a webhosting service to find out if it is easy to host more than one domain.

Take a good look at your options with your webhosting to connect with and interact with social networking sites. Think about Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and other social networking sites such as Digg. This way you have a platform, your website to then use to interact with all the social networking sites out there. And remember, there are less popular but very fun social networking sites that are not on this list, but you can get by a simple Google search for social networking sites.

If you are really in the make a website groove, the next thing that you have to do is set up a business online site. Why not sell something online? So many other people are doing it already, but you may have a special angle, special knowledge of a field or product, or even a better price for goods than others have. Many businesses that are online set up multiple domain hosting so that they have the most opportunities to attract customers. You can set up several websites with different themes and approaches and find out which is the most successful for your online business. Check out my friend's links to find out different choices for webhosting. Remember that online business is good for the environment, good for the greenie cause, since you are not wasting any brick-and-mortar space. That is real space conservation for you.

Looking for the Arctic Ice

It seems that Greenpeace missed again. Uhuh. The Arctic ice pack is not even coming close to melting by 2030. They are just trying to get some easy money from George Soros and the British financial system lords. In fact, since a possible peak in average temperature in 1998, global temperature has been declining. So before you go into a global warming frenzy, think again. A cap and trade bill will cost trillions, and may be totally unnecessary. Can't we wait for safe nuclear power plants that are here now, and will be all over the globe by 2050 or 2060. That is, if you don't destroy civilization first, Mr. Pres. Obama.

Sing the Phil Collins (spoof) song:

Thought that the iceberg would be long gone;
For an Arctic that is so much ice-free;
It was in your eye,
Why does it take so long;

I've been waiting in line;
I guess you think I've been wasting my time;
I missed again, uhuh, I think I missed again, uhuh.

Where Are Greenies in the Mass Strike?

Greenies may be feeling very divided in the mass strike hitting the United States. On the one hand, many environmentalists supported Obama in the cap-and-trade legislation on burning coal, oil, and other carbon fuels. A more with-it minority realizes that cap-and-trade is using an environmental theory to create huge financial bubble which will kill people.

At the same time we have Obama's Health care bill. More environmentalists realize this bill will euthanize large parts of the elderly population and some of the very young. Environmentalists tend to have the problem of figuring out how to use good technology, like the latest nuclear electricity and process heat power plants-- to create enough economic surplus to pay for health care for everyone.

Death Panels on Health Care

There are rumors about death panels all over the Obama Health Care reform. Rep. Blumenthal wrote the legislation (from Oregon, the legal suicide law) for death counseling for those who are considered to be terminal. There is the story of Barbara Wagner, who was told not even to try to survive with her lung cancer, but she could be given poison to kill herself, from her doctor! This is a pretty nasty environment, even for the greenie paradise called Oregon. They love the environment in Portland, Oregon, but do they love their sick relatives and the elderly?

Then on top of that you have the IMAC of Med Pac proposed bureaucracy, to cut health care by diagnosis and age. This would create a dictatorship over the US Congress' supervision of Medicare for the elderly and disabled.

Ecological Fun in Switzerland

Did you know that Switzerland is the place for ecological fun? They don't call it sustainable Switzerland for nothing. You can see what I mean in the above picture of the town of St. Gallen. It's a bustling little town that is surrounded by a belt of trees and forests, and right near the lovely Lake Constance.

The different regions of climate in little Switzerland are incredible. While the Swiss Alps are famous for snow and skiing, there is also a place called Southern Switzerland. For much of the year, the southern slopes of the Alps is the beginning of the warm Mediterranean climate region. This region is just north of Italy and not far from the Italian city of Milan. Regional centers include Lugano and Locarno. The good news is that environmentally sustainable fast and reliable train travel is available to take you all around the multi-cultural nation of Switzerland. It can take you from the French-speaking west around Geneva, through the large German speaking area, and down south to the Italian-speaking enclave of sunny Southern Switzerland. In one train centered tour, you start from Zurich, the largest city and go to many other towns on the way to Geneva in the west. The train then has a track to tunnel to the south and take you all the way to Tirano, Italy.


The amount of rail travel that the average Swiss person takes is incredible and ought to be a lesson to car-obsessed people of the United States. People take the train almost 50 times a year, in addition to local lines and trolleys. The use of trains is all the more remarkable due to the mountainous terrain, and is made possible by over 600 rail tunnels around the country, from small ones to ones that go through the Alps all the way to Italy.

Also of note environmentally is the over 90-percent level of the recycling of glass bottles, something that is fun to do and has spiritual significance, as well as being practical.

Excitement over Bike Sharing in Portland Oregon

The Portland Oregon, the Bureau of Transportation is studying bike sharing as a possible tool to increase bike use in that green city. This seems ironic, since in New York City, if you want to go to midtown from the Bronx, the only real options are driving and the bus and subway. What kind of world are these "bike sharers" living in? They probably pay very large apartment rents or mortgages, since they must live very close to their jobs in downtown. It really seems like yuppy stuff, since many people cannot ride bikes much after age 40 or 45. Portland, Oregon, ecotopia for the very rich, with bicycles all over the place. Meanwhile, in downtown NYC, the only bikes we see are hardened messengers and bike rickshaws powered by young legs that can take it.

Environment for a Mass Political Strike

There is a tough environment out there. With the economic collapse, the cap-and-trade rightly is not expected to survive the Senate. The Health Bill of Obama is Dead on Arrival. As it has been said, "I get angrier every day. They are passing bills in the middle of the night. What do we do—vote every single person out of office? The Republicans have left us; the Democrats have left us; what do we do?"

Riots have spread from the East to the Western United States. Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) held a town hall meeting in Skagit, Washington in a room holding 150. About 500 more sat on the lawn outside, listening on loudspeakers. The 2-minute youtube shows signs... then LPAC signs, and the narrator says, "The Lyndon LaRouche PAC brought Obama as Hitler signs [Obama 'stache]. They were also passing out pictures of the two world leaders [Obama and Hitler picture on front of LPAC pamphlet—excellent closeup] chumming it up. This picture was probably taken at the 1936 Summer Olympics." Larsen angered constitutents when he said he did not support the single payer plan. Riots are expected to peak in October, when everyone finds out that the country is broke.

pix from http://marcvallee.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/090808_marcvallee_climate_camp_mass_action_blog.jpg

Is Cap and Trade in the Mix?

There is a lot of talk about controversy around the Obama Administration health care bill, but there is also concern about cap-and-trade. This bill, so-called addressing global warming, will create a huge financial bubble around licenses to burn all hydrocarbons. Without a big and immediate push to build nuclear power electricity and process heat plants, this is a total disaster. This is a forced march to the stone age. Note that cap-and-trade has not yet been passed by the U.S. Senate.

When you combine cap-and-trade with the Obama health plan, you can see that the Obama administration is trying to destroy the United States for the British Financial Empire, the Commonwealth and the European Imperial tradition going back to the Treaty of 1763 at the end of the Seven Years War.

The New Green Financial Bubble

There is a new green, environmentalist financial bubble that Obama and London financiers are trying to create. This is the cap-and-trade bubble on trading permission to burn carbon-based fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas. Now, one-third of our labor force is in jeopardy, with one-third of that getting some unemployment aid. The others are facing total destitution and homelessness... and death. Time to beat the crap of the Congressmen. So do you believe in cap-and-trade as an initiative against so-called global warming? Anyway we had the coldest June and July in New York City since the last hundred years.

This is the new bubble, after the insanity of the old bubble. The sub-prime bubble was the intentional creation of huge amounts of mortgages that the people had no capacity to pay after the balloon rates hit after the first 3 to 5 years.

An Environmental Vacation in Switzerland

Find out about sustainable Switzerland for a great and green vacation. It's amazing that they have green hotels, meaning those that are environmentally conscious. Lots of bicycles are used for everyday transportation, and there is really a lot to learn for an American tourist. Lausanne seems to be a great place to go to for a vacation. There are plenty of shops and it is by a beautiful lake. The fashion in shops is cutting edge and cool. The shops are hard for me to remember because they all have names in French. One shop makes their own clothes, for men and women. Bouchee is a wonderful neighborhood by the lake that offers a view of the French Alps. Then there is the Cafe Beau-Ridge, and the Cafe de Hotel de Ville, both great places to visit and hand out. The old town of Lausanne is positively like a medieval village and has many walking areas. No wonder all those Swiss are green and on bicycles. Most of the inner city does not have access by motor vehicles.

There is the warehouse area that is reminiscent of New York's Soho. Lots of old factories are converted into trendy clubs. Oh, and let's have some more discussion of what they call Sustainable Switzerland. The Booz Allen Hamilton study shows that Switzerland is really superior in terms of green lifestyle. In what would be a rather controversial measure in America, the Swiss pay higher fees for water use, which encourages them to be careful and conserve water. Switzerland is also known as a great nation for you to ride their railroads. The trains go to a lot of places and keep as strictly to the timetables as possible. If you use more trains and less cars you are definitely making your life more energy efficient. The point is that you will have a wonderful trip in the lakes and mountains of Switzerland, with much classical music and culture as well as plenty of modern stuff available. Plus, the tourists can learn how being green can be good for you and fun.

Telecommuting and the Environment

Telecommuting and environment are an interesting pair. Telecommuting often pays a lot less, and you get jobs right off the internet. That is not true also in other cases. Outsourcing is in as the worldwide economic crisis is forcing employers to find new ways to reduce costs. Is this a good situation? Actually, it sucks but we try to adapt and take advantage of it anyway.

At first, the thought of letting an employee work unsupervised at home may be a terrifying experience for managers. But if you trust your staff to be self-motivated in their work, the payoffs can be huge. From an environmental perspective, this represents a huge fuel savings. And with rising gas prices & shrinking salaries, it can be a great benefit for attracting and retaining quality talent. Of course no social contact is a drag. Will employees at home end up masturbating when they are bored?