Given that carbon emissions abatement is an important issue for California, and that in many ways California is leading the way for the nation, I urge you to consider requirIng that Diesel locomotives convert to biodiesel. In one significant move, an entire segment of the transportation industry can be converted to a near zero carbon footprint. California can do this as it already has a healthy biodiesel industry. Along these lines, I urge you to authorize hemp growing, a very good cash crop and source of oil as well as other products that grows well in semi-arable areas. Congress foolishly banned the growing of hemp because it belongs to the cannabis family. Hemp could be a source of biodiesel and is already useful for soaps, health oils, rope, fabrics, etc. Why should we have to import it?
Thursday, February 23, 2017
REMINDER
Write to:
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Now that President Trump has reversed Obama’s decision on the Keystone and Dakota pipelines, they will in all liklihood go ahead with construction. I think it is important to insert in the permits what will happen after the pipelines have outlived their use. Disposal of the pipelines is an important issue, as is restoration of the landscape to its original condition. The companies involved should be required to put up a bond to ensure that the work is done.
And to Governor Brown
Given that carbon emissions abatement is an important issue for California, and that in many ways California is leading the way for the nation, I urge you to consider requirIng that Diesel locomotives convert to biodiesel. In one significant move, an entire segment of the transportation industry can be converted to a near zero carbon footprint. California can do this as it already has a healthy biodiesel industry. Along these lines, I urge you to authorize hemp growing, a very good cash crop and source of oil as well as other products that grows well in semi-arable areas. Congress foolishly banned the growing of hemp because it belongs to the cannabis family. Hemp could be a source of biodiesel and is already useful for soaps, health oils, rope, fabrics, etc. Why should we have to import it?
Given that carbon emissions abatement is an important issue for California, and that in many ways California is leading the way for the nation, I urge you to consider requirIng that Diesel locomotives convert to biodiesel. In one significant move, an entire segment of the transportation industry can be converted to a near zero carbon footprint. California can do this as it already has a healthy biodiesel industry. Along these lines, I urge you to authorize hemp growing, a very good cash crop and source of oil as well as other products that grows well in semi-arable areas. Congress foolishly banned the growing of hemp because it belongs to the cannabis family. Hemp could be a source of biodiesel and is already useful for soaps, health oils, rope, fabrics, etc. Why should we have to import it?
Sunday, February 19, 2017
ENEMY IDENTIFIED?
Author's note: Trill is a fictional female acquaintance who makes it possible to write in a style that is comfortable formme.
My Dear Trill,
Brava! You made it to participate in the Women’s March on Washington, an event you will remember with pride for a lifetime. The new President appears to shrug it off, but a sleeping giant has been awakened. Hooray for woman power.
The president was placed into power by an Electoral College vote, but failed to win the popular vote, and in the end, if he does not perform, it will be his undoing.
It is too bad that at the swearing in ceremony he was not required to swear to tell the truth, as lying about matters, small and big, seem to be common. When a president prefaces a statement with “to be honest,” what he has to say is immediately suspect. He frequently states that he has nothing to do with Russia, yet he called upon Russia publicly to hack Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and his son publicly stated that “the family has a lot of money coming in from Russia."
The signs are bad, as he has surrounded himself with a wealthy cabinet and a cabal of advisers of dubious governing experience, and has proceeded immediately to nullify Executive Orders by the outgoing president without regard to consequenses. Beginning his administration with a mere 36% approval rating, he may be treading shaky ground, especially regarding rulings that affect health care and the environment. Declaring the press an “enemy of the people” is an invitation to open war with the media, which he can’t win.
Approval of the Keystone Pipeline, reversing President Obama’s disapproval, is taking place even as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aims to shut down the tar sands operations, in part due to destruction of large areas of the Canadian landscape, including boreal forests. A promise that the pipes will be American made, and therefore promise new employment may be entirely limited, as photos show the pipes are already made and stored along the pipeline route. Don’t you think President trump should have been on-board with Trudeau on this subject before lining up with projects that adversely affect climate change? But he believes that climate change is a hoax.
Many more demonstrations by the citizenry are predicted in the future as Americans realize how fully they have been victimized. Very high on the worry scale are the gag orders on Federal Agencies, preventing them from releasing important data to the public who paid for it with taxes. But demonstrations will likely not affect this vain president’s impenetrable and glorious self image.
The president was placed into power by an Electoral College vote, but failed to win the popular vote, and in the end, if he does not perform, it will be his undoing.
It is too bad that at the swearing in ceremony he was not required to swear to tell the truth, as lying about matters, small and big, seem to be common. When a president prefaces a statement with “to be honest,” what he has to say is immediately suspect. He frequently states that he has nothing to do with Russia, yet he called upon Russia publicly to hack Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and his son publicly stated that “the family has a lot of money coming in from Russia."
The signs are bad, as he has surrounded himself with a wealthy cabinet and a cabal of advisers of dubious governing experience, and has proceeded immediately to nullify Executive Orders by the outgoing president without regard to consequenses. Beginning his administration with a mere 36% approval rating, he may be treading shaky ground, especially regarding rulings that affect health care and the environment. Declaring the press an “enemy of the people” is an invitation to open war with the media, which he can’t win.
Approval of the Keystone Pipeline, reversing President Obama’s disapproval, is taking place even as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aims to shut down the tar sands operations, in part due to destruction of large areas of the Canadian landscape, including boreal forests. A promise that the pipes will be American made, and therefore promise new employment may be entirely limited, as photos show the pipes are already made and stored along the pipeline route. Don’t you think President trump should have been on-board with Trudeau on this subject before lining up with projects that adversely affect climate change? But he believes that climate change is a hoax.
Many more demonstrations by the citizenry are predicted in the future as Americans realize how fully they have been victimized. Very high on the worry scale are the gag orders on Federal Agencies, preventing them from releasing important data to the public who paid for it with taxes. But demonstrations will likely not affect this vain president’s impenetrable and glorious self image.
Friday, February 17, 2017
BYE BYE EARTH
Kiss the planet good bye.
Today, Scott Pruitt, sycophant to the oil and gas industries and climate change denier, was confirmed by the Senate to head the Environmental Protection Agency. On track to a dystopian society,
it seems, at the hands of the Dear Leader.
America's premier con man has told the coal workers that they are back in business as he has axed regulations that had at least partial control over the industry's pollution practices. Apparently not yet aware that coal is on the way out because it is being replaced by natural gas, which is available in prodigious quantities, more efficient and cheaper to build power plants. Moreover, wind power is competitive with coal so the power industry, sensitive to the climate change problem, will lean that way.
Today, Scott Pruitt, sycophant to the oil and gas industries and climate change denier, was confirmed by the Senate to head the Environmental Protection Agency. On track to a dystopian society,
it seems, at the hands of the Dear Leader.
America's premier con man has told the coal workers that they are back in business as he has axed regulations that had at least partial control over the industry's pollution practices. Apparently not yet aware that coal is on the way out because it is being replaced by natural gas, which is available in prodigious quantities, more efficient and cheaper to build power plants. Moreover, wind power is competitive with coal so the power industry, sensitive to the climate change problem, will lean that way.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
DREAM WORLD
In a dream world
poets tell it like it is.
Women preserve order,
as they do in their own homes.
Men are stewards of the planet
and all its living things.
As evening approaches,
their thoughts turn to dancing,
to rhythms
they didn't know were there.
War is unthinkable.
-e hujsak
poets tell it like it is.
Women preserve order,
as they do in their own homes.
Men are stewards of the planet
and all its living things.
As evening approaches,
their thoughts turn to dancing,
to rhythms
they didn't know were there.
War is unthinkable.
-e hujsak
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