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Re: Bills Bits - Read the Bible and See For Yourself

Gwenny — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:18:38 -0000

The ability of some folks to do this is amazing!

Re: 4 Important Changes for Businesses in the Facebook Re-Design

Gwenny — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:32:27 -0000

I like it. It's cleaner, faster loading. Big improvement!

Re: Ethanol’s Human Costs

Gwenny — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:38:00 -0000

Please, someone tell the people in power about Thermal Depolymerization! We could start turn all our trash into light crude! http://www.thermaldepolymerization.org/

Re: 2008/09/17/microsoft-says-no-seinfeld-for-you/

Gwenny — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:52:42 -0000

I'm a middle aged woman who has used only PCs since she upgraded from Commodore 64 in the early 90s. I don't like Apple or Apple Products. And I hated the commercials. Just to let you know.

Re: Not a Blood Hero and no Plasma TV

Gwenny — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:28:36 -0000

Good job for at least trying! We donate platelets at Stanford once a month and I always feel so happy to know I am helping folks.

Re: oh no! more evano!

Gwenny — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:20:17 -0000

I'm probably more of a wolverine. If leashed I attack and rip your heart out. :D

Re: Geo-Engineering Risk Potential Not An Excuse for Inaction, Scientist Says

Gwenny — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:37:33 -0000

The problem I have with Geo-Engineering climate problems is that it approaches the situation ONLY from a "humans did this we need to STOP it". As I will continue to point out until someone listens, climate change is NORMAL. Stuff changes. Interfering with change is not only arrogant but dangerous.

Yes, humans have an impact, So we need to reduce our footprint, so that we can be sure the change that is happening is what is supposed to happen. Then we need to develop strategies to cope with the natural cycles of Gaia so that food and shelter are available for all humans without unduly stressing the resources other creatures need.

Extreme climate change has driven technological advances in the past . . .from fire and fur clothes to force air heating, humans have come up with ways to mitigate the effects of weather. It can do it again, helping us learn to live in greater harmony with our lovely planet and each other in thoughtfully designed, sustainable communities!

Climate change also stimulates evolution, forcing things to adapt. Humans are here because stuff changed and other stuff died and opened niches for us. Change is GOOD sometimes. Are we really ready to play god and stop our planet from continuing to evolve?

Re: Save Water, Stop Showering (Every Morning)

Gwenny — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:38:56 -0000

I take a full shower and wash my hair twice a week. Other mornings, being a girl and a bit fastidious, I use the flexible shower to make sure the important bits are clean, often never wetting my upper body. But even on days when I take a full shower, my families jokes about how quick I'm in and out.

I've been conscious of water consumption all my life. Just trying to be a good citizen of the Earth.

Re: Is Rural Green Living an Elitist Illusion?

Gwenny — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:24:46 -0000

I do believe the nouveau back-to-the-earth movement IS elitist. And annoying. I confess to being enamored with the idea the organic self sustaining farm as a youth . .partly because I grew up in a rural area and spent my summers on a farm. (A farm with one electric light bulb in the kitchen and outhouse, and we had to pump all the water we used from a well in the front yard) But as I've gotten older I have had the chance to see that most folks that want to get "get-back-to-nature" either have no clue what they are getting into and fail, leaving more of the Earth's surface defaced, or REALLY mean they are going to transplant their consumer lifestyle to a rural setting where they can complain about how there are no amenities.

It is my belief we need to do some radical re-thinking of how humans use the Earth. I think the day of the single family home is past. Dense, sustainable communities (that generate their own power and produce most of what they use) that erase class barriers are the direction I feel we should be looking. To me, going out and getting yourself a couple of acres and playing farmer is selfish in a world where so many live in abject poverty and crushing overcrowding.

Re: No Kidding, One in Three Children Fear Earth Apocalypse

Gwenny — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:30:27 -0000

So are there any previous studies to show that this is different than it was before. I know in the 1960s most of us thought there would be nuclear war before we grew up. My eldest daughter at age four, in the 1980s, wished for the world to still be there when her kids grew up.

It's sobering to know our children worry, but without any frame of reference . . .

Re: NY Post "Food" Writer Rants Against Local, Organic, and Sustainable

Gwenny — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:53:50 -0000

Ooooookay. Well, if the NY writer is right, it's the first time this spawn of blue collar workers who spent summers milking cows has ever been part of any elite. . .and I've been a localvore as much as possible since I first heard the term a few years back.

Re: Cyclists, Motorists and the Law

Gwenny — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:24:27 -0000

I agree that if bicycles and cars are to share the road as equals, there needs to be a lot more education! And I agree with the first comment, that cyclists should have licenses. I totally support folks who choose to cycle, and I get very frustrated and angry when cyclists do things that endanger themselves and fail to obey the law. I live in a fairly cycle friendly town and we have tons of cycle lanes and the city has tried to accommodate them. But not a day goes by when I don't see multiple cyclists doing dangerous stuff and moving from road to cross walks. ::shudder:: It terrifies me that I could hit someone if I'm not insanely careful when I see one. I will slow down so I can turn right behind a cyclist. I yield right of way. I do everything I can to be a good fellow driver . . .

And for my efforts, I get flipped off so much it makes me want to scream.

Re: What is Illegal in this Volkswagen Ad?

Gwenny — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:01:19 -0000

I'm with RN. Bicycles are made in factories and shipped all over the place. They pollute as well. The greenest form of transport is walking.

Re: Who's Not Your Typical Environmentalist?

Gwenny — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:58:29 -0000

I"m bemused that "environmentalist" has come to mean vegan PETA groupie.

Non-typical because he's a bow-hunter and killed a lion once with it.

Wasn't like that when I started getting involved in environmental issues in the late 60s. I was raised that humans are stewards of the land that feeds them. Taking care of the land you hunted on, farmed, was every bit as important as taking care of your gun. There's a balance in nature that includes predators like humans and an intelligent person with real experience in the real world knows that failing to play our role as predators damages the environment as much as pollution.

When did the environmental movement become a bunch of rich city folk in designer clothes driving Land Rovers and eating imported food?

[ah pooh bear, you are a kindred spirit mjo]

Re: Solaleya Makes Weird Houses Feel Normal

Gwenny — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:50:15 -0000

This is certainly a cool house. But you have to ask yourself, how is this REALLY going to help the Earth? There are six billion plus people. We can build homes like this for everyone. This is going to be only for elitists who can afford to pay the huge price. It will merely perpetuate the whole single family home model that we need to abandon if we want to decrease our footprint, as a species.

Re: Jargon Watch: Bikeism

Gwenny — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:45:09 -0000

So you are saying that citing observable ILLEGAL behavior of cyclists is now a hate crime?

"The underlying unpredictability of cyclists’ behaviour was seen by drivers as stemming from the attitudes and limited competence of the cyclists themselves, rather than from the difficulty of the situations that cyclists are often forced to face on the road (i.e. drivers made a dispositional rather than a situational attribution)."

My problem is cyclists who break the rules and put themselves at risk. The law in California CLEARLY requires that a cyclist decide whether s/he is a pedestrian or a vehicle and not change that at whim. So riding on the sidewalk then popping out into the street in intersections without warning, failure to signal, riding right on the line, etc are CRIMINAL citable misconduct.

The rules are clear. If you are a pedestrian you must stop at intersection and walk your bike across the street. This is not a "difficult situation" this is a clearly covered by law situation.

Time after time after time I see cyclists acting very CARIST . .they hate people who drive cars and think they are better than drivers and eschew obeying rules they consider beneath them.

Re: Geo-Engineering Risk Potential Not An Excuse for Inaction, Scientist Says

Gwenny — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:37:33 -0000

Re: Save Water, Stop Showering (Every Morning)

Gwenny — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:38:56 -0000

I've been conscious of water consumption all my life. Just trying to be a good citizen of the Earth.

Re: Is Rural Green Living an Elitist Illusion?

Gwenny — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:24:46 -0000

Re: No Kidding, One in Three Children Fear Earth Apocalypse

Gwenny — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:30:27 -0000

It's sobering to know our children worry, but without any frame of reference . . .

Re: NY Post "Food" Writer Rants Against Local, Organic, and Sustainable

Gwenny — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:53:50 -0000