I just came across this interesting video about Fox News and Monsanto.
If true, it is pretty sad…. and it does not seem that far fetched… knowing our media.
What do you folks think?
Somebody’s got to break this to Santa… on the other hand maybe he already knows who’s been naughty or nice and only drinks the orgainic milk and cookies…
Happy trails,
Bruce
P.S. This is one of the most important films about our media… Orwell rolls in his grave.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 8, 2008) — Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of “green gasoline,” a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees.
“It is likely that the future consumer will not even know that they are putting biofuels into their car,” said Huber. “Biofuels in the future will most likely be similar in chemical composition to gasoline and diesel fuel used today. The challenge for chemical engineers is to efficiently produce liquid fuels from biomass while fitting into the existing infrastructure today.”
This has a huge potential. Now we just have to get away from corn and move toward switchgrass as a renewable and highly efficient source of biomass. What a great way to wean ourselves from fossil fuels.
This new positive & inspirational video by Al Gore at the TED conference is worth sharing with everyone you know… regardless of their political persuasion or position on the environment. Al has really found his voice and is in the “zone” on this one. The reality is that we are faced with an ENERGY crisis… and the tipping point for solving that crisis will be solving the crisis in our democracy’s political will. We currenty have a disconnect with our government… the majority of the people feel differently than the actions taken by our representatives.
“Politicians are a lot like diapers…. they should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.” -Robin Williams
In promoting unified solutions the challenge is not about fear, or gloom & doom… it is an opportunity to be greater that we thought possible… together. Where the rewards from a common cause for our children and our planet becomes greater than the distractions of our instant gratification. The short sighted response of most of our political decision makers to fight against carbon tax, oil industry subsidies, oil price gouging, renewable energy tax credits and renewable energy industry stimulus, subsidies, research & development. And then tout “Clean Coal” as a solution? talk about an oxy moron…
Clean Coal is a bit like a porous condom… at least the intention was there.
-Robin Williams
I have a very positive outlook on the future. History show us that when Americans are faced with a deep challenge, they rally and triumph, against all odds. The rubber has hit the road for sure, and I for one, am up for it. Most importantly I plan to have fun along this green path!
This time in history we are looking for a generation of heros… as Al so rightly pointed out.
Well…. HELLO… Hero generation! We have arrived and will thrive!
This will make the 60’s look like a warm up practice..
You are now officially the: Energy Generation’s ECO Heros!
In-joy,
Bruce
Here are some of my favorite highlights from Al’s new slide show…
“HOW DARE WE BE OPTIMISTIC
In order to solve the climate crisis we have to solve the democracy crisis.
How many generations in all of human history have had the opportunity…
to rise to a challenge that is worthy of our best efforts,
that has a challenge that can pull from us,
more than we knew we could do.
I think we should approach this challenge with a
sense of profound joy and gratitude that we are the generation
about which 1000 years from now…
philharmonic orchestras, and poets and singers will celebrate by saying…
-They were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis
and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic future.
Let’s do that.”
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“From an old African proverb…
If you want to go quickly… go alone
If you want to go far… go together
Well… we have to go far… quickly!
so we have to have a change in consciousness,
a change in commitment,
a new sense of urgency,
a new appreciation for the privilege we have of undertaking this challenge”
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
Here is Jill Bolte: My stroke of insight:
‘So who are we? We are the life force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here right now, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are — I am — the life force power of the universe, and the life force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form. At one with all that is. Or I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere. where I become a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, separate from you. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, intellectual, neuroanatomist. These are the “we” inside of me.
Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when? I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading.’ - Jill Bolte
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