August 7th, 2011
First Step
If the American public drove 20% less, something really big would happen.
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Guaranteed.
If the American public drove 20% less, something really big would happen.
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Guaranteed.
Yesterday I read about a plan to produce oil from oil shale. Ouch!
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Be warned that oil shale is the most filthy, environmentally terrible means of obtaining oil.
How can you drive just 10% less?
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Combine errands. Shop close to home. Walk or ride a bike.
Suppose you were the CEO of a major oil company and you knew that the world’s supply of oil was finite and you knew that burning fossil fuels contributed to global warming,
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what would you do?
Right now oil companies are tearing apart everything they can to find and produce more oil.
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But oil is a finite resource. We are at the “Tipping Point” where our ability to produce oil is being overcome by the world’s need for more oil.
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Question: What do we do when the oil is gone?
We are cutting down trees at a greater rate than new ones take root.
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Question: What will we do after the last tree is cut down?
Here are two recently fledged Green Herons.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjcpj5vx6E
I just posted a photo of a Green Heron, Recently Fledged, on my flickr page. See this bird at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevekaye/