This video has an interesting approach to global climate change. It really is worth the nine minutes to watch it… Thoughts?
Click here to look at the YouTube video.
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Sphere: Related ContentI was looking at my options to offset our energy consumption. Granted, we use less than half the power that most households do but it seems like a reasonable thing to do. I looked for options on the HECO website but they do not offer a way to off-set energy consumption to consumers. I did a bit of searching online and finally found the Sterling Planet - Green America program which is exactly what I was looking for but could not find. This way, I will be able to offset 100% of our energy consumption each month which is healthy for environment, us, and my business. I am just glad to have found something better than not doing anything regarding our power consumption. Given that Hawaii mostly uses petroleum for fuel I am definitely glad to do even a small part to reduce the impact of using petroleum as a fuel source. I encourage everyone to sign up for this service - it is a responsible way to offset your energy consumption and you don’t really have to *do* anything…
For my friends in Atlanta - Sterling Planet is actually located in Norcross.
I need to talk my parents into doing this. They use about 2200 kwh per month - that’s three times more than the national average…
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Sphere: Related ContentNaturally, I am always interested to look at my website stats to see who came here, from what search engine, etc. This time, I was most interested to look at my website stats to find my top referrers. Among some of them were Australia, Sweden, Netherlands, Singapore, China, Japan, Norway, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, UK, Czech Republic, Seychelles, and others - I wish those people would post as it would make for a most interesting discussion.
I also found some somewhat disturbing stats. Here are a couple of other visitors: US Military (16 visits this month) & US Government (1 visit this month) and ARPANET (15 times this month). Last month, the US Military visited 2 times. Am I becoming a threat? (lol) Am I on some list of potential terrorists? It is certainly not a secret that the US Government tracks the movements of environmental and animal activists. However, I do not belong to any organized groups - so it is curious. Perhaps, because of the current administration they are tracking all known vegetarians. Ha.
At any rate, I invite the US Military and US Government visitors to post and let everyone know why they had DU on the Big Island and lied about it, why so many feral cats on Mauna Kea have leukemia from DU, why the people living in Waiakea have been breathing in DU and have had problems [respiratory, cancer, etc], why they say DU is safe but have training videos that speak to the contrary, and what they are going to do about it? Feel free to post.
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Sphere: Related ContentBetween the Hawaii Superferry and the military Hawaii has its hands full.
The Superferry is this ridiculous boat that will take you and your car to a neighbor island. It is not your typical open-air ferry but instead is some kind of luxury boat complete with a restaurant, tvs, and a bar. Having priced a Maui to Honolulu journey it appears that it will cost about $270 for an adult for the roundtrip including your car. One of the most irresponsible aspects of this is that they have a bar where you can drink and then get in your car and drive drunk off of the boat. The boat ride between Maui and Honolulu would take about three hours. The average interisland flight costs about $39 one way (and often only $19 because of special fares). To fly from Maui to Honolulu you are in the air for less than 20 minutes. I heard that on the inaugural journey that people got seasick. Given that people got seasick during the summer I can only imagine what would happen in December when the swells are huge and often times over 20 feet. If the price, sea sickness, and long voyage were not bad enough it only makes it worse that they will be wasting a ton of fuel, dumping sewage in the ocean, disturbing marine life, and overall creating an ecological problem in Hawaii. I hope the Superferry fails.
The military located off Saddle Road on the Big Island has been found to have Depleted Uranium which they have long denied having - this same thing has occurred on Oahu as well. Many of the feral cats on Mauna Kea have a type of feline leukemia - gee, I wonder why? Fortunately, this is all coming out at the same time that the military wants to increase training exercises around all islands (read: dump more toxic materials into the ocean, frighten people and wildlife, kill endangered species, pollute the air). Fortunately, they are having a public hearing on this issue on Wednesday. I think I will go to hear what people are saying.
*Update*
I was reading on surfingthetao.com this bit about the SuperFerry - makes for interesting reading, I think:
“Most interesting is – no surprise here – the military finds them quite useful. In fact this article points out that there are far more fuel efficient and less environmentally dangerous vessels in existence, but they weren’t chosen for Hawaii. Why? They can’t carry Stryker Brigades, hummers, helicopters, and other equipment (which could even become contaminated with depleted uranium). The article goes on to point out that the Chair of the Superferry board is John Lehman, a former Navy Undersecretary during the Reagan years and member of the 9/11 Commission, and claim, “The Superferry was foisted on Hawai‘i to meet a new mission for the US military. That mission: To have civilian looking high-speed military transport, manned by subcontractors, available at short notice to deliver assault troops and equipment, anywhere in the Pacific.â€
Surprise, surprise.
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Sphere: Related ContentRising oil prices may revive US/Saudi tensions–Did we not learn our lesson the first thousand times? Stop buying oil! We should find alternative means of power. Of course, that would make sense…
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