Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Cute Video with important messages

2008-01-13 Thread keith
Hello David What exactly is so wrong with Big Box Stores? What's wrong with them is what's wrong with local communities because of Big Box Stores, and what's wrong with the whole community as a result. For workers/shoppers it's part of the race to the bottom, for the store workers it's

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd:Aspartame poisoning

2008-01-13 Thread keith
Hi Chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello E. Lots of stuff snipped. Nicely done Keith. (as always) keep up the good work! -- Thankyou! I'll try. I agree with you about the letter, not something to take at face value. Hence the is this true tag I guess. Not something to be rejected out of hand

[Biofuel] Diet for a Hungry Planet - Focus on India

2008-01-13 Thread keith
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/hungryplanet.html CBC Radio   Diet for a Hungry Planet - Focus on India explores the issue of food -- its supply, safety and security. Nowhere are these themes writ as large as in India, scene of tumultuous economic growth in recent years. Yet India is far from

Re: [Biofuel] Diet for a Hungry Planet - Focus on India

2008-01-13 Thread keith
Audio: A Grain of Rice (Wednesday, January 9, 2008) India produces 20% of the world's rice and yet its productivity is under threat. A recent study laid out how global warming could have a huge impact on rice crop yields, reducing it by 7% for every 1 degree increase in temperature. Rice also

Re: [Biofuel] We need these cars *#

2008-01-13 Thread Chandan Haldar
Hi All, As one can guess, there has been quite a deluge of coverage in the media around here (in India) about the new Tata Nano. There seems little doubt that millions of these cute little bugs will be on the road in the next 2-3 years (unless a tough-to-fix major snag surfaces, which seems

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Cute Video with important messages

2008-01-13 Thread David Lawson
Well if you were on I-75 on your trip home and went through Kentucky you should have made a stop. My here is Kentucky, specifically, Louisville. I'm not sure about other parts of the country but here in Kentucky it is common-place for large chain stores to carry a preponderance of home grown

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Cute Video with important messages

2008-01-13 Thread keith
Hi Chip, Excellent video. Independant merchants do not need over paid CEO's and underpaid staff and slave wages for the 3rd world manufacturing workers. The cruelty to factory farmed chickens is really terifying. If they even get that far... http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery/chicks02.htm

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Cute Video with important messages

2008-01-13 Thread keith
Damn, they improved their site and broke all their links, and now even their internal links don't work. Sorry! I've uploaded the pics here: http://journeytoforever.org/bflpics/chicks1.jpg Male chicks struggle to survive   Unwanted male chicks struggle to survive amid egg shells and garbage in a

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Cute Video with important messages

2008-01-13 Thread Kirk McLoren
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[Biofuel] Not censorship, it's just selectorship

2008-01-13 Thread Bob Molloy
Interesting comment from a retired US naval officer living in Malaysia. regards. Bob. Friends: I am using IE-9, Microsoft's latest browser which provides for multiple homepages. I have two US based News Media pages as homepages, plus Google's homepage... but not the vanilla, brown-paper

[Biofuel] veg oil crop info

2008-01-13 Thread kelly coleman
hello all would like some info on what would be the best oil producing crop to plant in the norteastern united states and uses for residual biomass food for livestock etc,,, have approx 12 plantable acres of good fertile soil to plant on,,, an also what would be the expected yield

[Biofuel] Sandals from Wal-Mart May Cause Chemical Burns

2008-01-13 Thread Kirk McLoren
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[Biofuel] getting closer....

2008-01-13 Thread Jason Mier
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveMoney/6FoolishWaysToGoGreen.aspx it might not be the biggest, or most direct step the mainstream could be taking, but it's still a step... _ Make distant family not so

Re: [Biofuel] We need these cars

2008-01-13 Thread Dawie Coetzee
I agree with Kurt. The problem with the usual approach of seeking increasingly rarefied efficiency in technologies on the border of fantasy is that it is fundamentally incompatable with fewness. Those technologies are part of a technical/economic complex which requires precisely an incessant