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I cant wait to see how the mainstream media explains…

I cant wait to see how the mainstream media explains how all the republicans just wanted discussion about wind energy, oil exploration, and alternative energy and the dems refused to even discuss it. “let them eat cake”. that’s the new democrats line. the vote of the american population does not count.

the evening news starts soon. lets just see how this is played.
Ha! It was just too powerful for them to spin. They just entirely ignored the fact that pelosi shut down the cameras and house and disallowed discussion of any energy plans.

The Russians build the Daddy of all Bombs as devastating as a nuclear bomb, Is this a great day for humanity?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070911/wl_nm/russia_bomb_dc_1;_ylt=AqBItqyyVniWLyzYxAu0J7xbbBAF

I think if human beings applied a fraction of their creativeness to alternative energy we would have a fraction of uses for this kind of device.

Job title of someone who works with alternative fuel?

What title would you give to someone who works to develop the compressed methane energy.
This article will help explain what exactly the job entails
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/fuel-cells

All I need to know is the title that this job would have.
Thanks!

How can a presidential candidate help americans decrease their oil consumption within the next 10years?

I only hear bad news about oil. Maybe more money should be invested for research for alternative forms of energy. If we decrease our 20million barrel per day oit habit as quickly as possible then we are less likely to suffer from oil problems. Will americans continue using 20million barrels of oil per day until a terrorist attack or a global shortage happens? When will the USA do what’s best and stop using 20million barrels?

How will the human species ever employ green energy alternatives when oil men rule the world and have no…?

interest in relinquishing so much as one iota of their power? For decades politicians, scientists, environmentalists even G.W. Bush himself, have spoken of breaking our addiction to oil. So, what happens when gas prices go up? The powers that be start scrambling for new oil reserves. What news from the green energy fronts? Any new developments? Or is green energy still 10 to 15 years away, like it has been for more than 50 years? Is this why the U.S. invaded Iraq? Is this why fuel prices have gone up while oil companies sit on 68,000,000 acres of unexplored oil land? So that we can attempt to turn the clock in Iraq back to 1927? As always, U.S. oil C.E.O.s will come out on top and all other humans, all other life will continue to be crushed under their feet. How can we begin to break their strangle hold on the world?
Dirty Harry: Technology only depends on oil because the oil men decided it does.

renewable energy science help!?

4 school we have 2 choose a remote village in the world and invent (but not buikd) a device/machine using renewable energy sources in some way to help the village. any ideas on a village and what i could do? thanx! btw i cant do savann tabak, haiti, as my friends doing it. im really dumb at science! thanx!

Renewable energy, All UK Pub toilets, distilled pee, to recover all Uk alchohol for recycling or petrol?

And all world alchohol too. Alchohol is not absorbed by the body, all of it comes out in the pee, thats why you get dehydration and hangovers. So we connect all the towns pub pee toilets up and distill it to recoup the alchohol, put it back into the drinks, to save all that energy brewing/distilling it in the first place! nice one ha. or just process it to run as alchohol petrol replacement in vehicle engines. Football grounds, homes, and hotels, and events can provide their own heating. etc. If anyone patents this idea, we’ll go 1/3rds, ie you, yahoo, and me.

Will civilized countries develop renewable energy sources…”?

voluntarily to avoid world bankruptcy and famine, or will we wait until there is no more oil and we experience the resulting devastation and ultimate total world war?

How much do you think the oil industry lobbies the government for NASA?

Should we be wasting a finite energy resource while simultaneously blowing inconceivable amounts of money simply to find out what a comet is made of? Wouldn’t a better use of that talent and money be in developing renewable energy sources, fighting world hunger and disease, and solving the huge problem of our rapidly dwindling supply of fresh water on this planet?

what energy mix should we pursue in the future ?

renewable or non renewable energy? taking into account the expense..
what do you think would help our world,

What are our options in preserving deer populations and decreasing auto incidents?

Are there any options for preserving deer populations that will allow us to decrease auto accidents? While I absolutely fear hitting another deer and I can’t stand it when they run out on me while I’m driving, I also think they are some of the most precious and beautiful beings. There’s got to be a better way for both humans and deer to exist together.

I live in a rapidly expanding piece of suburbia in New Jersey and the more development, the more “deer fear” when driving at night. I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to environmental issues, all I know is to recycle, so any information regarding the preservation of deer populations will be greatly appreciated. Even keywords I could look up to find current discussion of this issue are welcomed. Thanks in advance.

In your opinion, which of the 08 Presedential Candidates has the Best Environmental policy?

I have been researching where they stand on Envir. issues such as Air Quality and safer drinking waters, protection of wildlife and Our waterways… I am looking for a Leader who wants to improve things today , not 2050….We are all ready for a Healthier Planet today….So who will Help Lead us there in your opinion…..I know we the voters, and the consumers should make sure we make the best choices on who we vote for and what we buy……

Should the fashion industry lead the way by making efforts to use our natural resources for textiles?

Currently we manufacture a majority of our textiles overseas that are used in the US. Would there be an added value to the product of we used natural resources, to make a step towards the reverse of our environmental issues?

SUV’s are bad, aren’t they?

As are Hummers.

Do you believe that in these times, when environmental issues have an effect on us all, when a large protion of the violence in the Middle East is a result of our fight to obtain as much oil as possible, when these bigger vehicles are responsible for guzzling more gas and causing double the amount of road accidents since their inception than any other vehichle, even four door sedans, that driving an SUV, especially a Hummer, is political, socially, and personally irresponsible?
Oh and to respond to WhyAskWhy below…

Your screename says it all. I never said anything about guilt, apparently your conscious has suppleid that for me. You should feel ashamed, you must be a republican.
And to amglo1:

23 MPG’s??? Wow, to think that you think that is
impressive or practical.

Where do I get my information about SUV’s causing more accidents: Um, well, for one thing, I read. You should try it, click here:

http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html

Touchy feeley? I think it’s amusing that you consider someone’s interest in saving the environment and trying to tackle a big PUBLIC (you know PUBLIC? That means everyone,) health issue. My agenda is not leftist. My agenda is humanist. I care for the world and it’s people, unlike you who apparently wants to rant and rave about other problems without answering my question,”They want to kill me, too?”, what does that have to do with anything that I am talking about? Hmmm…NOTHING!

Here’s some more reading for you, too:

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/NYTimes/2003-12-18.html

http://www.ewg.org/news/story.php?print_version=1&id=5383
Where do you people come up with this shite?
They are not safer by any means, in no way shape or form. USe your brains and look it up. And as far as all of you defending your SUV use because it helps you cart your kids around? I think that is very ironic given the fact that are polluting the atmosphere at a greater rate which your precious little one’s will have to deal with in the future.
And to love to be curious:

Parrot follower? That’s hysterical! Hmm.. where did you hear that from, one of the several other hundred people who have used that term in here?

Blissfully ignorant? I have my Masters Degree in Environmental Science. What are your credentials?

The US form of government is a democratic republic?

So why do people continue to scream that the President is not listening to the people? In our form of government elected officials are elected and then are supposed to do what they believe is the right thing.

Are these people who want the president to listen to the people, do they want to change our form to a direct democracy?

If that is so, would they like to put things up to popular vote such as abortion, school vouchers, taxes, social security, definition of marriage, term limits on congress, environmental laws, hate crime law and on and on?

I believe the people screaming today about the President only want a direct democracy when it serves their partisan interests but would not like AMericans voting on other issues.

Cadidate X or Candidate Y?

Candidate X Promises and Plans:
1.)Establish a $10 billion Foreclosure Prevention Fund
2.)Provide $10 billion in Relief for State and Local Governments
3.)Hardest-Hit by the Housing Crisis to Prevent Cuts in Vital Services.
4.)Extend and Expand Unemployment Insurance
5.)Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families
6.)Eliminate Income Taxes for Seniors Making Less than $50,000
7.)Simplify Tax Filings for Middle Class Americans
8.)Fight for Fair Trade
9.)Amend the North American Free Trade Agreement
10.)Improve Transition Assistance
11.)Invest in our Next Generation Innovators and Job Creators
12.)Double Funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership
13.)Invest In A Clean Energy Economy And Create 5 Million New Green Jobs
14.)Create New Job Training Programs for Clean Technologies
15.)Boost the Renewable Energy Sector and Create New Jobs
16.)Create a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank
17.)Invest in the Sciences
18.)Make the Research and Development Tax Credit Permanent
19.)Deploy Next-Generation Broadband
20.)Provide Tax Relief for Small Businesses and Start Up Companies
21.)Create a National Network of Public-Private Business Incubators
22.)Ensure Freedom to Unionize
23.)Fight Attacks on Workers’ Right to Organize
24.)Protect Striking Workers
25.)Raise the Minimum Wage
26.)Protect Homeownership and Crack Down on Mortgage Fraud
27.)Address Predatory Credit Card Practices
28.)Reform Bankruptcy Laws
29.)Work/Family Balance
30.)Expand High-Quality Afterschool Opportunities

Candidate Y Promises and Plans:
1.)Workplace Flexibility
2.)Relief for Families
3.)Government Reform
4.)Supporting Small Businesses
5.)Cheap and Clean Energy
6.)Better Healthcare
7.)Simpler and Fairer Taxes
8.)Lower Barriers to Trade
9.)Expanding Domestic Oil And Natural Gas Exploration And Production
10.)Taking Action Now To Break Our Dependency On Foreign Oil By Reforming Our Transportation Sector
11.)Investing In Clean, Alternative Sources Of Energy
12.)Protecting Our Environment And Addressing Climate Change: A Sound Energy Strategy Must Include A Solid Environmental Foundation
13.)Promoting Energy Efficiency
14.)Addressing Speculative Pricing Of Oil
15.)DC Personal Protection
16.)The Confiscation of Firearms After an Emergency
17.)Cut The Corporate Tax Rate From 35 To 25 Percent
18.)Seal the Pork Barrel
19.)Stop the Revolving Door and Restore Ethics
20.)Democracy is Not for Sale
21.)Excellence, Choice, and Competition in American Education
22.)Comprehensive Immigration Initiatives for a Secure Nation

Economy Help?! Obamas Plan!?

•Create or save more than 3.5 million jobs over the next two years;

•Take a big step toward computerizing Americans’ health records, reducing medical errors, and saving billions in health care costs;
•Revive the renewable energy industry and provide the capital over the next three years to eventually double domestic renewable energy capacity;
•Undertake the largest weatherization program in history by modernizing 75 percent of federal building space and more than one million homes;
•Increase college affordability for seven million students by funding the shortfall in Pell Grants, increasing the maximum award level by $500, and providing a new higher education tax cut to nearly four million students;
•As part of the $150 billion investment in new infrastructure, enact the largest increase in funding of our nation’s roads, bridges, and mass transit systems since the creation of the national highway system in the 1950s;
•Provide an $800 Making Work Pay tax credit for 129 million working households, and cut taxes for the families of millions of children through an expansion of the Child Tax Credit;
•Require unprecedented levels of transparency, oversight, and accountability.

i Was Reading This From A Website To Take Notes For my Project And Half The Stuff Here I Do Not Understand.

Please Help!

Is this the Brother-In-Law Effect?

Crony Capitalism: $737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law
11:00 AM, SEP 29, 2011 • BY MARK HEMINGWAY

Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies — including a $737 million loan guarantee to a company known as SolarReserve:
SolarReserve LLC, a closely held renewable energy developer, received a $737 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee to build a solar-thermal project in Nevada.

The 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes project, near Tonopah, Nevada, will use the sun’s heat to create steam that drives a turbine, the agency said today in a e-mailed statement. SolarReserve is based in Santa Monica, California.
On SolarReserve’s website is a list of “investment partners,” including the “PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund (East) LLC.” As blogger American Glob quickly discovered, PCG’s number two is none other than “Ronald Pelosi, a San Francisco political insider and financial industry polymath who happens to be the brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives.”
But wait… there’s more! One of SolarReserve’s other investment partners is Argonaut Private Equity:
Steve Mitchell and Argonaut Private Equity might have a chance to recoup some of their losses in the Solyndra debacle now that the Department of Energy has given a $737 million dollar loan guarantee to a company backed by Argonaut that also lists Mitchell among its board of directors.

Mitchell served on the Solyndra LLC Board of Directors. He also serves as Managing Director for Argonaut Private Equity, a company that invested in Solyndra through the LLCs parent company. After Solyndra declared bankruptcy, two Democratic members of the U.S. House asked that Mitchell testify about Solyndra. Though he has not appeared before Congress, he has “been asked to provide documents to Congress” pertaining to Solyndra.
And for good measure, it’s also noteworthy that Obama is about to hold a big money fundraiser at the home of Tom Carnahan in St. Louis:
Carnahan, a member of the prominent Missouri Democratic family, has been tapped by the Obama campaign as its chief Missouri fundraiser. He is chairman of the board of Wind Capital Group, a wind energy company that makes it corporate headquarters in St. Louis. He formerly was president and CEO of the company.

Last year, Wind Capital’s Lost Creek Farm facility in northwest Missouri received a $107 million tax credit from the Treasury Department, among many such wind operations receiving support from from stimulus funds.
Tom Carnahan is the son of former Missouri governor Mel Carnahan and former U.S. senator Jean Carnahan. He’s also the brother of current Missouri secretary of state, Robin Carnahan.
It’s increasingly hard to tell the government’s green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats’ friends and family rewards program.

Is this the Brother-In-Law Effect?

Crony Capitalism: $737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law
11:00 AM, SEP 29, 2011 • BY MARK HEMINGWAY

Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies — including a $737 million loan guarantee to a company known as SolarReserve:
SolarReserve LLC, a closely held renewable energy developer, received a $737 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee to build a solar-thermal project in Nevada.

The 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes project, near Tonopah, Nevada, will use the sun’s heat to create steam that drives a turbine, the agency said today in a e-mailed statement. SolarReserve is based in Santa Monica, California.
On SolarReserve’s website is a list of “investment partners,” including the “PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund (East) LLC.” As blogger American Glob quickly discovered, PCG’s number two is none other than “Ronald Pelosi, a San Francisco political insider and financial industry polymath who happens to be the brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives.”
But wait… there’s more! One of SolarReserve’s other investment partners is Argonaut Private Equity:
Steve Mitchell and Argonaut Private Equity might have a chance to recoup some of their losses in the Solyndra debacle now that the Department of Energy has given a $737 million dollar loan guarantee to a company backed by Argonaut that also lists Mitchell among its board of directors.

Mitchell served on the Solyndra LLC Board of Directors. He also serves as Managing Director for Argonaut Private Equity, a company that invested in Solyndra through the LLCs parent company. After Solyndra declared bankruptcy, two Democratic members of the U.S. House asked that Mitchell testify about Solyndra. Though he has not appeared before Congress, he has “been asked to provide documents to Congress” pertaining to Solyndra.
And for good measure, it’s also noteworthy that Obama is about to hold a big money fundraiser at the home of Tom Carnahan in St. Louis:
Carnahan, a member of the prominent Missouri Democratic family, has been tapped by the Obama campaign as its chief Missouri fundraiser. He is chairman of the board of Wind Capital Group, a wind energy company that makes it corporate headquarters in St. Louis. He formerly was president and CEO of the company.

Last year, Wind Capital’s Lost Creek Farm facility in northwest Missouri received a $107 million tax credit from the Treasury Department, among many such wind operations receiving support from from stimulus funds.
Tom Carnahan is the son of former Missouri governor Mel Carnahan and former U.S. senator Jean Carnahan. He’s also the brother of current Missouri secretary of state, Robin Carnahan.
It’s increasingly hard to tell the government’s green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats’ friends and family rewards program.

Would it not be more effective to eliminate carbon tax and cap trades and use the capital for innovation?

The carbon trade doesn’t make a dramatic impact on cutting carbon emissions in my opinion. I think we need to slowly drive up the cost of using fossil fuels through taxes. Then instead of letting a company sell of carbon credit to another company, essentially causing the same aggregate quantity of pollution companies should use that capital to make their business and surrounding environment more green. I feel that amount of capital use to buy products and invested in green energy companies can be utilized to foster innovation to assist in gravitating our nation and economy to a more green, carbon free, and less pollution direction. I understand the initials cost would be extremely high but innovation and investments now would slowly cripple the costs. Portugal produces 45% of their energy from renewable energy provided the Portugese paid twice as much for electricity for the last 5 years.

Why must there be a sustainable atmosphere for there to be life?

I read for there to be life on a planet, the planet has to be the correct distance from a star, a sustainable atmosphere and certain chemicals. I don’t know why there has to be a sustainable atmosphere.

What can Graphic Designs do to become more sustainable?

I am giving a talk to a group of college students soon on Sustainability and how Graphic Designers can strive to make their industry/classroom more sustainable. Any ideas? I have a few but would like as many as possible. I have never worked in industry. Thankyou in advance

What are some sustainable fabrics, components and techniques when making a textiles product?

I am doing my textiles GCSE and I have to design an art deco bag that is sustainable. Help please?>

What are the economic and environmental conditions required to have a sustainable community?

I know what a sustainable community is, but I was just wondering what economic conditions are needed in a sustainable community. Likewise, what the environmental conditions have to be like to have a sustainable community. Quick 10 points to the best answer!

What would be considered a normal or a sustainable birth rate?

I want to compare the high birth rates of china and india, that are very overpopulated to a more sustainable birth rate.

Are eco-friendly products better for your skin than non?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of eco-friendly products?

Product Design Student – How to make everyday products eco friendly?

hi there,

My brief is very open this time and was just wondering if people could tell me what products they use everyday just some suggestions

Choose a product that consumes significant resources to produce and or distribute and use design to reduce or elimate its negative impact. Either design the prduct differently or design a way for people to do without it for example : a product that comnines several functions and eliminates the need for other products,a design that elimnates the need for light, energy, water, a product that elimunates the need for packaging.

Cheers!

What are the names of some eco-friendly products used in the average home?

Eco friendly products will they sell?

I want to sell fashionable bags, purse and hats made from natural fibre but I do not know if I could sell them. There are too many shops selling these items but my only unique selling point is they are made from fibre which is environmental friendly compared to bags made from synthetic leather. Do you think there is market for this. Any input is much appreciated.

What company in the world leads in the development alternative energy resources, such as wind and solar?

What do you think of making money just by talking about alternative energy systems for a home or automobile?

This is a theoretical question. I believe there are a lot of people who would like to do something to help the envoironment and make a positive contribution, but they don’t know how they could afford to make a real tangible contribution. They are just struggling along financially themselves. Suppose you could join an “Ecological-Network” and have an opportunity to simply talk about viable alternatives in energy systems and lifestyle and make money when the people you talk to also join the Eco-Network? There are no minimum purchases, no inventory, no recurring monthly purchases, no financial obligations of any kind (I hate that kind of stuff). It would be simple….you join by purchasing a “T” shirt or ball cap, coffee mug, or bumperstickers (your choice). They all say something like…”I drive on Nuclear Fusion (Sun Power) Ask me how”. or, “There are homes that use no fossil fuel for heating or cooling, ask me about it.” When someone you spoke to joins, you get a referral fee. If they enroll someone, they get a referral fee and so do you, etc. through five levels of referrals. The “T” shirts, coffee mugs, ball caps, bumper stickers are all about alternative zero energy homes and electric cars and solar panels. There are companies who offer these alternatives to the public. The “plot” is to make these alternatives known to more people. When someone who joined the Eco-Network found someone who bought from one of the companies, that person and all his referres above him would get a “finder’s fee” based on the value of the sale. You help connect people who are in a position to make a tangible difference in their purchases with an alternative product company. Does that sound like a concept that you think people would be interested in supporting? I just want some input on the “idea” the “Eco-Network” does not exist at this time. www.isomax-az.com has a start on this idea, but there are no “T” shirts, etc. available yet…it’s just an idea…What do you think of the idea?

If Alternative Energy was available.?

Theoritcally, if someone were to discovered a way to make energy a 100 times or more efficient than the cost of the fuel, will a) energy companies block it? b) energy companies embrace? or c) will politics prevent it?

How can we trust our government to get us off of oil and onto alternative energy…?

…If almost everyone in government accepts huge amounts of money for oil companies?

How much money are the phony “alternative energy” companies paying to 0bama in bribes?

Are the riots the result of evil in the world and we eventually reap what we sow?

There are socioeconomic reasons why society descends into chaos.There are cultural and environmental reasons also and last but not least there are psychological reasons on the part of the rioters for the reasons why they are doing it.
No doubt the talking heads will be trying to single out and define why this phenomenon has happened within our inner city communities and the young people who are clearly unafraid of the law and have no respect for their communities.
I would like to raise another issue and that is a spiritual one and a karmic one too.
It struck me as supreme irony that these youths were targeting premises that were outlets for the selling of mobile phones,trainers and sports wear,dvd’s cd’s,games and consoles,laptops and alcohol and no doubt cigarettes.
These things are all paramount in today’s youth culture of bling and gangs and money over bitches.
Society has sat back and allowed this all to develop in the name of freedom and progress in our consumerist materialist secular society based on the individual.
Yet mobile phones require a metallic component that is mined in Africa and the mining of this has devastated the countries environmentally,economically and socially were it can be found.It has been responsible for the rise of war lords and the money that is made is further used to promote evil.
Those trainers are manufactured in sweat shops in Asia for a fraction of the cost like the sports wear.The dvd’s cd’s and games that these youths enjoy have an element of violent criminality and they like to be listened to and viewed on the latest Plasma’s and sound systems.The alcohol problem has been encouraged by the ignorance of the Government pandering to the alcohol industry and this has all come home to roost.
We seen recently the Arab spring and the encouragement of the West for people to rise up and organize and this was all done by Twitter and Facebook and these young people maybe noneductaed delinquents nevertheless they posses skills at utilizing the technology to further their ends.
So what I am expressing is that evil flourishes and everything we do as a society in some way returns to us.
I feel just as sorry for Afghan children being killed in a raid by the forces of the USA/UK and then it being reduced from what is a war crime to collateral damage as I do for people being burnt out and there businesses destroyed here in the UK by the rioters.
Yet my conclusion is, as someone who tries to think universally as a spiritual person,that we are reaping what we sow because we refuse to look beyond our own needs and wants.

Geography (Africa) Help?

Well…

Can anyone help answer at least one of the following questions:

What challenges have African nations faced since independence?

In what ways did colonial rule cause problem for African countries after independence?

What economic, social, and environmental issues challenge Africans today?

How are Africans working to improve their economis and social conditions?

Would you say Im a conservative or liberal?

So, I came out as a conservative, but not by much. But here are my stances:
Gun Control- I support stricter gun control, and I think we should make it more regulated.
Homeland Security- Make the Patriot Act permanent, allow for enhanced interrogation techniques to be employed against terror suspects, take action against terror organizations.
Gay Marriage- No one can tell 2 people they cannot get married or adopt children. It is basically a natural right.
Immigration- Offer amnesty to illegals, and support a guest worker program.
Taxes: Corporate- Lower corporate taxes significantly
Personal- Taxes should be lower and flatter, so maybe 2 tax brackets, one at 15% and one at 20%.
Foreign Policy- Build stronger relations with Europe, S. America, and Asia; intervene more in Africa and Middle East. Give more support to the UN.
Abortion- Pro-choice
Healthcare- public or private for all elderly and children. Allow for some insurance from the government is people so choose to buy it.
Budget- Focus on real priorities, more money for military and social programs.
Environment- Economic issues take priority over environmental issues.

what is the main idea of this?

Jane Goodall has tremendously affected the world with her passion for nature and her desire to improve the environment for all living creatures. Jane is best known for her dedication to chimpanzees. She was born on April 3, 1934 in London, England. The stuffed chimp she received as a toddler was said to have first inspired her love of chimpanzees. At the age of 8, Jane read Dr. Dolittle and was determined to go to Africa one day. In May of 1956, Jane was invited to visit a friend’s home in Kenya. Jane gladly accepted the invitation. During her stay in Africa, she met Dr. Louis Leakey, a well-known anthropologist. In April 1957, she became his secretary. Dr. Leakey arranged for Jane to study the chimpanzees in Tanzania. At the age of 26, she arrived at the Gombe Chimp Reserve in April 1960. Jane poured herself into her work observing the chimps. She discovered chimp behaviors that were previously unknown. She was the first to document chimps hunting, eating meat, and using tools to extract termites from mounds.

Jane gained recognition for her ground-breaking work in 1963 when National Geographic published an article about her life and work. Jane earned a Ph.D. in Ethology from the University of Cambridge in 1965. The university did not require her to obtain a bachelor’s degree first. After Cambridge, she returned to Tanzania to continue her chimpanzee research. Through her writings, people worldwide have learned about the behaviors of chimps.

Researching chimpanzees was not the only contribution Jane has made. In 1977, Ms. Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute, a nonprofit organization that works to preserve nature and helps poverty-stricken Africans. Jane also founded several education programs called Roots and Shoots to teach young people about conservation. In 2002, Dr. Goodall became the United Nations “Messenger of Peace.” A “Messenger of Peace” works as an advocate for conflict resolution, eradication of poverty, weapons disarmament, environmentalism, AIDS/HIV treatment, and other world issues. She was reappointed to this position in 2007.

Dr. Goodall has received many awards for her extraordinary work. Queen Elizabeth II named her Dame of the British Empire, which is equivalent to knighthood, in 2003. She has also received prestigious awards from Tanzania, Austria, Japan, and worldwide organizations. Internationally, many universities have granted Dr. Goodall honorary doctorates. Jane Goodall continues to inspire the world with her expertise in environmental and humanitarian-related issues. She spends a lot of her time speaking about conservation and encouraging others to make the world a better place to live.

If there is a conflict between China and the Commonwealth, who prevails?

George Osborne is negotiating an agreement with the Chinese to allow their currency to be traded in London in exchange for mega bonuses for the City bankers there. The economic figures for the UK will therefore greatly improve, with a feel-good factor that must get the Conservatives re-elected.

The British Government is relying on the fact that Frankfurt is too busy bailing out the Euro to divert its energies to China (which is why David Cameron insisted on special dispensation for the City of London when negotiating the latest round of EU trade agreements). While Australia is the logical place to trade the Reminimbi in the West, it is hardly well located for Europe, America and Africa.

Tanzania is a member of the British Commonwealth, and one of the least corrupt of the African nations. I have just read an alarming report that last year, Chinese engineers drained Lake Singidani in order to construct a road to service mining operations there.

“The Chinese are the new colonial masters and slowly, and ominously, taking
control in Africa, showing absolutely no regard for the indigenous people
and the environment. All they are interested in is the untapped store of
mineral deposits in sub-Saharan Africa, and corrupt governments like that in
Tanzania are selling the country’s birthright without a glimmer of shame. The
Chinese have been involved in the construction of a tarmac road from Singida
to Arusha and, when they started building it, they were extracting 100,000
litres of water from Lake Singidani every day for months. Consequently, the
lake level was severely depleted at the end of the winter and is only now
beginning to recover slightly as the rains have arrived. However, there are no
nesting egrets or other birds this year and the lake is silent. Most local people
are ignorant of the issues and don’t even realise all that has been going on
under their noses. When I arrived in December 2010, there was constant
chatter and activity from all the different bird species feeding, mating and
nesting in the reeds on our corner of the lake. Thanks to the Chinese, and in just one year, the reeds have died and
the birds have gone!”

(Email from Serengeti campaigner to Green Party chairman in Malvern)

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sitefactsheet.php?id=6997 http://www.savetheserengeti.org/

There is therefore a conflict between Chinese business interests in Tanzania and environmental concerns in an internationally important nature reserve there. Anyone who has watched a David Attenborough programme knows well enough the importance of the Serengeti.

Should Britain support the Chinese developers (and benefit the London bankers) or safeguard the lions and the flamingos?

If there was a clash between the British Government and the Royal Family (many of whom have well-known sympathies both for the indigenous people of the Commonwealth and for the environment), whom would you support?

what do you think of a battery recharger powered by dance energy alone.?

Mobile phone operator Orange said on Tuesday it had teamed up with GotWind, a firm specializing in renewable energy, to produce a recharger powered by dance energy alone.

The portable kinetic energy chargers will be given a test run at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, the world‘s biggest greenfield music and arts celebration that begins on a farm in Somerset on Friday.quite interesting,dont you think so?

What do you think is the biggest problem in our world?

For me its the fact that most countries are not getting along and there is war. Also I think that the non renewable energy resources are also a big problem.

The effect of renewable resources on the scarcity argument?

So the basis of Economics is that resources are scarce and we need a system to allocate them efficiently.

But what if, in the future, all or most resources are renewable? Food is renewable. If we switch to ethanol or wind or solar energy, our energy is renewable. Trees are renewable. Etc. So what happens when there is no longer any scarcity of resources in the world?

How does renewable energy help in third world countries, and how does it improve there quality of life?

how would the world be different if we use more renewable energy?

im doing a persusaive essay on this

Will there be an increase of engineering jobs in the near future?

“WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama, who is set to announce his economic team, promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create or save 2.5 million jobs by spending billions of dollars to rebuild roads and bridges and modernize schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.”

“‘We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels,” Obama said. He also made a commitment to fuel-efficient cars and alternative energy technologies “that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead.'”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081123/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_economy;_ylt=AnMo1MRxepxos_Wx5UhcuzehOrgF

Is this why you voted democrat? We needed to save the economy and the planet. Stimulus and Green jobs …?

… that is what it was all about in late 2008. We were ruining our environment and we were in a melt down in our economy so Obama’s solution seemed like a no brainer. We need to create jobs and while we are at it lets make them Green jobs. Like alternative energy wind plants, solar cells, geothermal, etc etc.

Now what happened as a result of us voting in Obama and the super majority Democrat Congress?

Here’s an ABC news link in case you would like to check out how it all worked out.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/green-stimulus-jobs-china-9791423
btw… I am all for alternative energy. In fact I make my own bio fuel which I burn in my truck and I save 1000’s of trees every year but I take issue with sending our stimulus money to China. It was supposed to stimulate our economy, not China’s. Are the Democrats in power really that poor at thinking things through or do they just not care?
edit to Brandon S…
I looked at your first link and did not see a chart anywhere.
I looked at your second link which was a choice for a bunch of other links and one of them said in the first paragraph that Bush was the first president since H. Hoover to preside over a decline in employment. I guess they forgot to look at the presidency of Jimmy Carter. I think there were also a few others inbetween Hoover and Bush to see employment decline. Where do you get these sources.
one more comment.
did you check out the link? This was from ABC news, not Fox or some Conservative Blog. But it seems only one or two watched the report anchored by Diane Sawyer, also not a Conservative pundint by any means.

Is there an energy-alternative for a city’s mobile Diesel Sidewalk Cleaner?

My city uses a horizontal portable diesel-fired hot high pressure washer unit to clean the sidewalks downtown. Is there an alternative–energy unit that I can suggest to the city public works dept. that would (a) not use fossil fuel; and (b) give them the hot water & pressure needed to do the job? Two men operate the present unit, rolling it up and down main street twice a week, emitting a lot of fumes. This is a big tourist city, so a clean downtown is very important.
Present unit looks like http://www.dcs1.com/del/pressure-washers/4020peo.html
At this time I’m not seeking zero carbon emissions, but a lowered emission amount.
Electric motors to steam-clean sidewalks two miles long in a downtown city? No cord is that long. The machine is used by city personnel. Come on…please help me think up a better, realistic, energy-efficient alternative available now !

Chem + Envir Minor Good for Alternative Energy?

Hi folks. I am currently a freshman at Boston College, and I am majoring in Biochemistry. It’s EXTREMELY difficult / super heavy workload. I am interested in working on alternative energy source development or just global warming issues all around, and I was wondering if majoring in Chemistry and minoring in Environmental Studies would be enough to land a good job or at least set myself up for a career in that kind of field. I am stressing so much over this because the course-load for a Biochem major at BC is over the top with one year having 3 sciences and 3 labs all in one, and other years pretty much similar. Please help! Thanks a lot in advance.
Hi nothingconstant. Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I definitely agree with you. It’s just that there is no engineering program here at Boston College, and I don’t think I want to transfer out of here. I was thinking that in four years, it might be a little bit better than now, meaning more opportunities in the specified field / companies. So, I’m majoring in Biochemistry right now because I think if there were a company just for alternative energy, it wouldn’t just hire engineers (chemical or whichever). What do you think?

Honest question about oil consumption and alternative energy?

Admittedly, I don’t know much about how the oil industry works apart from the fact that they’re banking huge profits and have very well paid lobbyists to protect their interests. What I I do know about alternative fuel is that we have done very little, comparatively, to wean ourselves off pf oil and we have not invested much, again, comparatively in finding viable renewable sources and are lagging far behind many of our European neighbors. There is no way that we could substantively decrease our dependance overnight, I understand this, so I would think that would mean that investing in these alternative sources wouldn’t make any noticeable difference in the profit margins of the oil companies for decades. By investing in other sources, we would expand new industries and create new jobs which would help the economy. Am I understanding this correctly? If so, why aren’t we working harder to walk down this path?
As I said, I know that we cannot stop using oil tomorrow. When I say wean, I mean gradually decrease our dependance over a period of time. Other developed countries have done it and are still doing it. Anyway you look at it, numerically or per capita, the US uses far more oil than any other country in the world. One thing that we can all agree on is that oil is a finite resource – it’s not going to last forever. Why not be prepared rather than waiting for everything to hit the fan and expecting later generations to clean up our mess?