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Would you buy COOL LOOKING Furniture made from Clay?

(it’s eco friendly)

Please also see:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As5CgCJZPu_XIaiW18ndZKfsy6IX?qid=20060725144853AACQ4YO

for any details / Q’s
By the way:

If they were made with pillows and stuff (like wooden furniture is) YES they would be just as comfy!

=)

I need your advice on baby cribs. Can you help?

I am a furniture designer and I am interested in creating a nursery line. Do you Moms/Dads have any suggestions on how to make my cribs more convenient for you? I love modern furniture, so definitely this
line will be modern as well. I am also planing to make it eco–friendly, and convertible (crib-daybed). What would you like to see in the future cribs? Any problems with you current cribs, suggestions? THANK
YOU!

How should i decorate this?

Well, i have a pretty small room and i’m thinking of painting it… The colour that comes to mind is white, since i have a small room i hope the white will allow it too seem larger. But the problem is i dont know what colour furniture should i add? Also, any wall decoration..
I’m a pretty relaxed person, i love the nature, really eco friendly…
So, any ideas? 🙂
thanks for any help 🙂 !

Room remodeling?

I am a teen remodeling my room! I have recently gotten new windows, so it’s a lot brighter in my room, with 2 windows instead of 1. The room was repainted to a slightly deep purple, and all of my furniture is being painted white. What decor should I buy or look at for a unique, laid-back, feel and look for my room?….similar to Starbucks’ style. Maybe some organic or eco–friendly items…which is even cooler! Any suggestions for wall additions, or bedding either? Also, my carpet is white, if that matters. Thanks! 🙂

Redecorating my bedroom – Hippie bohemian style… Help?

Right now my bedroom is red and black and modern. My style has completely changed, and now I’m looking to redecorate my room. Please let me know if you have any ideas and if you know where to get bohemian/hippie furniture (include website links, please). I’m also into the environment, so eco–friendly items are a plus. Thanks so much! 😀

cars and environmental issues?

Cars and environmental issues?
Hi, could someone provide me some examples of how cars causes some of the environmental issues we see today? I’ve been searching, but most of them talk about co2 and global warming. Others about pollution and health issues, but neither specific nor detailed. If it’s possible provide me some links so i can look into it further,

thanks,

‘Big business will revolve alot around environmental issues in future [20 years]’ (working lunch today)

does this herald a golden age in which geographers will at last be taken seriously!?

What kind of careers in governement focus on environmental issues and improving the global environment?

Are these jobs in demand? Do you get to travel around the world?
Is it good pay and job security because in today‘s economy those are definely important things to consider?

What environmental issue do you think is the most important facing the US today?

And why?

how are motorsports justified given our current economic and environmental issues?

I’ve never really found motor sports interesting, but as I’m flipping through TV stations today I have to ask. There’s no way that these top fuel dragsters, or tractor pull vehicles ( and all the other vehicles) are in line with emissions standards. With that in mind and the price for fuel and oil, how can these so called sports be justified?

Which countries are leaders in alternative energy source research and utilization?

Why are these countries so interested in alternative energy?

what percentage of a country’s budget is dedicated to developing alternative energy sources?

could you say that use of alternative energy sources is not widespread because the country only allots little money for it?

why?

what are other problems?
uhh, any country? the US, perhaps?

Metal hydrides as alternative energy source?

I have an oral presentation to do on Metal hydrides as an alternative energy source. I tried to do some research on metal hydrides and all I come up with are published scientific research papers and people selling cells of metal hydrides.

I don’t want you to do my homework for me; I want to do it myself. But, could someone give me like an introduction or overview of Why/how is metal hydrides an energy source?

Thanks and 10 points for best answer!

what are problems associated with alternative energy sources such as solar power and nuclear?

im doing a project for school and it asks what are the problems associated with alternative energy sources.
now, i know fossil fuels(coal, oil etc…) create greenhouse gasses but solar power, it seems there is nothing wrong with it
is there anything wrong with it?

I just want to know what is Obama planning to do with alternative energy if he wins the Presidency?

Obviously, we can’t rely on fossil fuels anymore.

*Please no links. If you’re a die-hard Obama supporter, then please provide me with a one or two sentence summary of his alternative energy plan.
Thanx Danny Boy.

Is a renewable energy tech. a person who would fix the windmills and such?

I am looking to go into renewable energy, I want to be the person who goes out and fix the windmills and such, what is the name of that career path?

How much renewable energy does Australia use?

I need to find a graph or date showing how much renewable energy the states of Australia uses, for example Darwin – 38%

Please help, been looking for ages

Can my home electricity bills be a tax deduction if I pay for renewable energy?

I use green mountain energy co. and they supply renewable energy sources that cut down on pollution, like windmills. Is this considered a tax deduction?
I live in Texas

What is the United Kingdoms policy towards increasing renewable energy sources and reducing global warming?

I just wondered what targets the Uk has set towards increasing renewable energy sources and decreasing greenhouse gases.
Peter Gas- i don’t want to know about the whole global warming conspiracy, that’s not what i asked… you might as well have not bothered answering the question because i really don’t want to know…

What kind of money can someone make with an AAS in renewable energy?

Im thinking of going to school to get an associates of applied sciences degree in renewable energy. I was just wondering what kind of money someone with that would make.

what stores have eco friendly clothes?

i trying to be green. i think being green is cool to me. I just want some organic clothes that will be comfortable and roomy.

so do you know any stores or websites i can go on to.

thanks for helping.

Eco friendly clothes?

Does anyone know where I can get fashionable clothes that are eco friendly. Also, I don’t want the clothes to cost a fortune, because most eco clothes I see are expensive. So I’m looking for eco friendly, cost effective clothes. Please give me links if you can!

Who would you recommend for eco friendly affordable clothes?

I don’t want to pay the earth to do my bit so want a reliable source for quality and changing designs and styles.

modern eco-friendly clothes?

there are a lot of eco–friendly clothes out there, but i’m 16 and still want to dress my age. the stores i know of that are sustainable as well as with the times are american apparel, livity, herbivore clothing, and blend. can anyone direct me towards more stores like these? thanks

Do you like eco-friendly clothes?

Do you wear/buy any eco–friendly clothing? I like www.GreenvanaApparel.com. What are some of your favorite sites/stores?

Explain how to make a sustainable home that uses less energy and water and increases the amount of recycling?

Explain how to make a sustainable home that uses less energy and water and increases the amount of recycling

please help

How much does a sustainable energy home cost to build?

I am contemplating buying/building a house, for the first time, with no deadline. I haven’t selected a site yet (I know that changes things) but I want to know what I can expect. How does the intial cost of a sustainable energy home typically compare with a less green option?

How do we ethically reduce the population to a sustainable level?

The world presently has 6.5 billion inhabitants, a number that far outstretches the capability of this planet to provide resources for so many people. We are headed for a malthusian catastrophe which will lead to great suffering in many regions of the world. How do you think we can ethically reduce the population to a sustainable level?

How have the policies relating to sustainable development evolved?

Writing an essay and need to write about how policies relating to sustainable development are changing in the UK. Or can anyone tell me where I can find polices? I have the government aims, but not polices.

Many thanks

How would you engage the local community in the benefits of sustainable transport?

There are obvious benefits to sustainable travel such as walking and cycling: it’s healthy, it’s eco-friendly, it’s quick (no traffic jams) and it’s free!
Its important to engage the local community – BUT HOW?

environmental movement a set up?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071214/ts_nm/bali_friday_dc

“They fear curbs would cramp economic growth.”

that exactly is the point behind the environmental movement. to cramp growth in China and India and leave natural resources to be consumed by the US and few others.

the illuminati has a plan to cut 80% of the world population, and this movement is the primary key, in addition to wars, such as that of iraq and afghanistan, orchestrated after the 9-11 controlled demolition events.

isn’t it interesting that the maniacs who started two world wars, the wars in korea, somalia, vietnam, and many others and destroyed the world in the process (just look at the destruction of the environment in hiroshima and nakazaki), want to “save” the world environment? isnt it a joke?

the illuminati is facing severe competition from China and iNdia and others, the illuminati is in serious panic. they use legitimate issues – such as the environment – to attain their selfish devilish ends.
“Uhh. Okay. Sure. Put the tinfoil fez back on, wouldn’t want CIA deathrays to getcha.”

unless you come up with another one, i’d assume that that is your BEST argument (which u use every time an idea takes u beyond your mind set).

Is China doing well in their effort to destroy the Serengeti?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nQ5u79DOir4/TQBfR1hgaVI/AAAAAAAAABE/1ndPs48STDY/s1600/serengeti-map.jpg
http://www.savetheserengeti.org/issues/stop-the-serengeti-highway/#axzz1A4QcvIl7
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100825103824.htm
http://mtwarakumekucha.blogspot.com/2010/09/serengeti-road-threatens-environmental.html
http://sites.google.com/site/zvezdaraforest/home/news-2
http://www.phoneforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2021
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30936.asp
Let’s see now, how does this work?
Toss a few million at Tanzanian officials to authorize a “more efficient route for transporting heavy metals from the Lake Victoria region” through the Serengeti, when another less-destructive route is available.
Compensate the Tanzanians by offering low paying slave labor jobs in Chinese run mines where they are shot if they complain about working conditions.
Extract the natural resources (heavy metals) for China‘s own economic benefit in manufacturing unauthorized pirated versions of Western-designed cellphones so they can flood the market with them.
Make sure the new highway works towards decimating Tanzania’s #1 industry, Tourism, by assisting in destroying the natural migration of animals through the Serengeti Wildlife Preserve, which is not only a major tourist attraction, but also one of the top-10 natural wonders of the world.
Make Tanzania even more economically dependent upon the whims of the CCP, to hold them hostage in any future negotiations.

When is the world (read UN) going to wake up to the worldwide criminal behavior of CCP-led China and the mass-devastation to which it will lead?

Small countries may think they are getting a “piece of China‘s pie,” but all they are getting in the end is an empty plate.

The USA/West can live without a bunch of cheap cellphones on the market… can the world live without its wildlife?

Stop buying products Made in China!
Anyone who does so is promoting environmental destruction.
http://environment.change.org/blog/view/proposed_serengeti_highway_an_environmental_disaster_of_choice
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7313/full/467272a.html

Is China doing well in its attempt to destroy the Serengeti?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nQ5u79DOir4/TQBfR1hgaVI/AAAAAAAAABE/1ndPs48STDY/s1600/serengeti-map.jpg
http://www.savetheserengeti.org/issues/stop-the-serengeti-highway/#axzz1A4QcvIl7
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100825103824.htm
http://mtwarakumekucha.blogspot.com/2010/09/serengeti-road-threatens-environmental.html
http://sites.google.com/site/zvezdaraforest/home/news-2
http://www.phoneforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2021
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30936.asp
Let’s see now, how does this work?
Toss a few million at Tanzanian officials to authorize a “more efficient route for transporting heavy metals from the Lake Victoria region” through the Serengeti, when another less-destructive route is available.
Compensate the Tanzanians by offering low paying slave labor jobs in Chinese run mines where they are shot if they complain about working conditions.
Extract the natural resources (heavy metals) for China‘s own economic benefit in manufacturing unauthorized pirated versions of Western-designed cellphones so they can flood the market with them.
Make sure the new highway works towards decimating Tanzania’s #1 industry, Tourism, by assisting in destroying the natural migration of animals through the Serengeti Wildlife Preserve, which is not only a major tourist attraction, but also one of the top-10 natural wonders of the world.
Make Tanzania even more economically dependent upon the whims of the CCP, to hold them hostage in any future negotiations.

When is the world (read UN) going to wake up to the worldwide criminal behavior of CCP-led China and the mass-devastation to which it will lead?

Small countries may think they are getting a “piece of China‘s pie,” but all they are getting in the end is an empty plate.

The USA/West can live without a bunch of cheap cellphones on the market… can the world live without its wildlife?

Stop buying products Made in China!
Anyone who does so is promoting environmental destruction.
http://environment.change.org/blog/view/proposed_serengeti_highway_an_environmental_disaster_of_choice
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7313/full/467272a.html

In what order are the issues that concern you the most in this election?

Here is the list of the issues that I see that the each candidate has different views on (in no particular order):

War On Terror / Afghanistan
Iraq
Homeland Security/Natural Disaster Preparedness
Other Foreign Policy (China, Russia, Israel, Iran, etc.)
Tax Policy
Financial Markets/Banking/Regulation
Trade Policy
Immigration Policy
Energy Policy (Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, Alternative Energy)
Environmental Policy
Health Care Policy/Regulation
Education
2nd Amendment Rights/Gun Control
Abortion
Definition of Marriage
Media Regulation (i.e. Fairness Doctrine)
Tort Law Policy
Infrastructure/Transportation Development
Social Security/Medicare Policy
Ethics/Lobbyist Reform

If I have forgotten any, please list…

Should abortion be used to prevent global warming?

Apparently, this idiot believes so…and you should not have more than 2 kids, if you do, you are irresponsible.

Question: What do you make of these comments? Is the left, attempting to make us into a China?

COUPLES who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government’s green adviser has warned.

Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming. He says political leaders and green campaigners should stop dodging the issue of environmental harm caused by an expanding population.

A report by the commission, to be published next month, will say that governments must reduce population growth through better family planning.

“I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate,” Porritt said.

“I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. It is the ghost at the table. We have all these big issues that everybody is looking at and then you don’t really hear anyone say the “p” word.”

The Optimum Population Trust, a campaign group of which Porritt is a patron, says each baby born in Britain will, during his or her lifetime, burn carbon roughly equivalent to 2½ acres of old-growth oak woodland – an area the size of Trafalgar Square.

The British population, now 61m, will pass 70m by 2028, the Office for National Statistics says. The fertility rate for women born outside Britain is estimated to be 2.5, compared with 1.7 for those born here. The global population of 6.7 billion is expected to rise to 9.2 billion by 2050.

Porritt, who has two children, intends to persuade environmental pressure groups to make population a focus of campaigning.

“Many organisations think it is not part of their business. My mission with the Friends of the Earth and the Greenpeaces of this world is to say: ‘You are betraying the interests of your members by refusing to address population issues and you are doing it for the wrong reasons because you think it is too controversial,” he said.

Porritt, a former chairman of the Green party, says the government must improve family planning, even if it means shifting money from curing illness to increasing contraception and abortion.

He said: “We still have one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancies in Europe and we still have relatively high levels of pregnancies going to birth, often among women who are not convinced they want to become mothers.
ORCA, it seems you are the idiot.

Look at all the statistical facts regarding record number of snow falls.

(Saudi Arabia getting first snow and coldest winter in 20 years),

(in 07, South America had its coldest winter in 90 years)

NASA denying global warming as well.

Not to mention the ice levels are the same as it was in 1979.

If you where asked to invent an alternative energy company and create a corporate id for it. What would you do?

I am doing this for school, I have a rough idea of what I want to do, I want to hear any other ideas, thanks.
Hi thanks for the answer, but I was thinking more along the lines of actual renewable energy methods I agree that you have to wade though the information [excusey the pun] But I do think overall the movement is good, sometimes you need extreme action or radicalism to change minds.

Ive decided to model my company on Iberdola, they are the 5 largest energy producer in the europe and they just do renewable! Wind, Solar, Geo-thermal that works and actually provide millions with cleaner energy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberdrola

Alternative Energy?

I would like to know if I can use a generator or car batteries or any other energy to light my small earthbag home other than solar or wind energy. Solar and wind energy is to expensive are there any other low cost ways to power my home? It has to be off-grid meaning not connected to a utility company.
gggsbaby – what are you talking about?

Why is President Bush trying to increase oil production instead of alternative energy?

Drilling off all of our coastline? A thinking leader should consider alternative options. I see nothing but greed in this plan. As our communities are destroyed, oil prices won’t decrease in price. The oil companies will keep getting richer.

He really scares me.

Are you interested in wind and solar energy for your home and what do you think of loan companies for?

homeowners who want to install small wind turbines and solar panels on their home?

Before the Conservatives go rambling on about government subsidies, this is something that’s happening in the private sector. The deals being offered allow homeowners (who can show that they are in good standing with their payments and not in an underwater mortgage) to take out loans (interest rates are similar to what you’d get for a car loan) for the installation of wind and solar panels on their homes. In order to qualify the homeowners have to purchase units that are pre-approved (durability issues – the loan issuers don’t want people purchasing equipment that’s cheaply made and likely to break) so there’s a preferred list of equipment providers whose items you can get the loans for. The reason this is happening is that with energy companies trying to bleed the country dry and continuously raising rates, and with the cost of components for residential wind and solar installations falling rapidly, we are reaching the point where a home wind turbine or solar panel installation can pay for itself in less than 7 years-which is the maximum term available for one of these loans.

Do you have a personal interest in alternative energy and if you could get a $7000 loan at 5.5% interest on a 7 year term to install a wind turbine or solar panels on your property would you consider that deal?
@ Vanessa – explain to me how you think a residential wind turbine is “terrible for the environment”. They’re popping up all over where I live – the ones that are on 30 to 40 foot towers with a blade-span of six to eight feet. People put those plastic owls on them just like they do with large picture windows to prevent bird strikes.

Small wind turbines do not damage the environment.
@ Barry – wind in the North, Solar in the South.

I am looking for an Australian company that is involved in the field of alternative energy?

The company needs to be registered in Australia and has a share value of approximately $Au10 cents or under.

Is Obama using scare tactics to try to get the stimulus bill passed?

Obama has said that we are going to have a catastrophe if we do not pass this pork laden stimulus bill. Why is he using scare tactics?

Obama was one to complain about Bush’s spending, but look at the pork in this bill. The items include:

List of all the projects we need or else we will never recover!

$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$198 million for Filipino World War 2 vets and their families
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons
$90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
$15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
$145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
$89 billion for Medicaid
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
$2 billion for renewable–energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
$2 billion for a “clean coal” power plant in Illinois
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
$3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
$3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
$200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund

Do we really need a $87 Million polar ice breaker? How is that going to stimulate the economy? I thought we were having global warming and the polar ice caps are melting. Is this just scare tactics or what?
FU – How is this a false list? This was posted on a web site by one of our press reporters. I cut and pasted.

Can you think of a better reason to spend 3 minutes contacting Ur Representative NOW?

$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$198 million for Filipino World War 2 vets and their families
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants (ACORN)
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons
$90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
$15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
$145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
$89 billion for Medicaid
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
$2 billion for renewable–energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
$2 billion for a “clean coal” power plant in Illinois
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
$3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
$3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
$200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund

Admitting now that corn ethanol was/is a mistake, will Al Gore also fess up on catastrophic global warming?

“U.S. corn ethanol “was not a good policy”-Gore”

Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:24am EST

* U.S. ethanol consumes about 40 pct corn crop
* Impact on food prices “real”

By Gerard Wynn

“ATHENS, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was “not a good policy”, weeks before tax credits are up for renewal.
U.S. blending tax breaks for ethanol make it profitable for refiners to use the fuel even when it is more expensive than gasoline. The credits are up for renewal on Dec. 31.

Total U.S. ethanol subsidies reached $7.7 billion last year according to the International Energy Industry, which said biofuels worldwide received more subsidies than any other form of renewable energy.

“It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for (U.S.) first generation ethanol,” said Gore, speaking at a green energy business conference in Athens sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank.

“First generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small.

“It’s hard once such a programme is put in place to deal with the lobbies that keep it going.”

He explained his own support for the original programme on his presidential ambitions.

“One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president.”

A food-versus-fuel debate erupted in 2008, in the wake of record food prices, where the biofuel industry was criticised for helping stoke food prices.

Gore said a range of factors had contributed to that food price crisis, including drought in Australia, but said there was no doubt biofuels have an effect.

“The size, the percentage of corn particularly, which is now being (used for) first generation ethanol definitely has an impact on food prices.

“The competition with food prices is real.””

(Reporting by Gerard Wynn; editing by Keiron Henderson)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idAFLDE6AL0YT20101122?sp=true
Slug Rock….. you might try enrolling in a comprehensive reading class. You’re coming off as a Moonie.

Why should voters put up with even 2 more years of this nonsense?

Wind, solar energy built on temporary tax breaks

WASHINGTON – Congress is putting the short-term future of renewable energy companies in jeopardy even as the presidential candidates and most lawmakers hail windmills, solar panels and biofuels as long-term solutions to high gasoline prices and global warming.

Some $500 million in investment and production tax credits will expire Dec. 31 unless Congress renews them. Without that help, solar and wind power companies say they will reverse planned expansions and, in many cases, cut payrolls and capital investment.

Schott Solar has visions of quadrupling its operation in Albuquerque, N.M., to reach 1,500 jobs and $500 million in investment. But the investment tax credit, company spokesman Brian Lynch said, is what makes solar power cost-competitive. Without it, expansion plans must be reconsidered

And Nancy Pelosi and Harold Ried think calling back congress to vote on a bipartisan energy bill that both good Democrats and Republicans have worked on is not important.

Party politics as usual and to he** with the voters

What do you think of Obama’s voting history as a Senator as opposed to what he’s saying now?

Why on the BIG issues that were put before him in office, did he choose NOT TO VOTE. But he voted and pushed for little meaningless things like “Congratulating the White sox on winning the World Series??”

Examples:

2/28/08 Vote 35: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H.R.3221; New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, and Consumer Protection Act and the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2007 : NOT VOTING

2/26/08 Vote 33: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 2633; A bill to provide for the safe redeployment of United States troops from Iraq. NOT VOTING

2/7/08 Vote 10: H R 5140: H.R. 5140 As Amended; Recovery Rebates and Economic Stimulus for the American People Act of 2008 : NOT VOTING

4/10/08 Vote 95: H R 3221: Ensign Amdt. No. 4419; To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the limited continuation of clean energy production incentives and incentives to improve energy efficiency in order to prevent a downturn in these sectors that would result from a lapse in the tax law. NOT VOTING

4/4/08 Vote 91: H R 3221: Voinovich Amdt. No. 4406 As Modified; To protect families most vulnerable to foreclosure due to a sudden loss of income by extending the depreciation incentive to loss companies that have accumulated alternative minimum tax and research and development tax credits. NOT VOTING

4/3/08 Vote 87: S RES 501: S. Res. 501; A resolution honoring the sacrifice of the members of the United States Armed Forces who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. NOT VOTING

Yet he did vote in between all those votes for things like:

3/14/08 Vote 82: S CON RES 70: DeMint Amdt. No. 4339; To provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for providing an above the line Federal income tax deduction for individuals purchasing health insurance outside the workplace. VOTED NO

3/13/08 Vote 77: S CON RES 70: Kyl Amdt. No. 4372; To protect small businesses, family ranches and farms from the Death Tax by providing a $5 million exemption, a low rate for smaller estates and a maximum rate no higher than 35% VOTED NO

Im confused, if he is so for or against these like he says, why didnt he vote? And if he is for small business and families and those needing insurance, why did he vote against them?? Any help ??

How much money is enought for me to retire?

Objective: retirement with enough money sustainable for food, house, travelling and a quiet life. My wife works, and we have no kids. We live in Beijing with two houses–one we live and one we rent to other people.

How do we create a sustainable, advanced economy for the future?

Today’s industrial economy is based upon explointing labor, natural resources, and the environment as a whole. Today’s farming is based upon degrading the land and water for high yields. Neither industry nor farming have much regard for whether their methods can be sustained long-term. The future is at stake.

Clearly, we must re-focus our efforts toward a more-responsible economy and lifestyle, but this re-focusing will cost plenty. Volunteering to give up the wasteful methods that produce cheap goods and cheap food won’t be an easy pill to swallow for the American populace, where bigger has always been considered better. It’s counter to our sense of “progress.”

How do we convince our populace that this must be done or risk our long-term survival as a nation and people of this smaller-and-smaller earth?

How do we convince others to make the same sacrifices, especially those such as India and China just on the cusp of traditional economic wealth?

What kind of food do you mostly take-out from restaurants or cafe? (Ex. salad, soup, hamburger, etc)?

I’m going to create a sustainable take-away packaging (boxes, cups, bags). I’d like to hear what popular take-out dishes are, and create three different kind of packaging which fit to quantity or form of food. (Pizza requires a spacious box, and soup contains in special container for liquid food.)
And when you think about take-out packaging, what is the most considerable thing?

Discuss the possible implications (positive and negative) of the sustainable agriculture/locally grown food.?

Discuss the possible implications (positive and negative) of the sustainable agriculture/locally grown foods movement on American agriculture

Will Sustainable Agriculture be able to feed the world’s population in 50 years?

I need specific data that will support the idea that SA will be able to feed the world in 50 years. I had my choice of Genetically Modified foods, or Sustainable Agriculture, and due to moral reasons I chose Sustainable Agriculture. Now I can’t find data to support my choice. Help! This is a VERY casual paper…we are able to plagiarize as much as we’d like…the instructor would just like us to be able to supply him with data.