For those that know me, you know that one it is my Birthday. The second thing you hopefully know is that I'm very into green and sustainable practices. The third thing you hopefully know is that I like asking for action for a gift instead of items.
So as is customary of me, my request for anyone that gives a care to attempt such:
Contact Sunoco (and/or as many other fuel providers)
-Ask them if they are willing to carry minimally B1 (a type of Biodiesel) as part of their ongoning Sustainable strategy.
http://www.gosunoco.com/contact-us/
So do me a favor, and do it. You'll also be doing yourself a favor.
Biodiesel is frequently made, by recycling material. Is often made in a net positive energy fashion (it creates more fuel, then the fuel used to harness, transport, produce the product). It also has the ability to be burned cleaner then its counterparts.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Today's my Birthday and I'll cry if I want to, I'll cry if I want to.
Or I won't.
The truth is I care, and I have cried for plenty of things.
The further truth is that today is my Birthday. I am 32 years young, and despite being quite often twice the age of a significant amount of the people I run with I keep up with them, I hold my own. We'll need youthful vigor to hold up against these issues of yesterday, today and tomorrow. The truth is that in many ways we're between a rock and a hard place.
Why? Great question, let me try and explain this. We have solutions in the works for plenty of problems, however these solutions haven't been realized, haven't come to be materialized, haven't happened. Yet more problems are coming around with an ever pressing and unrelenting frequency. Thus we have the problems of yesterday, and the problems of today.
All of this naysaying aside, I want to be Thankful. I want to be thankful, and express 'Thanks' to those who have gone out and aroused us, have gone out and fixed things, have made a difference.
Some of these people may not be as well known as others but they deserve a call out.
Claire Cameron Paterson
Yvon Chouinard
Patagonia
Graham Hill
Treehugger
Bob Ivory
Michael Diggans
Matthew Hellerer
Thank you.
And for those that remembered my Birthday, thanks. It was a rough one, but at least for now it seems I got through it. May we all have many more.
The truth is I care, and I have cried for plenty of things.
The further truth is that today is my Birthday. I am 32 years young, and despite being quite often twice the age of a significant amount of the people I run with I keep up with them, I hold my own. We'll need youthful vigor to hold up against these issues of yesterday, today and tomorrow. The truth is that in many ways we're between a rock and a hard place.
Why? Great question, let me try and explain this. We have solutions in the works for plenty of problems, however these solutions haven't been realized, haven't come to be materialized, haven't happened. Yet more problems are coming around with an ever pressing and unrelenting frequency. Thus we have the problems of yesterday, and the problems of today.
All of this naysaying aside, I want to be Thankful. I want to be thankful, and express 'Thanks' to those who have gone out and aroused us, have gone out and fixed things, have made a difference.
Some of these people may not be as well known as others but they deserve a call out.
Claire Cameron Paterson
Yvon Chouinard
Patagonia
Graham Hill
Treehugger
Bob Ivory
Michael Diggans
Matthew Hellerer
Thank you.
And for those that remembered my Birthday, thanks. It was a rough one, but at least for now it seems I got through it. May we all have many more.
On this Day:
Aug 30, 2006:
California Senate passes Global Warming Solutions Act
On this day in 2006, the California State Senate passes Assembly Bill (AB) 32, otherwise known as the Global Warming Solutions Act. The law made California the first state in America to place caps on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, including those found in automobile emissions.
The Global Warming Solutions Act became law thanks to an alliance between the state's Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and its Democratic-controlled legislature. The bill's passage solidified California's role as a leader in enacting legislation aimed at combating global warming, or the gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere due to the so-called "greenhouse effect" caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. California--which represents 10 percent of the nation's automobile market and is known for its struggles with air pollution--took the lead early in setting stricter fuel emissions standards than the federal government's.
Despite his professed enthusiasm for the Hummer, a sport utility vehicle (SUV) known for its prodigious size (and prodigious emission of greenhouse gases), Schwarzenegger sought to uphold his state's pioneering legislation regarding automobile emissions, passed during the tenure of his predecessor, Gray Davis. That law, AB 1493, required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to regulate greenhouse gases under the state's motor vehicle program and gave automakers until the 2009 model year to produce cars and light trucks that would collectively emit 22 percent fewer greenhouse gases by 2012 and 30 percent fewer by 2016.
The Global Warming Solutions Act went even further, calling for an overall 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions (or to 1990 levels) by 2025, a timetable that would bring California close to full compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, an international climate-change treaty signed in that Japanese city in 1997. Even after Schwarzenegger signed AB 32 into law in September 2006, California faced an uphill battle to enact these new standards against the resistance of the automotive industry, backed by the administration of President George W. Bush. Automakers had historically resisted increases in fuel-economy standards, as stricter standards usually require an overhaul of their production methods to make cleaner and more fuel-efficient vehicles. The tides turned, however, with the presidential election of 2008, and in 2009 President Barack Obama announced new nationwide rules on auto emissions standards, bringing them into line with those mandated by California.
Submitted from Suite Lou
California Senate passes Global Warming Solutions Act
On this day in 2006, the California State Senate passes Assembly Bill (AB) 32, otherwise known as the Global Warming Solutions Act. The law made California the first state in America to place caps on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, including those found in automobile emissions.
The Global Warming Solutions Act became law thanks to an alliance between the state's Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and its Democratic-controlled legislature. The bill's passage solidified California's role as a leader in enacting legislation aimed at combating global warming, or the gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere due to the so-called "greenhouse effect" caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. California--which represents 10 percent of the nation's automobile market and is known for its struggles with air pollution--took the lead early in setting stricter fuel emissions standards than the federal government's.
Despite his professed enthusiasm for the Hummer, a sport utility vehicle (SUV) known for its prodigious size (and prodigious emission of greenhouse gases), Schwarzenegger sought to uphold his state's pioneering legislation regarding automobile emissions, passed during the tenure of his predecessor, Gray Davis. That law, AB 1493, required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to regulate greenhouse gases under the state's motor vehicle program and gave automakers until the 2009 model year to produce cars and light trucks that would collectively emit 22 percent fewer greenhouse gases by 2012 and 30 percent fewer by 2016.
The Global Warming Solutions Act went even further, calling for an overall 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions (or to 1990 levels) by 2025, a timetable that would bring California close to full compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, an international climate-change treaty signed in that Japanese city in 1997. Even after Schwarzenegger signed AB 32 into law in September 2006, California faced an uphill battle to enact these new standards against the resistance of the automotive industry, backed by the administration of President George W. Bush. Automakers had historically resisted increases in fuel-economy standards, as stricter standards usually require an overhaul of their production methods to make cleaner and more fuel-efficient vehicles. The tides turned, however, with the presidential election of 2008, and in 2009 President Barack Obama announced new nationwide rules on auto emissions standards, bringing them into line with those mandated by California.
Submitted from Suite Lou
Friday, August 29, 2014
The Question is of Science:
Fact or Fiction,
There are those in the American civilization, that believe that science is just full of it, wrong.
As a point of relevance there are students in America that are being taught that sciences understanding of the age of Earth, our Solar System, and our general galaxy is a falsehood.
If science has these things so wrong, then why do text messages work?
Continuing on how are you able to read this post on a computer?
Does your car work to transport you around?
The next thing I'm going to bring up is that there are those that deny the reality of Climate change 97% of our scientist (this is Our as in those on the planet Earth) are in agreement toward it happening and it is a man made situation.
If your in such a strong belief that they are so fallable and wrong.
Perhaps you will be in agreement to stop using things like, computers, heating systems, cooling systems, transportation systems (even including bicycles), cell phones.
Perhaps what I am alluding to is just not easy to understand.
Advances made by Science aren't always liked, however our understanding of the Universe is Science, and whether we like it or not doesn't make it part of reality. Denying reality is denying truth.
This is our world, accepting of our reality can better prepare us for the future, and can even help us thrive if we're willing to adapt.
For now I'll leave you with a saying, "Adapt and Overcome."
Ask a USMC about it
Semper Fidelis,
Green Runner
CLIMATE; THE CONVERSATION
MISSION STATEMENT
As conversations of weather occurrences and suggested anomalies become more frequent and mainstream in the scientific community, as well as at the grass-roots-level, the need to embrace and index substantive information into an authoritative conduit to encourage more research and development~~~IS IMPERATIVE.
Pertinent themes as Global Warming, Climate Change, and Melting Ice Caps has stimulated discussions, seeded forums, and spawned additional research, all to foster consensus, and recommend courses-of-action.
The intent of CLIMATE; THE CONVERSATION, is to be The Bulletin Board, The Platform, The Podium, and The Credible Source & Bibliography for such astute, sincere, and scholarly considerations.
Sincerely;
Administrators:
Andrew M. Marconi
Lou Marconi
As conversations of weather occurrences and suggested anomalies become more frequent and mainstream in the scientific community, as well as at the grass-roots-level, the need to embrace and index substantive information into an authoritative conduit to encourage more research and development~~~IS IMPERATIVE.
Pertinent themes as Global Warming, Climate Change, and Melting Ice Caps has stimulated discussions, seeded forums, and spawned additional research, all to foster consensus, and recommend courses-of-action.
The intent of CLIMATE; THE CONVERSATION, is to be The Bulletin Board, The Platform, The Podium, and The Credible Source & Bibliography for such astute, sincere, and scholarly considerations.
Sincerely;
Administrators:
Andrew M. Marconi
Lou Marconi
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