5/1/2009
Photos From Earth Day 2009 at Northwest Park
May 2009: Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
'Climate change' forces Eskimos to abandon village
Solar Canning
To celebrate Earth Day on Wednesday, [Jones Soda] rigged up bicycles to generate electricity.
How Much Do You Need?
Monday May 4
Chamber of Commerce
6:15-7 Seed/Seedling Swap
7-8 Monthly Meeting
Saturday, May 16
Shad Derby Parade and Festival on the town green. Help us man the booth!
| | Green Committee - May 2009 Newsletter |
Hi All,
Enjoy the weather while it is so nice! And if you have time, come to our monthly meeting on Monday at the Chamber of Commerce.
6:15-7:00 Bring seeds and seedlings to swap. We'll have extra supplies from our Earth Day booth so you can try your hand at planting seeds.
7:00-8:00 Regular monthly meeting. We'll make final plans for the Shad Derby booth (2 weeks away), and plan the Green Star Awards.
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| Photos From Earth Day 2009 at Northwest Park |
People of all ages planted and took home beans, water melons, sunflowers, flowers, pumpkins, carrots, squash, radishes, and more.
Many hands made the work light and we had fun. Did anyone make a count of how many cups went out? I think we gave out around 40 pounds of soil a few scoops at a time.
Thanks to all of the volunteers the booth was shaded, well manned, with shovels, gloves, water, soil, seeds, seedlings, etc. And luckily, we still have lots of supplies ready to do something similar at the Shad Derby Booth.
Click for photos
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| May 2009: Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization? |
This is a sobering article. Forget global warming, scarcity of food and water is a bigger concern:
"The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse
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Our continuing failure to deal with the environmental declines that are undermining the world food economy "most important, falling water tables, eroding soils and rising temperatures "forces me to conclude that such a collapse is possible."
Read More At Scientific American
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| 'Climate change' forces Eskimos to abandon village |
"The community of the tiny coastal village of Newtok voted to relocate its 340 residents to new homes 9 miles away, up the Ninglick River. The village, home to indigenous Yup'ik Eskimos, is the first of possibly scores of threatened Alaskan communities that could be abandoned."
Read More At CNN
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An interesting blog by a local CT inventor. Scroll to the bottom for the Solar Powered Canning and Barbecue:
Read Mikes Blog
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| To celebrate Earth Day on Wednesday, [Jones Soda] rigged up bicycles to generate electricity. |
""This is pretty typical Jones Soda. We do fun, innovative things here, and this is just an example," said Susan Rozewski, an employee.
The pedal power plan went so well that the company's headquarters in Seattle went completely off the power grid."
Read More At SeattlePi.com
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Last month a despondent reader responded with concern that Western Civilization is about to collapse because our global energy usage is not sustainable.
While they are correct in a sense, I want to point out that it doesn't take much effort to live on 1/10th the energy usage.
What do you think? If electricity suddenly cost $2000 per month, would you use a clothes line? If gasoline shot up to $16/gallon, would you carpool?
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