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Archive for August 2007

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Representative Jay Inslee sent me a letter regarding The New Apollo Energy Program. Given that I suggested to him that we needed to embark on an Apollo scale national program of energy independence and sustainability, I am happy that a bill was drafted utilizing the concept in the name, unfortunately it didn’t utilize the concept… (read more)

IdeaBox

Gingersnap13 said, I was impressed with the Zero Energy Home you wrote about. Quite spendy, though. Thought you’d be interested in hearing about this brand new green and sustainable living concept on the market that was invented in Oregon. It’s called the NW Modern from ideabox and the man who created this home was also… (read more)

Adapting

The human creature differs from the rest of the animal kingdom in the degree to which our behavior is learned rather than genetically predetermined. Depending upon who you ask, chimps and humans diverged from a common ancestor 5-6 million years ago, or in another version, diverged 10 million years ago, then interbreeding and hybridization occurred,… (read more)

Iraq

I corresponded briefly with a US soldier in Iraq today. He was an extremely angry young man. I’m not sure young man is even an appropriate term because he displayed a lack of maturity and an inability to hold a rational conversation. The answer to every question I posed to him was, “You’re a pussy”… (read more)