Thursday, December 17, 2009

Visit our website

Our French Creek Valley website has a wide variety of topics to offer. It is pretty heavy on educational stuff, from crafts to business to keeping your job or avoiding a layoff.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Global warming doesn't matter

Global warming really is a non-issue compared to the dual problems of decreasing fossil fuel supplies and increasing population. Simply plotting the historical exponential decrease in fossil fuel and growth in popluation shows that those two spectors will get us long before and in much harsher ways than global warming ever could.
Dr. Albert Bartlett, from Boulder Colo. declares that we WILL have zero population growth sooner or later. It'll be by famine, lack of cheap energy, disease, etc..
We need to get serious about the real problems, first.
See his youtube video on the subject at:
http://blog.green-life-innovators.org/2009/11/07/the-brutal-end-of-the-growth-paradigm/

Sequester Carbon by storing wood

How about storing wood that is in non productive situations in old buildings? Seems to me we could sequester a lot more carbon that way than by pumping carbon dioxide into the earth. Sure, we'd have to fix the roof, but think about how many tons and tons of otherwise unusable wood could be stored that way.

Plastic is Good!

Every bit of plastic that is produced from fossil fuels and eventually ends up in landfills is a bit of fossil fuel that will never add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
That's because most plastics are not biodegradable.
They say that as much as 25% of petroleum production goes into non-fuel uses, and I suppose most of that is for plastics.