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 "He has become a self-taught expert on composting after reading The Humanure Handbook, as well as on solar and wind power.
He also learned the importance of re-mineralizing plants and soil by reading Sea Energy Agriculture by Maynard Murray. He got his dying citrus trees to produce wonderful fruit once again by employing methods taught in that book.
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Just get onto the Internet and click on www.annettelarkins.com to see more photos of what being raw for decades can do for a woman!"- Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
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New Alternatives Fund invests 25 percent of its funds in renewable energy such as wind power, fuel cells, ocean energy, solar, hydrogen, biomass, and geothermal. Visit them at www.newalternativesfund.com.
The Domini Equity fund is based on the Domini Social Index 400 (whose companies include McDonald's). So why did Domini pick McDonald's? "- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "All renewable resources have some impact on the environment, but to varying degrees. wind power, for example, has much less of an impact than solar power does. The Power Scorecard (http://www.powerscorecard.org/), developed by a coalition of environmental defense organizations, is an online assessment tool that
How much does it cost? Usually, green power costs slightly more than nonrenewable power costs. Your utility will either add a cent or two to the standard per-kilowatt-hour rate or will charge an additional flat monthly fee of five to ten dollars."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Every time one of us switches to compact fluorescents and wind power, a bunch of good things happen: less coal is burned (meaning healthier air and less damage to our climate); more wind farms are built; and energy companies get a signal that there's a market for energy-efficient products and more clean energy. By designing our lives to be greener, we help nudge the whole economy toward a bright green future. Individual actions are great, but look for individual actions that will influence others. There's an old saying that living well is the best revenge." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Solar and wind power, smart-grid technology, small-scale water solutions, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), leapfrogging models—we've got what it takes to leapfrog urban infrastructure. But it's not just the tools, it's what we do with them. We must reimagine infrastructure in order to make it leapfrog. Instead of thinking in terms of massive government projects, we need to imagine whole cities that can build working systems by linking many small, discrete parts, one household and one neighborhood at a time." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "This is particularly daunting for renewables - for wind power to achieve one wedge, 2 million 1 -megawatt turbines would be needed, a fifty-fold increase from today's deployment. The turbines would cover 30 million hectares, equivalent to 3 per cent of the total land area of the United States. A wedge of solar photovoltaic electricity generation would need a 700-fold increase from today's total, covering 2 million hectares of land - or around 3 square metres per person."- Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) |
| "By utilizing wind power, the company will avoid adding 17.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide to the region annually. Eliminating this volume of the harmful greenhouse gas is the equivalent of taking approximately seventeen hundred cars off the road or reducing the number of miles driven in the region by 19 million.12 www.burgerville.com
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One of the biggest purchasers of all-natural meats in the United States with some 480 casual dining establishments, Chipotle, the Denver-based burrito restaurant, has tons of room to grow." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Selling for around five cents a kilowatt-hour (which includes federal tax credits), wind power has reached the point where it actually costs less now or is competitive with coal, oil, gas, hydro, and nuclear, which generally run six to seven cents per kilowatt hour. The fact is, GE scientists say, there's enough wind along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to supply the power for all of the United States! Meantime, at its Global Research Center near Schenectady, New York, GE scientists are in the midst of developing nan-odiodes?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "BP also sees a lot of potential in wind power. In 2004 BP's joindy owned 22.5 megawatt wind farm in the Netherlands completed its first full year of operation, providing enough power for 20,000 typical Dutch homes. BP is currently focusing their efforts on the development of wind farms at existing BP refineries and petrochemical plants; this has the additional benefit of curtailing the spread of industrialized land. And as far as continued use of fossil fuels is concerned, BP is part of a major effort to find ways to reduce emissions and reduce consumption." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "It is conventional to define the Industrial Revolution arbitrarily as beginning with the harnessing of steam power in 18th-century England, but in fact an industrial revolution based on water and wind power had begun already in medieval times in many parts of Europe. As of 1492, all of those operations to which animal, water, and wind power were being applied in Eurasia were still being carried out by human muscle power in the Americas."- Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) |
 "The idea that farmers and ranchers can lease their property to wind power companies is starting to catch on. Farmers and ranchers receive an annual paymenr for providing the land to house wind turbines on their property. This is a significant opportunity for many to boost their income and represents a real solution to help stabilize rural economies by making the wind the next "cash crop."
The Most Abundant Element
Hydrogen is the simplest and most abundant element in the universe. On rhe Earth, hydrogen does not occur naturally as a gas but rather combines with oxygen to create water (H20)."- David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "One ocean alternative is wind power, which is better offshore than on land because wind is more reliable out in the ocean. It has no impediment to its progress. It's just whipping along the surface of the ocean where it can build up speed, as opposed to land where there are trees and mountains. Ocean wind turbines are builr on plarforms, sometimes several hundred feet tall with very large blades that slowly rotate. Although there are several of these wind turbines in Western Europe and they're very effective, we don't have any in the U.S. yet." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "They're different from the underprivileged classes who will have to live in underprivileged neighborhoods where conventional sources for power will be locared if this wind power plant or rurbine field is not developed in the bay." Another technology Philippe has been pursuing is ridal power. "That means putting power plants with turbines in coastal areas. As the tide goes in and goes out, it flows to these power plants and causes the generators to turn and ir creates energy. But there's also rhe potential of wave power." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "The Babylonians and Chinese used wind power to pump water for irrigaring crops four thousand years ago. The first windmills, circa 500 C.E. to 900 C.E., were developed in Persia to automate the tasks of pumping water. Europeans used the power of the wind to grind wheat, which is where the term "windmill" comes from. During the nineteenth century in America, windmills were again developed for pumping water, and to this day the classic Aermotor windmill stands as an icon in the rural landscape. Today, thirty states have wind-energy projects, generating 9,149 megawatts (mW) of electricity." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) |
| "As of 1492, all of those operations to which animal, water, and wind power were being applied in Eurasia were still being carried out by human muscle power in the Americas.
Long before the wheel began to be used in power conversion in Eurasia, it had become the basis of most Eurasian land transport—not only for animal-drawn vehicles but also for human-powered wheelbarrows, which enabled one or more people, still using just human muscle power, to transport much greater weights than they could have otherwise. Wheels were also adopted in Eurasian pottery making and in clocks." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "Coupled to systems of geared wheels, those engines harnessing water and wind power were used not only to grind grain and move water but also to serve myriad manufacturing purposes, including crushing sugar, driving blast furnace bellows, grinding ores, making paper, polishing stone, pressing oil, producing salt, producing textiles, and sawing wood." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) |
| "United States' electrical demands. But building big towers is expensive, especially if we want one 15,000 feet tall. So why not ditch the tower and make the windmill fly?
Several companies and people are trying to do just that. Sky WindPower is the furthest along in its research, with functional prototypes already tested in the field. The corporation's chairman, Bryan Roberts, an Australian professor of mechanical engineering, teamed up with some Americans to commercialize his Flying Electric Generator—a windmill that's tethered to the ground, but that flies like a whirligig in the jet stream." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "You can't make fertilizer or pesticides out of wind power alone. Producing hydrogen by electrolysis from nuclear power and then converting that hydrogen into chemical fertilizers and pesticides would be ridiculously expensive, and even under the best circumstances it would take at least a decade to build a new generation of nuclear power plants dedicated to the task at the necessary scale. We will just have to do farming differently, on a smaller scale, locally, the hard way."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "There is a set of erroneous popular notions to the effect that renewable energy systems such as solar power, wind power, and the like are available as freestanding replacements for our fossil-fuel-based system, that they are pollution-free and problem free —that renewables represent something akin to perpetual motion, a gift from the sun. The operation of a solar electric system, like the one I run on an Adirondack lake, does not itself produce pollution, but the manufacturing of the components certainly does." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "They were uniformly uninterested in the issues of the global oil peak and natural gas depletion and utterly convinced that the industrial societies would be rescued by hydrogen, wind power, and solar electricity, all to be figured out by their cohort techno-geniuses in due time. If there is anything we have been stupendously bad at in the preceding century of wonders, it is recognizing the diminishing returns of our technologic prowess. Some of our greatest achievements, such as industrialized farming and the interstate highway system, have produced dreadful diminishing returns (e.g." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "No way; not even a tiny fraction of it. The wind power inquiry eventually would lead back to the same place as the one on solar power: Can these technologies be detached from the fossil fuel platform supporting them? Sure, it is possible to generate electricity using wind turbines. Yes, European nations have made major investments in "wind farms." Denmark was getting 18 percent of its electricity from wind in 2003, the most per capita of any country. Germany was producing more than 10,000 megawatts from its installations, Spain more than 3,000." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
 "The leading traditional renewable candidates are solar photo-voltaics, wind power and biomass combustion, combined with an overhaul of the efficiency of energy systems and the use of clean hydrogen fuel. Worldwide wind power is growing by 25 per cent a year, with a $2 billion market in 1998. The use of solar photo vol taics is increasing by 17 per cent a year. While prices keep decreasing, the manufacturing cost will need to go down another 50 to 75 per cent for solar electricity to become competitive with the grid."- Brian O'Leary, Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths (Get the book.) |
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