I am an ardent environmentalist myself. I always preach what I practice for the excellent stewardship of the real fragile Mother Earth. I am always doing it everyday throughout my adolscent years to the adulthood.

I ever am not bothered to get in the hype for the “Earth Hours” which the Americans usually consume 3/4 of the world’s artifical energy consumption as compared to the rest of the world for 30 years lately. The real troubling and concerned issue about China and Indian’s billion population use up artifical energy putting the real strains on the Mother Earth and the universe altogther.

Real cool about writing like “Hillary’s political boat is rapidly sinking”. I did not worry about the Democratic bickerings at all since we could see how the real stupidity about our political system.

I am totally agree with Hillary and Bill to tell the Democrats ‘RELAX” and let the entire race to be done til the finish line.

I still hope for Ralph Nader to shake down the political duoply real good unless Mike Bloomberg and Chuck Hagel jump in. That’s what we really most is the multi-political parties in our national politics.

Robert L. Mason (RLM)

Hi Lantana,
I have the same problem here, though I don’t live on the coast. My electricity went out last winter for seven days. Big Storm that took out most of the Seattle area and my town was hit very hard indeed. Like you, I have a wood stove I can cook on, and it can heat half the house if we shut the other half off. It’s sort of like living in a little cabin when that happnens. I always keep tons of candles on hand for light. We have a gas water heater so are lucky to have warm water when the power goes off. Some neighbors have well water, and then they can’t even flush their toilets since the pump is also electric. I’m happy not to have a well.

I didn’t celebrate this Earth Day. I forgot, even though I knew about it. Maybe I’ll just go to bed an hour earlier tonight.

opps,

i mean, Amen.

Lantana ..

My generator is propelled by homicidal Squirrels.

Here’s a suggestion for a portable electrical generator.

Paotie

Lantana,
We live along the coastal area in NC where we get a beating during hurricane season. Few homes install a real generator that cost a few thousand bucks, and another thousand for the electrician to hook it up to your house. This would be one that would light most of your house, provide AC, and come on automatically, with natural or LP gas feed.

You also don’t want to run a little generator where combustion fumes will leak into the home and asphyxiate you. Keep it out of the garage or carport. People are killed every major power outage by carbon monoxide.

The small generators that you see at Lowe’s and Homer are not meant for computers, and other electronics, or for running much of a home system like AC, electric heat, cooking, etc.

The Earth Hour is a bunch of baloneys. “We must save the world from the horrible evil event known as climate change! Turn off everything! Throw away the keys to your vehicles! The weather gone crazy! The sea levels are rising! Animals are escaping! Earth is going flat! Oh, my God, we’re so doomed!”

Sheesh. We need to pipe down those environuts and global warming-alarmists and learn to live and adapt with the changes by innovating and improvising ourselves without resorting to draconian political means to control our lives and kill people in the process.

Vegetarianism is good for the earth, and your body, and it also keeps farmers employed. Much of the crops they currently grow feed cattle and other farm animals, who eat so much more than humans. We could feed people millions of people utilizing the same croplands if everyone stopped eating meat.

Kim, yup… I read that the cattle was one of the contributing factors for greenhouse effect. Even if we all became vegetarians, it would not make any difference… it is just one of the earth’s cycles…

My son declared he wanted to become a vegetarian but he is fussy about food he eats… he won’t eat beans, rice, tofu, etc.! Mostly pasta and cheese and a few vegetables? Oh please… I have many awesome vegetarian cookbooks but they don’t appeal to youth’s palate…hmmm…

Karen, I’m concerned about your boy but he is likely to have an eating disorder and could become an anorexic. Although it’s less common in boys but there have been cases of boys refusing to eat certain kind of foods, like what you had said about your son’s dietary intakes, and becoming anorexic. He may have been improperly influenced or misinformed about the benefits of vegetarianism or he may be using the excuse of being a vegetarian to avoid issues that you may not be aware of. Like this website about boys being anorexic or bulimic. ABCNews did a report on that. Hope you help out your son before it may get worse.

Rob,
It seems like you may be over-reacting to my comments. I never said vegetarianism is a “MUST” for everyone, and I’m certainly not insistant. I simply brought up an energy conserving alternative. And yes, I’m aware of how animals become meat by eating vegetables.

But just for the record, there’s no scientific evidence that people who stop eating meat “de-evolve.” A person can get enough protein without eating meat.

Go ahead and eat meat. Clog your arteries with animal fat. No one’s stopping you.

I think the liberals are more in tune with Earthly concerns than the conservatives. ANd most politicians are Conservatives even the ones that claim to be liberals! Make a note of that White Ghost. No April Fools day joke!

I do my part but it has nothing to do with lights.

I recycle.

and I tend the earth to grow my own vegetables. At least, I try to! We’ve had a hard winter here and by this time of the year I should be out there getting my garden ready but we had snow a few days ago and this week we have possible rain/snow. Late planting season for us midwesterners!

Gives me more time to figure out what I want to plant this year. I’d like to try something different. One year I grew tomatillos and then the year later when I didn’t plant it, it grew anyway! and grew wild! You can make green salasa with that and it’s a nice different taste than regular salsa.

Last year I planted a lot of sunflowers and they’re awesome..grew almost like a tree. Actually it’s still out there and it does look like a baby tree! I actually grew enough to feed a whole city full of squirrels. Cute things!

kim, that’s alright. You’re not the first vegetarian I know through online or in person but there are some vegetarians out there who are just a bit more militant about vegetarianism, sometimes going too far or overzealous in some cases. I’ll say they are not exactly the brightest bulbs anywhere.

Being a vegetarian is a matter of personal lifestyle choice, not something to collectively demand everyone to abandon eating meats and eat only vegetables. If it is good for you to be healthy and maintain a healthy dietary habit, great. I eat a lot of vegetables, hot and cold daily but, however, I find eating only vegetables daily terribly boring and pretty tiresome (tried that for less than a week). I think, for the most part, vegetarianism is a reaction to a misguided perception about how animals are slaughtered for its meats by the factories. I have actually seen cows being slaughtered, chopped and processed for its meats but it doesn’t really affect me any seriously enough to stop eating meats. The problem is more to do with how animals are processed and slaughtered in such inhumane manners, but we’re dealing with time-honored practices that dated back to the earliest civilizations. It’s not limited to this country, but in many other countries.

You’re right there’s no evidence about de-evolving due to lack of proteins. In fact, there haven’t been any study on it, but it’s a theory proposed by some scientists conducting research on protein sequences and the correlation of meat-eating habits and intelligent developments based on data from fossilized skulls of hominid ancestors. I still have a Science magazine edition few years old, that’s all about ancient hominids but I can’t find it somewhere.

As for clogging arteries, believe it or not, it is not caused by animal fats but the deficient lack of Vitamin C in your body. Now go eat your vegetables, young lady!

haha Rob, Most liberals do “tune in with Earthly concerns” because most liberals are hippies.

But, yeah you’re probably right..doesn’t matter. Both conservatives and liberals are just as bad and good as anyone.

And ditcha know that pigs really do fly?!