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Bricked alley in Langley
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Museo 215
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Drygoods
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Cafe Langley
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deadlines
Douglas Adams of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" once said "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." I have a deadline Wednesday that I can't be hearing that whooshing sound. I have links to put up but they will have to wait until after the deadline. I do have some daily photographs to put up in the meantime. Check back.
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Two plant sconces, Langley
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energy
"Saudi Arabia has Peaked..."
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Tomorrow morning, as you are starting your first cup of coffee, you turn on the morning news to In a surprise announcement last night, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced that Saudi Arabia would not be able to increase oil production. He urged conservation by oil importing nations. Reaction has been
After cleaning up a messy coffee stain and vainly trying to log onto TOD, what to do?
And what should, and will, the US and the rest of the world do?
Every responsible government will immediately raise gasoline taxes (this excludes the United States of America).
Switzerland will investigate how their 31 billion Swiss franc Alp Transit and related railroad improvements might be speeded up, completing the shift of freight from truck to (hydro).electric rail. Completion by 2020 does not seem quite so comfortable as it did yesterday. German standards for insulation in new construction are adopted and the push for more geothermal heat is intensified. Debate about a new nuclear plant starts anew.
Basically, Switzerland just speeds up along the path that they were already on.
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bicycles
beijing tricycles
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Despite its rapid acceleration into the world of automotive traffic jams and smog, Beijing has retained a strong connection to the bicycle, and its third wheel cousin the tricycle. Their presence is most felt in the narrow alleys of the hutong districts where cars have a difficult time maneuvering. Here in the alleys the bike remains a utilitarian object, used for hauling garbage, materials and people as well as establishing the means for countless mobile businesses. In Beijing, biking is not a leisure or sporting activity, it is foremost a work activity and a mean to an end. Given their emphasis on functionality over looks, many bikes have been modified or custom built to fit the unique demands of their owner.
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I want one of these.
energy
Blowing Green Smoke
by Jim Kunstler
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Tom Friedman, celebrated New York Times columnist and author of The World is Flat, riffed on (or around) the issues of climate change and energy in that newspaper's Sunday Magazine this week ("The Power of Green"), and managed, in the process, to misunderstand just about every implication these conjoined problems present. Friedman's specious thinking is symptomatic of exactly what is wrong with our public discussion of these matters generally, and their presentation in mainstream media in particular.
I'm fond of saying that if America could harness the power it wastes blowing smoke up its own ass, we could magically escape our energy-and-climate-change predicament. I say this repeatedly to counter the increasing volume of lies we tell ourselves in order to maintain the illusion that we can continue living the way we do. Like so many other commentators suffering from cranial-rectosis, Friedman believes that we can keep on running our Happy Motoring utopia if we just switch fuels.
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Clay Harmon
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family stuff
I added 17 more pictures to Thursday of Robyn's trip to Washington.
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