Comments for EarthSourceMedia http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org Local and Global Environmental News Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:49:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 Comment on Designer Fish by gael http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2010/01/16/designer-fish/#comment-5743 gael Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:47:51 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2010/01/16/designer-fish/#comment-5743 One of your better works! Love this one (too). One of your better works! Love this one (too).

]]> Comment on The Politics of Pollution by admin http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/10/09/the-politics-of-pollution/#comment-5443 admin Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:42:19 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/10/09/the-politics-of-pollution/#comment-5443 Sean, Thanx for your comments. One must be cautious not to call the San Diego sewage 'raw' or 'untreated'. It has received some treatment- just not reaching the minimum required by Clean Water Act standards of thirty five years ago!! Still, the bad guys would have a field day pointing out little things like that- so, the correct way to say it is that the City of San Diego has the last 301h sewage waiver in the state, allowing them to discharge sewage that has received only primary treatment. In other words, only partially treated. Not raw, not untreated- but definitally polluting the sea and definitally getting surfers sick. editor Sean,

Thanx for your comments. One must be cautious not to call the San Diego sewage ‘raw’ or ‘untreated’. It has received some treatment- just not reaching the minimum required by Clean Water Act standards of thirty five years ago!! Still, the bad guys would have a field day pointing out little things like that- so, the correct way to say it is that the City of San Diego has the last 301h sewage waiver in the state, allowing them to discharge sewage that has received only primary treatment. In other words, only partially treated. Not raw, not untreated- but definitally polluting the sea and definitally getting surfers sick.

editor

]]> Comment on The Politics of Pollution by Sean http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/10/09/the-politics-of-pollution/#comment-5004 Sean Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:44:55 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/10/09/the-politics-of-pollution/#comment-5004 Sewage waivers are a travesty in this day and age. How can we be the moral standard for the rest of the world when we dump untreated raw sewage right into the ocean? Please keep on monitoring this situation and thank you for getting involved. To save some money while monitoring the ocean try visiting <a href="http://marinefuel.com/" rel="nofollow">MarineFuel.com</a> to save on <a href="http://marinefuel.com/dock-prices/" rel="nofollow">marine gasoline</a>. Sewage waivers are a travesty in this day and age. How can we be the moral standard for the rest of the world when we dump untreated raw sewage right into the ocean?
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]]> Comment on ~The Dogs of Hate and The White Glove of Love~ by David Singelyn http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/07/07/the-dogs-of-hate-and-the-white-glove-of-love/#comment-4794 David Singelyn Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:21:57 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/07/07/the-dogs-of-hate-and-the-white-glove-of-love/#comment-4794 Joey.. exellent site and observations. I would say not all is hopeless on the environmental front - there is a new source of energy for the planet - Algae.. 20,000 gallons of oil per acre per year... yet no soil need be touched, no pesticide need be sprayed, and emissions from the oil, when burned for electricity or transport, are taken back in by new growing Algae... it is the environmental answer we seek, and it is available right now. 100 miles of desert will supply the energy needs of the entire nation. Please promote Algae oil ... Sincerely and with respect, David Singelyn Founder, DemocraticMatch.Com Joey.. exellent site and observations. I would say not all is hopeless on the environmental front - there is a new source of energy for the planet - Algae.. 20,000 gallons of oil per acre per year… yet no soil need be touched, no pesticide need be sprayed, and emissions from the oil, when burned for electricity or transport, are taken back in by new growing Algae… it is the environmental answer we seek, and it is available right now. 100 miles of desert will supply the energy needs of the entire nation. Please promote Algae oil …

Sincerely and with respect,

David Singelyn
Founder, DemocraticMatch.Com

]]> Comment on Dance to the Apocalypse by Doug Korthof http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/11/29/dance-to-the-apocalypse/#comment-4790 Doug Korthof Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:13:50 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/11/29/dance-to-the-apocalypse/#comment-4790 This is really good; your talent for sound-bytes is really the ability to come up with one good zinger per paragraph. Catches the reader, and promises interesting things to come. Frankly, the "guide stones" are boring, just a bunch of calcium carbonate, unless set into a context where they are significant somehow. I like the flashback technique to show how today's actions relate to one potential outcome. Building new sprawled homes is not good; but for those that already exist, conversion to solar power, native plants, graywater and community living, edible landscape and backyard habitat, is not a bad thing. I'd like to see a satire of the ultimate 'oil culture' where huge atomic plants produce enough energy to decompose CO2 from the air into burnable hydrocarbons (HxCx) -- thus bypassing photosynthesis -- and really "recycling" the carbon. What a Rube Goldberg machine it would be! It could be done, but doing so would expose how stupid. Carbon sequestration, as you point out, is laughable. This piece is also very painful to read, probably because it speaks the truth. This is really good; your talent for sound-bytes is really the ability to come up with one good zinger per paragraph. Catches the reader, and promises interesting things to come. Frankly, the “guide stones” are boring, just a bunch of calcium carbonate, unless set into a context where they are significant somehow. I like the flashback technique to show how today’s actions relate to one potential outcome.

Building new sprawled homes is not good; but for those that already exist, conversion to solar power, native plants, graywater and community living, edible landscape and backyard habitat, is not a bad thing.

I’d like to see a satire of the ultimate ‘oil culture’ where huge atomic plants produce enough energy to decompose CO2 from the air into burnable hydrocarbons (HxCx) — thus bypassing photosynthesis — and really “recycling” the carbon. What a Rube Goldberg machine it would be! It could be done, but doing so would expose how stupid. Carbon sequestration, as you point out, is laughable.

This piece is also very painful to read, probably because it speaks the truth.

]]> Comment on ~The Berryessa Bluebird~ by Nancy http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/03/19/the-berryessa-bluebird/#comment-3046 Nancy Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:51:09 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/03/19/the-berryessa-bluebird/#comment-3046 Lovely pix of the Bluebirds and wonderful poetry, Joey! I would like permission to add the picture and your poem to the Bluebird Nest Box Project page http://pvsb-audubon.org/bluebirdproject.html on our website. Dan and I maintain a trail of 10 Bluebird nest boxes in Harbor Park (Wilmington), California and it's a labor of love and a cause dear to our hearts. Hugs to you, Joey! Nancy and Dan, your "old" Mystic Oaks friends Lovely pix of the Bluebirds and wonderful poetry, Joey! I would like permission to add the picture and your poem to the Bluebird Nest Box Project page http://pvsb-audubon.org/bluebirdproject.html on our website. Dan and I maintain a trail of 10 Bluebird nest boxes in Harbor Park (Wilmington), California and it’s a labor of love and a cause dear to our hearts.

Hugs to you, Joey! Nancy and Dan, your “old” Mystic Oaks friends

]]> Comment on Stained Glass Ego Parlor by Ali Jordan-Brown http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/02/20/stained-glass-ego-parlor/#comment-151 Ali Jordan-Brown Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:02:16 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/02/20/stained-glass-ego-parlor/#comment-151 That crystal cathedral has always pissed me off. And yet it is the epitome of the essence of Christianity, a religion based on documents which were altered by men who did not know God, let alone his "Son"... But all the sheep who follow wolves freely and of their own volition... Can we save the sheep from their own stupidity? I can't save my mom and dad, who believe I am headed for hell if I don't repent. All I can tell them is that I know too much to go back to the trap of Christianity... that would indeed be "the second death" and unthinkable. I love my Christian friends and family. I just can't follow them into the death chamber. Ali That crystal cathedral has always pissed me off.
And yet it is the epitome of the essence of Christianity, a religion based on documents which were altered by men who did not know God, let alone his “Son”…
But all the sheep who follow wolves freely and of their own volition… Can we save the sheep from their own stupidity?
I can’t save my mom and dad, who believe I am headed for hell if I don’t repent. All I can tell them is that I know too much to go back to the trap of Christianity… that would indeed be “the second death” and unthinkable.
I love my Christian friends and family. I just can’t follow them into the death chamber.
Ali

]]> Comment on ~’Night-night, Satellite’~ by Ali Jordan-Brown http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/02/25/night-night-satellite/#comment-150 Ali Jordan-Brown Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:49:54 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/02/25/night-night-satellite/#comment-150 Quite a scenario... Almost seems like it could be real... D'ya think? Doesn't make sense any other way. Keep it coming Joey! Quite a scenario…
Almost seems like it could be real…
D’ya think?
Doesn’t make sense any other way.
Keep it coming Joey!

]]> Comment on ~When things Collide!~ by swan http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/02/18/when-things-collide/#comment-110 swan Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:15:17 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/02/18/when-things-collide/#comment-110 Sounds like nuclear slapstick! Did you see where the fireball came streaking out of the sky and torched a cow pasture north of Austin? Sounds like nuclear slapstick! Did you see where the fireball came streaking out of the sky and torched a cow pasture north of Austin?

]]> Comment on Crash Landing by Gael http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/01/17/crash-landing/#comment-87 Gael Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:03:04 +0000 http://littleshell.earthsourcemedia.org/2009/01/17/crash-landing/#comment-87 Has there ever been anyone who considered the flight path of migrating birds when they sit over their drawing boards to contemplate how they will build an airport? Has there ever been anyone who considered the flight path of migrating birds when they sit over their drawing boards to contemplate how they will build an airport?

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