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While at University, I studied Agribusiness and thus made to complete courses in Crop, Dairy, and Water Sciences -to name a few.  During an Organic Agriculture course, as we spoke on growing Corn for Ethanol and using veggie products for blending with Diesel or on it's own as B100 biodiesel, a rancher's son spoke up about the deficiencies matched with the demands put on production of crop-based fuels.  He'd lived and worked his family farm since birth and contended that Biofuel crops create carbon dioxide pollution equalled to the carbon emissions of oil use---through crop production and harvest systems! 
 
HHMMM...Well, the lesson I take away from his insights are aligned with my own....only....my perspective is this:
   Don't rely on one source for everything...Diversify...Yeah...BioFuel is not THE answer...it's ONE of the solutions...Hydrogen and Solar are options too....we all just need to continue to keep open to new and alternative sciences, technologies, and suggestions!
   Buy locally, Think Globally...purchase from your local ma and pop shops and make sure that they practice Social Responsibility.
 
Read what MSNBC is saying about relying solely on Biofuels:    
 
 
While saying bioenergy represents an “extraordinary opportunity” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it warned that “rapid growth in liquid biofuel production will make substantial demands on the world’s land and water resources at a time when demand for both food and forest products is also rising rapidly.”
 
 
 


Published On: 5/8/2007
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"Algae kill hundreds of California sea animals"- Associated Press
 
“The concentration of the toxin is so great this year that we haven’t had a chance to react to it,” Birkle said. “Normally we’re able to flush out the toxin with a treatment regimen ... This year they’re just coming in dead.”
Humans can’t be harmed by swimming in algae blooms but consuming fish and shellfish tainted with the acid can cause nausea, seizures and even death.- April 27th, 2007 Associated Press
 
Read more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18347719/ and let me know if you think Global Warming may be a cause to this...!
 
From this article, ARE WE ABLE to Pinpoint the CAUSE of WHY more "blooms" are occurring this year?  Is is because the ocean is warmer this year?  Is the ocean warmer because of global warming?  Some scientists are skeptical...read below...
 

Storm guru: Oceans, not CO2, cause warming : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18397549/

 


Published On: 4/30/2007
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It's saturday, over a week after I first left for my Northern adventure.  And I've finally stopped procrastinating enough to get this blog done!

On thursday teh 9th of March, I was to meet my friend Betsy in Peterborough at 6.30 to head up to Sudbury to meet up with AddictiveEscape at my parent's house.  However, due to some fog in Milwaulke, Besty's flight was cnacelled, and all plans were changed.  I ended up heading to the airport to meet Betsy at 11pm, then driving to sudbury.. we arrived at about 4am.  Now Usually this wouldn't be a problem, but I felt bad for Chris who had been at my parent's since about 8o'clock waiting for us.  Good thing they took care of him for me! ha!

The weekend went off with tons of little incidents, but was a great sb.com meet up in Searchmount!  I'm not going to add any details.. if you want to know about all the mishaps, you can go to the Strip-Search-and-Mount thread in the EC Canada section.

The week was pretty relaxing, hitting up all the sights of Sudbury: Science North, Dynamic Earth (a mine that you can visit), and hitting the slopes of Adanac for night boarding.  And as much as the hill itself is tiny and was icy, it's right in the middle of town and a 3 minute drive from my house, so it was a great last night of riding in Ontario.  On Friday, we met up with some of my friends from teachers college at the local Irish pub to celebrate St-Pat's!  Tons of beer, tons of music, and getting away with everything I possibly could! I actually Had a bouncer pretty much following me aroudn for a bit repeating 'Do you really think you'll get away with that?'  and well apparently yes i did... stealing hats, and plants, and getting a marriage proposal and actually sitting down with the guy and trying to figure out if it would work! ha what a random night!

Then the next day, I drove with a very hung over Betsy back to Peterborough where we met with our Friend Allie (who had gone to uni with us in France as well) and her boyfriend Niel to catch up and have a few drinks.  Betsy drank water.  We managed to meet more randoms at the bar, as everyone who finds out Betsy's from Kansas seems to tag along to hear stories and talk to a real american! tehehe

Sunday, last day of break.. very lazy day, breakfast, some shoping, and watching the video from all our week's adventures! ha, the things she documented, wow, that is going to be some great blackmail material some day! haha  Monday I drove Betsy to Toronto for her flight then headed back home to finish planning some lessons.

Now back to work... in the past 3 days alone i've had a kid projectile vomit in class, another 'accidently' punch a friend in the face resulting in blood pourring all over the desk, chair, floor, and to top it off, yesteday all my french classes were cancelled so that I could be the 'supply' teacher for the grade 6 class as they didn't have a teacher.  I'M happy I get a break midweek for a conference I have to attend! and i'm even happier that I only have 13 teaching days left until Whistler!!! woohoo!!



Published On: 3/25/2006
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