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Entries from December 2006

Lets each buy 1 stock so we can vote at the TXU shareholders’ meeting

December 9th, 2006 · No Comments

So TXU is trying to rush in the coal plants so that if carbon dioxide emission caps come into play they’ll have a higher cap level to work within.  Great.  But some large TXU investors are also questioning the intelligence of the planned new coal plants.  Maybe we should join these other investors at the […]

Tags: Announcements · Local · Rants

If environmental arguments don’t work, talk economics

December 9th, 2006 · No Comments

I heard it again on the radio the other morning; a talk show DJ told a caller that climate change is a natural thing and there was nothing we could do to stop or change it. There continues to be a widespread psychological reactance against hearing that humanity could heat the planet through our lifestyle choices. 
I’ve […]

Tags: Global

Forget oxygen, we need Christmas Trees!

December 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Ah well, with all of the drought and extreme weather of the past year, it’s easy to forget about the locally grown Christmas tree farms.  Luckily for someone, the irrigation methods of North Texas tree farms have sustained most of these Christmas trees through the two-year drought.  So our clean water supply is dwindling while […]

Tags: Lifestyle · Rants

6.5 Billion dropping to 500 Million

December 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

It can be a fine line between calling the public to action and scaring the willies out of everyone.  Professor James Lovelock leans a little toward the latter when he projects that climate change will cause a dramatic reduction in the world’s human popluation, as well as the populations of sea life and plant life in the […]

Tags: Global