Monday, June 29, 2009

Must See TV

The Crumbling of America. I wonder how much it will cost to fix what ails us, let alone deal with the new infrastructure needed for a post-fossil fuel world.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Must See Photo from Space

From the You Had To Be There file; a photo of a volcanic eruption occurring immediately below the International Space Station. Beam me up Scotty! This I would have liked to see.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Coming to a theater near you? Food Inc.

From The National Catholic Reporter an article about the movie Food Inc. The movie details the oligopoly in the agricultural sector. For my friends on the right, something to think about as we consider the tradeoff of efficient factory farms for those of the past:“While making the film,” director Kenner said, “I met a cattle rancher who told me ‘You know, we used to be scared of the Soviet

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Urban Gardening in Asheville NC

From The Mountain Express, an article about a 4 acre farm in the Asheville city limits. I wonder if we have enough vacant, undeveloped lots here in RP to come up with an aggregate of at least one acre and then convince the various owners to lease them to the community for a nominal amount ($1?) to convert them into gardens?

Transition Town Info

An article from Californian about Transition Towns and the underlying philosophy. Evidently the folks out west are figuring out what they need to do.Here in RP Transition Rogers Park conducted a visioning exercise in which the participants described a future RP in an energy constrained world. Five key areas were identified; Community, Transportation, Local Commerce, Reskilling and Food. Stay

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Modern living room furniture

Author: jamiehanson

In your home, the first place that one notices is your living room. Mostly, your guests are the ones to who look at your living room and guess your lifestyle and your personality. The collection of modern living room furniture reflects your taste and choice thereby creating an everlasting impression on the minds of your guests. You need to devote some time to give the true reflection of your elegant persona. You really need to think hard and choose the best and modern living room furniture to enhance your personality. You secretly impress your guests by arranging latest and modern living room furniture in your living room in a perfect way. It is quite simple to choose modern living room furniture as there are various furniture stores exclusively meant for modern collection of living room furniture. It depends on a person's unique choice and creativity to select modern living room furniture. But if you want elegance in your living room, you need to give some time and effort to know the latest trend in the market and then purchase what suits your style and budget. Now that you want modern living room furniture, you will of course choose some wooden stuff or lavish leather collection. Actually the modern look is emphasized by use of elegant wooden furniture or rich leather furniture.

A leather sofa set adds modernity to any living room. Sofa set is the center of attraction in living rooms, so it needs to be exclusive and sophisticated. You will find a variety of colors available in sofa sets like black, brown, deep colors of red etc. Black and brown sofa sets are often chosen by most of the homemakers as it reflects sophistication that blends with general look of your home. You can also choose brighter shades like green, yellow or red if you have designer collection in brighter shades. To add style and grace you can choose red, black or brown recliners made of leather that adds luxuriousness to your living room. Now take care of the arrangement to give a perfect modern look to your living room. The largest sofa among the five, i.e the three seater sofa should be positioned along the wall which is longest.

If you have a lavish living room you can place your modern living room so that you have free passage for entry and exit. You can arrange the other two pieces of your modern sofa set by placing it on either side or one side of the main sofa, whatever is comfortable to you. You can further use a center table to make you feel comfortable while you are watching TV in your living room. Use this center table for refreshments like coffee or some snacks to freshen you up after the days work. Center tables with glass top look most elegant and you get a wide variety to choose from. Your latest collection includes glass-top center table with chrome plated frames. This will definitely speak volumes of modernity in your lifestyle.

The stand-alone leather recliner can occupy the corner of your living room, children love to relax on recliners as it is more comfortable as compared to any other side seater. No doubt, you will have to spend a good amount while purchasing modern living room furniture, but if you want something good you need to spend lavishly. You will definitely have an exceptionally modern living room that will please your guests and family. Be a proud host and invite your guests confidently as you know your modern living room has all that you expected.

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

An Inconvenient Talk

From Canada's The Walrus an assessment of a talk being given by Dave Hughes regarding Peak Oil. Read it....and note this:Two weeks after you ride along with Dave Hughes for Talk No. 155, though, the IEA releases the latest edition of its annual World Energy Outlook, which predicts a global oil production peak or plateau by 2030. In a video that appears online soon after, the Guardian’s George

Coal's Limits

An article describing the limits on the availability of coal published in The Daily Green. It's easy to suggest coal is going to save us all in the end, but if the coal is not reachable or otherwise economically non-viable we won't be mining it.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Mailboxandbeyond, the right place to find Mailbox


Browsing the site and get a chat with friend make us find some valuable thing especially on home and garden accessories. That was happening with me. I hope you have a same situation. My home and my garden was a new world for the whole my entire family.

A Couple of months ago I am visiting mailboxandbeyond.com on the Net. My best friend told me about the site. And I want to prove it. Have you heard about the site? I think mailboxandbeyond was the right places for us to buying some garden accessories and accent. Accessories you might need like house numbers, mailbox and others.

They have widest selections of home accent and home decor. From mailboxes, address plaques and personalized decor. They are the licensed and authorized dealers for Whitehall Products, Salsbury Industries, Architectural Mailboxes, Qualarc, Mayne and Montague Metal. They have collections like mailboxes and posts, address plaques and signs, doormats, bird feeders, door bells and much more. You can get many choices from there.

No matter if us as an individual or commercial, they say customers is valuable! Get free shipping for every address plaques you buy, as a limited time offer.

Choosing a mailbox needs some ideas from the expert. Your house will get better, more attractive and stylish. Meet their customer service and feel the best service you will get.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Laundry Bags: Personalized Gift for Your Beloved Ones

Having a child is a very exiting experience in our lives. You must be love them aren’t you?

Yes, child makes our lives more valuable, with their laugh, smile, cry and other thing they have done for you.

These days, when you are looking for the right place to give a gift for your beloved ones not very difficult. Internet gives us all. But do not go to place where you will confuse, find some place where they had a reputation to sold a gift.


There is a place I knew for purchase some bags or gift for the kids, like personalized kid's backpacks, laundry bags, baby memory books. Posylane.com was one of the best, they are the best dealers of bags and gift products. They doing this business for years and have good reputation among the public.


Take a look for the image from the posylane, I hope you interest.

Posylane is one of th
e best places for you to purchase something special and useful for your beloved one. Visit the site, and tell me what you think of it.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Was It Ethical?

From The Nation an article regarding the effort of former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe to buy off Ralph Nader. McAuliffe does not deny the charge, and because Nader was not an elected official it was not illegal. This revelation comes from Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two Party Tyranny. Regardless of what you believe regarding our two party system, you must ask yourself if this

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Dr. Tiller and Late Term Abortions

We are all aware of the murder of Dr. Tiller, who ran a clinic that performed late term abortions in Kansas, one of only 3 in the country. His death is one more example of how extremist thinking can lead to dangerous behavior. There are those who, while saying they abhor this murder, will be hoping that his clinic will now close. They assume, like most of us, to know why women have late term

Earth 2100: The Final Century

Tonight, at 8 PM CT ABC will broadcast Earth 2100: The Final Century. From the link:Experts have a stark warning: that unless we change course, the "perfect storm" of population growth, dwindling resources and climate change has the potential to converge in the next century with catastrophic results. Watch "Earth 2100," a two-hour television event, Tuesday, June 2, at 9 p.m. ET. In order to plan

Monday, June 1, 2009

Death of a Prophet

Thomas Berry died today. If you read Dream of the Earth and The Great Work you will be exposed to his fundamental beliefs. Prophets are not recognized by their own people, and there are many who would consign Father Berry to the dust heap of history as just another New Age noisemaker. He was neither.I knew he was quite elderly, and I know some of his friends who will sorely miss him.