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Let's Go! 2009 Whistler World Cup Events To Showcase the 2010 Winter Games Athletes, Venues & Excitement

The holiday season is a time when unsatisfied humans want to escape their families, responsibilities, and those pernicious heads filled with too many conflicting thoughts.

These less-than-satisfied-humans, naturally, desire to head for anywhere but here.

Anywhere where there's excitement and beauty.

I hear the hush of snowfall.

I smell crisp air.

I see the forest.

And anticipation is building.

I've got an idea. Let's head to Whister. Maybe I'll put together a clean air tour package and faithful readers and I can get out of here and go, Go, GO!

Whistler is not only one of the most sustainable ski resorts on earth and the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, it's now the affordable choice for Winter 2009.

The 2009 World Cup events will showcase the 2010 Winter Games athletes, venues, and energetic excitement.

Nine events will happen at Whistler's Olympic Park, Creekside and the Sliding Centre - from January to March 2009.

The Evo

Years ago, I dated a young Bulgarian with rich dark hair who enjoyed eating bananas and his name was Ivo. So naturally my interest piqued when I received a comment this morning on Chasing Clean Air referencing Evo.

Ivo, Evo, it's all foreign to me.

So I did an Evo wiki search, and learned Evos were cars first introduced in Japan, then Europe, and America in 2003.

What this strange person wrote--in a good way I suppose, for his was a creative comment--while signing my name, not his own, was the following...

Would your interest have been piqued or pissed?

"Well the trip from your house to mine just wasn’ t enough to get a good feel for the new suspension and I could hardly wait to return home from a business trip and give the Evo another run. After a week, I finally made it back and was ready to test out the new suspension. But, fist things first, an alignment was needed. So, I took the Evo by Hubcap Heaven, where they have some of the latest equipment for performing alignments. They set the car up nicely with a degree of negative camber on both sides, front..."

Riveting. Do tell what happens next? Is Ivo in the Evo? 

 

Yes Man

Loved this movie, which I saw tonight in Century City where stores stayed open but not so many people were around. The movie was pretty sparsely populated, as well.

Yes Man was uplifting with a positive message. Reminded me of what I lived this summer, continually saying yes to go beyond my comfort zone kind of like Yes Man. Though no one does Yes! quite like Jim Carrey.

EPA Puts Out Red Carpet For New Coal Plants: Complete Disregard To Global Warming

Coal is not clean energy. It's dirty and contributes to climate change in big way. To go toward clean air and a cooler planet, leadership is what we need. So why the EPA exists to harm our environment is beyond me. The current EPA head Stephen Johnson will go down in history as our world's worst environmental leader. He leads in disaster preparedness, as in preparing us for inevitable disaster. Thursday, the EPA decided CO2 and other greenhouse gases (climate change creators) can't be considered when planning new coal-fired power plants.


  To read NY Times take on the story, click here.

Holiday Spirit Goes For Walk at Beach & By Chance We Discussed...

I'm totally in the holiday spirit, offering to shop for friends who don't want to shop, which brought me smack back into Talbot's. I love that store. So I bought several shirts, velvet pants and jacket, and then I walked on the beach with my old friend Jerry.

Jerry is the most eclectic guy on earth, and hence creative, which makes him a gem as a walking partner. We used to walk and talk at The Sports Club L.A., which, besides being akin to athletic gym gold as in $$$, it is pretentious, which is one reason we are not there.

Today, Jerry and I found ourselves talking about outrageous things people do for real estate. Like a man staying with a woman he's not in love with. Like a son black-mailing his mother for her real-estate and if she doesn't acquiesce, no more grandchildren. And we hear of all those foreclosures!

What happened to values and being good, respecting each other, and respecting living within limits?

Back in the day.

The day when Indians roamed America with free abandon, a bow and arrow for food, and a kind heart that revered nature, back then Native American Indians used what they needed and lent the rest. The term Indian-giver came when the white men came to America and offered the Native Indians something like $25 for Manhattan. The Indians, with a kinder culture and gentler heart, said, "No problem." But later when the Natives needed the land back and asked for it, which was part of their "giving" culture, the Americans said, Screw you and shot their guns, instead. The war for America and real estate was on. 

As I was saying, I holiday shopped today, and walked and talked about things people do for real estate--lie, steal, and murder. Tra-la-la.  Maybe we should worry less about owning a home, and living in a home, and think more about how we can be kind to each other.

Decency.

Integrity.

Compassion. 

Merry Christmas. Happy Chanukah.

May your heart and thoughts be aligned in the right place.

For all.

Myself, I decided to adopt a grandma. I put out the word. And learned of 2 holocaust survivors who could use some help. 

China's BYD Ahead of the Clean Car Curve

Just when China thought it couldn't take another blow being called the newest and biggest CO2 spoiler in the world, building too many coal-power plants, this week China's BYD Co. announced the word's first mass-produced plug-in electric vehicle.

Warren Buffett is one of BYD's investors.

Getting 62 miles on one charge, BYD is currently ahead of GM and Toyota's plug-in electric clean car curve.

Like anything new, they're still working on building recharging facilities fast enough but they're coming, too. 

In order to get clean air, we (China, America, The World) need to stop with coal, and keep clean cars and renewable energy coming.