Chasing Clean Air

September is National Preparedness Month

So that means earthquake and fire preparedness in Southern California. I learned about two solar-powered American Cross products that should be in our emergency "kit". Clipray is a solar-powered emergency flashlight that clips onto our belt-loop or back-back.

David Suzuki's New Movie: Force of Nature

David Suzuki has a new movie coming out called Force of Nature.

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James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey Photographs World's Melting Glaciers

Wow, James Balog has no fear! A 21st century hero, who scaled glaciers in the frigid cold, throughout the world in order to photograph ice melt over time and bring home the visual message... climate change impacts are real.

Fleeing Smog, Fleeing Pesticides, Where WILL They Go Next?

I met a lovely young couple who fled Southern California's smog for clean air near Red Bluff, California.

A safe place to raise their babies.

But look at their baby's play station near...

Why is the man sitting on the Driscoll Farms tractor completely covered in a white outfit that from a distance looks like a space suit, with a trail of white "dust" entering the air as he works on the strawberry field?

Book Review: Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand

The Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand distorts nuclear and bio-engineering truths to argue that we need these (toxic) industries to stave off climate change and the depletion of natural resources.

I think Mr. Brand's book should be called The Whole Earth Distortion.

We do not need nuclear.

We do not need bioengineered food.

We need the truth.

The increasing number of white men in suits and Levis, praising dangerous thinking based on faulty, lazy, or selfish reasons--concerns me.

I suspect Mr. Brand, and his friends who wrote glowing book blurbs, may have hands in the nuclear and bio-engineering cookie jar.

The New Yorker's "The Uranium Widows" Explores Costs Of America's Reentry Into Nuclear Power

Earlier this year, President Obama approved over eight billion dollars in conditional loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear reactors.

I'm against nuclear power.

Obama had "bad" advising going on. Better would've been to create a renewable energy grid and get going on the creation and storage of solar and wind energy. Get the smartest minds in the world involved. Create worthwhile jobs that support the environment and humans, rather than harm both.

We sent a man to the moon.

Harnessing the sun and wind for energy should be a piece of cake.

But now. In former industry centers like southwestern Colorado, where a company called Energy Fuels arrived in 2007 with plans to build America's first new uranium mill in almost thirty years, the response in the Paradox region of southwestern Colorado, where once uranium miners dropped dead from high rates of cancer, has been surprisingly positive due to jobs.

The sound of money is drowning out the memory of cancer (and contaminated land) victims. So many known and unknown people have died mining uranium.

Areas where locals once mined for uranium are still radioactive and off-limits.