Well at least our temperatures got a little warmer this weekend. I ended my week visiting the annual Art a la Carte celebration, which included an interesting display of edible art, pottery making and a peace sculpture. I took a pass this year on the "make your own fish print t-shirt" which involves making a print of your very own taking an imprint of the corpse of a hand painted fish.
Saturday, I attended the annual League of Women Voters meeting and heard Northfield City Administrator Al Roder talk about space and facility needs in Northfield. Later that morning I visited the middle school and saw a great quilt show, displaying the wares of local quilt makers and then joined parents and kids for 'YMCA Healthy kids day.'
In the afternoon I tried to join in on the Human Earth project at Carleton's Laird Stadium but arrived just as they were breaking up. Later I heard about another Global Warming awareness event that sounded fun – the StepitUp Bike Rally.
There was a big event at the Capitol Saturday afternoon but I decided to spend my day in Northfield. We are likely to take up the Global Warming issue this week on the floor when the Energy and Environment Bill comes up for debate. I have been getting e-mails and letters about this issue. Many citizens are concerned about it. It came up in discussion at the Chamber of Commerce forum on Friday as well.
Someone sent me the link to the Intergovernmental Policy on Climate Change website, you might be interested in reading some of the information there including a summary of their report.
Another website called Culture Change had a number of different articles including this one the Hydrogen Economy:
The Hydrogen Economy: Energy and Economic Black Hole
by Alice Friedemann
Editor's note: Wonder why you're hearing much more about biofuels
than hydrogen fuel these days? It's because the "Hydrogen Economy"
has been found to be unrealistic. It so happens our author has been
a main factor in sinking the technofix illusion of hydrogen. This
report was first published on Culture Change in an earlier form two
years ago. Once revised, it appeared in various publications and
helped to burst the hydrogen bubble as promoted by George W. Bush,
Jeremy Rifkin and Arnold Schwartzenegger.
[To read this article, go to Culture Change]