tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30919268.post6106532333381890806..comments2022-03-25T06:22:40.776-05:00Comments on exercising my rights and eatin' my power pills: Plan B, Chapter 9 HighlightsEmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09152242140864444434noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30919268.post-23915111200635128162011-02-23T07:59:20.529-06:002011-02-23T07:59:20.529-06:00Thanks for your comments, Kimberly! The longer, th...Thanks for your comments, Kimberly! The longer, the better. I'm excited for electric cars to get big. Of course, I think like Evan and recognize that public transportation and living much closer to everything (like in a city) is more energy-efficient in a lot of ways. Some day, my friend, some day. One more blogpost about Brown and then it's on to the next book. :-)Emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09152242140864444434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30919268.post-24995811037098078862011-02-22T21:28:33.104-06:002011-02-22T21:28:33.104-06:00Great informative post - thanks! I think GMO'...Great informative post - thanks! I think GMO's might not be so bad, but GMO companies suing other farmers when the GMO plants pollinate someone else's plants - and winning the lawsuit - is kind of ridiculous. Definitely on the reducing meat consumption - I'm taking a page from John on that - he's weekday vegetarian, I'm trying to reduce my meat consumption to a pound a week, and watching cheese and eggs too, though not as strictly. Though I thought that wild-caught Pacific salmon were sustainable because of the regulations on fishing them. Atlantic salmon is totally overfished - I won't buy salmon unless I know it's Pacific. But tilapia is my favorite fish, so yay for that :-) In reducing meat consumption, I've rediscovered beans - overall more filling for me than grains, and more protein too. (Not all amino acids, but if you don't give up animal products entirely, that's not as much of an issue). I think local farming is good - I'd have to drive whether to farmer's market or grocery store, so no increase in CO2 there, and decrease with stuff transported shorter distance - and I can buy grass-fed meat, which is better for the animals, the environment, and me. I don't do farmer's market exclusively - though I try really hard for chicken and beef - but I do like to support small farmers - for the sense of community as well as the ecological reasons. Ethanol to fuel cars is a bad idea - takes more oil for growing and harvesting the corn - not a solution at all - would be better off focusing on electric cars for short distances and hydrogen fuel cells for long distances - even using electricity to produce hydrogen would be better than internal combustion engines because power plants are more efficient than cars - and could work it out to charge fuel cells during non-peak hours. This is more of an extra post than a comment. That's what happens when you have an interesting post and I'm tired and have been drinking - whee grapefruit screwdriver :-)Kimberlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11413564891982532582noreply@blogger.com