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  Just recently began substituting canned (well, really "foil-enveloped") salmon in my favorite tuna salad recipe. With a teaspoon of lemon juice added even the most discerning palates have not been able to taste the difference. The two things that frighten me about tuna are: 1). The few test results I have seen show a very wide range of mercury levels between individual cans of tuna. 2). In spite of the dangers of mercury in tuna, the government does not do periodic testing of tuna. That just seems odd. Wouldn't they want to isolate the highest-mercury tuna BEFORE it gets into the food supply?On To change your tuna, consider the sardine posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago 7 Responses

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  Germany and Spain allow nice allowances for those that produce the power at home. For example, the price paid for residences in grid-tie solar systems is $.60 per KWH in Germany ("Solar is only economic for installation on rooftops because of the feed-in tariffs for solar electricity of 60 cents per kWh".  http://www.edn.com/article/CA6432171.html )

  Note that Germany is doing this even though solar is much less efficient there.  Germany is located at ~ 51' N latitude . For reference, Great Falls, MT is at ~ 47' N Latitude.

  If the US tariffed-in rates were set at even $.38 per KWH, solar would be a no-brainer investment for majority of homes in the US and coal and natural gas generation would die a natural death with no power infrastructure upgrade needed.

  As a side note, the price of natural gas sets the world price for Ammonium nitrate - a product which uses natural gas as a major catalyst  to produce. Therefore the price of Natural Gas has a great impact on the cost of food for most of the world. ( http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/2003/4-14-2003/natgasn.html ).

  That is to say:  the  electricity we use that is generated by natural gas, increases the price we pay for food-stuffs here and in the rest of the world.

   

   

   

  On Home power plants project unveiled in Germany posted 2 months, 1 week ago 3 Responses

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  Me too. Outta' here.

  On Will Glenn Beck bring down Van Jones after all? posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago 47 Responses

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  I am with you, and headed to the car.

  On Will Glenn Beck bring down Van Jones after all? posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago 47 Responses

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  Two thoughts:

  One, on the above basis, all food stores other than local farmer's markets should be boycotted. Just because they dare not express a political view in opposition to the current overlords in Washington does not make them not-guilty -- or does it?. We should especially not consume other than locally grown "java".

  Two, if you have been a member of a major union, you know that union bosses and corporate overlords are the same thing. If you have had a union pension or health care plan, you learn much about the definition of the phrase "robber barons". 

  I love the idealism, but I just have to live in a world where I cannot yet grow all of my own food and work outside the financial system. Though if you do, I wish you the best and view your life with much envy.

  On Boycotting Whole Foods won’t help posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 27 Responses