Comments litesong has made

  • Bush or ? EPA......

    The Bush EPA doesn't care if they must 'protect' the environment now. The costs will be borne by the next (democratic?) administration. So the historical legacy of the Bush administration will look like it was 'efficient', while the next administration (democratic?) will be strapped with the costs & will look 'inefficient'. Yeah, the republicans have been skating on their 'efficient' administrations for decades.    On U.S. EPA to tighten standard for airborne lead posted 1 year, 6 months ago 8 Responses

  • Narwhals

    Never knew what a narwhal was till my wife painted, in her mythical way, narwhals swimming among waterbabies. Yes, these are paintings, but they sure look cute to me.  On Narwhals more at risk than polar bears, says study posted 1 year, 7 months ago 4 Responses

  • Depth & Light

    Strangely, it is often hard to gain great depths in visual & aural stories. But let the many edged stories of nature be told in this film series. As optics capture the surface reflections of flora & fauna, let sound shed light below the surface of  untold stories that have the complexity of life.On Walt Disney Co. gets into nature posted 1 year, 7 months ago 8 Responses

  • Governor Gregoire knows

    Governor Gregoire signed the toxic toy bill, making Washington State the leader in stopping deadly toys. No big deal. Other states must step forward too. On Washington governor may veto bill restricting toxins in toys posted 1 year, 7 months ago 3 Responses

  • Bright bag

    jabailo...Not liberal, but environmental! You should live near a garbage site & see, close-up & personal, the devastation we consumers visit on the planet. Out-of-sight & out-of-mind describes people's attitude to pollution...& then people don't want to be charged for the pollution? Jabailo, don't you care?

     On Seattle mayor proposes fee for paper and plastic bags posted 1 year, 7 months ago 3 Responses

  • Test-tube stuff

    As a lover of a good rib-steak, I MIGHT be persuaded to try some test-tube stuff. Wolverines often have to eat what doesn't taste good to survive. But Wolverine's suggestion that I pay $20 for a test-tube restaurant steak or $6 for a Safeway test-tube steak that doesn't taste good...

    I'll let Wolverine pay for my test-tube steak. I'll eat what's in the test-tube & he can eat the test-tube. We'll find out what is necessary.     On Meat of the future may be grown in a lab posted 1 year, 7 months ago 14 Responses

  • Indigenous tribes & sportspersons

    Indigenous tribes need their lands secured from the ravages & rapid changes GHGs are causing to the climate. But sportspeople get first hearing since they are citizens & tribes still have the hanging perception of being 'conquered peoples'. Sounds like Rowan would like to put sportspeople on the backburner with tribes, tho game & fishing revenues have done most to protect animals & lands.    On Hunting and fishing groups worried about climate change's effects on wildlife posted 1 year, 7 months ago 2 Responses

  • My Wilderness Sky

    Hiked lots of the Wilderness Sky. There is lots of up & down. Six thousand foot Mt. Baring has Lake Barkley at its verticle bottom at the 2500 foot elevation. Most certainly Baring needs protection as similarly vaulted Mt. Index has in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. & there is no majesty to take away from the craggy heights of Gunn & Merchant Peaks & Ragged Ridge. Logging those steep regions would have to break the first laws of forest conservation. Surely, Troublesome & Silver Creek areas have abundant reasons for protection too. My friend Bill hiked Evergreen Mtn & Johnson Ridge & would concur on those slopes & vales. May the House & President Bush see the value of this region's protection.     On Washington wilderness bill finally moving ahead posted 1 year, 7 months ago 2 Responses

  • hot snow

    Yes, it's snowing in Seattle...at 40+ degrees. Close to the hottest snow I've ever seen come down. On U.S. West warming faster than the rest of the planet, says analysis posted 1 year, 8 months ago 9 Responses

  • Skeptics

    Global warming skeptics are affecting decisions. But that is OK. Stick to your vision California, & let EVs lead the way. Someday, technology will see ICE come to an end & HEVs shortly thereafter.   On Fewer zero-emission vehicles will be required on California roads by 2014 posted 1 year, 8 months ago 7 Responses

  • Native people's war

    Whether you use the term 'native people' or not, the Indian Wars continue. $22 worth of beads bought Manhattan Island. Coal companies now have to shell out jobs (of which Navajos won't get any good jobs) & $50 million to get 'native peoples' to sign over their rights to clean health since they will have to live (& die) within the sight of the coal plant. But since the American gov't destroyed native people & their cultures & assigned the few remaining to 'unconcentration camps' with little sustenance, the natives may not think they are signing away as much health as 'normal America' would be giving up. Yes, the Navajo coal projects are a true measure of America's uncaring & 'out of sight' disregard for their native peoples who now languish in the Third & Fourth worlds, despite being inside the borders of America.       On Navajo Nation will develop wind-power project posted 1 year, 8 months ago 3 Responses

  • Right On winstongirl

    So much of America is fast talking con. Advertising Agencies talk green faster than the true believers, because the true believers have to research what true green is. But the AAs don't have to know what true green is...just how to make their words sound greener to the public so they can divert green dollars to themselves.   On Americans want to spend on green, but can't figure out how, says study posted 1 year, 8 months ago 4 Responses

  • Governor Gregoire knows

    My governor Christine Gregoire knows what she is doing. She was Ecology director & Attorney General repeatedly before becoming governor & works harder than anyone else. Just because she listens to everyone doesn't mean she will be manipulated. She will come to proper decisions.   On Washington governor may veto bill restricting toxins in toys posted 1 year, 8 months ago 3 Responses

  • Greenland soot: 1850-1950

    Go to Green Car Congress August 7, 2007 for Joseph McConnell & Ross Edwards studies on soots emitted by N. American industries that fell on Greenland between 1850 & 1950 & peaking in 1910. Ice core studies concentrating on vanillic acid & sulfur showed that man-made soots were 8 times more effective in warming & removing Greenland ices than 'natural' forest fires. On Soot pollution a big contributor to climate change, study finds posted 1 year, 8 months ago 5 Responses

  • Horses vs. cars

    Wolverine...My 1 sentence out of 2 paragraphs that I wrote visited me with your derisive terms of kidding, clueless, waste, ridiculous garbage, & absurdity. Then you wrongly report my sentence.

    If my 42 to 75 MPG vehicles that I drove for 28 years, my present espousal for renewable energy sources & tiny electric cars & bikes, & the child I never had, do not qualify me for your world vision of severe population reduction & Vows of Poverty...then I am happy you cannot hammer the planet Earth into your dream.    On Electric cars could impact water supplies, says analysis posted 1 year, 8 months ago 18 Responses

  • Horses vs. cars

    Extraordinary problems with feeding horses, horse emissions & their attendant problems of filth, flies, disease, horse-drawn road accidents, increased falls & deaths of horses on the 'new-fangled' paved streets, accelerated 'natural' deaths of horses in NYC by 1900, made the advent of the powered car an actual ecological savior to cities. One hundred seventy five thousand horses were dumping 4 million pounds of manure & 40,000 gallons of urine on NYC streets...per day. Flies with their diseases loved NYC. Rainy weather turned NYC into manure & urine swamps, dry weather turned manure into dust that citizens continually breathed. Sweeping the streets overwhelmed sanitation crews & manure piles 40 to 60 feet high developed INSIDE NYC. Yes, this & much more was visited upon NYC with fewer than 4 times fewer horses than present day cars. There would be no way horses(which would number in millions) could do what present day sub-million cars do in NYC.

    It good that you didn't waste time rebutting my statement, because the horses would have rebutted you with their waste.    On Electric cars could impact water supplies, says analysis posted 1 year, 8 months ago 18 Responses

  • salmon slurping

    Don't much care for sea lions' habit(which would make him a great human being), of taking one chomp out of a salmon, then going on to another salmon...to take one chomp...then on to another salmon...to take one chomp. Even I, as a human being, clean my plate.On State officials given OK to kill sea lions to protect salmon posted 1 year, 8 months ago 8 Responses

  • Sabre tooth

    At an eastern Oregon museum of pre-historic life, both human & wild, it was stated that in the present feline gene pool the DNA was available to bring back the sabre tooth tiger that was located in the area. Meeting a Bengal tiger or pre-historic sabre tooth tiger on a camping trip gives real meaning to the term 'its a small world'.    On World's tiger population unwell, WWF says posted 1 year, 8 months ago 20 Responses

  • Technology is the problem?

    If tech is the problem, humans are extinct already. Yes, our glutenous tech & ways have marked us for extinction. But if a change of heart in favor of efficient mass transit, efficient power production, smaller & proper food diets, tidy homes(apts) & personal craft(electric bicycles & quite a few sub-ton electric vehicles), & loving people & the earth without resorting to exclusive farming & hunter-gatherer societies still dooms us, we should step into our graves now.

    Ecologically, having a tiny efficient highway vehicle is better than having a horse or two. I bet, that if people gather a true ecological caring for the planet, instead of a 'my big car is faster than your small car' attitude, then we will cultivate our own physical salvation.   On Electric cars could impact water supplies, says analysis posted 1 year, 8 months ago 18 Responses

  • Using less

    People don't want to use less. They don't even want others to use less. Tho my small cars for 27 years got 42 to 45MPG, I was often chastised for being a penny pincher & didn't I know that I was unsafe too. These unsafe remarks 15 years ago, came from people that didn't wear seatbelts & didn't like the 'idiotic' airbags.

    Don't worry. GW skeptics want the arctic ices to melt, so 'shipping lanes will be short between the northern trading countries'.   On Arctic losing older, thicker sea ice despite cooler temps this winter posted 1 year, 8 months ago 2 Responses

  • Research libraries & science

    The Bush administration strictly curtailed most all DOE science research programs throughout its life. There is one research program that Pres. Bush forced the DOE to pursue with a 41% leap in funding in the last year of the Bush administration! It is a coal research initiative. Who will benefit most from this DOE one-only-science-supporting-Bush-administration move? With the Chinese ready to build 1000(!!!!) coal-fired powerplants in China, the U.S. DOE will support strongly Chinese efforts to this end.
    Yes, the Bush administration hates science. But Pres. Bush knows how to use science to set himself up for his years after his presidency.     On EPA closure of research libraries was a stupid idea, says GAO posted 1 year, 8 months ago 3 Responses

  • Ready to Roan

    Hi Manhattan Declaration...The public ALREADY owns the plateau. But the public is NOT being able to manage the plateau as the public desires since 98% of all public input has stated there should be no drilling on the plateau. If the plateau had been meant for development, the Department of Energy would NOT have had its control of the plateau placed in the hands of the BLM by an Act of Congress in 1997 under a Democratic adminstration. It has taken all these years for the Republican Bush adminstration in the face of such development opposition to manipulate the BLM to the point of developing the plateau. Now in the waning days of the Bush rule, push politics is telling the public to stuff it.

    Now Manhattan Declaration...stuff your money ideas. The land is the public's to operate as the public desires. An Act of Congress took the plateau away from DOE. The end of the Bush administration will return the Roan plateau to the public once & for all.        On BLM plows ahead with drilling plans in Colorado posted 1 year, 8 months ago 5 Responses

  • Amazon Disgrace

    Peru's auction of rain forest parcels for gas & oil explorations is squeezed between 1 comment on illegal logging & another comment connecting Peruvian murder & illegal logging. Does this article mean to say the auctions are illegal despite Peru placing its stamp of approval on the procedures?   On Peruvian Amazon under threat from oil exploration, illegal logging posted 1 year, 8 months ago 1 Response