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Post by javelina on May 3, 2005 1:28:46 GMT -5
Nice venue. Good Morning to you; Good Night to me.
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May 4, 2005 12:50:41 GMT -5
Post by CuBiCLe on May 4, 2005 12:50:41 GMT -5
The General Board Moderator greets you. I guess you don't know me. Allow me to introduce myself: Dimitris Hall, Sir halva's son. Dad gave me the control of the General Board given I'm not that knowledgable in the other topics of discussion. I compensate for that with knowing a few things about how stuff on the 'net works though, so I could be of help. We could use this thread for introducing ourselves.
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May 4, 2005 17:36:00 GMT -5
Post by Wayne Hall on May 4, 2005 17:36:00 GMT -5
Pardon me for modifying the above.
I made some mistakes in setting up the boards, but they should be visible to everyone now, so we can all post in the appropriate sections.
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May 4, 2005 21:37:58 GMT -5
Post by javelina on May 4, 2005 21:37:58 GMT -5
Hello Dimitris.
Be assured that your Web-based knowledge will be a very valuable commodity here - heh heh.
I'm currently living in the American southwest at 7,000 feet above sea level. What is your altitude?
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Post by Wayne Hall on May 5, 2005 5:22:23 GMT -5
I would like to make the suggestion that the General Board be renamed New Generation and that we open it to members of the new generation who want to know about what is being done to this planet we are supposed to be bequeathing to them.
Not in a way that induces despair. In a way that encourages hope.
I don't think that it is necessary to dispense false information in order to be able to hope, and encourage others to hope.
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May 9, 2005 16:10:28 GMT -5
Post by CuBiCLe on May 9, 2005 16:10:28 GMT -5
Hello Dimitris.
Be assured that your Web-based knowledge will be a very valuable commodity here - heh heh.
I'm currently living in the American southwest at 7,000 feet above sea level. What is your altitude? Thank you.. Well, I'm not sure, but I think I am at about 300 feet (100 meters) above sea level. I live in a suburb called Nea Smyrni, not far from halva's place. Nea Smyrni (with Nea meaning "new" in greek) was a town created by all the greek refugees fleeing from Izmir, Asia Minor (smyrni... izmir... sound similar, eh?), after the Holocaust in 1922. While it was a very small "village" when it was founded, now it's one of the larger suburbs, numbering around 120,000 inhabitants.
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May 11, 2005 22:59:39 GMT -5
Post by javelina on May 11, 2005 22:59:39 GMT -5
I scoped out the altitude of Nea Smyrni and it seems that you are 150 feet above sea level. I also see that you are probably very close to the coastline - are you? Do you enjoy being near the water?
I'm curious about what has become of the infrastructure that was built for the 2004 Olympic Games. Has it been taken down or is it being used now for another purpose?
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May 11, 2005 23:10:14 GMT -5
Post by javelina on May 11, 2005 23:10:14 GMT -5
Here is a satellite view of where I live:earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10874The City of Flagstaff (pop. 59,000) is in the lower right-hand corner of this image. To the north you can see how the terrain changes as it approaches the Grand Canyon region. The green areas on The Peaks are forests of Ponderosa pine trees. Note that the tree line ends at around 10,000 feet.
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May 13, 2005 10:20:46 GMT -5
Post by swampgas on May 13, 2005 10:20:46 GMT -5
Hi All, Will look forward to all the Geo-Engineering info to keep us one step ahead of the nuts in power.
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May 14, 2005 0:28:09 GMT -5
Post by javelina on May 14, 2005 0:28:09 GMT -5
Howdy, swampgas. Nice to see somebody from the East Coast!
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Aug 20, 2005 9:49:10 GMT -5
Post by halva on Aug 20, 2005 9:49:10 GMT -5
WMM (or anyone else)....
Have you any comments on the e-mail I sent you on Mayor Mourtzis??
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Sept 8, 2005 0:40:13 GMT -5
Post by backstop on Sept 8, 2005 0:40:13 GMT -5
Hello all.
I'm new here, and feel grateful to be invited.
For the record, I'm based on a farm (at about 1,000 ft) in the foothills of the Cambrian Mountains. Its on the eastern border of Wales, which is now just part of the larger of the islands off NW Europe - (since about 700BC the rest has been overrun with sundry Celts, Romans, Saxons, Normans, etc).
In terms of my cultural heritage . . . maybe it's simplest to observe that no artifacts of slavery have been excavated on this island pre-dating the Celtic invasion, though we'd been working bronze for around 1500 yrs before that time.
In addressing the various intensifying and compounding problems society now faces, two things seem to me prerequisite.
First, that the conventional strategies of opposition to the status quo need to recognized as having failed dismally over the last 30 years, and have, to an extent, become an established part of the problem.
Second, not simply the acceleration but the interaction of the major problems demands recognition of the need for integrated solutions. This maybe needs illustration . . .
Imagine you're running a family farm in India, and are facing the widespread problem of a falling water table. You know of several suicides over this issue, but you press on and go further into debt to buy both a bigger diesel pump to raise water from the declining aquifer (to irrigate the cash crops you're hooked into growing), and also more fertilizer to raise yields to try to keep on top of the debt. Then the deisel prices start going wild . . .
This vicious cycle, that originated with the agronomists' "green revolution" establishing IIIW rural oil dependence, generates hits on the soil, the air, the oil supply and the aquifer. As well as on the people . . .
Any of these hits can, with outside help, be addressed individually to give an illusion of mitigating the problem - in fact the farmer has to end fossil fuel dependence and usurious debt to have a hope of surviving.
Achieving global agreement on getting beyond fossil fuels, in a manner that encompasses the demands of peak oil and the debt-tribute, is the area in which I hope to be able to contribute and so return Wayne's kindness in inviting my participation here.
regards,
Backstop
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Sept 11, 2005 6:49:47 GMT -5
Post by Wayne Hall on Sept 11, 2005 6:49:47 GMT -5
Hi Backstop, Welcome on board. Sorry there's not more going on here at the forum. We go through phases and, who knows, there may be a new burst of discussion sometime soon. While we're waiting on it, any comment on this text our man in Budapest in July Gerassimos Sklavounos distributed at the Carfree Network meeting there? “Peak Oil”, a concept that was considered marginal even a year or two ago, is on the way towards general acceptance. 2005 is seen by many as the year of the world’s production peak, after which oil production will begin to decline by 3-6% annually.
As oil production falls off, demand for oil will continue to rise, above all in rapidly ‘developing’ countries such as India and China. This means that demand is set ever more to outstrip supply. Oil prices will reach unimaginable heights.
Mainstream institutions such as banks and international corporations are beginning to pay attention to these new facts. The American oil company Chevron has taken out full-page newspaper advertisements announcing that ‘the end of easy oil is over’.
The journalist Dale-Allen Pfeiffer has made the following comment about the new ‘respectability’ of Peak Oil theories: ‘That.. prestigious … institutions are making any statement even hinting at peak oil is nothing short of a miracle. Global energy depletion and its implications for modern civilization flies in the face of their most cherished pet economic theories. That they are talking about it at all means that they can no longer ignore it. Now they will try to manage the problem so as to provide themselves with the greatest profits. ….. Their actions will likely exacerbate the discrepancy between supply and demand along with the ensuing economic depression, while making it more difficult for the general public to prepare for the post-peak world. And amid all the confusion and obfuscation, it will probably appear to much of the public that this whole crisis was produced through the contrivance of the oil companies and other entrepreneurs.’
The international movement against ‘neo-liberal globalism’ has in the past paid insufficient attention to the aspect of the world’s developing socio-economic and environmental crisis concealed behind the slogan of Peak Oil. An exception to this was at the Boston Social Forum in the summer of 2004, where Peak Oil was grouped together with Climate Change on the Forum programme.
www.bostonsocialforum.org/tracks/womens/environmentClimate.html
Skyrocketing oil prices will increasingly lead to situations in which, apart from all the other disadvantages of the car-centred society noted in the past, car ownership is destined to become a cruel trap even for motorists themselves.
The Athens Ecological Movement OI-KI-A would like to propose to the World Carfree Network that we all work together between now and next April to ensure that Peak Oil, emancipation from dependence on non-renewable fuels and emancipation from dependence on cars should together occupy a prominent position on the programme for the 2006 Fourth European Social Forum in Athens .www.worldcarfree.net
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Sept 30, 2005 11:33:33 GMT -5
Post by EnviroEngr on Sept 30, 2005 11:33:33 GMT -5
[glow=LimeGreen,2,300]Yay to me.
I made it another year!
I'd buy y'all drinks....
But...[/glow]
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Oct 7, 2005 14:22:43 GMT -5
Post by Wayne Hall on Oct 7, 2005 14:22:43 GMT -5
What's this? A birthday celebration??
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