Students at Keck Graduate Institute have created a blog of their own to discuss and present ideas about sustainable biotechnology. More specifically, they are investigated the growth of algae, the subsequent use as a biofuel, and the issues promoting or hindering this process. Check it out at the website below.

http://sustainablebiotech.wordpress.com/ 

Compass Solar Energy, Inc is joining with Deep Green Technologies, llc to add a solar component to The CAN House for July 4th.  By adding the solar panel, we will be able to show how a house can be off the grid (in a small way).  Drop by the Sertoma July 4th Celebration in Seville Square, Pensacola, FL to see this Deep Green Project.    

Be sure to get your GreenGoneWild.com bracelet to show your support for The CAN House.  Look for our volunteers with the green T-Shirts.

The business section of the Arizona Republic today featured a real success story about a local Phoenix man, Justin Baumgartner, who in 2006 started his own company Laughing Giraffe Organics, which produces raw, vegan, organic products, including macaroons and granola.

Earning $50 a day at a local farmers market is a tough way to make a living, and it's hardly an incentive to start your own business. But it didn't deter Justin Baumgartner.

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While Ausra CEO Robert Fishman was far from excited yesterday about the BLM solar moratorium policy, he was perfectly happy to tout his company’s new 130,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Las Vegas. “This is a crossover point for this industry. Ausra’s factory is accelerating Nevada’s and America’s solar future by tripling worldwide manufacturing capacity, relieving the supply constraint that has slowed the industry, and continuing to drive down costs,” Fishman said in Ausra’s press release.

The factory will be the Palo Alto-based companies first North American manufacturing and distribution centers and will supply reflectors, absorber tubes and other components for the company’s solar thermal power plants. At full capacity, the facility will produce more than 700 MW of solar collectors annually.

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I was recently asked a simple question "What can I do? I mean its gonna take A...L...O...T of effort to change anything thats happening now.." The context of the conversation revolved around our current planet's health & climate change.

Many a friend has asked what they can possibly do in the face of corporate giants where the BOTTOM LINE IS KING and being enviromentally concious is either a luxury or a sales gimmick...

Stay tuned to this space... I'll be giving eveyone an opportunity to do thier bit to "Save the planet, One Day at a Time"

Til then... Have a great day!

I wanted to see the new Disney-Pixar movie WALL-E ever since I saw a trailer for it last January. I saw this sweet and charming film yesterday and just LOVED it. I highly recommend seeing this film no matter what age you are.

All the top film critics are raving about WALL-E. Here is what some of the other film critics are saying.

Gary Thompson, Philadelphia Daily News
WALL-E is probably the sweetest movie ever made about humans destroying the earth.

Stephan Whitty, Newark Star Ledger
WALL-E is a surprisingly moving parable of what we waste, and what we should cherish -- and wrapped in a romance so absurdly moving it could wring a tear or two even from Gort and Robby the Robot. Or a parent and child.

MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher
WALL-E is art. Hell, it's philosophy -- it's practically religion.

Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Inteligencer
WALL-E, an animated robot love story with an environmental message and a slapstick delivery, is a charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling.

Austin Kennedy, Sin Magazine
Not only is this a great Sci-Fi film, it's also easily one of the most romantic! Dismissing this as just another kid’s film is not only unfair to the movie, it's unfair to you.

James Rocchi, Cinematical
Too many kid's movies are created to give kids things to buy; WALL-E is a kid's movie that might, perhaps, give you and your kids pause to think about what things truly cost.

Carla Meyer, Sacramento Bee
Offers a touching robot romance, visuals as artful as they are state-of-the- art, and vital messages about environmental and personal health.

David M. Kimmel, Worcester Telegram & Gazett
...an immensely appealing film for all ages.

Jeff Vice, Deseret News, Salt Lake City
WALL-E is not only a triumph in terms of style, it's also a triumph in terms of story. There's a real emotional resonance and depth to this material

Ken Fox, TV Guide’s Movie Guide
It can hardly be called a children's film, but a masterpiece of feature-film animation for all ages.

John P. McCarthy, Boxoffice Magazine
The genius of WALL-E is how so many disparate influences...are incorporated and evoked while creating something unique...What a wonderful world it would be if the talents they manifest here could somehow be marshalled to address real-life problems.

Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle
By turns sad, hilarious, exciting and, ultimately, hopeful, this is a film of Great Truths masquerading as child's play.

Erik Childress, eFilmCritic.com
Not since Titanic will you have heard two prospective partners cry out each other's names with as much longing (and frequency) and if there's any karma, fate, or pure love out there to believe in than WALL-E will equal its attendance and then some.

Ethan Alter, Film Journal International
While the film's social message comes through loud and clear, it never detracts from the heart of the picture--the unlikely romance between WALL-E and EVE.

Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com
Though perfection in film is a highly unlikely proposition, WALL-E indeed has become 2008's first perfect film and one of the best Pixar projects of all time.


Source: RottenTomatoes.com

If we choose to reduce our carbon fooprints individually now, then we have a very good chance of mitigating the severity of global climate change and the survival of humanity.  If we choose not to reduce our carbon footprints, then the future of humanity looks grim.

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Best wishes,

Steve 

Je te présente l'ultime lettre à mon ange :

" Cher Arthur,

Depuis le début, ils m'ont menée en bateau. Je viens de me souvenir, j'ai toujours cru que j'étais Hortense, mais ce n'est pas moi, c'est lui. J'ai toujours cru qu'il était l'orange, mais ce n'est pas lui, c'est moi. Arthur, ils m'ont séparée de toi, ils ont tenté, et ils tentent encore. Je suis perdue, confuse, et je me rends compte qu'au final, celui que j'ai toujours voulu sauver, c'est moi. Celui qui est en ligne de mire, c'est moi. Celui qui me protège, c'est lui. Sauver les petites soeurs... A travers mes yeux, il m'a dirigée et équilibrée. En fait, je ne sais plus qui est qui. Durant tout ce temps, ils ont tenté de me séparer de moi-même. Me faire oublier. Me renier. J'étais en deuil de moi-même. Tu es moi et je suis toi et ensemble on sera. Je suis le "fils ressuscité". Il est la fille. Je suis celui qui est emprisonné, et elle est ma liberté. Je suis les ailes du papillon, elle est la fleur que je butine. Je suis le voleur, et elle la police. Je suis le lapin, et elle la chasseuse. J'ai tout fait pour elle. Et elle n'est pas là. Je lui ai décroché la Lune, et ça ne lui suffit pas. Je lui ai offert mon or, elle n'est toujours pas satisfaite. Je lui ai offert mes lettres, elle n'y croit toujours pas. Je lui ai offert ma vie, elle veut encore mourir. Je lui ai offert ma présence, elle veut encore me fuir. Je lui ai offert mon soutient, elle continue à me nier.