Provenzo's installation makes new mental connections.
Yesterday the other “fishbowl” at 107 West Beverley Street in downtown Staunton may have looked like an offbeat art project itself, one of those quirky performance art gigs where pedestrian movements are carried out in a tight space.
In reality, it was author/artist Gene Provenzo and myself installing, through sweat and laughter, THINK, the video advocacy piece Gene made in collaboration with Transition Staunton August for the Minds Wide Open Filling the Glass Half Full: A Storefront Art Initiative project in downtown Staunton. Read more »
Richard Heinberg says that high oil prices caused the current recession.
We need to burn fewer fossil fuels and release less carbon to slow down climate change. And because of rising demand from developing nations and decreasing supply, it’s easy to see that our economy needs to kick its addiction to fossil fuels for purely economic reasons.
Richard Heinberg and others argue that it was not the subprime mortgage crisis that led to today’s recession, the worst downturn since the 1930s, but that high energy costs were the true culprit.
We all remember paying $4 for gas just before the collapse of September 2009. Similarly, the previous half dozen recessions were all preceded by high energy costs.
Coincidence?
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NASA's Jim Hansen has a better plan than cap-and-trade.
The Obama Adminstration and its allies in Congress think that cap-and-trade will help us transition towards clean energy and conservation by making fossil fuels more expensive.
They’re right about the second part — oil and coal will become more expensive under this scheme.
But NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen,who’s become an outspoken policy advocate, says that what he calls cap-and-tax won’t help get the economy off of fossil fuels.
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Events | lindsaycurren June 26, 2010 | 
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