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		<title>Comment on High Five! by taku</title>
		<link>http://www.conservationblog.net/2009/08/26/high-five/comment-page-1/#comment-547</link>
		<dc:creator>taku</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mmm...what a wonderful high five?
Thanks for the photo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mmm&#8230;what a wonderful high five?<br />
Thanks for the photo.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Confessions of a 40 Year Old Drama Queen by Crister98</title>
		<link>http://www.conservationblog.net/2009/06/08/confessions-of-a-40-year-old-drama-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-426</link>
		<dc:creator>Crister98</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>plasticless i can relate to people like you that have been labeled for no reason.

But dude i have to say are you showing a twitter account that spews some environmental slogans...but I am not seeing drama queen here?  Maybe its missing but it just seems that way.

what ever you experienced hope it doesn't happen again but this just seems like an attack not a blog...help us keep it journalistic

Support S.4642/A.6078 the NY Bloggers right bill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>plasticless i can relate to people like you that have been labeled for no reason.</p>
<p>But dude i have to say are you showing a twitter account that spews some environmental slogans&#8230;but I am not seeing drama queen here?  Maybe its missing but it just seems that way.</p>
<p>what ever you experienced hope it doesn&#8217;t happen again but this just seems like an attack not a blog&#8230;help us keep it journalistic</p>
<p>Support S.4642/A.6078 the NY Bloggers right bill.</p>
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		<title>Comment on How to Calculate Ethanol&#8217;s Value by Gary</title>
		<link>http://www.conservationblog.net/2009/06/08/how-to-calculate-ethanols-value/comment-page-1/#comment-400</link>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A rational debate about the virtues of both oil and ethanol is welcome, but this post is way off base about the blender's credit.  It does indeed benefit the oil companies, as they are main blenders.  Ethanol producers see none of it.  Simple fact.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A rational debate about the virtues of both oil and ethanol is welcome, but this post is way off base about the blender&#8217;s credit.  It does indeed benefit the oil companies, as they are main blenders.  Ethanol producers see none of it.  Simple fact.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Indian Suicides and the Blame Game by JamsonsLogs</title>
		<link>http://www.conservationblog.net/2009/05/05/indian-suicides-and-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-363</link>
		<dc:creator>JamsonsLogs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 15:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good site: Hope to definitely come back soon.</description>
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		<title>Comment on Garbage Dreams by Lynne</title>
		<link>http://www.conservationblog.net/2009/03/24/garbage-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-290</link>
		<dc:creator>Lynne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This documentary was my by far my favorite film at SXSW this year!

Beyond the film’s cinematic beauty and human drama, GARBAGE DREAMS is filled with invaluable lessons and rich inspirations for better ways to care for; thrive in; and harmonize with our planet. While I hope that this film will help educate audiences about environmental stewardship, I really believe it has the power to encourage new ways of thinking about sustainable living, overcoming adversity, and solutions for survival of much of the world’s poor.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This documentary was my by far my favorite film at SXSW this year!</p>
<p>Beyond the film’s cinematic beauty and human drama, GARBAGE DREAMS is filled with invaluable lessons and rich inspirations for better ways to care for; thrive in; and harmonize with our planet. While I hope that this film will help educate audiences about environmental stewardship, I really believe it has the power to encourage new ways of thinking about sustainable living, overcoming adversity, and solutions for survival of much of the world’s poor.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Landscaping and Thirst by Vincent Furnier</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vincent Furnier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The CUWCC data is part of annual self-reporting of the water agencies themselves.  Each agency is required to report annual water use and water conservation activities.  Though the data is reported by year, the reporting occurs every two years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The CUWCC data is part of annual self-reporting of the water agencies themselves.  Each agency is required to report annual water use and water conservation activities.  Though the data is reported by year, the reporting occurs every two years.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Trash Mountain by Patrick Margherio</title>
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		<dc:creator>Patrick Margherio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the shout out! We do a lot at Sustain Mizzou to educate students about sustainability. We do need help with the website though, any suggestions?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the shout out! We do a lot at Sustain Mizzou to educate students about sustainability. We do need help with the website though, any suggestions?</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Office 3.0 - Silent Art by Jan Stene</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jan Stene</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The artist behind the watercolours is made by Markus Anteskog.
Jan Stene is the curator behind the exhibition that also includes work by the artist Richard Svensson.

/Jan Stene</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The artist behind the watercolours is made by Markus Anteskog.<br />
Jan Stene is the curator behind the exhibition that also includes work by the artist Richard Svensson.</p>
<p>/Jan Stene</p>
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		<title>Comment on Pumping Iron, not Plastic by everydaytrash</title>
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		<dc:creator>everydaytrash</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There's something weird going on here.  This is a repeat of the post below and attributed to the wrong blog.

Leila
everydaytrash.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s something weird going on here.  This is a repeat of the post below and attributed to the wrong blog.</p>
<p>Leila<br />
everydaytrash.com</p>
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		<title>Comment on Peak Water? by Clifford J. Wirth, Ph.D.</title>
		<link>http://www.conservationblog.net/2009/01/14/peak-water/comment-page-1/#comment-149</link>
		<dc:creator>Clifford J. Wirth, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The top story of the year is that global crude oil production peaked in 2008.

The media, governments, world leaders, and public should focus on this issue.

Global crude oil production had been rising briskly until 2004, then plateaued for four years. Because oil producers were extracting at maximum effort to profit from high oil prices, this plateau is a clear indication of Peak Oil.

Then in August and September of 2008 while oil prices were still very high, global crude oil production fell nearly one million barrels per day, clear evidence of Peak Oil (See Rembrandt Koppelaar, Editor of "Oil Watch Monthly," December 2008, page 1) http://www.peakoil.nl/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/2008_december_oilwatch_monthly.pdf. 

Peak Oil is now.

Credit for accurate Peak Oil predictions (within a few years) goes to the following (projected year for peak given in parentheses):

* Association for the Study of Peak Oil (2007)

* Rembrandt Koppelaar, Editor of “Oil Watch Monthly” (2008)

* Tony Eriksen, Oil stock analyst; Samuel Foucher, oil analyst; and Stuart Staniford, Physicist [Wikipedia Oil Megaprojects] (2008)

* Matthew Simmons, Energy investment banker, (2007)

* T. Boone Pickens, Oil and gas investor (2007)

* U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (2005)

* Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Princeton professor and retired shell geologist (2005)

* Sam Sam Bakhtiari, Retired Iranian National Oil Company geologist (2005)

* Chris Skrebowski, Editor of “Petroleum Review” (2010)

* Sadad Al Husseini, former head of production and exploration, Saudi Aramco (2008)

* Energy Watch Group in Germany (2006)

* Fredrik Robelius, Oil analyst and author of "Giant Oil Fields" (2008 to 2018)

Oil production will now begin to decline terminally.

 Within a year or two, it is likely that oil prices will skyrocket as supply falls below demand. OPEC cuts could exacerbate the gap between supply and demand and drive prices even higher.

Independent studies indicate that global crude oil production will now decline from 74 million barrels per day to 60 million barrels per day by 2015. During the same time, demand will increase. Oil supplies will be even tighter for the U.S. As oil producing nations consume more and more oil domestically they will export less and less. Because demand is high in China, India, the Middle East, and other oil producing nations, once global oil production begins to decline, demand will always be higher than supply. And since the U.S. represents one fourth of global oil demand, whatever oil we conserve will be consumed elsewhere. Thus, conservation in the U.S. will not slow oil depletion rates significantly.

Alternatives will not even begin to fill the gap. There is no plan nor capital for a so-called electric economy. And most alternatives yield electric power, but we need liquid fuels for tractors/combines, 18 wheel trucks, trains, ships, and mining equipment. The independent scientists of the Energy Watch Group conclude in a 2007 report titled: “Peak Oil Could Trigger Meltdown of Society:”

"By 2020, and even more by 2030, global oil supply will be dramatically lower. This will create a supply gap which can hardly be closed by growing contributions from other fossil, nuclear or alternative energy sources in this time frame." 

With increasing costs for gasoline and diesel, along with declining taxes and declining gasoline tax revenues, states and local governments will eventually have to cut staff and curtail highway maintenance. Eventually, gasoline stations will close, and state and local highway workers won’t be able to get to work. We are facing the collapse of the highways that depend on diesel and gasoline powered trucks for bridge maintenance, culvert cleaning to avoid road washouts, snow plowing, and roadbed and surface repair. When the highways fail, so will the power grid, as highways carry the parts, large transformers, steel for pylons, and high tension cables from great distances. With the highways out, there will be no food coming from far away, and without the power grid virtually nothing modern works, including home heating, pumping of gasoline and diesel, airports, communications, and automated building systems. 

Documented here: 
http://www.peakoilassociates.com/POAnalysis.html
http://survivingpeakoil.blogspot.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The top story of the year is that global crude oil production peaked in 2008.</p>
<p>The media, governments, world leaders, and public should focus on this issue.</p>
<p>Global crude oil production had been rising briskly until 2004, then plateaued for four years. Because oil producers were extracting at maximum effort to profit from high oil prices, this plateau is a clear indication of Peak Oil.</p>
<p>Then in August and September of 2008 while oil prices were still very high, global crude oil production fell nearly one million barrels per day, clear evidence of Peak Oil (See Rembrandt Koppelaar, Editor of &#8220;Oil Watch Monthly,&#8221; December 2008, page 1) <a href="http://www.peakoil.nl/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/2008_december_oilwatch_monthly.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.peakoil.nl/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/2008_december_oilwatch_monthly.pdf</a>. </p>
<p>Peak Oil is now.</p>
<p>Credit for accurate Peak Oil predictions (within a few years) goes to the following (projected year for peak given in parentheses):</p>
<p>* Association for the Study of Peak Oil (2007)</p>
<p>* Rembrandt Koppelaar, Editor of “Oil Watch Monthly” (2008)</p>
<p>* Tony Eriksen, Oil stock analyst; Samuel Foucher, oil analyst; and Stuart Staniford, Physicist [Wikipedia Oil Megaprojects] (2008)</p>
<p>* Matthew Simmons, Energy investment banker, (2007)</p>
<p>* T. Boone Pickens, Oil and gas investor (2007)</p>
<p>* U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (2005)</p>
<p>* Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Princeton professor and retired shell geologist (2005)</p>
<p>* Sam Sam Bakhtiari, Retired Iranian National Oil Company geologist (2005)</p>
<p>* Chris Skrebowski, Editor of “Petroleum Review” (2010)</p>
<p>* Sadad Al Husseini, former head of production and exploration, Saudi Aramco (2008)</p>
<p>* Energy Watch Group in Germany (2006)</p>
<p>* Fredrik Robelius, Oil analyst and author of &#8220;Giant Oil Fields&#8221; (2008 to 2018)</p>
<p>Oil production will now begin to decline terminally.</p>
<p> Within a year or two, it is likely that oil prices will skyrocket as supply falls below demand. OPEC cuts could exacerbate the gap between supply and demand and drive prices even higher.</p>
<p>Independent studies indicate that global crude oil production will now decline from 74 million barrels per day to 60 million barrels per day by 2015. During the same time, demand will increase. Oil supplies will be even tighter for the U.S. As oil producing nations consume more and more oil domestically they will export less and less. Because demand is high in China, India, the Middle East, and other oil producing nations, once global oil production begins to decline, demand will always be higher than supply. And since the U.S. represents one fourth of global oil demand, whatever oil we conserve will be consumed elsewhere. Thus, conservation in the U.S. will not slow oil depletion rates significantly.</p>
<p>Alternatives will not even begin to fill the gap. There is no plan nor capital for a so-called electric economy. And most alternatives yield electric power, but we need liquid fuels for tractors/combines, 18 wheel trucks, trains, ships, and mining equipment. The independent scientists of the Energy Watch Group conclude in a 2007 report titled: “Peak Oil Could Trigger Meltdown of Society:”</p>
<p>&#8220;By 2020, and even more by 2030, global oil supply will be dramatically lower. This will create a supply gap which can hardly be closed by growing contributions from other fossil, nuclear or alternative energy sources in this time frame.&#8221; </p>
<p>With increasing costs for gasoline and diesel, along with declining taxes and declining gasoline tax revenues, states and local governments will eventually have to cut staff and curtail highway maintenance. Eventually, gasoline stations will close, and state and local highway workers won’t be able to get to work. We are facing the collapse of the highways that depend on diesel and gasoline powered trucks for bridge maintenance, culvert cleaning to avoid road washouts, snow plowing, and roadbed and surface repair. When the highways fail, so will the power grid, as highways carry the parts, large transformers, steel for pylons, and high tension cables from great distances. With the highways out, there will be no food coming from far away, and without the power grid virtually nothing modern works, including home heating, pumping of gasoline and diesel, airports, communications, and automated building systems. </p>
<p>Documented here:<br />
<a href="http://www.peakoilassociates.com/POAnalysis.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.peakoilassociates.com/POAnalysis.html</a><br />
<a href="http://survivingpeakoil.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://survivingpeakoil.blogspot.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on Poll Results &#8212; Water Chats by Poll Results — Water Chats &#124; boathugger.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Poll Results — Water Chats &#124; boathugger.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on City girls don’t like to get greasy by everydaytrash</title>
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		<dc:creator>everydaytrash</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This should credit everydaytrash (feel free to delete this comment when it does).</description>
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