Update about blogCa

Who knew all this would happen afterwards! The Flat Creek walkway has clumps of debris still, and lots of sand and rocks on the flats across from the paved walk (which shows no damage from Hurricane Helene.) However as you walk further up the creek, you come to the mobile homes which survived, or didn't, the rising waters.

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Plastic alternative and solar power and more...

 A new product which is biodegradable, and can use the same machines that already create plastic flatware...it's vegetable based!

Plantswitch



As seen on PBS Sci-NC


And how about a blast from the past:

Carly Simon and John Hall in 1979 fighting for No Nukes...but singing of The Power of the Sun.


They may have been singing about solar power, but the demonstration was against Nukes. 


President Jimmy  Carter was responsible for installing solar panels on the White House that heated water for his family’s quarters and the cafeteria. In 1979 he said, “Nobody can embargo sunlight. No cartel controls the sun. Its energy will not run out. It will not pollute the air; it will not poison our waters.”

Ronald Reagan did not have Carter’s visionary view; he took down the solar panels.

The alternative energy efforts of the 70s were shadowed by big oil being supported by Reagan.

I've always wondered what happened to this: somehow the Republicans managed to get us to ignore and carry on when Reagan paid (in what currency I wonder) the Iranians to not release the hostages until the day of his inauguration...which is known as why he won that election right under President Carter's working on the hostage release in other methods.


Why did we stop caring about that? Why do we not call Republican thugs to justice?

Yesterday President Trump said he's going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Watch out as to all the sovereign nations also in his "renaming" spread of powers.

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Today's quote:

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

 -Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (1881-1973)


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Today's art:



On Open Yesterday's Pages blog today:




13 comments:

  1. Hello,
    President Carter was a visionary. Love the song and video. Take care, have a wonderful day!

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    1. The world has lost his presence but his words will carry his legacy forward.

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  2. ...we lost a peanut farmer and will soon have a convicted felon in the White House , what an embarrassment. The Free Palestine mural by Banksy is powerful.

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    1. Thanks Tom. I kind of fast forward through whatever travesty the tRump has thought up on the evening news these days. Canada? Greenland? A year ago, if only he'd said this then, maybe the election would have gone differently!

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  3. 1979 already with solar energy - that is great!!!! Sad that then the oil came in...

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    1. Sometimes I wonder about the things that might have been...if Carter had remained and negotiated the release of the hostages...after all he was the president, this California governor Reagan was just a candidate at the time. Some big GOP money must have changed hands. And how would our world have been different if solar power had been pushed instead of oil at that time? I love thinking of the road less traveled.

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  4. Reagan was the beginning of the end of republican sanity.

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  5. Every president has their own agenda and do what they need to do to achieve it. Caring for people doesn't fit the equation.

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    1. Unfortunately true of Republicans...I think Biden did care for the people though.

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  6. I remember those solar panels. So many things we "hippies" did back then are so mainstream now, but back then people thought we were stupid.

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    1. Doing things "outside the box" has always been scoffed at by the majority...but that's how progress happens!

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  7. The orange man is a menace. So shameful to take away solar panels. I worry for the future.

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    1. We must keep working as best we can to have a future that is liveable for our grandchildren. Think of the seventh generation. Resist is the word I keep hearing from the leaders against the GOP.

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