Wow that is so cool. Look at what technology can do. It's almost as if it works better than prayer...but that's crazy talk.
Okay, so we don't like Kyoto. Where is our alternative? Why aren't we leading the world on a proposal we like?
Let it be known to future generations that, on the most pressing issue of our time, when the mighty United States decided to play hooky, the mantle of leadership on the issue was proudly snagged by the quiet kid in the front of the class who no one ever noticed: Iceland.
Iceland phasing out fossil fuels for clean energy
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (CNN) -- Iceland may be best known for world-famous musical export Bjork but there's a new star quickly gaining this island nation worldwide acclaim -- clean energy.
For more than 50 years Iceland has been decreasing its dependence on fossil fuels by tapping the natural power all around this rainy, windswept rock of fire.
Waterfalls, volcanoes, geysers and hot springs provide Icelanders with abundant electricity and hot water.
Virtually all of the country's electricity and heating comes from domestic renewable energy sources -- hydroelectric power and geothermal springs.
It's pollution-free and cheap.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...and/index.html
Wow that is so cool. Look at what technology can do. It's almost as if it works better than prayer...but that's crazy talk.
It's more than that: it's commitment & belief, as well as prioritizing. Every time I get in one of these debates w/ a status-quoer, it's always 'can't, can't, can't', as though America was built on "can't". We have plenty of resources in America. They're different, but they're plentiful...
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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