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Journalism: My Favorite Class in College. To Actually "BE" Woodward & Bernstein for a Semester. I Interviewed June Moxon & Went to an Earth First Tree Sit Eviction.

June is one of the Main People at the Kinetic Sculpture Race. She was Holding a Fundraiser Open House at the Kinetic Sculpture Laboratory and I Published my Interview BEFORE THE EVENT so Maybe Students That Read the Lumberjack Newspaper WERE MOTIVATED to buy a ticket and Go... My Article Might have Helped Finance the Event! and The RACE!

Kinetic Sculpture Laboratory - Arcata, CA - June Moxon

 I Learned a Couple of things in that Class. 

If You see Something and Say Something that's an "Opinion" Piece. If You Ask Three People What They Saw... That's a "News" Piece. 

I Also Learned to Say Everything You Have to Say in ONE SENTENCE. Then, Say Everything You Have to Say in ONE PARAGRAPH. Then, Say Everything You Have to Say in the Rest of the Article... 

The Reader May decide that the Subject is NOT INTERESTING after One Sentence... and Move on to the Next Article... OR they May Read One Paragraph... and then Move on... RARELY do they Read More than That... 

I took that Class because My Guidance Councillor said That The Lumberjack Newspaper was Going to Create an Online Edition and the Journalism Department Needed some Computer Experts to Help Them... 

Dr. Hal Campbell Said: "This will be an excellent REAL WORLD Learning Experience. Someone Wants Something Done On the Computer... and You are Hired to Make it Happen."

The Allegory of the Cave by Plato:

Earth First! Tree Sit Eviction - Highway Patrol Cars in Freshwater, CA

One thing I Never Did was to Interview a Hostile Witness... Woodward and Bernstein were Famous for getting people to Talk that did not want to Talk... 

I Always Interviewed People that Were GLAD to See Me... Like: "I'm a Reported for the Lumberjack Newspaper and I'm Writing a Story About What You Are Doing Because It's Interesting."

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Earth First! Movie: "Who Bombed Judi Beri?" In 1990 the FBI Bombed Activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Beri. The FBI was Fined $400,000 but Did Not ADMIT Guilt... and they Never Paid a Penny... 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/08/who-bombed-judi-beri.html

Trump Pardoned Michael Milken... Greed FREAK Mikey did Evil in Northern California... Loaning Charles Hurwitz enough JUNK BOND Money to Buy Pacific Lumber in Humboldt County... and Then Hurwitz Cut Down Thousands of Old Growth Redwoods... Once the Highly profitable trees were cut, Hurwitz stole the Pension Fund, Declared Bankruptcy and went back to Texas... and Kept all the Money...

Virtual Journey: Trinity Alps, CA, USA - Simulates a Drive on the Bigfoot Highway (299) From Arcata on the Coast to Redding in the Central Valley. White Water Rafting! Gold Rush Ghost Towns!
We Start the Journey in Arcata's Central Plaza... Home to Farmer's Markets, Live Music, Parades and Spontaneous Drum Circles when it's Sunny!

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Title Page



The Headwaters Forest Coloring Book... Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney. (C) 1999 Environmentally Sound Promotions. CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO SEE THEM BIGGER AND DOWNLOAD, PRINT...


Photo of what the plants look like FIVE Years after a Redwood Forest CLEARCUT near Eureka, California... MAXXAM SUXX - Earth First! Treesit Eviction Documented...

Taken on Greenwood Heights Road in Freshwater, California... The Pampas Grass THRIVES on all that brand new SUNSHINE... after MAXXAM cut down the Old Growth Redwoods, this hillside became Sunny and Warm.




It is easy to find this Location to see what it's like today... Simply Turn into the Freshwater Valley from Old Arcata Road and Take the First LEFT at the School... Drive up the hill in the Dark Forest... When it gets Sunny All of a Sudden, Park... That's the Location of the Clearcut...

MY NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:
Tree Sit Ecology Protest at Freshwater, near Eureka, CA 2003 - Earth First! - Complete Text of a Newspaper Article I wrote for the Humboldt State University Lumberjack. and Photographs...

HEADLINE: 8 arrested March 18th in Freshwater tree-sit. Trees chainsawed to death.

Freshwater Clearcut Logging near Eureka, CA

This morning I drove to Beautiful Freshwater (near Eureka, California) to visit the Tree Sitters. There were 10 sheriff's cars and 5 highway patrol cars. I saw 3 people handcuffed and then put in a sheriff's van. One person down the road was handcuffed and in the custody of a different sheriff. This lady was wearing "press" dogtags and was complaining that all she was doing was taking photographs. There were about 40 people standing around, talking on cell phones and playing drums. I could hear the sound of chainsawing. Then a large tree fell over. It makes a tearing sound then a big thump and a wail arose from the people. When four highway patrol cars stopped in the middle of the crowd and turned on their spinning lights, I left.(I was afraid of the police...protect and serve...corporations) As I was walking to my truck I noticed another highway patrolman writing tickets. I asked a citizen what that was all about and he said "don't worry about getting a parking ticket, none of these people will pay them anyway". I am concerned about the highway patrol being there. THERE CLEARLY WERE NO HIGHWAY RELATED PROBLEMS THERE. What's up with parking tickets? We were in the middle of the forest.









...this part written later that night...
We went to a protest to defend redwood trees today. There are 8 people that are camping at the top of redwood trees to prevent loggers from chainsawing the trees. The owners of the forest (Palco/MAXXAM) hired a guy (eric schatz)to climb up the trees and forcibly evict the trespassers. Then the Humboldt county sheriff's arrest the tree-sitters and send them to jail. Yesterday, there were 7 tree sitters and the police arrested 3 people. Then, during the night, 4 people went up. The grand total of people INCREASED. The loggers started chainsawing at the bottom of a tree that had people camping in it. This action enraged the crowd. We feel that if a logger cuts down a tree with a person in it that it is dangerous to that person. The loggers cut away a 2 foot circle of bark all the way around the tree. Someone said that was called "girthing" and the purpose was to kill the tree. My wife decided that some medicine was needed for the tree, so we went to the hardware store and bought a bucket of "tree wound" compound. It is used to seal the bare wood after pruning. We drove back to the ecology protest and she (with help from others) spread the healing compound on the bare wood. I got to spend a lot of time talking to a knowledgeable fellow named "Atilla". He said that the MAXXAM corporation has to cut down redwood trees in order to pay the interest on a giant "junk bond" debt. MAXXAM, a texas corporation, purchased the Pacific Lumber Company about 10 years ago in a hostile takeover financed by "junk bonds" that they got from Mike Milken. (remember, Ivan Boesky and Mike went to jail for wall street fraud) I saw on the News tonight that our governor, Gray Davis, has ordered the highway patrol to work 12 hour shifts to help defend the state of California from "terrorist" attacks. GEE, WHY WERE ALL THOSE CHPs OUT IN THE FOREST TODAY ? WHAT TERRORIST ATTACKS WERE THEY DEFENDING US FROM ? Atilla also told me why there were large trucks that look like they carry sand. They are used to haul gravel to build logging roads. After I left the protest in the morning, I drove way back into the woods and noticed large orange trucks with PALCO on the doors. The reason Palco hired a subcontractor (eric schatz)to do "tree service" is to protect themselves from lawsuits in case anyone gets hurt.
How to get there: From highway 101 traveling North, Take the Myrtle ave exit in Eureka and drive to Freshwater road. Take a right and then an IMMEDIATE left onto Greenwood Heights road. Drive 2 miles. When you see all the sheriff cars, you are there. From Arcata, travel south on 101 to Indianola cutoff. Take a left and drive to Myrtle ave. Take a right on Myrtle. Left on Freshwater road.


Pile of Wasted Trees


Logging Road near Eureka, CA


View of Humboldt Bay from Greenwood Heights Road, Freshwater, CA

Math Shape: Arteries, Veins, Trees and Rivers - all the same Shape


Great Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey Illustrated by Robert Crumb



This Book Inspired the Ecology Organization Earth First!
Read it and be inspired too.
http://www.earthfirst.org/

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Go Polywogs! Go, Go, GO! Humboldt State University Should Change the Mascot. If the Name of the School is Cal Poly Humboldt... Polywog is Great! The Lumberjacks is Totally 1950s...

 

Polywog Mascot - Cal Poly Humboldt - Formerly the Lumberjacks of Humboldt State University


Humboldt State University Mascot - The Lumberjack
Humboldt State University Mascot -
The Lumberjack

Humboldt State University Mascot - The Lumberjack

Noun: pollywog - a larval frog or toad. polliwog, tadpole. amphibia, class Amphibia - the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians.

Other Suggestions! 
Pollywog is an excellent choice or the go straight for adult phase and columns of the red legged frogs Or Heck the spotted owls for the happy salmon O My so many possibilities The premium buds. 

and I Replied: Salmon! Famous for allowing the Yurok and Hoopa to Survive for Thousands of Years. -AND- I always Order That at the Fancy Restaurant at the Woodley Island Marina when I take Friends and Family there...

I’m a logger with an English degree from Humboldt. If I had wanted a polytechnic degree I woulda went to Pomona. Lucky Logger and Lumberjacks Forever!

and I Responded: I Graduated with a Degree in Computer Information Systems... I'm Glad They are Getting a Huge Pile of Money to Pay for More Teachers and Better Equipment... Thank YOU Dr. Hal Campbell... 

Love UC Santa Cruz mascot the bannana slugs

Cal Poly Humboldt Lightning

I'm calling it now. It will be Bigfoot.

If so the mascot could be the pacific giant salamander?

Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day…

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and then on the Rad Das FaceBORG Group: 
RH Said: 

Gaia has a series, Teachings of Ram Dass. Last week it was RD sharing his time in Tibet and how Om Mani Padme Hum is on prayers wheels everywhere, in temples, and he would see people just sitting with prayer wheels and a mala sitting and saying the mantra everywhere. RD incorporated it into his practice, and after sitting one day for a long period saying the mantra, he laid down to sleep and he could hear the Universal sound of Om being spoken by infinite voices everywhere, it was his first experience with the Divine Om.
My question is for those that use mantras, what particular one are you drawn to most?
I've done ones to Shiva, Hanuman, Kali Ma, Saraswati, but the one that affects me most is one from my guru Paramahansa Yogananda. It is a simple one, "My Heavenly Father and I are one", and I have altered it slightly because I have a strong connection to the Divine Mother, so I say, "My Divine Mother and I are one". This simple mantra takes me to places that no other one does.

and I Replied:
Somehow a Mantra in a Language I Don't Speak is Bogus... They This One! God, Grant me the Serenity to Accept the Things I cannot Change, The Courage to Change the Things I Can and the Wisdom to Know the Difference... Or try... OH WAH TOFU LIAM - that is a Great one in Jibberish... 

 I Find Hiking in the Mountains and drinking a lot of pure water is MY PATH to Enlightenment. The High Sierras, Castle Crags or Trinity Alps... I also had fun in Yosemite high on LSD... but No "REAL" Enlightenment... just a lot of energy to hike up the trails... The View from the TOP is EPIC. 

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PUT PUTIN IN PRISON - Russian Oligarchs Have the Power to Send Him to Siberia. Fundraising Gifts for Sale. Ukranian Flags Painted on Neckties, Coffee Cups, T-Shirts and More... All my Royalties Donated to Charity.

They are losing a Lot of Money. The New Guy Can Simply Blame the Former Guy and End the War in 5 Minutes. Maybe They'll Take Action and Protect Their Fortunes... OR... Maybe Not and they'll be Poor... Huh... Easy Choice!

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My Comment on Newspaper Articles about Freedom of Speech, PG&E Power Outages and Declining Population of Students at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. My Alma Mater.

https://thelumberjack.org/2019/12/13/hsu-adapts-to-low-enrollment/#respond
The Population of students is HIGHER Than when I went 2001 – 2005… and Back then it was Difficult to Find an Apartment to rent in Arcata. Difficult to find a Parking Space… and Difficult to Get the Classes I wanted because Other Students Had already Grabbed all available seats… SO, In My Humble Opinion… Fewer Students would be better… The Only People That Want More Students are the Corporate-Corporate” People That work in Administration… Smaller Class Sizes Would Be Great! I LOVED GOING TO HSU AND WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE… Computer Science Graduate and Happy With What I Learned. I especially enjoyed Taking Journalism and Writing for the Lumberjack Newspaper. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=HSU

https://thelumberjack.org/2019/12/12/parody-is-protected-speech/#respond
Thanks For Pointing Me to This Joke! I did a Google Image Search and Then LAUGHED OUT LOUD… There was an Article Ridiculing The University’s BIZARRO Complaint in the Lost Coast Outpost… OF COURSE, Publishing on the School’s Computers Subjects You to OVERSIGHT by the “Corporate-Corporate” Administration Trolls… WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND EXPERIENCE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION… https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2019/dec/7/ridiculousness-humboldt-states-uproar-over-wet-wea/

It Makes No Sense to Shut Off The Power NEAR THE COAST. The Climate is Cool and Rainy and NO DANGER OF POWER LINES STARTING FIRES. I Can See Taking Action in the Higher Elevations Like Ruth Lake or Kneeland. The Climate is Warm and Dry There. PG&E ought to USE SANITY in their Mapping of Power Outages... You Can Verify The Climate Difference by Taking a Drive up Greenwood Heights Road from Freshwater... and It's a Beautiful Drive to Visit the Cows Standing in the Middle of the Street... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=Kneeland

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Tree Sit Ecology Protest at Freshwater, near Eureka, CA 2003 - Earth First! - Complete Text of a Newspaper Article I wrote for the Humboldt State University Lumberjack. and Photographs...

HEADLINE: 8 arrested March 18th in Freshwater tree-sit. Trees chainsawed to death.

clearcut logging
Freshwater Clearcut Logging near Eureka, CA

This morning I drove to Beautiful Freshwater (near Eureka, California) to visit the Tree Sitters. There were 10 sheriff's cars and 5 highway patrol cars. I saw 3 people handcuffed and then put in a sheriff's van. One person down the road was handcuffed and in the custody of a different sheriff. This lady was wearing "press" dogtags and was complaining that all she was doing was taking photographs. There were about 40 people standing around, talking on cell phones and playing drums. I could hear the sound of chainsawing. Then a large tree fell over. It makes a tearing sound then a big thump and a wail arose from the people. When four highway patrol cars stopped in the middle of the crowd and turned on their spinning lights, I left.(I was afraid of the police...protect and serve...corporations) As I was walking to my truck I noticed another highway patrolman writing tickets. I asked a citizen what that was all about and he said "don't worry about getting a parking ticket, none of these people will pay them anyway". I am concerned about the highway patrol being there. THERE CLEARLY WERE NO HIGHWAY RELATED PROBLEMS THERE. What's up with parking tickets? We were in the middle of the forest.
Tree Sit Ecology Protest in Freshwater California Near Eureka. Photograph by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan - EARTH FIRST! - Save the Redwoods

Tree Sit Ecology Protest in Freshwater California Near Eureka. Photograph by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan - EARTH FIRST! - Save the Redwoods

Tree Sit Ecology Protest in Freshwater California Near Eureka. Photograph by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan - EARTH FIRST! - Save the Redwoods

Tree Sit Ecology Protest in Freshwater California Near Eureka. Photograph by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan - EARTH FIRST! - Save the Redwoods

 ...this part written later that night...
We went to a protest to defend redwood trees today. There are 8 people that are camping at the top of redwood trees to prevent loggers from chainsawing the trees. The owners of the forest (Palco/MAXXAM) hired a guy (eric schatz)to climb up the trees and forcibly evict the trespassers. Then the Humboldt county sheriff's arrest the tree-sitters and send them to jail. Yesterday, there were 7 tree sitters and the police arrested 3 people. Then, during the night, 4 people went up. The grand total of people INCREASED. The loggers started chainsawing at the bottom of a tree that had people camping in it. This action enraged the crowd. We feel that if a logger cuts down a tree with a person in it that it is dangerous to that person. The loggers cut away a 2 foot circle of bark all the way around the tree. Someone said that was called "girthing" and the purpose was to kill the tree. My wife decided that some medicine was needed for the tree, so we went to the hardware store and bought a bucket of "tree wound" compound. It is used to seal the bare wood after pruning. We drove back to the ecology protest and she (with help from others) spread the healing compound on the bare wood. I got to spend a lot of time talking to a knowledgeable fellow named "Atilla". He said that the MAXXAM corporation has to cut down redwood trees in order to pay the interest on a giant "junk bond" debt. MAXXAM, a texas corporation, purchased the Pacific Lumber Company about 10 years ago in a hostile takeover financed by "junk bonds" that they got from Mike Milken. (remember, Ivan Boesky and Mike went to jail for wall street fraud) I saw on the News tonight that our governor, Gray Davis, has ordered the highway patrol to work 12 hour shifts to help defend the state of California from "terrorist" attacks. GEE, WHY WERE ALL THOSE CHPs OUT IN THE FOREST TODAY ? WHAT TERRORIST ATTACKS WERE THEY DEFENDING US FROM ? Atilla also told me why there were large trucks that look like they carry sand. They are used to haul gravel to build logging roads. After I left the protest in the morning, I drove way back into the woods and noticed large orange trucks with PALCO on the doors. The reason Palco hired a subcontractor (eric schatz)to do "tree service" is to protect themselves from lawsuits in case anyone gets hurt.
How to get there: From highway 101 traveling North, Take the Myrtle ave exit in Eureka and drive to Freshwater road. Take a right and then an IMMEDIATE left onto Greenwood Heights road. Drive 2 miles. When you see all the sheriff cars, you are there. From Arcata, travel south on 101 to Indianola cutoff. Take a left and drive to Myrtle ave. Take a right on Myrtle. Left on Freshwater road.
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Pile of Wasted Trees
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Logging Road near Eureka, CA
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View of Humboldt Bay from Greenwood Heights Road, Freshwater, CA
MEME gvan42 Trees

Great Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey Illustrated by Robert Crumb


This Book Inspired the Ecology Organization Earth First!
Read it and be inspired too. 
http://www.earthfirst.org/

Two members of the Ecology Group Earth First! were bombed by the FBI in Oakland. There was a Trial and the FBI agreed to award the Survivor a large cash settlement but denied doing anything wrong. Judi Beri died and  Darryl Cherney Survived. He has retired from Activism but still performs as the leader of a musical group. They sing satire protest songs...

Interesting Movie: Who Bombed Judi Bari? 
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.
—Anonymous

Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an American historical documentary about an assassination attempt on the life of Judi Bari, an American environmental and labor activist, which occurred on May 24, 1990.[1]
While driving through Oakland, California on their way to a benefit concert for the Redwood Summer campaign to save California's coast redwood trees, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured when a pipe bomb detonated under the driver's seat of their car.[2] Bari, who was driving, was critically injured. Oakland police and the FBI approached the explosion as a terrorist incident, arrested Bari and Cherney, and tried to prove that they were transporting their own explosive device which accidentally detonated. The two were never charged with a crime. In 2002 they won a lawsuit and were awarded $4.4 million for civil rights violations by the FBI and Oakland Police Department.[3] The authorities allegedly did not investigate any other suspects.[1] Discovery during the lawsuit revealed crime scene photos that clearly showed the bomb was located under Bari's seat, not in the back seat as investigators had alleged.[1]
In 2012, a federal judge ordered the FBI not to destroy another pipe bomb that had only partially detonated at a lumber mill about a week before the car bombing, which investigators agreed had been built by the same bomber. Attorney for Darryl Cherney, Ben Rosenfeld, had requested that an outside lab perform DNA testing on the Cloverdale bomb, which the FBI claimed it had never performed, a request which the judge upheld.[4]


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E85 Ethanol fuel-an alternative to war with Iraq by Greg Vanderlaan Grown in America by Americans... READ MORE: A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE i WROTE FOR THE LUMBERJACK AT HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY...

E85 Ethanol fuel-an alternative to war with Iraq
by Greg Vanderlaan
Grown in America by Americans, E85 reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It's designed to be a fuel for automobiles and trucks. E85 is 85% Ethanol and 15% gasoline and is made from corn but it can be made from rice, potatoes, wheat, sugar cane or even prunes. It's currently sold in the midwestern United States at prices equivalent to those for mid-grade unleaded gasoline. 
Automobiles using E85 fuel are available from Ford, Chrysler, Gm and many foreign car makers. Called flexible fuel vehicles, they can run on any mixture of ethanol/gasoline. They cost the same as gasoline only vehicles. E85 is not yet available in California but it will be soon. The National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition. www.e85fuel.com announced on Feb 13, 2003 that it has issued a grant award of $46,300 to the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and InterState Oil Company to develop an E85 fueling facility in the Sacramento, California area.  The fueling facility, owned and operated by InterState, will be used to fuel 113 CDFA fleet vehicles capable of using this alternative fuel.
Here in Eureka and Arcata the stations sell gasohol which is a mixture of 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline. Standard automobiles may be modified to run on E85. The main modification is to the computer system that runs the car. No modifications to the actual engine are needed. 
E85 is nontoxic. In the event of a traffic accident during the transport of the fuel from the refinery to the gas station, no elaborate cleanup is needed. Since the fuel is grown here in the continental United States, the transportation requirements are minimal. There would be no need to use oil tankers like the EXXON-VALDEZ. Boats would be eliminated entirely from the delivery system. The www.iowacorn.org website has maps showing exactly where to go to get a tankfull. Most of the stations are in Minnesota (60). There are 150 stations nationwide. The closest one is in Provo, Utah. 
Auto manufacturers have been making ethanol using vehicles for a very long time. In the 1880s, Henry Ford built the quadricycle which ran on ethanol. Model Ts had a carburetor adjustment to switch between Gasoline and Ethanol. Air pollution would be reduced by switching to ethanol. Emissions of hydrocarbons and benzene are less than gasoline. Carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere but is reabsorbed by the plants that grow the fuel. One of the reasons ethanol is so popular in the midwest is its use in farm machinery. The machines that are used to make the fuel use the fuel. A byproduct of fuel manufacturing is distillers dried grain which is used for hog and cattle feed.
The country of Brazil has more than 4 million ethanol vehicles on the road. The Brazilians make their fuel from sugar cane. The government of Brazil put a lot of effort into converting their cars because they could not afford to have a lot of money leaving their country.
The US Army has been studying the use of alternate fuel vehicles and has concluded that the main problem is lack of availability of the fuel. The Vehicles themselves are available from the GSA at no extra cost, but there are very few stations that pump E85 near Army bases. The performance in Army vehicles is good. Soldiers need no extra training to use the fuel. Storage and cleanup costs are better than gasoline. The U.S. Postal service has been running its vehicles on ethanol since 1998 in Illinois.
Iraq's economy is based on the oil business. 95% of the money they get from other countries is from the sale of oil. They are having difficulty paying for the wars they had with Iran and the USA during the 1990s. Using ethanol would keep the money we spend for fuel in America. Iraq would simply not have money to spend on weapons if we stopped buying oil.
Not everyone feels that E85 is a viable solution to our fuel problems. During a speech at Humboldt State University, Dr. Michael Moore expressed the opinion that there is simply not enough corn to fuel all of our cars. It would take cutting down half of the Amazon rainforest to have enough biomass to solve our need for energy. He is a former California government official working in energy policy and currently the chief economist of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He also said that of all the alternative energy sources, biomass is the most attractive. Biomass is a term that refers to all energy sources that come from growing plants. Burning wood in a fireplace, biodiesel fuel from hemp, methanol from wasted sawdust and fermenting grain are all examples of biomass energy. A film of his speech is available at Instructional Media Services.

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BIODIESEL Roadshow Bus to Umpqua Hotsprings

by Greg Vanderlaan
Mergemedia staff
03.06.03


Take a trip on the biobus March 20th to 24th. They will be visiting the Umpqua hotsprings to celebrate the spring equinox. The bus will be leaving the Redwood Peace Center 1040 10th Street, Arcata on thursday morning.
When Rudolf Diesel invented his engine, he ran it on peanut oil. A return to using biodiesel would reduce our need to import oil from foreign countries. Biodiesel is a fuel that can be used in any standard diesel engine without modification. It is made from renewable plants like soybeans, hemp, canola oil, cottonseed, sunflower seeds or animal fats. Hemp, a source of biofuel, is currently illegal in the United States. The technology required to manufacture biodiesel is a simple, time tested procedure. A chemical process called transesterification separates glycerin from the fat or vegetable oil. This produces two products -- methyl esters (biodiesel) and glycerin (used in soap).
Biodiesel contains no petroleum based products. There is a limited quantity of fossil fuel on the planet. According to Dr. Michael Moore, chief economist of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory says that finding oil will become increasingly difficult after the year 2020. Four countries control the majority of oil today. (Saudi Arabia-26%, Iraq-11%, Kuait-10% and Iran-9%). The United States controls 2% of the world's oil reserves. In the future, the need for renewable energy sources will become extreme. We will no longer have the option of drilling for more oil. Soybeans, on the other hand, can be grown forever. American farmers would benefit from the increased business. Since this fuel is made locally, transportation of the fuel to the consumer is easier than fossil fuel. Recently, there was a large oil spill off the coast of Spain. A world-wide switch to biodiesel would prevent ecological disasters like this. No oil tankers are needed at all for distribution of biodiesel fuel.
At the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology here at Humboldt State University they have a working biodiesel production system. They use vegetable oil from local restaurants as their raw material. The students convert this waste into a usable fuel for their Mercedes Benz. The fellow at the center says that fuel can be made for as little as 50 cents a gallon. Commercial production of fuel is more expensive. Biodiesel costs about $1.33 to $1.70 cents a gallon depending on many factors including the price of soybeans, labor costs and transportation. Private organizations and individuals are free to manufacture their own fuel for their own use. The CCAT website has step by step instruction for making your own.
Biodiesel is just one of many solutions to our energy needs. While talking to Adrian Nichols of the Redwood Peace Center he brought up some concerns that I had not considered before. "Are the soybeans grown organically?" Could a crop cause more damage thru the use of pesticides than it is worth? "If we use the land for growing fuel, will that interfere with using the land for growing food or not using the land at all?" A deeper solution to our problems would be to use mass transit, ride bicycles or walk to get where we are going. He also felt that we should put more effort into getting power from solar and wind sources.
In Iowa, a hybrid electricity generator is being run. It is a windmill with a biodiesel backup generator for use on days when there is no wind. One of the problems with wind power is reliability. Consumers of electricity demand a constant source of current. It is not practical to depend on wind power alone to satisfy our requirements for electricity. Computers can actually be damaged by fluctuation of the power source. With the hybrid wind/biodiesel system, the diesel generator would kick in when the wind power fell below an acceptable level.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is sponsoring a petition drive to clean up the air pollution from school busses. They are concerned about the health problems due to breathing the smoke from the tailpipe. "From school buses in our neighborhoods to eighteen-wheelers on the highway, diesel rigs are a serious cancer and clean air threat." -Jason Mark, Union of Concerned Scientists.
Research conducted at the University of California-Davis has shown that the cancer-causing potential of biodiesel particulate matter is 80% less than that of petroleum diesel. Biodiesel also significantly reduces most EPA targeted emissions, such as carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons and particulate matter. Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel in the US to complete EPA Tier I Health Effects Testing under section 211(b) of the Clean Air Act. A copy of their petition can be found at www.ucsusa.org
In Canada, the use of biodiesel is gaining speed with the launch of the Montreal Biodiesel project in the spring of 2002, the largest municipal biodiesel project in North America.   More than 140 buses, running on different blends of biodiesel derived from animal rendering and U.S. soybeans will be studied over the next year. The project is expected to consume more than 500,000 liters of biodiesel this year.

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Solar Wind, Desalinization Drawing (pen and Pencil) on a Lumberjack Newspaper - My Beautiful Mind - Caffeine Scribbles

I really got into drawing on newspapers using the subject of the articles as data input for my sketches. In general, these were created while stoned on Marijuana, Tobacco, Caffeine, Aspirin and Acetaminophen... WIRED... I thought up a Totally Different Artform... Now that I stopped smoking, I don't have any IDEAS. I miss thinking... Click on the pictures to see them bigger.


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Meetings with Remarkable Men - in Arcata, CA - Dr Harold Campbell

In 2005, Dr Hal commanded me to take a class called Mergemedia. We put the Humboldt State University's Lumberjack Newspaper on the Internet. Hal said, "This is a classic task... They are like the customers who want to accomplish something using computers, and you know computers. Make it Happen.
http://thelumberjack.org/

Dr Hal is no longer Teaching College for the State of California. He founded his Own College in Oregon.  He worked for the LA Sheriff's Dept before HSU.

I knew absolutely Nothing about journalism but as a requirement for the class, I had to write 8 articles for publication. My Editors were other students and they explained basic concepts like...

0. If I see something happen and write about it, that's an 'Opinion' Piece.
1. If I Talk to three people and ask them what they saw, that's News. (sources).
2. Explain the entire concept of the article in One Sentence (headline)
3. Explain in more detail the concept in One Paragraph so that a reader can decide IF the article is worth reading. (Abstract).
4. Let your editor read the article and re-write it using her suggestions. (once)
5. Let your editor read the article and re-write it using her suggestions. (twice)
6. Let your editor read the article and re-write it using her suggestions. (Oh for Pete's Sake, this article is Not going to be published. Go get me a Story!)

Dr Hal was my Faculty Advisor at Humboldt State University in 2001. When we first met, he asked: "Why are you here?" I replied that I wanted to learn how to accept credit cards over the Internet and Sell Stuff. He said 'OK'... but... His trick was to force me to teach myself. He would give hints, tell me to do research, review what I had learned and assigned a Senior Project to build a Webstore with 5 other classmates... Eventually I built my own Webstore in the Real World and Am keeping the Profits.

What he did not know was how to build a Wildly Profitable Webstore. If he knew that, he wouldn't be teaching college...

LinkdIn Says:
He founded his own college... and got a black robe!

Hal Campbell: Executive Director - JusticeAcademy.org
Redmond, Oregon
Current: The Justice Academy
Previous: Richland County Law and Justice Center,  University of Maryland,  California State University
Education: Claremont Graduate University

http://www.justiceacademy.org/





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