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Photo from Space of the Bakken Oil Field... Burning Natural Gas at Oil Rigs in North Dakota is visible from space at night. Fracking... It looks as bright as a city but it's burning waste fuel... Polluting the World, Causing Global Warming.

The Bakken Formation supports an unconventional oil and natural gas play in North Dakota and Canada. The main product is oil, but most wells also yield natural gas that has few local markets, storage options, or pipelines. Much of that natural gas is flared. This satellite image was compiled by NASA

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a-mysterious-patch-of-light-shows-up-in-the-north-dakota-dark

What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking.

Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas.

One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, have flooded this region, drilling up to eight new wells every day on what is called the Bakken formation. Altogether, they are now producing 660,000 barrels a day — double the output two years ago — so that in no time at all, North Dakota is now the second-largest oil producing state in America. Only Texas produces more, and those lights are a sign that this region is now on fire ... to a disturbing degree. Literally.

Skolstrejk för klimatetat - Global Climate Strike EVERY FRIDAY - a Worldwide ECO-ACTION! - Greta Thunberg says: “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System” #ClimateStrike

Link to an Interview on The Democracy Now! TV News Show with Amy Goodman...
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/11/greta_thunberg_swedish_activist_climate_crisis

"Make America Greta Again"

Embroidered Baseball Cap FOR SALE!

100% of My Profits Donated To Charity...

Climate Change is Real and We All ought to DO SOMETHING... I don't own a Car... Rarely do I travel... except that I walk all over the place... every day... I use UBER when I need to go a longer distance... and... STOPPED FLYING IN JET AIRPLANES Totally!

Make America Greta Again Embroidered Baseball Cap
by gregvan

American History: What Happened in 2019...

DC CLIMATE STRIKE – SHUT DOWN BUSINESS-AS-USUAL... Youth leaders from around the world have called for a climate strike and global week of action from September 20th-27th. They have been taking the lead so far, but now they are calling on all of us to take action. In Washington, DC we will be answering the call and building on the momentum of the youth climate strikes in a major way:

On September 23rd,
We are going to Shut Down Washington, DC.

We will block key infrastructure to stop business-as-usual, bringing the whole city to a gridlocked standstill. Parents, workers, college students, and everyone who is concerned about the climate crisis will skip work and school and put off their other responsibilities to take action on the climate crisis.
https://www.strikedc.org/

MEME - Global Climate Strike 9/20 - Worldwide Eco Action - Greta Thunberg

Fridays for future. The school strike continues!

 #climatestrike #klimatstrejk #FridaysForFuture 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1041369960436703232  

https://www.facebook.com/gretathunbergsweden/

Global Climate Strike 9/20 - Free Coloring Book Art - gvan42

Global Climate Strike 9/20
Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42

Remember: There are Two Ways to Get
Everything You Want.
Get More or Want Less!

What are the climate strikes—and how did they get started? In August 2018, then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg began skipping school every day to protest in front of Sweden’s parliament in the weeks before the Swedish general election. She demanded climate legislation that would bring Sweden in line with the Paris Agreement (keeping global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels). After the election, Thunberg continued to skip school to strike on Fridays, inspiring thousands of young people worldwide to follow suit. Since Thunberg’s Friday strikes, youth around the world have protested in front of their local legislatures on Fridays in solidarity, beginning the #FridaysForFuture movement. In a culmination of all their efforts, strikers from 117 countries are calling for massive global climate action, by everyone, on September 20th and again on September 27th—a full week of concentrated action that the strikers are calling the #WeekForFuture movement. https://www.chatelaine.com/living/global-climate-strike-canada-2019/ Greta Thunberg To U.S.: 'You Have A Moral Responsibility' On Climate Change. She says her message for President Trump is the same thing she tells other politicians: Listen to science, and take responsibility. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760538254/greta-thunberg-to-u-s-you-have-a-moral-responsibility-on-climate-change Tumblr, Kickstarter, WordPress, and BitTorrent are among the companies to support the Global Climate Strike by donating ad space or shutting down their websites The youth-led global climate strike scheduled for next Friday has already secured a number of corporate backers, and now the campaign is going online. A number of the world's most popular and influential websites announced this week that they will help to promote the strike, pledging to spread the word on social media, put banners on their websites to signal support for the strikes, and in some cases shut down their operations. https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3081528/websites-join-climate-strike Why People Worldwide Will Be Walking Off The Job Later This Month. The Global Climate Strike hopes to draw attention to the worsening climate crisis. https://www.chatelaine.com/living/global-climate-strike-canada-2019/ 1,000 Amazon Employees Are Joining Global Climate Strike.
https://www.ecowatch.com/global-climate-strike-amazon-employees-2640285733.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

What About SOYBEAN BASED Ethanol Fuel? If We Can't Sell Soybeans to China Because of Trump's Crazy Trade War, Maybe we can create BioWillie Fuel Instead.

http://www.biowillieusa.com/

BioWillie is a brand name for the biofuel that is produced by the famous American singer and songwriter Willie Nelson‘s company Willie Nelson Biodiesel. Nelson started the company back in 2004 when he first got interested in biofuels (due to his wife owning a diesel car that she fueled with biodiesel).

https://schatzcenter.org/

Schatz Energy Research Center
1 Harpst Street; Arcata, CA 95521
(707) 826-4345 | info@schatzcenter.org

Mr Smiley Face Goes to Mars - original Psychedelic Art by Gregory Vanderlaan

Biomass Power Plant Mushroom Cloud
(Vapor in a Windless Day)
In Fairhaven near Eureka, CA

BIODIESEL Roadshow Bus to Umpqua Hot Springs Newspaper Article for HSU Lumberjack
this is an article I wrote for the HSU school newspaper. This particular event has passed but the Redwood Peace and Justice center has a list of what is happening now.

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.
Sources of Information:
Call Andy at 826-9783 for reservations for the Biodiesel Roadshow Bus trip or visit the Redwood Peace and Justice Center.
The World Energy corporation sells biodiesel nationwide using existing gas stations to distribute their fuel.
US Department of Energy
Biopower and Biofuels Programs
www.eren.doe.gov

www.biodiesel.org

http://www.globalhemp.com

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#Vote4Joe - HEADLINE: "Biden Proposes Trillions In New Renewable Energy Subsidies." - Simply END Subsidies for Oil, Gas and Coal... and We Could Easily Afford to Promote Solar, Wind, Biomass, Hydro and Geothermal...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2020/07/14/biden-rolls-out-massive-new-renewable-energy-subsidies/#21d459541b2b

Another Example of Trump's Failed Economy... Are You Tired of So Much Losing Yet? HEADLINE: "California’s Top Oil Driller Files for Bankruptcy Protection"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-16/california-s-biggest-oil-driller-files-for-bankruptcy-protection

FREE COLORING BOOK Art! by gvan42 - Drawing of a Man with Really Big Eyes - and - Oil on Water - and - Sunface Electrical Outlet - Feel free to print these Drawings and Color with Felt Pens

Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 per Hour

Let's Cut Defense Spending in Half and
Spend the Money on Schools

Medicare For All coloring book page Bernie Sanders Institute

Bernie Sanders Bubble Up Economics
Coloring Book ART by Greg Vanderlaan
---> print it out and color with Felt Pens,
Pencils, Crayons or Potatoshop...

End War Squiral 42 Coloring Book ART by Gregory Vanderlaan

Save The EPA Coloring Book ART

We Should End The Disastrous War on Drugs
Coloring Book Art

Climate Justice Coloring Book Art by Gregory Vanderlaan
for the Sanders Institute

Get Involved Coloring Book Art Sanders Institute

Student Loan Debt Coloring Book Art by Gregory Vanderlaan
for the Sanders Institute

Black Snake ART for a Coloring Book

Honoring Veterans Needs To Go Beyond Lip Service Coloring Book Art by Gregory Vanderlaan for the Sanders Institute... print this page and color it with pens, pencils, crayons or Potatoshop... Big FUN for the Whole Family.

Green New Deal Coloring Book ART
by purple64ets

Generate Electricity Using Wind
Coloring Book Art by gvan42

The Squiggly Vertical Letters Spell Ecology
in a Script Typeface Mirrored...

Love and Hearts

Save The Redwoods - coloring book art

Green New Deal

NO NUKES - atomic power symbol - coloring book art

Pen Sketch done on a recycled Cardboard Box...
Perfect for Coloring with the Kids.

What IS Bubble UP Economics? Pay a $15.00 per Hour Minimum Wage and That Extra Money Bubbles Up Throughout the Entire Economy.

Danger-Danger Aliens Approaching... President tRUMP is Often Warning Us About Dangerous Aliens Invading the USA...
But he is IGNORING the Threat From Space...

Wind Power ART Created using six atomic energy symbols - distorted and rotated...

420 Just Say Know - Coloring Book ART by Greg Vanderlaan

Impeach tRUMP

Green New Deal Mirror Fun Art

Two Mushrooms Done with WINPLOT Graphing Program

QAnon SUCKS!

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Americans who voted for Trump in 2016 explain why they're ditching him in 2020: We are "riddled with guilt and embarrassed" - These former Trump voters have seen the light! https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/694915351359825/?notif_id=1594470493145415&notif_t=live_video

"RISK MY CHILD'S LIFE? NO!" - Vast Majority of Parents REJECT Trump's School Early Reopening Plan. "Corporate Profits Are Not as Important as Children's Health." https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/risk-my-childs-life-no-vast-majority-of.html

tRUMP Has Made Crime Legal For His Friends... and Himself... It's VERY Important To Campaign Against Him. Online, In The Streets, On The Phone... EVERY WAY POSSIBLE! The Time Has Come for a Million Patriots To Surround The White House and Perform an EXORCISM... Burn Sage, Beat Drums, Dance, Chant, Sing, Blow Whistles, Set Off 140dB Personal Alarms... What Ever Works! We Must Drive The Evil One OUT! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/trump-has-made-crime-legal-for-his.html

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LINK TO ALL MY LATEST GIFTS:

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Global Awakening: An Idea Whose Time Has Come... Hate Won't Make America Great. As a Nation, We Need to Forgive Each Other and Work Together to Build a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow... Red and Blue People Coming Together to Make #Purple64ets. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/

Universal Basic Income... If we simply TAXED THE RICH we could afford to Pay The Poor... and The Poor would SPEND THAT MONEY AT AMERICAN BUSINESSES... increasing Profits... BUBBLE UP ECONOMICS! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/02/video-what-is-bubble-up-economics-short.html

What IS The Cure for COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME? Suppose You Know a Corporate Greed FREAK, How Can We Help Them? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-is-cure-for-compulsive-hoarding-of.html

Great Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey - Illustrated by Robert Crumb - The Classic Novel That Inspired People to Form the Earth First! Ecology Group... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/great-books-monkey-wrench-gang-by.html

Alternatives to LAWNS: Clover... or Decorative rock and cactus gardens that don't use any water. Southern California is a dry climate. Why import water from the North? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/alternatives-to-lawns-decorative-rock.html

We need to Undo the Disaster at the EPA... tRUMP Has Reversed It's Mission... It's Now the Enable Polluters Agency... The Damage of tRUMP's Policies Could Last for Decades, Centuries or Maybe FOREVER... Feel Free to Share any Words or Pictures You See Here... Just Copy and Paste into Social Media or Your own BLOG... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/we-need-to-undo-disaster-at-epa-trump.html

American History: The Humboldt County Timber Wars... A Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber Company and The Extreme Logging of Old Growth Redwoods in Northern California. MAXXAM SUXX

In 1985 Charles Hurwitz borrowed money (Junk Bonds) from Michael Milken and bought the company Pacific Lumber, located near Eureka, California. Then Hurwitz increased the rate of logging in the Redwood Forest and cut down all the highly profitable trees. Then he split his corporation MAXXAM into two divisions. One division was used to do actual logging and sawing of boards and the other division was used to hide the profits. When the bill came due on the Junk Bonds, Hurwitz declared bankruptcy and took the money back to Texas. Including the pension funds that paid retirement benefits for employees...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/american-history-humboldt-county-timber.html