Very clever way to remember how to handle the metric conversion of gas with Summer driving from the Mother Nature Network: The Fibonacci sequence is made up of numbers that are the sum of the previous two numbers in the sequence, starting with 0 and 1. It’s 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,21, […]
From Sierra Club Magazine: Solar Having Its Best Year Ever This year will likely be the year that more solar came on line than coal, first time ever in of American history. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) found that New Jersey took the top prize for installing 174 MW of solar in the first quarter
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TALES OF DARWIN By Thomas B. Meyers* PART 1: BACKGROUND TO THE CONTROVERSY BISHOP JAMES USHER About 6,000 years ago, more precisely on Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC, God created “light.” This was the first day of creation and the world was completed in five more days – man being created on the 6th day.
Reflection on Environmental Justice – 2/13/11 Bob Fletcher In 1982, a large number of citizens in Warren County, North Carolina protested against burial of 60,000 tons of PCB-contaminated soil in a landfill located in a township with a 69% minority population. This community had the third-lowest per capita income in the state. Thus, the concept
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Reflection by Susan Burnore January 2, 2011 Today’s topic reminds me of when I met Helene Johnson. I had just started coming to Northwest, my first exposure to Unitarian Universalism, and the very first topic for a discussion group I attended was the Meaning of Life. I thought, “Hooray! I just found the UUs and
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