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Videoconferencing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I live in Tokyo, Japan with my family in Tokyo and in the U.S. New Jersey, Maine, Florida,and Colorado. We’re spread out, seeing the world. But I do want to see them sometimes so getting us together can take a momentous event. It does happen but not often enough. My idea is for everyone to get online with a webcam and just video conference once in awhile. I have a webcam but noone to talk to, sounds sad. I’ve tried to convince the to get a webcam (nowadays they’re so cheap). I’ve included some text from the article I linked to, maybe I can get something started. This blog is about conversation and ecology, I can’t think of anything less wasteful then video conferencing.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China building more power plants

There has been talk of the big bad Chinese and what they’ll do to the environment. There is concern about the fastest rising and maybe bigest economy and the effects that will be felt around the world, many use that as an excuse to not worry about CO2, they say “if the Chinese don’t worry we can’t to compete” I think this quote for the article can shut them up:

“Let us not forget that the average Chinese emits just 3.5 tonnes of CO2 per year, whereas Britons emit nearly 10 tonnes and Americans 20 tonnes.

If they complain about the Kyoto protocol, just wait out bush and let’s all fix the damage he’s caused.

Wired News - AP News

I live in Japan and I found this article this article that made me get upset with my Japanese wife. Japan has recently gotten away from whale meat but me wife will eat it if it is available. After reading this article and learning that a whale can live 200 years that made whale hunting a criminal event. After reading this summary take a look at the article, you’ll be shocked at how greedy the human race is.

BOSTON (AP) — A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale’s age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.

…The bomb lance fragment, lodged in a bone between the whale’s neck and shoulder blade, was likely manufactured in New Bedford, on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, a major whaling center at that time, Bockstoce said.

…The 49-foot male whale died when it was shot with a similar projectile last month, and the older device was found buried beneath its blubber as hunters carved it with a chain saw for harvesting.

“It’s unusual to find old things like that in whales, and I knew immediately that it was quite old by its shape,” said Craig George, a wildlife biologist for the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, who was called down to the site soon after it was found.

Olbermann does not sound like a happy camper, we shouldn’t be either. There was a flaw in the system that started with the election in 2000, the U.S. population has no one to blame but them selves and with their chance to fix things they elected the opposition party to replace bush’s republicans and the newly elected officials continue to support the flaw, are they part of the flawed system? Keith Olbermann uses his public voice to name names but maybe he should include the names that REELECTED bush, it’s a long list. The hunt for WMD’s was a noble effort in Iraq but wasn’t the UN already on the case before our shock and awe campaign? Maybe it’s time to think about impeachment, the democrats won’t do anything people to pressure them to use the courts to help out.

Wired Science - Wired BlogsI found this at Wired.com and thought this showed a way to get popular support for what I think is an obvious choice, innovate or die. I’m getting the word out.

Powering cities on landfill waste | CNET News.com

I’ve gone from living in NJ, a densely populated U.S. state, to Tokyo, the most densely populated city in the world. Am I a masochist? I think it’s a lower resource dependant living. I found an idea that both NJ and Tokyo could take advantage of:

To summarize

The process Ze-gen is testing is cleaner than incinerating trash and avoids the production of methane–a potent greenhouse gas–from landfills, said Jim Matheson, a general partner at Flagship Ventures.

“In all the hubbub about energy, clean tech and sustainability more broadly, we think waste has been overlooked both from the dimension of the energy value of the waste and the environmental impact,” Matheson said.