Ground Hog Day 2009; Clean Coal
So I awoke, tuned into the radio (which described the Steelers win last night), and soon after there was a live broadcast from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania....during which the Ground Hog (a.k.a. Ground Pig) noted that the Steelers had won (again), and that he saw his shadow, indicating six more weeks of winter.
Check out this website out for a quiz on Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog.
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I had received a mass email encouraging President Obama to not focus on "clean coal." Note that coal CAN be burned cleanly, if the proper scrubber technology is utilized (such as developed by Dave, the husband of a friend). This reduces acid rain.
Labels: cold, email, EPA, international culture, Pittsburgh, rain, science, seasons, Superbowl, weather, Wellesley
My Weekend and Week, Space Food Sticks
This past Saturday Jeff and Chad led the faith sharing and fellowship meeting. After the meeting, we all pitched in to prepare for the wine and cheese party at seven o'clock.
Sunday, after more than a week break from choir, we sang at noon Mass.
Tuesday, I downloaded photos from Dad's two computer digital camera chips. That evening, I attended Michael Grabe's talk at Duranti's restaurant.
Tonight, Ed R. and I travelled to Vickie E's home to meet for the Cathedral Pastoral Council discernment committee. We accomplished quite a bit in under two hours.
I returned home to an email from Brock B. (via Joyce) of a commercial of Space Food Sticks. William, Joyce, and I loved the taste sensation as children! I find it odd that, even though I have worked in Food Science and also for NASA (at separate times in my life), no one mentioned Food Sticks at either of those times.
How about this other retro advertisement from when we were kids?
Labels: Choir, Church, dining, EPA, Faith, friends, NASA, pastoral council, photography, photos, singing, St. Paul Cathedral, TV, work
Ask your local
...scientist or librarian, if your question deals with finding information about how we humans have impacted our environment. In the past two and a half weeks I have attended talks by a mid-career geologist and by a retired physicist. Both had comments to make about humanity's impact on our planet: global warming and nuclear issues alike.
In lieu of a scientist, one can ask a friendly librarian, who can direct your information search and suggest possible ways to think about your question, to approach the information-seeking, and even to photocopy the information.
Useful people, those scientists and librarians. I hear tell that this administration has eliminated the librarians of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s main library in DC. Can this possibly be true?! If this is true, how can it be? And if it is true, does the First Lady know that there are no librarians? It seems she would care, given that she is a librarian herself. *Sigh*
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15:15 16 Feb 2007
Lord Almighty, it's true! The EPA HQ library has become a "repository."
Labels: EPA, library, science
