Here’s something from Jeff Holmes, our correspondent in Banks, Oregon. It’s a letter he wrote to the Seattle regional office of the Federal Aviation Authority.
To the FAA:
This letter is in regards to the comment period for possible changes in the operations of the Portland International Airport.
My concern with the commercial activities at PDX has [...]

This is a continuation of a previous report on the 2/2/07 release of the Assessment Report #4 Summary for Policy Makers
I was curious to see what was perhaps made of the projections from the Hadley Center discussed here about a month ago. The projections were there, bold as you please. The summary made something very [...]

I live near Corbett, Oregon. Most of the area is either in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area or in the exclusive-farm-use or forest zones of Oregon’s statewide land-use planning system. Many good friends and neighbors are frightened by the extensive number of Measure 37 development claims and feel like they will be surrounded [...]

Every day, 10,000 times more energy strikes the earth’s surface from the sun than is used worldwide. It’s not surprising that with the decline of oil reserves and an increase in awareness of global warming, that research in solar energy is intensifying. A sluggish commodity as late as 2002, solar R&D has now reached a [...]

Biofuels
Remember that ‘EB’ is short for http://www.energybulletin.net. Eb published a 01/24/07 piece from the ‘Oil Drum’, a British web publication which, if this were a rating service, would get lots of stars. It’s a beautiful piece of work on biofuel, the very best overview I’ve ever seen, and worth looking at by anyone looking for [...]