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Read Your Way Through Utah

Baua Electric

And for a more personal sense of Arches and Canyonlands, “ Blow Sand In His Soul: Bates Wilson, The Heart of Canyonlands ,” by Jen Jackson Quintano, is a spirited biography of Wilson, who advocated their protection. “ Which books can lead to a desert state of mind? Which books can feed a Mormon state of mind?

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. I personally cannot be on the sidelines when we have one last chance to stop this reckless changing of our climate and halt the outlaw behavior of the fossil fuel industries.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

Cars That Think

And maybe the problem— again, it’s a dark matter problem, not so much the car at the center, but this sort of infrastructure— just talk a little bit about Bob’s book, which is, by the way, free to download, and we’ll have the link in the show notes. I think maybe because the cover was a car perched at the top of a giant mountain of coal.

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

There was a nice selection of books, especially guides to the flora and fauna of the High Sierras. Indeed as it turned out he knew far more than the President or any member of Congress did on the subject but none of them cared because Gore’s personality and persona didn’t work on TV.

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Secrets of a Danish Castle

Baua Electric

My kids still look at me askance when I explain how many of us in this community of fishermen and farmers were intimate with outhouses and coal-burning stoves and heaters well into the 1970s. During my childhood, Stevns was considered so isolated that locals used to say that it was where “the crows come to turn around.”

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Chipping away at the ICE

Electric Auto Association

I’m probably the last person you’d expect to be passionate about electric vehicles (EVs). You can tell by the way they stroll up, saying something like, “How do you like driving your coal-powered car?” Read a book. My sojourn from grease monkey to EV advocate By TERESA PORTER; PRESIDENT, HEART OF TEXAS ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION.

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

There was a nice selection of books, especially guides to the flora and fauna of the High Sierras. Indeed as it turned out he knew far more than the President or any member of Congress did on the subject but none of them cared because Gore’s personality and persona didn’t work on TV.

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