tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26106160369458310542011-07-28T21:52:00.633-07:00~~~a sustainable discussion~~~Mescalito Mosquitonoreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610616036945831054.post-9500211985827444652009-01-13T17:11:00.000-08:002009-01-13T21:26:57.981-08:00

I just had lunch today with David Room. He was instrumental in helping Post Carbon Institute grow into the go-to site for info on oil depletion. I have him in my film talking about the phenomenon of Oil Peak. We talked about how to get Consume This Movie! noticed. One of the films that inspired me to make this little documentary that could, was another little documentary that could, The End Of

Mescalito Mosquitonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610616036945831054.post-2009577354753269762009-01-12T16:45:00.000-08:002009-01-29T20:09:28.784-08:00

I'm in shorts as I'm writing this. I remember as a kid, having a December heatwave in Oakland that reached 71, maybe 72 degrees. It must be today's scorching sun that jarred my memories but I'm noticing more and more Dec. & Jan. heatwaves.  I think we have to be careful not to lose our critical faculties in order to uphold good science around climate change. As Oakland is cooking in January, the

Mescalito Mosquitonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610616036945831054.post-52652815942810301902009-01-08T20:52:00.000-08:002009-01-09T10:13:01.351-08:00

Fuji has announced the first battery that can be absorbed back into the Earth. Apparently they cost the same as the toxic ones. Of course the best bet is to not use batteries at all as there is still an ecological tax in the energy invested to make, package and ship them. If we must use them, this looks like a great alternative.  http://www.greenfuji.com/press-release.html

Mescalito Mosquitonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610616036945831054.post-7288781707078664432009-01-02T18:22:00.000-08:002009-01-09T13:00:21.874-08:00

I just went to the Rachel Maddow show over on MSNBC.com to watch her latest video about the Bush administrations leasing of oil drilling rights in Utah. Suddenly, my Powerbook began to stutter like a bad James Brown interview. I went off track and plotted schemes to get a new computer. When I came to, I gathered my senses and became interested with the Tim DeChristopher story. There is an

Mescalito Mosquitonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610616036945831054.post-78927772360299017202009-01-01T16:52:00.000-08:002009-01-05T16:03:32.953-08:00

One thing I've been trying to figure out is this insatiable desire I have for a Mini Cooper. Not that I can afford it, but let me explain why I still crave one.  As a flooring contractor I currently drive a Nissan Frontier that gets 20 mpg. I need this truck for hauling my equipment for maybe 60 or 70 days out of the year. The problem is that the truck is all I have for the other 300 something

Mescalito Mosquitonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610616036945831054.post-75543784018642887042008-12-23T18:35:00.000-08:002009-01-02T22:44:05.618-08:00

We've been hearing a lot of talk about change lately. Obama made it a mantra during his run for president. But how do you gauge change? How do we know if we've changed enough to ward off economic, social and ecological collapse? Oh, sorry we're already feeling the economic part but I'd like to add one change that I've made. To conserve water I get the dishes done faster. At least the ones that

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I grew up with Christmas. My Jewish partner Sonja celebrates Hanukkah. My stuff loving son Zachary gets plenty of attention in this gift giving time of year. I'll bet if I didn't give him a gift he wouldn't even notice. Our house is over-run with stuff. It may or not be as over-run as the average American's house, but it is over-run. We usually balance out by donating the toys from his earlier

Mescalito Mosquitonoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610616036945831054.post-31631815327428239412008-12-07T13:46:00.000-08:002009-01-02T22:42:20.133-08:00

You have to admit that it looks hypocritical that a filmmaker with a film so critical of consumer culture would title his first post with "I just got an iPod!" Let me explain. My partner Sonja gave it to me as a birthday gift ironically enough on the very day that I released my too-much-stuff film Consume This Movie! But why did she get it for me? Right now we use a CD player to play music in

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