James “Gator” Fiske is a Historical Interpreter at the Florida Agricultural Museum in Palm Coast.

A work in progress, the museum is located in the most historic portion of Flagler County, bounded by Pellicer Creek, and the Princess Place Preserve, near U.S. Route 1. Its mission is to preserve Florida’s agricultural past, interpret the agricultural issues of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and educate the public about those issues through enjoyable experiences.

Recently, James sent a message mentioning that 468 acres of land are now available to anyone interested in an algae or bio-fuel venture that could be incorporated into the Museum.

As I wasn’t even aware that algae could be turned into energy, I researched the subject only to find some astonishing facts :

Algae grow rapidly and can have a high percentage of lipids, or oils. They can double their mass several times a day and produce at least 15 times more oil per acre than alternatives such as rapeseed, palms, soybeans, or jatropha. Moreover, algae-growing facilities can be built on coastal land unsuitable for conventional agriculture.

They can grow 20 to 30 times faster than food crops.

(source : Algae fuel on Wikipedia)

• Algae is the fastest growing organism/plant on the planet.
• Depending upon the type of algae, 50% of it’s body weight produces “lipids” or vegetable oil.
• Corn will only produce about 18-20 gallons of oil per acre per year.
• Palm will produce between 700-800 gallons of oil per acre per year.
• Algae will produce over 20,000 gallons of oil per acre per year – when grown in an open pond system.

(source : James’s Page on PickensPlan)

Furthermore, algae can in fact yield even more oil when extracted using this High Density Vertical Bioreactor :

Algae, like all plants, require carbon dioxide, water with nutrients and sunlight for growth. The bioreactor technology is ideal for locations adjacent to heavy producers of carbon dioxide such as coal fired power plants, refineries or manufacturing facilities, as the absorption of CO2 by the algae significantly reduces greenhouse gases.

Looks like this is indeed be a very efficient and clean energy generation method. No wonder some consider it to be the ultimate in renewable energy !

If you’re interested in such a venture, please contact James via the link above, or through the Florida Agricultural Museum Network on Ning.

You are also invited to support the Museum.

• BA Energy first oil sands developer to file for protection :
  

  BA Energy Inc., developer of the $4-billion Heartland Upgrader near Edmonton, Wednesday became the first oil sands company to file for bankruptcy protection, fearing its parent company’s major lender, Credit Suisse, will recall a US$507-million loan.

• A sticky ending for the tar sands :
  

  Look west from the office towers of the energy companies that dominate Calgary, and the view is spectacular: rolling prairies rise to tree-clad foothills, with the jagged, snow-capped peaks of the Rockies on the horizon. Looking down, however, is more unsettling. The city is dotted with motionless construction cranes poised over the pits of abandoned projects. A five-year energy boom here in the administrative heart of Canada’s oil patch and in the tar sands far to the north has ended.

  (also Canada oil boom shifts on sands of time)

• Canada delusional about oil :
  

  There is this Canadian delusion that the Alberta oil sands will give us special influence with the new Obama administration, that energy is our trump card in the Canada-U.S. relationship because, it’s argued, the United States desperately needs our oil. It fosters the false belief that we can get concessions from the U.S. in other areas by producing more oil.

  (…)

  The bottom line for Canada, though, is that Obama’s energy strategy is to sharply reduce oil consumption by massive investments in new energy technologies, strongly supporting the transition to renewable energies (25 per cent of electricity by 2025), electric plug-in autos (1 million on the road by 2015), smart electric grids, and other measures and by significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions by making the use of oil more expensive.

• Tar Plane Wayfarer: Kamikaze Tar Plane :
  

  An Illinois native growing up amidst corn fields and prairie landscape, Mitch Mitchell knew nothing about Fort McMurray or the tar sands before his visit last October. Camping with two friends for 55 days, the U of A fine art graduate student inadvertently gained unprecedented access to active construction sites.

  (…)

  Not knowing his actions were both prohibited and rare, Mitchell, sketchbook in hand, followed the sporadic “booms” heard through the distance, which turned out to be sound deterrents situated near tailing ponds, placed to ward off wildlife. Surveying the massive oil-and-gas site, the self-identified nature lover was simultaneously overcome with repulsion and attraction to the devastations he witnessed and sketched. In every direction surveyed, depletion at every level was occurring with Tonka trucks the size of two-story buildings rolling through a completely degraded landscape, creating three-story dirt piles, enormous tailing ponds of orange and yellow, all with the acridity of burnt metal and oils wafting through the air.

  (…)

  Tar Plane Wayfarer is Mitchell’s direct response to his experience of walking through the tar sands development and the stories he heard in the camps. As a three-week-long, ongoing installation, the process becomes the work on display in the Red Strap’s street-front windows. Activating the space with pedestrians and drivers gazing in both intrigued and confused, Mitchell is attempting to re-create a heightened experience of moving through, over and along the tar sands. Creating tailings ponds and dirt hills by labour-intensive treatments of paper with asphaltum, water and carborundum, Mitchell aims to induce both the spatial and olfactorial sensations that both repulsed and transfixed him.

• World running out of oil, says ex-CEO :
  

  Consumers shouldn’t get too comfortable with cheap gasoline, because the planet is running out of oil and prices will go “sky high” –as high as $20 per litre–as petroleum reserves dwindle in the coming years.

  That’s the view of Jim Buckee, the British oilman who was CEO of Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc., one of Canada’s largest energy producers, from 1993 to 2007.

  (…)

  “Black oil has peaked,” he said in telephone interview this week. “The biggest oilfields in the world have been producing for 50 years and they’re all getting tired.”

  He says no giant oilfield, capable of replacing those in Saudi Arabia, Iraq or Kuwait that produce more than half-a-million barrels a day, has been discovered and developed since the 1970s.

And still plenty more to come…

• Youth protest against the tar sands in Fort Chipewyan :
  

  The march was organized by 10 year old Robyn Courtoreille, who got other youth involved in the protest.

  “Syncrude and Suncor have been poisioning our water, air, so we protested to let them know we want a future not cancer,” said Dailen Powder, 12, after the protest.

  “I was protesting because I dont want anymore deformed two jawed fish in our lake,” said Cherish Kaskamin, 11.

• Environment Canada says tar sands pollution will get worse :
  

  The Toronto Star has obtained documents from Environment Canada that say pollution will continue to plague Alberta’s oil sands despite plans to pipe harmful greenhouse gases deep underground.

  Part of the task of cleaning up the oil sands involves capturing carbon dioxide emissions and storing them in geological reservoirs in western Canada. But Environment Canada says carbon dioxide isn’t the only hazard, adding that chemicals linked to acid rain, respiratory problems and ozone depletion could pose serious problems over the next decade.

  Plans to triple oil sands production by 2017 could see those harmful chemicals escaping into the atmosphere at an even faster rate. That could offset the benefits of carbon dioxide storage, which is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 80 per cent over the next eight years.

  Environment Canada also says the carbon storage technology creates emissions of its own, offsetting the effects of the gas it has captured.

• Oilsands told to slow the flow from the Athabasca :
  

  Four oilsands giants have been ordered to slow the flow from a northern Alberta river.

  Canadian Natural Resources, Suncor Energy, Syncrude Canada and Shell’s Albian Sands have been told to reduce the amount of water they draw for their operations from the Athabasca River.

  Alberta Environment says water flow levels in the river have dropped into the “yellow” warning zone and withdrawals may increase stress on the ecosystem.

  Environmental, conservation and aboriginal groups have been critical of the amount of water that oilsands projects use.

• Suncor shelves expansion amid first loss in 16 years :
  

  Suncor Energy Inc. is “downing tools” on the $20.6-billion Voyageur expansion underway at its northern Alberta oilsands operations as it reports its first quarterly loss in 16 years, blamed on falling commodity prices, production setbacks and higher costs.

  (…)

  Oilsands projects in Alberta that have been put on hold recently include Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd.’s $345-million Alger project, StatoilHydro’s multibillion-dollar oilsands upgrader, Royal Dutch Shell’s Carmon Creek thermal oilsands project and its proposed second oilsands mining expansion, and Petro-Canada’s $21-billion integrated Fort Hills oilsands project.

• Canada: Environmentalists hail shelving of Enbridge “Trailbreaker” project :
  

  Environmental groups are hailing celebrating a decision by oil and gas giant Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) to shelve its $346-million “Trailbreaker” pipeline expansion.

  They say the pipeline would have increased dependence on oil from the tar sands, which they describe as the “most destructive project on earth.”

  The group of assorted environmental activists says in a statement the decision gives central Canadian provinces time to pursue alternative energy strategies that are less reliant on oil.

  (…)

  “This is a great opportunity,” said Steven Guilbeault, deputy executive director of of the group Equiterre. “Ontario and Quebec spend tens of billions of dollars each year to secure a piece of the increasingly unstable supply of an energy commodity whose long-term price projection is skyrocketing.

  “We must start making the transition away from fossil fuels and pursue aggressive energy security policies that are both sustainable, make sense economically, create green jobs at home while fighting climate change.”

  See also :

  • Activists push policy change for oil pipeline
  • Tar Sands Pipeline Delay Makes Room for Alternatives
  • Economic downturn shuts down oil pipeline proposal

Stay tuned for more tar sands news…

Well, one thing I can affirm for sure, without even the beginning of the shadow of a doubt, is that the singular process which led to the creation of the story, soundtrack, and website, and then turned into a cause, has been the most mysterious, surprising, and fascinating thus far for me. All along the way, story elements emerged from various sources such as the news, Google Maps, or crop circles websites, to form a cohesive whole.

There have been so many instances of one-brow-rising coincidences throughout the course of the development of this project that I’ve decided to run a series entitled “Strange Occurrences in Creative Process.”

Here’s the first instalment, the story of Bunny Boy.

The Residents

Around mid-December I asked my friend Mark (a.k.a. Steamboat Jim on the Cult Vault) if he would be interested in lending his very unique artistic abilities to the creation of a storyboard. Here’s part of the reply I received on December 18 :

Chris this is the kind of stuff I love messing with. I can definitely work with alien rabbits. Are you familiar with The Residents ? I got a kind Of Residents vibe on some of the soundtrack stuff I listened to (which I really dig so far, just listened to about five minutes of it).

A few days later I finally found some time to check out The Residents. I explored The Residents Blog and also their Wikipedia entry. At the time I was deeply immersed in the finalization of the story and the project’s website, so I was very enthusiastically intrigued when I found out that their 2008 album was entitled “The Bunny Boy” !

Still exploring and clicking around, I ended up watching the following video, which had been posted only a few days earlier, on December 12 :

(2009.02.23 : Update : apparently the channel video above has been reorganized. The video I am referring to is entitled “Bunny Saves The World” – see in the “Shows” tab – or go check it out here)

The idea of the Bunny Boy saving the world stuck in my mind, and so when came time to promote the project I couldn’t help but use it in the “Calling All Artists !” invitation :

Say do you recollect
Our journey started here
You joined in the project
And were willing to hear

The call of bunny boy
Who had to save the world
And you stopped being coy
And your power unfurled

Which eventually turned into a video.

Thus I probably am the Bunny Boy… won’t you help me save the world ?

Feel like taking action now ? Here’s the Step-By-Step Participation Guide. Have fun !

After reading the work, around the turn of the millennium, I was animated by the intelligence shared by Wilson and felt like using the word in the title of one of my compositions as a tribute to the book and reminder of what it stood for and represented for me. Thus “Lepufology 101″ came into existence.

Given Wilson’s determining influence on the whole creative process that led to the realization of the project, it only seems natural that one of the project’s aims consists in raising public awareness of the body of work that he produced.

And so I would like to thank contributor Dustin Towler for creating the context for the present post by providing us with an elaborate collection of RAW-related submissions.

Dustin’s contribution to the project is comprised of ten songs recorded under the pseudonyms of “The Mechanical Asparagus Project” and “Jiggity Fool,” along with an excerpt of a RAW speech in which he discusses lepufology, plus four documents including a slide presentation entitled “Robert Anton Wilson, Philosophy with a sense of humor” and a poem inspired by discordianism :

• The Mechanical Asparagus Project : Theory of Relativity, Plan-Plant-Planet, Doorway, Fools Last Dance, Pronoia, Cats Game Universe, Truth
• Jiggity Fool : The last revolution, All is One, Modes
• Robert Anton Wilson : Discussion on Lepufology
• Robert Anton Wilson – An Overview by Dustin Towler
• Robert Anton Wilson by Dustin Towler
• Robert Anton Wilson – Philosophy with a sense of humor
• Discordian Poem by Dustin Towler

Dustin manages The Lepufology Establishment on MySpace, and his personal website is Where the Hell Am I?.

From Wikipedia :

Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychonaut, futurologist and libertarian.

Wilson described his writing as an “attempt to break down conditioned associations-to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps and no one model elevated to the Truth.” … “My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.”

My first and main contact with the work of RAW came via “Quantum Psychology.” Among the numerous stimulating ideas put forth in the book is that of E-Prime, which stands for English-Prime, English without “isness.”

From the book excerpt :

In 1933, in Science and Sanity, Alfred Korzybski proposed that we should abolish the “is of identity” from the English language. (The “is of identity” takes the form X is a Y. e.g., “Joe is a Communist,” “Mary is a dumb file-clerk,” “The universe is a giant machine,” etc.) In 1949, D. David Bourland Jr. proposed the abolition of all forms of the words “is” or “to be” and the Bourland proposal (English without “isness”) he called E-Prime, or English-Prime.

(…) E-Prime seems to solve many problems that otherwise appear intractable, and it also serves as an antibiotic against what Korzybski called “demonological thinking.”

Consider for instance the following set of affirmations :

Standard English : The photon is a wave.
English Prime : The photon behaves as a wave when constrained by certain instruments.

Standard English : The photon is a particle.
English Prime : The photon appears as a particle when constrained by other instruments.

Again, quoting the excerpt :

Clearly, written in Standard English, “The photon is a wave,” and “The photon is a particle” contradict each other, just like the sentences “Robin is a boy” and “Robin is a girl.” Nonetheless, all through the nineteenth century physicists found themselves debating about this and, by the early 1920s, it became obvious that the experimental evidence depended on the instruments or the instrumental set-up (design) of the total experiment. One type of experiment always showed light traveling in waves, and another type always showed light traveling as discrete particles.

This contradiction created considerable consternation. As noted earlier, some quantum theorists joked about “wavicles.” Others proclaimed in despair that “the universe is not rational” (by which they meant to indicate that the universe does not follow Aristotelian logic.) Still others looked hopefully for the definitive experiment (not yet attained in 1990) which would clearly prove whether photons “are” waves or particles.

If we look, again, at the translations into English Prime, we see that no contradiction now exists at all, no “paradox,” no “irrationality” in the universe. We also find that we have constrained ourselves to talk about what actually happened in spacetime, whereas in Standard English we allowed ourselves to talk about something that has never been observed in spacetime at all — the “isness” or “whatness” or Aristotelian “essence” of the photon.

In “Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything, or Old Bob Exposes His Ignorance,” a collection of audio tapes, RAW reformulates the example using the word Jew (or is it Jewish ?) which has five different definitions, and thus can lead to even further confusions.

My personal favorite example is with pianist. Is a kid dabbling on a piano a pianist ? Was Glenn Gould still a pianist after giving his last live concert and retiring at the age of 32 ? A man who has never had contact with a piano of his entire life enters a music store, plays one note, and then leaves without touching a piano ever again. Is he a pianist ? As he been a pianist ? How many notes must one play before they are considered to be a pianist, and how many person must be there to listen when they do ?

And to conclude this rather lengthy post on an even more humorous note, here’s the Discussion on Lepufology :

What is the BSI ? From the website :

The Boreal Songbird Initiative (BSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to outreach and education about the importance of the Boreal Forest region to North America’s birds. BSI works to mobilize environmental and birding groups and individuals to influence Canadian government and industry policies.

The BSI is an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Based in the United States, the organization is working to protect the Canadian Boreal Forest because it is one of the largest intact forest ecosystems left on earth, it is critical to North American birdlife, and they believe international attention is a key part of conserving the Canadian Boreal because of the volume of trade between the U.S. and Canada.

They have a well-presented website with a comprehensive menu bar that makes for easy navigation. Here are some selected sections :

• The Boreal Bird Blog is authored by Dr. Jeff Wells, Senior Scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative, and is dedicated to his perspectives on the conservation, migration and interesting habits of Boreal birds.
• The Boreal Songbird Network presents conservation and birding groups interested in raising awareness in the U.S. and Canada about the importance of the Boreal Forest to North American migratory birds.
• Their Alberta Tar Sands feature includes an interesting links section where you’ll find a backgrounder on the impact on birds of tar sands oil development in Canada’s Boreal forest that explains how millions of birds will be lost due to tar sands development over the next 30-50 years. There is also a fact sheet providing a good overview of some of the various consequences of tar sands oil.
• the Global Warming page explains how the Boreal Forest shields us from global warming, how the industry accelerates global warming, and how boreal birds are impacted.
• The Get Involved section offers a collection of actions you can take to support the initiative.
• And last but not least, they have an extensive section on boreal birds which includes a comprehensive guide to more than 300 species of birds, an in-depth guide with detailed description of 30 featured species, and maps that allows to view migration routes and to identify the species of boreal birds that occur near selected American cities.

If you feel like supporting the organization, here are the donation instructions.

• Before Canada, A Must-Read Book on Tar Sands for Obama :
  

  The result is an environmental disaster area destroying Canada’s largest river basin. The tar sands are also the prime reason why Canada is projected to increase global warming emissions 24% by 2020. That puts Prime Minister Harper on a collision course with President Obama who on November 18th — two weeks after his election, declared:

  Stopping climate change won’t be easy. It won’t happen overnight. But I promise you this: When I am President, any governor who’s willing to promote clean energy will have a partner in the White House. Any company that’s willing to invest in clean energy will have an ally in Washington. And any nation that’s willing to join the cause of combating climate change will have an ally in the United States of America.

• The age of oil is ending :
  

  Our recent consumption rates are the most voracious in history. By the end of 2007, the world had consumed about 1.1 trillion barrels of oil. Half of this was consumed over the last 25 years alone. So far, we have consumed about 50 per cent of the total recoverable oil, according to the World Energy Council.

  Simmons’s pessimistic view is shared by oil companies like BP and Shell plus a number of international studies including the World Energy Council’s 2007 Survey of Energy Resources.

• “And Then Let’s Go For That Justice” – Indigenous women demand respect in Ottawa :
  

  For example, in Alberta, indigenous people living on reserves close to tar sands plants, residing downstream from tailings ponds, or dwelling on land slated to accommodate government pipelines have a hard battle to fight: against health problems of all kinds – including soaring rates of cancer which are picking off their friends and family members at an alarming pace – and against a government that is constantly attempting to push them farther off of their land for the purpose of extraction and exploration.

• Watch Out Tar Sands, LCFS Spreading in US :
  

  11-American states have just signed on to develop a Low Carbon Fuel Standard for the American northeast and mid-Atlantic region.

  (…)

  LCFS programmes pose a serious threat to “dirty oil” production such as the Athabasca tar sands as they focus on life cycle emissions which tend to include the massive greenhouse gas emissions produced in the process to refine bitumen into artificial oil.

• Are Canada’s Tar Sands in Peril? :

  Stephen Harper could be in for rude awakening. For years, he has been dealing with likeminded climate change deniers in the Bush Administration who were only too happy to buy as much oil from the filthy Alberta tar sands as they could get their hands on.

  The times they are a changing.

  In the last week, key appointments in Obama’s cabinet have all made a point of detailing the perils of climate change.

• The Costly Compromises of Oil From Sand :

  The oil that is extracted from Canadian dirt is being portrayed as saving America from energy dependence on the unstable Middle East, or an environmental catastrophe in the making – depending on the perspective.

  (…)

  Not all oil is alike when it comes to environmental impact, and many environmentalists single out production from the oil sands as the epitome of “dirty oil.” In a recent study, the RAND Corporation estimated that oil from the oil sands generates about 10 to 30 percent more greenhouse gases than conventional crude.


Posted in News, tar sands Tagged: age of oil, alberta, alternative energy, amazon rainforest, barack obama, bitumen, climate change, collaborative art project, costly, deforestation, devastation, dirty energy, dirty fuels, downstream, emissions, first nations, fishing, GHG, greenhouse effect, LCFS, lepufology, lepufology project, most destructive project, News, not-for-profit, oil sands, petroleum, pollution, robert anton wilson, Stephen Harper, stop development, tailing ponds, tar sands, toxic, trapping ]]> http://lepufology.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/in-the-news/feed/ 0 poligraf http://lepufology.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/recent-additions-and-tar-sands-news/ http://lepufology.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/recent-additions-and-tar-sands-news/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:10:09 +0000 poligraf http://lepufology.wordpress.com/?p=270 ]]> Here are the recent additions to the Submission Drop :
• Jens Mügge has added another sound meditation entitled “Finale”
• Jens has also added the note “Reading what Greenpeace Canada writes”
• Michiel Waterman‘s video “Climate Change the Netherlands” has been embedded
• Michiel has also suggested “The Story of Stuff” which, while not directly related to the tar sands cause, seems very relevant to me in terms of highlighting our increasing needs for energy and questioning their pertinence
• I have added Macdonald Stainsby’s video “Tar Sands & Water: Fort MacKay and Fort Chipewyan” video. Macdonald is the coordinator of oilsandstruth.org.

And quite a few interesting developments in the news over the last few days :

• Oilsands companies have PR problem: survey :

  Oilsands producers have received the word from the public — half don’t believe what they are being told.

  (…)

  The poll, conducted by academic researchers in June, did in-depth questioning of 425 people in each of the cities. It found 46 per cent believe the oilsands companies have not done a good job of balancing the environment and the economy, a balance that 71 per cent think is possible to achieve. Concerns about fresh water topped the list of environmental problems cited.

  (…)

  The poll found 50 per cent of respondents do not believe what oil and gas executives say in the media, and 44 per cent do not believe information supplied by the industry.

• NRDC President Statement on President-Elect Obama’s Economic Recovery Plan :

  Today President-elect Obama unveiled his economic recovery plan. Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, released the following statement:

  “President-elect Obama’s proposal to repower America with renewable energy and make the nation more efficient will jump-start our economic recovery, create new jobs and cut global warming pollution.

  (…)

  We are all ready to work with President-elect Obama to create a new energy economy that will provide a lasting recovery for our nation’s economy and a clean energy future.”

• Syncrude facing private prosecution over dead ducks :

  An Alberta resident launched a private prosecution against one of the country’s largest oils-sands’ operators, alleging that it was responsible for killing 500 ducks at its northern Alberta facility last spring.

  Jeh Custer, a member of the Sierra Club Canada, commenced legal action in Edmonton Wednesday against Syncrude Canada Ltd. He said that if nothing was done, such practices by oil companies would continue without consequences.

• Oil price slump undermines controversial tar sand projects :

  With the price of a barrel of oil dropping from almost $150 ( £103 ) last summer to around $41 ( £28 ) a barrel yesterday, many of the oil giants are having second thoughts about multibillion-dollar investment programmes designed to extract oil from tar-soaked sands or shale deposits in North America.

  According to a study undertaken by The Times, over $60bn worth of projects have been delayed in the past three months alone, while a number of planned projects have been shelved indefinitely.

• Enbridge cleaning up spill at oil sands terminal :

  Enbridge Inc, Canada’s No. 2 pipeline firm, said a malfunctioning valve at an oil storage facility in the oil sands region of northern Alberta this week spewed out 4,000 barrels of oil, but the spill was mostly contained on the grounds of its tank farm.

• OPEC’s future blowin’ in the wind :

  For the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, clean and (sometimes) quiet renewable power – not the sludge that comes out of the Alberta oil sands – is the biggest threat to the 48-year-old oil cartel’s prosperity in 2009.

  Over the next 20 years or so, wind power, hydroelectricity and more exotic renewable forms of power will be the fastest growing source of new global energy, according to the United States Energy Information Agency.


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I have reorganized the Step-By-Step Participation Guide to include two new pages :

• Take Action presents a list of suggestion actions. The list is rather minimalist for now but I’m sure more actions will be added along the way.
• Linking Back offers an extensive collection of resources that can be used to link back to this website. Included are examples of Text Links, Banners and Badges, Blogs, and Micro-Blogs.

I would like to thank someones.life for the permission to use the “Stop the tar sands sign” photo.

That’s about it for now. More to come… as soon as possible !


Posted in Site Updates Tagged: alberta, alternative energy, amazon rainforest, bitumen, climate change, collaborative art project, deforestation, devastation, dirty energy, dirty fuels, emissions, first nations, fishing, GHG, greenhouse effect, lepufology, most destructive project, not-for-profit, oil sands, petroleum, pollution, robert anton wilson, stop development, tailing ponds, tar sands, toxic, trapping ]]> http://lepufology.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/more-additions-to-the-website/feed/ 2 poligraf The Lepufology Project >>> Stop The Tar Sands ! http://lepufology.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/upgrade-updates/ http://lepufology.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/upgrade-updates/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:26:40 +0000 poligraf http://lepufology.wordpress.com/?p=213 ]]> More forward movement today as the fine people at drop.io have accepted to sponsor the project and have upgraded the space available in the Submission Drop for free. There is now more than enough space to handle large media files.

Also, some new submissions have been uploaded since yesterday’s blog entry :

• Jens Mügge has added two of his sound meditations, “Freedom” and “Lamento”
• Marco Tonini has submitted a soundscape named “Pulsatilla.” The title comes from the latin “pulsat illa” which translates as “look at (our planet), it beats, it throbs”
• Mark Brumfield has added another one of his unique visual compositions featuring rabbits
• Michiel Waterman has shared this video on climate change in the Netherlands

That last clip is not yet available in the drop as I’m trying to figure out the best way of handling videos which tend to take up vast amount of storage space. I’ll most probably go for the embedded playlist-player solution.

And before I forget : Best wishes of a very joyful, prosperous, and peaceful 2009 to all of you !


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