Pickens Plan

Many of you may have heard about Al Gore's non-partisan challenge to repower America in the next 10 years. I am so excited to see all the support his challenge has been getting. I heard part of his speech from a conference that was held in DC this month, and truly feel America is finally prepared to take action on our energy crisis. It is possible to solve most of our problems if both political parties will take action and attack the two central issues that keep causing us grief...global warming and an overwhelming dependence on oil.

Anyone heard of T. Boone Pickens? I just saw a commercial the other night referring to his plan to switch American energy to domestic, renewable energy. He is apparently an oil man who is investing in wind energy farms. Will he profit if we switch 22% of our energy to wind power? Absolutely, but that's fine with me, as long as we start looking for viable solutions to our dependence on foreign oil. I am a huge supporter of wind, solar, and wave energy. They are all renewable with very little impact on the environment. Oil is not a renewable resource. No matter how long we stall, the supply is going to eventually run out, and in the meantime we are not being responsible to the environment. The misconception that is being propagated right now that drilling for more oil will help us get out of our steep gas prices is not the full truth. It will take years for any new drilling to impact the economy(more than one presidential or senatorial term), and by the time we get ourselves set up, China will be a huge player in petroleum imports. It simply won't work in our favor. I think this T. Boone Pickens' plan sounds reasonable, for a change. He is stepping up to Gore's challenge, and I hope many will follow. Check out his website in my links at the bottom right of my blog. And please feel free to share your opinion to this blog post. I am still learning, and love to hear other perspectives.

Fourth of July

We may not have gone to any fireworks, but we did get the barbeque and watermelon in.

Just Sing...Sing a Song!

Eden is quite the little singer. She used to open the Primary Children's Songbook and start singing whatever she could make up. Now she does it with nearly any book, and she absolutely loves singing in the car. She has loved music practically from the day she was born. She loves to be sung to before bed, and loves joining in the songs at our library's "Book Babies". I wish I could catch her singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" with the camera, but she typically gets distracted whenever she sees the camera. She wants to see the pictures on the LCD screen instead of being photographed. Here is the one and only time I was able to catch her singing. Enjoy the video, and crank up the volume on your computer!