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Ruth Newell

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Villa Montemar--A Poem

Wow...isn't that a coincidence?!
— August 28, 2011 2:29 p.m.

Gladys Kravitz Syndrome

HYSTERICAL!!!!! Loved it!
— August 28, 2011 10:45 a.m.

New Calif. redevelopment law could stop Chargers stadium

Hun, get yourself on back to bed!!! But only AFTER re-reading Marmalade Blues:) And I guess I'll not send in my application to the catheter soldering plant if what you say is true. What's an unemployed scribbler to do?
— August 28, 2011 10:27 a.m.

Villa Montemar--A Poem

I was reading about a SD convent school whose original estate was once called Villa Montemar--loved the name and translation--made me remember a certain clifftop picnic overlooking the Pacific...
— August 28, 2011 10:14 a.m.

Doughnut Shop--A Poem

Thanks and lol You, me dear, are always welcome! He just likes the doughnut reference as you'd expect he would. I'm learning how to get my line breaks to appear but still can't get spaces between stanzas.
— August 28, 2011 10:08 a.m.

Major Solar Project Approved East of San Diego County

Thanks for sharing your opinions Tom. Without getting into a debate with you about LEED which I simplified for a reason, let me just say that our definitions differ. It's not uncommon--this discrepancy in our understanding of the term--happens all to often with that word, "sustainability". I referred to the LEED rating for two reasons. Firstly, it's how most people understand sustainability and given that I know nothing about you as a person or professional, I thought it best to do so since I didn't want my response to detract from the simple suggestion I had posed--that the panels be places on existing rooftops in order to prevent creating additional impervious surfaces. Secondly, because a solar project IS a development/built project--esp. if it's being placed on undeveloped land. It's not just the environmental and impervious footprint, however, that contribute to my questioning whether this project is as sustainable as it might be. There are certainly other factors. According to most definitions including the UN's, sustainable development (what many loosely refer to as 'sustainability') addresses the environmental impacts, along with socio-economic impacts (which LEED also addresses), of human development patterns. SO, by most definitions, and certainly by mine, I'd have to disagree that a project's environmental impact has nothing to do with its sustainability. As a development project, a solar farm is sustainable (say by the UN's definition) if its the most cost effective option to a given problem/shortage/inequity with the greatest benefit/yield to the most people with the least negative impacts to society at large as well as to the environment. The fact that solar panels utilize a free renewable resource is only a very small factor. Other resources are consumed and impacted in the making,transporting and installing of those panels. Resource consumption is then reflected in cost/watt life cycle analysis. There are other zero waste energy options, but should we select and/or support solar projects it is my preference that we require them to be placed on existing rooftops.
— August 28, 2011 9:11 a.m.

Sunday Stealth

80 at 5 a.m. IS some kindda hot!
— August 28, 2011 6:36 a.m.

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Ruth Newell

Villa Montemar--A Poem

Gladys Kravitz Syndrome

Isle of Eigg, Scotland

Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

Gladys Kravitz Syndrome

New Calif. redevelopment law could stop Chargers stadium

Villa Montemar--A Poem

Doughnut Shop--A Poem

Major Solar Project Approved East of San Diego County

Sunday Stealth

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