Month March 2011

Flat Top from the C Trail, Cedar City UT

The C Trail was built in 1996 to commemorate 100 years of Utah statehood. That snow covered mountain is Flat Top, elevation 10,600 feet. Cedar is 5,800 feet. I took this photo about ten minutes up the trail, and the…

Japan disaster likely to impact California economy

(Crossposted from CAIVN) As Japan suffers from a horrendous death toll and substantial damage to several of its nuclear reactors, trade with California will unquestionably be impacted due to the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. Much of the trade both ways…

Chernobyl clean-up expert slams Japan, IAEA

Slamming the Japanese response at Fukushima, Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreev accused corporations and the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of willfully ignoring lessons from the world’s worst nuclear accident 25 years ago to protect the industry’s…

Finding the energy to do it right

The severity of the earthquake tsunami catastrophe that struck Japan last Friday is just now being absorbed, in bits and pieces of anecdotal commentary. The idea that they were able to rescue a man from the rooftop of his home…

Planetary disaster

The multiple disasters in Japan will affect the entire planet. Business will be seriously disrupted and God’s mercy on us all if the radiation gets bad and spreads. Their government has been behind the curve the entire time, trying to…