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After my last post I was a little concerned that I had done some bad math, or made some fundmental error in my logic.

However, it appears others have done the calculation too...

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Every Calorie of food consumed takes 10 Calories of Oil to produce.

Every Gallon of gas contains about 31,000 Calories.

Is it really less CO2 intensive to ride your bike to work than to drive your car?

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So I know the quality of these posts has degraded since the summer began (too much travelling), however while I work on a killer new post about how to construct a heliostat, complete with sweet math equations and all, I thought I would post a link to a great new site I found: Ecomodder.com .

For instance at ecomodder.com one can learn about the fine art of hypermiling... or is that a sport? Either way you know it's a cool forum when the signature for many of the posters lists their best ever mileage for one tank and the furthest distance they've ever driven on one tank.

In a further piece of random news, when I get back to CO I want to make a bike like this...

Last, in this post, if you have an old motorcycle that no longer works please email me, I want to convert an old motorcycle into an electric cycle.

I recently bought a Sony ePaper book reader. It's amazing how easy to read and paper like the screen is.

And now it actually accepts an open format for ebooks... .epub. So not only are there many available books to buy at a steeply reduced rate, but there is also a nice variety of books freely available.

Feedbooks.com has a nice selection of available books, pre-formated and ready to go.

Sony, I like your style.

I've just returned from 4 weeks in East Africa and have been itching to Scroggle! all kinds of things. However for the topic of my first post I will choose a link my brother sent me an email to yet another incredibl TED talk... this one on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world.

Mushrooms and funghi are perhaps the most important organism to human life. They not only enable soil to become humus (which allows living things to grow), but they also reside in our gut and keep us healthy and digesting food well. Without mushrooms and funghi life as we know it would not exist.

Thanks Arthur for yet another great find!

Brooklyn you ran fast
Fast and beautiful and black
Thank you for your life

You came to us scared
And were loved greatly by us
We will miss you girl

Loving, sweet, crazy
You ate some of my papers
I will miss you tons

Brooklyn, was our beautiful black lab that we got earlier this year. She came to occupy a place in our heart that was greater than we realized. Last Sunday night she ran out of the door and sprinted down the street at full speed as she loved to do. Only this time she didn't see the car coming at the cross street. Both Malia and I were deeply saddened by her unpredicted death.

Life is fragile, and a gift... all life. Take the time to love animals, nature and especially people around you. It produces deep grief when they are gone. But the love and joy that is exchanged while they are here is immeasurably wonderful.

And if you believe, as I do, that God will restore and renew this earth into a new earth with new creation then perhaps this isn't the last we will see of each other.

Maybe, just maybe, I'll once again get to see Brooklyn running the streets with her tongue flopping everywhere and blessing those who stop to pet and love on her.

A friend of mine referred me to this article.

So working in a group of 10 people within a large organization feels both right and wrong at the same time. On the surface it feels like the kind of group you're meant to work in, but something major is missing. A job at a big company is like high fructose corn syrup: it has some of the qualities of things you're meant to like, but is disastrously lacking in others.