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Don’t forget to grab your Powertune Energy Saver while stocks last.  This current cold weather and disasterous economy is making people seek fresh ways to save energy and cut bills.

You have? OK so what are you doing about it?

Since we’ve changed to digital we have noticed a real increase of temperature in our living room.  Fortunately our heating thermostat is in the hall so is not affected. We no longer need to use the gas fire.  The TV is our new heater.

Did you know that our bodies give out 40Watts of heat energy? So, with the waste heat from the TV no extra heat is needed.

But, if your heating thermostat is in the same room as the TV, turn the thermostat down when the TV is on.  You don’t want to be paying to heat empty rooms

You will save even more energy if you use the PowerTune plugin electricity saver. Payback time less than six months and PowerTune is fully guaranteed. You can’t go wrong!

My bill won”t because I use a PowerTune energy saver.  You can too.  At less than £50 it’s the bargain of the 21st Century!  And it’s POST FREE.

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Examiner.com Governor’s Conference on Managing Drought and Climate Risk: Day 3 Examiner.com – USA Susan Solomon — Nobel Peace Prize winner for her work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — got to the heart of the climate change problem … See all stories on this topic

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More tips tomorrow – promise.

I’ve found an answer.  Most families have a tube of Pringles or similar from time to time.  Next time you finish a tube, keep the lid and recycle or bin the tube.

Those plastic lids are ideal as tin can covers.  No need even to recycle, just repurpose!

To save even more there’s always Powertune, the UK’s only proven plugin electricity saver.

Anyway, back to the point of today’s post.  Concerning the choice of ‘Super Nanny’ from Alaska who has been installed as the  running mate for the Republicans. Great I thought, what a woman!  Then I remembered a news release I read the other day.  Now I wonder if all is what it appears, or is this laudable act really smoothing the path to purchase the rape of “The Last Wilderness” for oil.  If anyone wants to start a “FREE ALASKA” campaign, I’ll join because I have seen her true beauty.  At least if PowerTune was adopted worldwide, Alaska might stand more of a chance.  A copy of the press release follows.  It’s quite long, but worth taking time to read.

PRESS/SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE
RAN Sells-Out Canadian Boreal Forests

- Rainforest Action Network greenwashes destruction of half of
Ontario, Canada’s boreal forests; despite lack of any detail
regarding vague promised protections, and without scientific
findings that doing so is ecologically sufficient

August 28, 2008
By Earth News, a project of Ecological Internet
Dr. Glen Barry, +1 (920) 776-1075

(Earth) — Rainforest Action Network (RAN) of San Francisco
has long been one of America’s leading rainforest campaign
organizations. Yet in July their campaign to protect Ontario,
Canada’s boreal forests doomed half this vital global
ecological system to industrial destruction. In return, RAN
and other proponents received vague promises of protections
over a decade from now, but no protected area boundaries or
protection plans.

Canada’s boreal forests are home to hundreds of sensitive
species of animals including polar bears, caribou and
wolverines. Boreal forests are some of the world’s largest
carbon storehouses, with holdings equal to decades of global
emissions from fossil fuels, while continually absorbing new
emissions. The boreal region is also the world’s largest
reservoir of clean fresh water.

“Just how much longer do you think environmentalists can
strike deals that give up half of large wilderness ecosystems
to industrial development for vague promises of protection?
Simply, more ecologically attuned folks know no more natural
habitats can be lost and expect to survive climate change,”
explains Ecological Internet’s President, Dr. Glen Barry.

Neither RAN, WWF or even Greenpeace realize that there is no
longer any acceptable reason to industrially destroy or
diminish an intact natural ecosystem — not if falsely FSC
certified, not to briefly alleviate poverty, and not because
indigenous people are in favor. The state of the Earth is so
grim, and the needs to protect and restore natural ecosystem
so large, that only sufficient campaigns seeking to end
industrial cutting and burning are worthwhile any longer. The
rest is greenwash.

It is unknown if 50 percent protection — of unknown strength
and placement — will be enough to fully sustain Ontario’s
biodiversity and ecosystem services. Future protections will
likely center on the sparsely populated and largely
unthreatened northern boreal, while with its promotion and
endorsement of the vague plan, RAN has greenwashed intensified
forestry and mining in the already heavily fragmented southern
boreal.

“The only meaningful forest protection is to work to keep all
ancient primary forests standing, and to meet needs for forest
products from secondary forests regenerating into old-growth.
There is no chance of achieving global ecological
sustainability until ecological destruction ends, what remains
is fully protected, and restoration begins,” explains Dr.
Barry.

in recent history — the other being
in British Columbia, Canada’s priceless Great Bear temperate
rainforest — that RAN has been a driving force in continuing
industrial loss of the world’s most important remaining large,
intact forest wildernesses. Greenwashing millions of acres of
industrial wilderness destruction in the name of indigenous
rights is not doing these people or the environment any
favors. Thankfully, RAN now does little tropical rainforest
campaigning, so they may be safe. With more victories like
this, soon there will be no ancient forests or an operable
climate.

RAN’s slide from a force for forest good to a force for forest
greenwash must not go unchallenged. This is particularly
difficult for Ecological Internet, as President Dr. Glen Barry
is a RAN rainforest award recipient, and has worked
collaboratively with them for decades. Yet RAN’s string of
blunders — also including occupying campaign offices of Al
Gore to protest oil investments (which Nader also had),
possibly swinging the 2000 election — cannot be forgotten nor
forgiven, particularly while ill-informed appeasement
continues. RAN has censored those questioning these policies
on their blog.

Dr. Barry laments, “You can’t present yourselves as cutting
edge, selfless and knowledgeable forest protestors and be
routinely cutting deals to turn over millions of acres of
ancient forests to fatcat loggers and minders. We need to
focus on how many ecosystems are necessary to maintain the
Earth’s habitability, and reaching these levels of protection
and restoration, not upon what can be indelicately and easily
negotiated.

RAN is called upon to get on board protecting all ancient
forests and working to restore mature, old-growth forests; or
they, like so much of the mainstream environmental movement,
are part of the climate and biodiversity crises. “Giving up on
half of Canada’s boreal forests for a pocket full is mumbles
is not the role of the Rainforest Action Network, members or
donors. They have no authority or expertise to be pursuing
such deals.”

###ENDS###

Dr. Glen Barry is a leading global spokesperson on global
forest and climate policy. Ecological Internet provides the
world’s leading climate and forest web portals at
http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/.

The first thing I noticed was the lack of special offers on instant coffee.  There were no more wars than usual in the coffee growing regions, so it must be disease  or climate to blame.  Most coffee growing regions have no problem finding workers.  It’s unlikey that disease would strike in all areas at the same time.  This leaves us with – you’ve guessed climate change problems.

Then I saw a report from Columbia saying how bad the coffee harvest is.

My advise is, if you are a coffee drinker, either ‘real’ or instant, buy now and stock up for a siege.  Coffee prices will not be falling and are already rising!

Don’t forget you can save money on household bills by installing a Powertune plug-in Energy saver.

There is a competitor for Powertune in the Energy Saving Market at last.

Am I concerned? Not really.  Powertune is designed for the UK market and plugs safely into a 13 Amp socket with ease.  The US product is a black box with a wire from it that you then plug in.  Surely neither you or I want something plugged into the mains loose on the floor for obvious reasons.

Another feature that could be dangerous with the competing product is that the outer casing is an ugly METAL box.  Powertune’s  neutral coloured outer casing is made of insulating material.

Powertune is also a surge protector capable of protection against lightning.  The competitor cannot do this, by it’s design.

Being priced in £’s you know what you are paying and know you have a cast iron guarantee. The competitor wants you to pay in $US and pay more than you would for Powertune anyway.

Powertune was designed by the person who manufactures it and sends it directly to you via DHL.  What’s more, delivery is FREE as well as quick.  The competitor’s product is designed by one person, made by another, packed by another and then dispatched. OH! and each of these people is in different countries.  What a recipe for disaster!

You can have full confidence in Powertune. My colleague has met CK Phun my Malaysian supplier and we have both been invited to his factory. If you want to know more about me, The Energy Lady, take a look at the ‘About Me’ on this blog.

• Some County in Minnesota is going to disband it’s Police Force to save money!?!?
• Poland that has been invaded more than any other European Country because it is flat and slap bang in the middle of the continent so trouble comes from all sides.  So how are they going to fight the credit crunch?  By cutting their defence budget, of course!
• Orlando, Florida.  39 bus routes are to to face cuts.  So, how will people have to travel?  Use cars more or walk.  In a land built for a minimum of four wheels each, you could die of starvation walking to a shop.  I know, I tried walking there, but gave up and hired a car.
• Next to save costs Mr Bush is cutting the Science budget, presumably so he can have his country continue fighting everyone else’s war.  Not the defence side of this budget, but the area that did atmospheric research to try to find ways of helping the world’s poorest nations fight climate change.
• China has had to take cars off the road to fight pollution because of the Olympic Games.  This means that the people who were  disposessed and given no compensation because their homes were in the way of the stadium,  can sleep in the open and actually see the stars for the first time in years.
• David and Goliath have taken up arms and Israel is coming in on David’s side.  Doesn’t Israel have enough trouble at home without mixing it on Georgia’s side against mighty Russia. 
• And who is just round the corner?  Poland who is cutting its defense budget! 

 But, what I am certain of is that spending a little on a Powertune energy saver will save a lot of money and energy.  At least something is reliable and makes sense in the world. today.