Travelogue for the Universe: TimeAgain on my mindOr is it all just in my mind?T...: Time Again on my mind Or is it all just in my mind? This concept of Time, The linear kind like they told us: Today, Yesterday, T...
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Friday, March 30, 2018
Friday Night Musik
Another Friday Rolls In...
Fantastic Negrito comes through with this Great video
It’s on YouTube
Yeah,
Buy his music already 😎🎸
Thursday, March 29, 2018
#AdiosImus
Farewell, You Surly Cowboy 🤠
To save a little time,
Posting a search of my blog where I mentioned Imus, Don Imus
He’s leaving his current Radio 📻 Show
Heading to higher pastures
I haven’t opened this file before posting
Hope you find some amusement here...
I wanted to do an autoharp tune for his last day.
I got the harp tuned up and it felt good to strum on it and sing 🎶
Alas, I failed to record anything and still want to explain what a nice instrument
The Autoharp is.
Fairly simple, gratifying sounds.
So wanted to suggest to Imus that he get one.
Quickest way to play perfect chords 😎🤠
Finally a video for him.
Been nice all these years...
Meg
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Rerun..for Mom, R.I.P., who I met 60 years ago ❤️Travelogue for the Universe: Betz
Travelogue for the Universe: Betz: Betz Some thoughts I was marvelling at the proteins strands in my brain processing all the memories, feelings, old smells, emotions, evo...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Intuition
Addendum...I cannot get the duplicate photos out of this post
Without going to a different computer.
Leaving duplicates in!
Makes his message no less relevant. Meg
3.27.18
Excellent Book!
Monday, March 26, 2018
Rerun -> Travelogue for the Universe: 153
Travelogue for the Universe: 153: We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless. - Rumi Ledges 153 In Junior high school &...
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Rerun... Travelogue for the Universe: Friday Night Musik...Woodstock edition
Travelogue for the Universe: Friday Night Musik...Woodstock edition: Friday Nacht Musik Woodstock edition Virgil Caine Golden Eagle There was no question that Levon Helm has been on our minds a...
Friday, March 23, 2018
Thursday, March 22, 2018
New video link... Yes, We Can...
Ms. Amy Helm et al
Link from YouTube
Yes, We Can, Can, You Know We Can ❤️
For her music 🎶 and tour dates amyhelm.com
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Monday, March 19, 2018
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Calling All Cloud Gazers: NASA Needs Your Help!
Calling All Cloud Gazers: NASA Needs Your Help!: From March 15 through April 15, citizen scientists of all ages can make up to 10 cloud observations per day using the GLOBE Observer app or one of the other data entry options (for trained GLOBE members).
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Child’s Play 🧒
Children know The Truths— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) March 14, 2018
Of Existence, Reality,
We Gaze in Wonder 🧒
❤️ Hunter pic.twitter.com/q3mG3jepFS
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Rerun... another year... Travelogue for the Universe: Cold Morning....Ice & Fire...Friday Night Music
Travelogue for the Universe: Cold Morning....Ice & Fire...Friday Night Music: The lake-misty photos, extremes of cold, then thaw, refreeze. Windblown, beaten by winter. The sun sits low on the horizon. Januar...
Monday, March 12, 2018
Pipeline news #fracking breaking
Update from West Virginia
Link from web Roanoke Times
Quote MLK contribution by a friend.
Sheriff says: "How in the world would you get them out of the trees?” Also says he doesn’t know how to serve the order on people sitting in trees!
Judge issues restraining order against pipeline protesters sitting in trees https://t.co/eMT59VgOpG via @roanoketimes #Fracking @energy_ferret— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) March 11, 2018
“We must walk on in the days ahead with audacious faith in the future.” — MLK
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Friday, March 9, 2018
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Music and Chat
Teresa Williams and Larry Campbell https://t.co/DD8HZRufWO via @Audioboom— 77 WABC Radio (@77WABCradio) March 6, 2018
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Travelogue for the Universe: Breaking #fracking Updates from Vermont Town Meeti...
Travelogue for the Universe: Breaking #fracking Updates from Vermont Town Meeti...: All I can hope is that the PUC Public Utility Commandant Is Listening
*Results not yet available for Shaftsbury.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 6, 2018
34* VERMONT TOWNS PASS RESOLUTIONS SEEKING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
On Town Meeting Day, Vermont residents from 34* towns voted overwhelmingly in favor of resolutions seeking climate solutions. The exact wording of each resolution varied, but all the resolutions acknowledged the severity of climate change, urged the State of Vermont to meet its goals for 90% renewable energy, and called for a fair and equitable transition off fossil fuels. The majority of the resolutions also demanded a ban on any new fossil fuel infrastructure, such as natural gas pipelines. In many towns the resolutions passed unanimously, and every resolution passed where it was on the agenda or ballot. In Montpelier, the resolution passed via Australian ballot, 1715 to 500. In Brattleboro, the margin was even larger, 910 in favor, 180 opposed.
The complete list of towns include: Arlington, Bennington, Bethel, Brattleboro, Bristol, Burlington, Calais, Cornwall, Dorset, Dummerston, East Montpelier, Greensboro, Guilford, Huntington, Lincoln, Manchester, Marlboro, Marshfield, Monkton, Montpelier, Peacham, Peru, Plainfield, Putney, Sharon, Stowe, Strafford, Thetford, Tunbridge, Wardsboro, Weston, Williston, Woodbury, and Worcester.
“There was literally no debate about the resolution and it passed overwhelmingly, 116 to 1,” said Stuart Blood from Thetford. “That's probably because the thread of climate change was woven throughout the meeting. Thetford suffered the most damage of any community in the state from the July 1, 2017 flooding. We got hit with almost $5 million in damage to our public infrastructure, not counting damage to private property.”
Beginning in November 2017, organizers and volunteers with 350Vermont and other affiliated groups drafted their resolutions town by town and collected the required signatures to get their resolutions warned for Town Meeting Day.
“Every corner of Vermont has been impacted by climate change, with either floods, increased Lyme disease, wind storms, reduced snow, or shortened sugaring seasons,” said Maeve McBride, director of 350Vermont. “So, it’s not surprising that we see these resolutions passing in 10 different Vermont counties. Clearly, Vermonters are not happy with the State’s meager progress, and they want to see more action on climate change.”
Vermont youth were involved in the efforts to pass the resolution in many towns. According to Jean Freebern from Arlington, “Sofie Pedemonti, a 12th grader, and Cassidy Pickering, an 8th grader, stepped right up to the microphone and belted out the resolution, beautifully, [which was] followed by a burst of loud applause.” Olivia Voth from Champlain Valley Union High School also spoke in Williston. One youth led a petitioning effort in Rupert, but because of a technicality in the wording, the resolution was not on the agenda, despite a successful petition.
"We had a very successful evening in Manchester because the whole community voted in favor of the resolution," said Letitia Scordino of Dorset and member of Earth Matters. "We had such an outpouring of support from the community that we couldn't possibly lose."
This resolution, like many Town Meeting Day resolutions, is advisory and non-binding, but historically town resolutions have influenced the state legislature and can even have an impact on the national level. Several towns are already planning their next steps.
“We at 350 Brattleboro will continue to push for meaningful action on a town and state level and I can imagine many more people joining us in this work,” said Daniel Quipp of 350Brattleboro. “We'll be pushing for town leaders to turn the suggestions contained in our resolution into local policy. We'll also be welcoming more and more people into the climate movement, asking them to join us in advocating for solutions that live up to Vermont's climate and energy goals."
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About 350Vermont:
350Vermont is a statewide organization in Vermont working to build a grassroots movement to reverse climate change. 350Vermont’s mission is to organize, educate, and support people in Vermont to work together for climate justice - resisting fossil fuels, building momentum for alternatives, and transforming our communities toward justice and resilience. Although we are an affiliated group of 350.org with a similar mission, 350VT is an independent organization, with local campaigns to divest from fossil fuel investments, advocate for a carbon pollution tax, and stop any expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.
About 350Brattleboro:
A group of people who meet regularly, organize together, and take action to grow a stronger climate justice movement in the greater Brattleboro area.This is an open group that welcomes anyone ready to take climate action and help grow the movement locally. For 350Brattleboro contact: Daniel Quipp - (347) 977-1192, daniel.quipp@gmail.com.
About EarthMatters:
EarthMatters is an affiliate of 350Vermont and MoveOn Manchester. They are devoted to making the world a better place for all. For EathMatters contact: Carl Bucholt - (802) 362-4619 carl.bucholt@gmail.com
About Central Vermont Climate Action:
Central Vermont Climate Action meets in Montpelier to work collaboratively towards climate justice. For CVCA contact: Ned Swanberg - ned.swanberg@gmail.com
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p.s. Please consider adding your voice to our strategic planning process by filling out our 350VT survey. Deadline is March 10th!
maeve mcbride
pronouns - she/her(s)
350Vermont
c.802.999.2820
“None of us can ever know the value of our lives or how our separate and silent scribbling may add to the amenity of the world if only by how radically it changes us one and by one.”- Mary Karr
“None of us can ever know the value of our lives or how our separate and silent scribbling may add to the amenity of the world if only by how radically it changes us one and by one.”- Mary Karr
Breaking #fracking Updates from Vermont Town Meeting Day
All I can hope is that the
PUC
Public Utility Commandant
Is Listening
Spring Change
In March,
The Dormant Lands
Pause
(Above)
April will bring on
The Colrs
Of Spring
(Below)
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Town Meeting Day 2018
You won’t see me
There,
at Town Meeting,
Don’t want to be a downer, but I am not going to #TownMeetingDay— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) March 5, 2018
Reforms are needed.
My contribution to shine the light on the politics in mud season.https://t.co/NbDOCxy6wS+
😎We voted 🗳🆒 Absentee pic.twitter.com/CCRfKmqjcJ
Monday, March 5, 2018
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Twitter Chatter #fracking tweet
I find it hard to believe that #Quebec would be so tolerant of environmental abuses to put in Pipeline for Gaz Metro. https://t.co/BAatE5iZVX The electrical power lines, shallow trenches, improperly filled trenches. Vermonters know how that will end up. pic.twitter.com/zJv2I29LYk— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) March 3, 2018
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Hey, Another Saturday Night
The Weight Band Infinity Hall PBS Special Interview 2017 https://t.co/iVsM4hesLQ via @YouTube— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) March 3, 2018
Travelogue for the Universe: Gaz updates Rerun of an old favorite
Travelogue for the Universe: Gaz updates: Feelings, Nothing more than feelings, that #Fracking is no good... Emails, Nothing more than Emails, Trying to go through them...
Friday, March 2, 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
****Breaking*** #fracking update Trans Vermont Pipeline
PRESS RELEASE: March 1 2018
On discovering multiple serious safety violations and problems with the construction of the Vermont Gas ANGP pipeline, intervenors in the ongoing investigation case before the PUC (17-3550-INV) filed a compelling motion to broaden the scope of the case.
The filing states: “sufficient information has been provided to lead a reasonable observer to conclude that Vermont Gas Systems committed widespread, repeated and potentially catastrophic violations of critical public safety requirements of the Certificate of Public Good. It also violated an environmental protection requirement that is essential to protecting wetlands.”
The filing (available via ePUC) details 7 safety violations including:
1.Burying pipeline with known coating damage and lack of records of inspection of coatings
2. Failure to install specified sand padding and support under the pipe, instead laying the pipe directly on the bottom of trench.
3. Failure to compact trench backfilling materials as specified, or to perform required testing of compaction.
4. Failure to install, or keep records of installation of zinc ribbon, used to protect against corrosion in areas of electrical influence.
5. Use of an unapproved method for installing pipeline in at least “several” swamps along the route.
6. Lack of a mandated “Quality Assurance Plan” throughout much of the construction as was required.
7. Failure to install bentonite trenchbreakers, which prevent draining from streams and wetlands, in at least 13 locations, and failure to keep records of locations.
Rachel Smolker, one of the intervenors stated: “We have done multiple public record requests and discovery requests in this case, which resulted in thousands of pages of documentation, so our findings are derived from studying VGS and DPS own records and communications. The current case began when VGS admitted to too shallow burial in a swamp in New Haven, something they only admitted because we took photos and delivered them to the federal pipeline hazardous material safety administration (PHMSA). The problems in that one swamp we happen to know about are not limited to too shallow depth – there is no padding and support under and around the pipeline, and no compaction of trench backfill. Further, this swampy area, recognized as a “state significant area” for its’ ecology and flooding regime, is close to the VELCO high voltage transmission wire corridor, an area of “electrical influence” – meaning it required special zinc ribbon installation to mitigate against corrosion. Evidence indicates that the zinc ribbon was never installed. Multiple compounded risks we know about are not likely limited to this one swamp. Anyone living along the pipeline route should be concerned.”
Meanwhile, over the past several days, VGS has been flaring gas at the Middlebury gate station, alarming residents who can hear the roar and see the flames shooting into the air for miles around. VGS is running an “in line inspection” tool which is carried through the pipe by the pressure and flow of gas. Yet there are not enough customers purchasing gas to raise the pressure in the pipe to the necessary level to carry the tool. DPS’s gas engineer in April 2017 reported to PHMSA that “Only approximately 20 customers are utilizing gas transported by way of the 30 mile long segment downstream of Section One.”
So VGS is adding gas at the north end and flaring it down in Middlebury to raise the pressure. Gas has been flowing in the pipeline through to Middlebury for almost a year without the inspection having been completed due to weak demand for the gas.
Multiple safety violations and lagging inspections put landowners at risk all along the route, in order to serve gas to a handful of customers.
CONTACTS:
Rachel Smolker, (802) 482-2848, rsmolker@riseup.net
Julie Macuga, (802)238-5777, juliemacuga@gmail.com
Invisible...Guest Tweet-Podcast
Check out this week's @SurviveNY as I talk to @Lent_Hirsch about her new book "Invisible" and the challenges facing young women with chronic illnesses @OGPodcasts https://t.co/xjcfCV2Dvb pic.twitter.com/lsZDwLd8hL— Justin B. Love (@JustBuddyLove) February 27, 2018
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