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 Topic: Corn Based Plastics Manufacturing Plant Starts Up |
Roop
Replies: 6
Views: 950
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 Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:39 am Subject: Corn Based Plastics Manufacturing Plant Starts Up |
| What I find amazing is how little of the plastic we use gets recycled. I know there are different grades of plastic but can't it all be recycled one way or another? Sure, we recycle things like plasti ... |
| Topic: Looking at the world through grey-colored glasses |
Roop
Replies: 19
Views: 3241
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:26 pm Subject: Looking at the world through grey-colored glasses |
I was putting an empty pop bottle into our recycle bin. I thought about that bottle and how useful it might be in a few decades.
Yeah, I think about that all of the time when recycling spaghetti s ... |
| Topic: Are you scared of peak oil. |
Roop
Replies: 47
Views: 7568
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:26 pm Subject: Are you scared of peak oil. |
| You're goddamn right I'm scared of Peak Oil. What makes me especially scared is that I'm 25 and getting married in a month to a girl I love and now I feel like our future together is over before it's ... |
| Topic: Why aren't Americans getting news? |
Roop
Replies: 37
Views: 3493
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:26 am Subject: Why aren't Americans getting news? |
| My job, official title "video monitor" is to sit a computer in a cubicle and watching 7 to 8 hours of TV news during my shift, picking out keywords and visuals for a news search database. I work for t ... |
| Topic: I'm building an electric car |
Roop
Replies: 22
Views: 7084
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 12:00 am Subject: I'm building an electric car |
Toecutter,
I really like your plans for converting the Triumph into an electric car. I've been doing a little reading up on EVs myself. I agree that if we are going to keep the private automobile i ... |
| Topic: Are we willing to do something about Peak Oil? |
Roop
Replies: 32
Views: 5689
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:05 pm Subject: Are we willing to do something about Peak Oil? |
| I live in an area of Louisville, Kentucky called the Highlands where everything (stores, restaurants, bars, coffee shop, farmer's market) except my job is within walking distance. Actually as of today ... |
| Topic: Feeling Depressed? Therapy Session Here! |
Roop
Replies: 53
Views: 9297
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:14 am Subject: Feeling Depressed? Therapy Session Here! |
marko,
I agree and think we could very well be on the urge of the second Great Depression. I have a BA in communication and when the economy starts to give way my current job working as a video mon ... |
| Topic: Telling friends/loved ones about PO |
Roop
Replies: 64
Views: 9026
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:57 pm Subject: Telling friends/loved ones about PO |
| I feel really fortunate in that I think my parents are actually being pretty receptive to my attempts to make them aware of Peak Oil. I myself have only been aware of it for about a month, it all star ... |
| Topic: Feeling Depressed? Therapy Session Here! |
Roop
Replies: 53
Views: 9297
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:21 pm Subject: Feeling Depressed? Therapy Session Here! |
sdcoyote,
I'm definitely not giving up on an advanced degree, it's just that my awareness of Peak Oil has changed my mind about what I want to pursue. I'd rather bike to the local university for t ... |
| Topic: I don't get it. |
Roop
Replies: 10
Views: 1820
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:01 pm Subject: I don't get it. |
| Yeah, didn't Jimmy Carter have solar panels installed on the roof of the White House which Reagan had promptly removed? Ah, Morning in America... |
| Topic: I don't get it. |
Roop
Replies: 10
Views: 1820
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:19 pm Subject: I don't get it. |
Pablo2079, you are so right on in your observations. If there's one thing that I've realized in my Peak Oil awareness is that one of humanity's biggest flaws is our absolute short-sightedness.
I w ... |
| Topic: Members Photo Gallery:Post your picture! |
Roop
Replies: 212
Views: 159339
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:31 pm Subject: Members Photo Gallery:Post your picture! |
http://usera.imagecave.com/old99s/misc/behindwheel.JPG
I look like I don't have teeth when I smile with my mouth open...
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| Topic: [Resources] Connect with Peakers |
Roop
Replies: 230
Views: 60208
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:51 pm Subject: [Resources] Connect with Peakers |
| I'm Louisville, Kentucky and would be interested in hooking up with other Louisvillians or Kentuckians interested in Peak Oil. I could see this place going either way in an oil-scarce age as it seems ... |
| Topic: Feeling Depressed? Therapy Session Here! |
Roop
Replies: 53
Views: 9297
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:48 pm Subject: Feeling Depressed? Therapy Session Here! |
| This is my first post to PeakOil.com, let me introduce myself by saying that I am a 25 year old man who has lived in Louisville, Kentucky for nearly 2 years, I am a native of Massachusetts. I just wan ... |
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