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Maybe we should learn a thing or two from the powers of persuasion developed during WWII – the war to end all wars…
When You Ride Alone |
Waste Helps the Enemy |
Have You Really Tried to Save Gas |
Save Waste Fats for Explosives |
… or not… But, what I think we could learn is that, during times of shared peril and critical importance, it would behoove us to shed personal differences and become kindred spirits, thus joining full-heartedly in the imperative.
The bills are coming due. And not just, or even mainly, the bills from a failed Bush presidency, but the bills from 200 years of burning fossil fuel. Twenty years ago when we started worrying about global warming, we thought we’d have a generation to pay those bills off. But we were wrong — the planet was more finely balanced than we’d realized. The melting Arctic is the call from the repo man. As NASA climate scientist James Hansen has said,
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleo-climate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 [in the atmosphere] will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm.
from “President Obama’s Big Climate Challenge” by Bill McKibben…
kinetic wind sculpture break
Starr Gideon Kempf was a truly multi- talented individual with an incredible work ethic and creative drive. A modern renaissance man, he practiced many forms of Art at an expert level including drawing, painting, etching, sculpting, the architecture of his self built home, but he is best known for his graceful, steel, kinetic wind sculptures.
Starr Kempf was raised on a small farm in Ohio, near a Swiss Mennonite community. His family, including his father and seven uncles, were blacksmiths and carpenters, from whom he learned craftsmanship and engineering at an early age.
He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art on a scholarship, where he received high marks for his paintings and drawings. After graduating, he served in the United States Air Force during World War II. He married recent German immigrant Hedwig Roelen in 1942, who was a nurse at Glockner Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs. In 1948, they purchased the property of their future home in Cheyenne Canyon, where Starr designed and built a house and art studio. They had three children: Madelin, Michael, and Charlotte.
Starr began to work in bronze sculpture in 1955, which he sold to collectors around the United States. As of 1977, his vision had blossomed into the creation of elaborate steel wind sculptures, each of which took him up to three years to construct. His kinetic wind sculptures were designed to exhibit graceful movement and interaction with the wind, and took the form of birds and wind vanes, often soaring to more than fifty feet in height.
Starr Kempf died in 1995.
Sorry that it has been so long…
I had decided not to post for a long time, because there were so many other blogs on the subject out there… but have recently become revitalized – to report potential environmental supports that were being under-reported. Thanks for your support. ~rick
