tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post651760968287560296..comments2023-10-24T08:13:45.842-06:00Comments on Only in New Mexico: Another Wake Up CallJim Bacahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019944863771287149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-37296032736345375142012-07-13T11:50:14.852-06:002012-07-13T11:50:14.852-06:00i did play Dalton Ranch. Incredible course.i did play Dalton Ranch. Incredible course.Jim Bacahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14019944863771287149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-31692227194573109702012-07-13T11:19:05.065-06:002012-07-13T11:19:05.065-06:00I hope you got to play Dalton Ranch.I hope you got to play Dalton Ranch.Rodneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422440621953157615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-40551772978059320452012-07-11T18:52:32.622-06:002012-07-11T18:52:32.622-06:00I don't see it on my Google news page, but Dem...I don't see it on my Google news page, but Democracy Now has been covering the link between the huge forest fires, the record high temperatures and climate change. In a July 3 story they said "More than 2,000 heat records have been broken in the past week."<br /><br />http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/3/this_is_just_the_beginning_forest<br /><br />There's a transcript of the show on that page.<br /><br />I see a big billboard at the I-25/I-40 junction right now where someone is urging PNM to switch to all alternative energy. New Mexico could make a name for itself by being the first entirely alternative energy powered state. There's a lot of Republican voters who are concerned about this kind of thing. We get enough sunny says to make solar economically feasible.<br /><br />If anyone is interested, there's a company in Albuquerque that does solar instillations that is owned by a Native guy and a Hispanic guy. I read a story about them awhile back but can't find it now but this is their web site.<br /><br />http://www.sacredpowercorp.com/<br /><br />There's also this on the White House web site<br /><br />http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/22/sacred-power-growing-jobs-and-nurturing-communities <br /><br />There's a lot about them on the internet. I'm sure there are other worthy local companies that do this too.<br /><br />We need to take control of our own economy and this would help, instead of patronizing these corporations that have had a big part in hollowing out our economy by paying low wages and selling nothing but things made overseas in sweat shops, like Wal Mart, which then uses our money to work within our own political system, too, to make it even easier to drive down wages, and try to privatize everything including public schools.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com