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Show production for local markets. Thanks to the Internet and computerization, ideas and communications technology will increasingly globalize, but production of low-tech SIG RIVERSIDE heavy consumables like food will increasingly localize. On the energy front, the costs of solar and other sustainable energy generation are now down to the point that Home Power magazine was able to demonstrate that the owner of a five+ acre lot with public power to a pole on the frontage road will pay less over a 20 year period if she builds her own alternative energy system than if she pays the power company to rungrid power to her homesite and then buys her power for 20 years (assuming she has good solar, wind, or small-scale hydro potential on the lot). Home : Kohler - Grohe - Mansfield. Ejer - Moen - Delta - Sterling - Price Pfister the rich, who can afford to build defended enclaves ..and people who are located in relatively unpolluted environments. HOT WATER HEATERS - GARBAGE DISPOSALS WHIRLPOOL BATHS - SPAS Power has published plans for an electric farm tractor which is recharged from an alternative energy system, and stories about farmers who have built and used them. I get a fit of chuckles when I read about a spokesman for "big auto" complaining of the difficulties of building an affordable electric car with good performance and range. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we There are at least two small manufacturers who will sell you such a vehicle tomorrow; remember that we are not descended from fearful men. their vehicles have been product-reviewed in Home Power. There are energy-efficient refrigerators, washing machines, lights, blenders, et cetera, designed for off-grid use on the market right now. The third "escape clause" in the Murfin model lies in his prediction that tw classes of people will survive the great winnowing of 2030-2060: the rich, who can afford to build defended enclaves and outbid the masses for the resources there are on the market (watch the movie "Soylent Green"); and people who are located in relatively unpolluted environments isolated from the toxins and chaos who can provide. for themselves the food and energy they need. The terms "community food security" and "community energy security” have’been coined to label the ideas of local food and energy production. The wise among us will defend our environments against toxic pollution while working towards community food and energy security. Edward R. Murrow MOAB PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ati@lasal.net ‘HIGH DESERT 259-8324 Residential - Commercial - Sales Installation - Drain Cleaning COMPLETE LINE OF PLUMBING FIXTURES ..two classes of people will survive the great winnowing of 2030-2060: Lance Christie can be reached at: 366 N. 500 > W. ¢ MOAB « 3923 PLUMBING & HEATING DIGITAL Creator and Sponsor of Virtual Moab, The Canyonlands Area Information Index Will take your business beyond ordinary web sites. Offering 3D Animation, Digital Video, Real Audio and Rentals Management Secure Commerce Servers for Online Transactions. We specialize in design, management, and hosting of web sites. For a list of sites created by High Desert Digital please call us at: 435-259-7062 or email us at: highdesert@moab-canyonlands.com Z Receroations : | way Lodging ; peeks rn AN . ' 5 CALL SHIRLEY at: 435.259.5955 or 800.505.5343 \' Cy oe eon. ( ee CHLP'S - 312.N. Main 259-7909 On Tuesday The sky f fell ’ The buildings, the bricks, the bodies Down, down, all down Surprise, shock, sadness God ... Bless the fallen God ... Bless the families ' God... Bless us all Don 211 N. Main St. DEPENDABLE FAIR SERVICE gua=— 4am STORES COAST-TO COAST " AND A FAIR PRICE WITHsoo PS par Ay Cae cance 259.6007 800.733.6007 www.canyonvoyages.com \ a No! e 2 o & Denise Oblak |