Monthly Archive for June, 2010

Char-B-Que: Carbon Negative Backyard Cooking

What is this picture all about?  Read the whole Char-B-Que story and find out. Author:  Jock Gill

Problems created by our internal contradictions

Bob Herbert of the New York Times has it right: …we are still left with a disaster of a war in Afghanistan that cannot be won and that the country as a whole will not support. Winning in Afghanistan & Pakistan will require that Saudia Arabia stop using our oil dollars to fund the Taliban, [...]

Everyman's gas well in a can, a distributed solution

Yesterday, I took a novel approach to converting short cycle organic carbon, a product of photosynthesis, into long cycle elemental carbon, biochar, with a one quart retort.  It gave a very clean result with the retort clean as a whistle at the end.  No tarry residues on the inside of the lid or any place [...]

The Sanctity of Life; Faith as the Underpinning of the Family

Dr. Farooq Hassan1 Barrister at Law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Pakistan, (QC), Attorney at Law, (US) Special UN Ambassador for Family, Professor, Harvard (Synopsis of address given at first Family Values Congress on 2nd and 3rd June 2010 at Baden Powell House, 65-67 Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, London) I must now turn to address the [...]