tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14956470.post1797614320469445089..comments2023-09-23T06:20:06.687-04:00Comments on Pocahontas County Fare: Does Your Footprint Cast a Shadow?Rebecca Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06494730619850791609noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14956470.post-77152409573042940732008-02-27T13:34:00.000-05:002008-02-27T13:34:00.000-05:00Rebecca, I understand and share your concerns abou...Rebecca, I understand and share your concerns about prejudices and stereotypes. Over the nearly 4 decades that we’ve explored and lived in the Appalachians, I have learned to make a great many changes in my attitudes. One of the things I vowed when I joined my local Ruritan Club (community service) several years ago was that I would not be like the people you mention, who move in and immediately begin telling the people who have lived there for generations what they’re doing wrong and what they should be doing. I know I have a lot to learn from my neighbors so that’s what I want to concentrate on. <BR/><BR/>The “footprint shadow” phrase may be a bit obscure. Wildlife trackers often use the sun when it’s at a low angle – dawn and dusk – to find otherwise invisible tracks because the tiny ridges left by paw prints don’t throw a shadow except at those times. So to see a track at high noon means the imprint must be large. No matter how environmentally correct one tries to be, in this society it’s hard not to leave a large footprint. Thanks, chrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14956470.post-22217771681466050602008-02-26T17:44:00.000-05:002008-02-26T17:44:00.000-05:00Bob, I've been watching the OLPC project with grea...Bob, I've been watching the OLPC project with great interest--very inspiring.<BR/><BR/>Chris, Thanks for reading my post, and taking the time to comment. I'm glad to hear you're on good terms with all sorts of neighbors. We have a very different social dynamic here than you do in the Blue Ridge. I think the native Pocahontas County residents have been put off by environmentalists who who come here from somewhere else and tell them what-all they're doing wrong. It's the missionary mentality, I think.Rebecca Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06494730619850791609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14956470.post-26507731475141532182008-02-26T13:20:00.000-05:002008-02-26T13:20:00.000-05:00Rebecca, your comments on my essay "Hummer House" ...Rebecca, your comments on my essay "Hummer House" are very wide of the mark. The "careless" logger and house-grader are not neighbors; they were hired "professionals" who were willfully and purposefully breaking the law -- otherwise, we could hardly have turned them in. I do have very wonderful neighbors who are loggers and housegraders. They abide by the law. I also have great neighbors who live in trailers (as did i some years ago). Class distinctions are not the issue here, although they may be for you.<BR/>--chris bolgianoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14956470.post-3063336172772370582008-02-26T10:39:00.000-05:002008-02-26T10:39:00.000-05:00Just before seeing this post, I came upon what I t...Just before seeing this post, I came upon what I think is a an example of brilliant common sense that resulted in smaller footprints and shadows:<BR/><BR/>The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) laptop, known as XO or the $100 laptop consumes just 2W of energy, as compared with 30W needed by current ordinary laptops.<BR/><BR/>OLPC's former Chief Technology Officer Mary Lou Jepsen says, "By trying to do the right thing and by designing for the poorest people in the world, we've made the greenest laptop in the world. And that's not just the color!" To Jepsen, the biggest feature of a CPU is how fast you can turn it on and off. "People talk about low-power CPUs -- well, you can get to zero milliwatts of power consumption if you turn it off." Instead of four suspend-renew cycles found in current hardware, the XO has 10,000 such cycles, says Jepsen.<BR/><BR/>Links to Jepsen's keynote address at the Greener Gadgets conference are<BR/>here:<BR/>http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/20/mary-lou-jepsen-at-greener-gadgets/<BR/><BR/>The first video is an abridgment; the second has the full presentation with a few questions from the audience at the end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14956470.post-58503133770778078182008-02-26T10:37:00.000-05:002008-02-26T10:37:00.000-05:00Just before seeing this post, I came upon what I t...Just before seeing this post, I came upon what I think is a an example of brilliant common sense that resulted in smaller footprints and shadows:<BR/><BR/>The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) laptop, known as XO or the $100 laptop consums just 2W of energy, as compared with 30W needed by current ordinary laptops.<BR/><BR/>OLPC's former Chief Technology Officer Mary Lou Jepsen says, "By trying to do the right thing and by designing for the poorest people in the world, we've made the greenest laptop in the world." To Jepsen, the biggest feature of a CPU is how fast you can turn it on and off. "People talk about low-power CPUs -- well, you can get to zero milliwatts of power consumption if you turn it off." Instead of four suspend-renew cycles found in current hardware, the XO has 10,000 such cycles, says Jepsen.<BR/><BR/>Links to Jepsen's keynote address at the Greener Gadgets conference are<BR/><A HREF="" REL="nofollow"><BR/>"http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/20/mary-lou-jepsen-at-greener-gadgets/">here</A><BR/><BR/>The first video is an abridgment; the second has the full presentation with a few questions from the audience at the end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com