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Jun 2, 2004
"There is no compulsory, mechanical evolution. Evolution is the result of conscious struggle." --G. Gurdjieff
Paint Your Roofs
Paint your roofs white, use lighter color pavements and plant more trees. Those are suggestions by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, in response to cities becoming "heat islands" (hotter than its surrounding environments). Since one sixth of the electricity consumed in the United States goes to cool buildings, at an annual power cost of $40 billion, people are starting to listen to old technology answers.