That Live Earth link

Here's that link I promised for the Live Earth Washington Post article where even the eco-man admitted that they would need to plant 100,000 trees just to offset the gas created by this global event.

Here's a sci-fi short story that someone should write. I would, but I think I can finally admit I probably will never be able to write a legitimate short story. So, 30 years in the future, it's the whole standard distopia/crumbling infrastructure type society. the big deal is the restriction on energy usage and the basic human liberties that are violated for the greater good of the planet. Basically, Al Gore's hologram appears to give people tickets for inefficient use of energy. I think it would work best as a Vonnegut-crazy type short story instead of a deadly serious short story. Not very well developed yet, but that's like all my artistic ideas. I have lyrics and track lists to an album that will never be (actually it was a three CD concept set...I believe the names of the albums were Apocolyptic Sun, Geriatric Moon, and Hermaphroditic Stars but I never got beyond the track list and album cover of Apocolyptic Sun) and the plot and final lines to at least three Great American Novels. Oh, and for a brief time I thought about creating an artistic scene with some of my friends and calling it the Northeast Orem Group (like the Bloomsbury group or whatever) and our work would feature a complete rejection of 20th Century literature's obsession with sex. At least they went on to form a post-rock band of local renown (but I don't think they incorporated any of the thematic elements that we discussed).