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Though it might seem to be the Contest That Never Ends (we did, after all, first post about this back in early May), voting in the Blogger’s Choice Awards is at last coming to a close. Winners are to be announced November 10th. We’ve been nominated for Best Corporate Blog, and after all these many months we’re holding our own in fourth place, which is great but not quite enough to crack the Top Three where all the action is.

As White Rhino said upon it's forwarding, this guest post is almost poetry of a sort. Eco-haiku, anyone? I have on my bedroom wall an old print from my Mother's 1925 house showing Hercules trying to hold up the world. Sometimes that is how I feel after my walk in the woods and down our dirt road. I pick up bottles and cans as I go and pile them every so often. A neighbor told me since I go to that bother he will take them to the dump. My angst is over the trash, old metal beds, ,jugs used for target practice that I find deep in the woods.

Sometimes a guest post arrives which needs nothing extra added from anyone here. This is one, and here it is… Okay, here goes. My name is Judy Johnson and I am an ordinary-type person of no particular importance to anything or anyone outside of my own circle of family and friends. I do all in my power to do the things necessary to save our planet for the generations to come and to lengthen my life and its enjoyment, but doing that is so much more expensive than the alternative and I am a senior on a fixed income. My frustration is as follows.

Our 2006 Corporate Responsibility Report was released yesterday at 9:30am. It is a web-based report ready for your perusing and feedback. If you have some time please read it and please send us feedback. We get better and better at being responsible when we hear your voice and thoughts on how we can upgrade who we are and how we do business. In advance, thank yoU!!! WR

On August 8, 2007 there were 2.23 million square miles of ice in the Arctic. By September 16th there were only 1.6 million square miles, a decline of 28% in only six weeks. This new level was far below the lowest low previously reached, which was 2.05 million square miles in 2005. How could such a huge change happen so quickly? While most of us no longer question whether global warming is happening, few of us understand the intricate path it is likely to take as it unfolds. One of the most important and least understood aspects of this path is idea of the “feedback loop.”

My good friend Joe Laur from SoL sent me this quote today. Given the comment from Nigel on the Bitter Coal'd post below, thought it was appropriate tone to what we all could do to move from here to there...to create the needed frameworks to design the present state into a world where the well-being of all is considered... Thanks, Joe...............WR The Way of Transformation (From the book by the same title by Karlfried Graf von Durckheim)

Introducing guest blogger Megan Reid. Megan is a student at Berea College and says she’s recently been awakened to the source of the coal that most of the Southeastern United States uses for energy. She writes, “I believe that if everyone knew a little more about it, the majority would have the heart to stand up for what is right and stop sacrificing the mountains and most of all the health of these people that live closest to these sites.” Here’s what else she has to say:

I caught this this morning during my aforementioned day-launching semi-comatose perusal of the New York Times. It’s a great editorial that says much of what I said the other day about global heating and Unnerved Experts and befuddled polar bears and a world that’s melting faster than a scoop of Ben & Jerry’s Super Serious Climate Crunch on a Hummer dashboard in August except, you know… better.

We can, you know. It’s really not as hard as it looks.

Here are some words you really don’t ever want to see put together in a single sentence: “Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts”