Somehow, I don’t think this would be a very good idea in Alaska. Right when we needed it the most, the sun would fail to cooperate. Nobody ever stops to think that anybody lives north of the 60th parallel. We could use a little gorbal warming up here, guys. Guys? ...guys...??
Why do I feel like I have heard all of this before?
Soon all of the rain forests will be gone.
Soon there will be nowhere left to dispose our garbage
Soon all of the forest in New England will be denuded by acid rain.
Soon all of the oceans will be dead.
Nice looking house IF it weren’t for all those UGLY solar panels!
Dee Boyle-Clapp, former executive director of the Pioneer Valley Humane Society, has been named the new program coordinator for the Arts Extension Service.
Boyle-Clapp was a board member for the Franklin Arts Council and the Shelburne Falls Area Business Association and was a co-owner of Artemis Gallery in Shelburne Falls. She served as a founding member and first director of the Art Bank, the community art school and performance center in Shelburne Falls, and was most recently the program coordinator for the Fostering the Arts and Culture Partnership, a John and Abigail Adams grant funded through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Boyle-Clapp is working with Leo Hwang-Carlos, Greenfield Community College’s associate dean of humanities, and members of the college’s business department to explore the creation of an artist-and-business series of online courses that will be available to students at GCC, the Arts Extension Service and the University Without Walls program.
A sculptor, Boyle-Clapp earned bachelor’s degrees in both art and art history from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She received her Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from UMass Amherst. She has taught at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden in Lincoln, the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield and other venues.
Your hosts at Starlight Llama are builder John Clapp and sculptor Dee Boyle-Clapp.
Starlight Llama is the region’s only solar-powered, off-the-grid, bed and breakfast in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Our newly opened bed and breakfast is just minutes from downtown Northampton, but light years from the hustle and bustle of daily life.
Hike, bike, snowshoe, and if you’d like, walk our trails with a llama, toss a snack to the peacocks, or see why everyone loves our miniature donkey. A visit to our llama farm, takes you to 65 acres of conservation restricted property that has been in our family for 6 generations.
Starlight Llama offers three beautiful rooms each decorated with original art, a mix of antique, contemporary and Shaker reproduction furniture. Each has its own private bathroom and two offer a private entrance.
Breakfast starts with coffee or an offering of teas, fresh fruit, and a delicious gourmet breakfast of Swedish oatmeal pancakes, cider French toast, egg dishes compliments of our free-range hens.
http://www.starlightllama.com/index.html
Our Rooms and Fees
Starlight Llama Bed and Breakfast offers three rooms in our contemporary home. Built in 2000, two rooms have their own attached private baths and their own entrance. A third room has its own private bath located directly across the hall. Each room has a queen sized bed and is decorated with original art, a blend of antique and contemporary furniture and Shaker furniture built by John.
Rooms can accommodate one or two people. Children over 12 years of age are welcome, but will need their own room.
Starlight Llama is smoke free in the building and the grounds. If you miss your pets, enjoy our dog and cat.
Room fees are $100 per night. Check in is 5:00 p.m. or as arranged. Check-out is 11 a.m.
Reservations will require a 50% deposit. Cancellations 2 weeks in advance will be credited. We prefer a two-night stay.
Breakfast is served from 8:30 to 10. We will work to accommodate your dietary needs and schedule. Breakfast is gourmet vegetarian, and features a variety of free-range egg dishes. Start with granola, fresh fruit, and enjoy one of our delectable timbales, Swedish oatmeal pancakes, or unique dishes featuring seasonal foods fresh from our garden.
American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT)
www.amsat.ws
Dee Boyle-Clapp, Executive Administrator
The American Society for the Alexander Technique is the largest professional association of certified Alexander Technique teachers in the United States. The Alexander Technique is a proven, effective way to promote wellness and optimize functioning by eliminating body misuse in everyday activities. AmSATs mission is to define, maintain, and promote the Alexander Technique at its highest standard of professional practice and conduct.
The Alexander Technique is a form of education that is applied to recognize and overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement and thinking.
Some regard the Alexander Technique as a first-hand experience of the reality of body/mind unity.
undoing old habits may trigger possibly unpleasant “unresolved” emotions that originally were the basis for the development of the subject’s habitual remedies. Through release of these habitual remedies, an adjustment of other facets of the person may be neccessary - sometimes involving medical practictioners
The effectiveness of the Alexander Technique has not been thoroughly verified in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
/falls out of chair laughing
“You can still feel good about lessening your carbon footprint.”
This is what it’s all about - feeling good - relieving your guilt.
You’ve got to give it to the environazis, they’ve done a superb job of instilling guilt in the sheeples, and now, like a priest at a confessional, they can impose any penance they wish on the flock.
Look at all the clear cutting for that loooong driveway, and firewood.
I wonder how much fuel he uses to cut all that grass. I could go on
but he's not worth it. John Edwards would be proud.
If the electricity I use to heat starts to cost more than 14 cents per kWh, or propane starts to cost less than $1.25 per gallon, I'll keep cooking with propane and heating with electricity.
Every emasculated liberal wants his 15 minutes of fame. Pick a cause, any cause.
What happens if the triple-pane low-e glass used in the home breaks, which eventually it will. Cavemen can't make that. What happens when the generator breaks down? If you heat with wood, what happens when your last chainsaw breaks. Are you prepared to cut with at two man saw?
"Off the grid" is an illusion of independence that may give comfort to some. But if civilization falls apart, that last chainsaw blade is going to be gone pretty fast.
I notice the three woodstove chimneys punching thru his roof from that side view of his home. Three woodburners @ an average of 50,000 BTU each heats his house, not solar. He does not generate enough solar to even power his refrigerator.
Wasn't a bad article until I read that, and got rather ill.
I do think those people need to get on a floe.
Oh yea, screw michael faraday. We should all make our own electricity. Isn’t the point of alternating current that we can just hook up and energize or supply with little loss of efficiency? And we don’t have to have those crappy panels all over the place.
Geothermal, on the other hand, is where its at . . . literally. No grid required.
Dee Boyle-Clapp is de worst kind. That aside, these flakes may serve a purpose in moving solar power along to wherever it will eventually fit in.
Not to knock Mr Clapp, but there are a couple of mis-conceptions here. First, covering 125,000 square miles with a solar farm in arizona actually ADDS to global warming, can you see why? Second, it is naive to think solar electricity will replace fossil fuels, it will just be in ADDITION to other energy sources. The instant you use energy(higher to lower Potential energy level via Kinetic energy)it becomes WASTE HEAT/entropy, and the only way the biosphere gets rid of heat is by T^4 radiation to space.
Thus all this talk of energy SOURCES is slanted the wrong way. Keep ADDING new energy via human use and before you know it, the outside temp becomes 150 deg F. Instead of ADDING to the problem, INSULATE as best you can, reduce your energy useage as much as possible. Saint Peter says this age ends in FIRE, give everyone(7 billion people)whole atomic bombs worth of energy to play with, and it WILL...FAST!
Dee Boyle-Clapp
What an unfortunate name...