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The future of biofuels is happening in Ft. Myers & Lee County. Stay tuned for my forthcoming story on Algenol.

Tampa Bay area electric utility company, Tampa Electric (TECO)  has recently acquired some electric vehicles for its service fleet and is  moving to make owning electric vehicles easier for Tampa citizens. They created an electric vehicle page on their website to address our community’s interest in electric vehicles &  provide information about the different vehicles on the market.  Charging options,  costs to charge electric vehicles & other educational information about sustainable cars and how Tampa Electric is using them in their fleet is covered. Perhaps most interesting for a prospective EV buyer is  Tampa Electric’s commitment to develop plug-in electric vehicle infrastructure in our area.

The Teco website also includes information on hybrids and natural gas vehicles, which they are also adding to their fleet. As far as electric vehicles, Tampa Electric has purchased the Chevy Volt & Nissan Leaf for their fleet, so if you keep your eyes open you may see these cars on Tampa’s streets bearing the TECO logo.

Visit the TECO  Electric vehicle page to learn more about EV’s, their green fleet and other information.

Go to the link below to let the FDA know your feelings about BPA in food packaging. The chemical has been found to be leaching from can linings into more than half of canned foods, beverages and liquid infant formula tested. This synthetic estrogen is used to harden plastic. It is also found in epoxy for food can linings and polycarbonate plastics for beverage bottles. It’s also used in some store receipts. It can disrupt the hormone system & is linked to health problems including early puberty, brain & heart disorders, infertility & prostate & breast cancer.

The FDA has begun a program to discourage companies from using BPA, but has thus far not mandated it be removed from food packaging. You can help avoid forcing government to legislate that which can be changed by consumers becoming conscious of there buying habits & making change in the marketplace. Companies will not produce what people will not buy. Watch labels for new notices about BPA content and support the companies that voluntarily have removed it or don’t use it.

You can also See the link below to let the FDA know how you feel.
OR, you could do the most optimal thing for your health and the health of our planet: Buy only fresh food without packaging. Study how to become a vegan. You will set yourself free from low energy, fatigue disease… You will stop producing so much garbage, you will set animals free from confinement, murder, etc. etc.

tell the FDA how you feel about BPA!

Join our partners at The Environmental Working Group & Tell the FDA you want them  to label genetically engineered foods. Click the link below & sing petition

http://action.ewg.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1971&tag=201203GMOFinalEmailSubB&utm_source=201203gmofinalemailsubb&utm_medium=email&utm_content=first-link&utm_campaign=food

A reporter from one of the two largest Tampa Newspapers ambush interviewed me last week by phone to ask what I thought about urban chickens, particularly the ones that had been illegally forced upon me by my  neighbors. I replied verbally & later by e-mail. Below is what I e-mailed her. She then wrote a fluff piece about my neighbor’s losing their beloved “pets” in which she portrayed me as the villain for  standing up for health, peace & fresh air  in my own home & misquoted me in the process. She also endangered my life & property by putting my name & address in the piece & I had some chicken freak muttering to at my home.  I won’t even link you to her article because it is just a bleeding heart piece with no useful information for consumer health, so that’s the reason I’m posting here what she ignored. The following covers some of what I was forced to endure for a year, & they’ll be more information forthcoming because The City Of Tampa is going to hold hearings on allowing hens to invade your Tampa neighborhood & there are health, safety, tax, property value, insurance & ecological issues you should be aware of before codes that will directly affect your daily life are pushed through while you were busy working to meet that mortgage payment.

Side-note to anyone for the movement: I will correct anything I got wrong in this article if you can provide reliably sourced scientific data to support your statement. As you can see from this website, my books & other media, I am a committed environmentalist & will support your effort if it benefits more than the few who want to do what you propose. My direct experience is that it is not right for tightly knit, densely populated city neighborhoods. I don’t just mean for the people either, I mean for the animals too. I’ve actually thought of a way to work this out so all sides may win something & all  (including the animals)  are respected, but more about that later…

The  problem in my experience was that my neighbors did it all wrong. They did not ask in advance for my thoughts about  introducing a hen flock into our lives (and we were once friends & moreover I lived here before they did). They did not offer to work on a solution with me after the fact, they ignored the medical & financial damages they were causing after I described them in detail  & to add insult to injuries, they lectured me with their opinions on environmentalism & told me how they’d argue to skirt the law rather than talk about a solution. It’s people like this that give your cause a black eye. We’re all in this together & need to be respectful of each other’s pleas & plights. Had my neighbors cooperated it wouldn’t have come to the sob story the columnist used as a basis of her article when my neighbor was forced to comply because she was in fact breaking several sections of two codes for over a year. Moreover she was breaking the golden rule & higher laws that cannot be twisted by lawyers in the courts of mortals. Read the rest of this entry →

The following reviews for my book “Apocalypse Near“, sorted from newest to oldest. Please post your review or comment below or & on it’s Amazon page.

2011 Writer’s Digest Awards Judge’s commentary on “Apocalypse Near” by “E” (pseudonym)

“The writing resonates with this author’s passion for speculative fiction and his compassion for the human experience with all of its ups and downs, especially in the area of collective consciousness. The author relates a thought-provoking tale while always keeping at the forefront the travails of putting one’s heart on the line and making oneself vulnerable through acts of heroism. An insightful story showing strength of character and personal growth. The narrator and other characters are, individually and together, certainly strong enough to carry the narrative, which prompts the reader’s interest in always wanting to know what will happen next.”

Rip-roaring sci-fi adventure with a serious social conscience
by Cole Bellamy

The author’s self-described ‘metaphysical autobiography’ may just be the next big step in the arms race between fantasy and reality. This book has a strong sense of the fantastical while keeping an eye on the the impact that literature can potentially have on the real world. Filled with scenes of both the beauty and terror, Apocalypse Near is a novel that refuses to exist in a vacuum, it is unashamedly didactic, a book that has a clear and important message yet doesn’t skimp on solid, pulpy, action or original imagery. While the writing is slightly clunky at times, it hardly takes away from the overall experience of the book. I highly recommend it to fans of the social/political pulp sci-fi of the 60′s and the 70′s, authors like Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Keith Laumer and E.E. Doc Smith.

A Multigenre Multimedia Masterpiece!, April 26, 2010

Apocalypse Near: A Metaphysical ODDyssey is truly a work ahead of its time, pioneering the genre of the hyper-real. (According to the author, “Hyper-reality is to reality what metaphysics is to physics.”) In this ultra personal memoir, author and protagonist “E” reveals to the reader that knowledge is the ultimate defence against the imminent annihilation humankind brings on itself– and fear, the ultimate enemy.

The story, unfolding from a first-person vantage point, begins with his looming death sentence under a freeway overpass and continues through rescue, recovery, and REVELution. Upon waking up following intensive emergency brain surgery, the protagonist finds himself with no memory of his former life, and the terrifying revelation of earth’s pending expiration date. This is his quest to simultaneously unravel the mystery of his identity and to reveal to the ignorant unknowing masses their own self-demise– and what might be done to stop it. In the midst of this significant task, he finds himself fighting a new enemy of his own making. In a story at some times comical and others terrifying, the dualistic settings are first described in terms of the physical “seen” and then what lies beyond sensory perception, relentlessly drawing the audience in and converting him from reader to spectator in this divine comedy. Read the rest of this entry →

Altering God’s nature to make it patentable & making plants unable to reproduce themselves is the height of evil. Monsanto nothing, an appropriate name is “MonSatan”.
This spring, Monsanto’s new, potentially toxic, GMO sweet corn will be getting planted for the first time. As the largest food retailer in the country, Walmart needs to take a stand for consumer safety and reject this unlabeled, untested product before it takes root.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/walmart_gmo_corn/?rc=fb_share1

[Tampa, 1/26/12,   07:29pm] We are assisting in the placement of a micro-flock of prized, egg laying hens to a loving home. Please message us or mryeicki@tampabay.rr.com if you can care for these chickens. You must first check with your local government & neighbors to make sure you are permitted to keep such animals on your residence. First person to contact us will win these hens.

Gulf is gelded & Florida Bobbitt-severed from mainland!

By  The Green Ranter (A.P.P. Associated Psychic Press).

In the use of vast amounts of Nalco Corexit dispersant, BP & their human minions did the planetary equivalent of sweeping dirt under a rug. In this case the rug was the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Please allow me to introduce how this & other factors including factory farms, the typical American lawn, ongoing fossil fuel use, golf courses, municipal waste water, & Hurricane Virginie led to castration on a continental scale as well as the severing of Florida from the lower 48. Humans tinkering with things they don’t understand (i.e. biochemical nanotechnology) have bred their first nano-monster. Didn’t Godzilla teach you anything after you let the nuclear cat out of the bag? Read the rest of this entry →