With another deadly climate disaster in the Philippines taking 10,000 lives the world is sure to be more aware of Climate Change. It’s a slow awareness, creeping into daily life. The more awareness that human
activity causes climate change, the more people start to wonder what they can do to help stop it.
Cars are not the only cause of CO2 rising in our planet’s atmosphere and causing global warming. Cars are just one of the big contributors. We have been talking about cars and CO2 for a while now, building an electric car that drove across North America without using any gasoline and sharing how ultra low CO2 emissions can be possible even with a big car. We demonstrated that there is a real alternative to fossil fuelsin daily personal transportation, a clear way that negates the need for gasoline.
In our journey across North America we saved the weight of our car (over 6300 LBS) in CO2 compared to what would have been emitted if we had used gasoline. When we arrived in Washington, I spoke to the National Farmers Union about bio-fuels and what CO2 is doing to our planet. Recently at SEMA in Las Vegas I spoke about the replacement of fossil fuels in daily driving with the Bio Electric Transportation model.
I hope we start to bring CO2 back down to earth, back in balance, where it belongs.
After Neil Young’s keynote speech earlier this month to the 2013 SEMA Show held by the Specialty Equipment Market Association in Las Vegas, UQM Technologies Inc., a maker of high-tech motors for electric cars is publically praising his initiative.
UQM is also the supplier of the engine for Young’s LincVolt – his 1959 Lincoln Continental clean energy prototype.
Mark Harden, News Director of the Denver Business Journal writes about it in the Wall Street Journal: “We have a pretty good idea that Neil Young is on the playlists of execs at Colorado’s UQM Technologies Inc. To the Longmont-based makers of high-tech electric motors for vehicles, Young is a rocker with a heart of gold, sending UQM a lotta love.”
“We are delighted that Neil Young once again chose UQM for the electric motor and controller for this second-generation LincVolt,” Eric R. Ridenour, UQM’s president and CEO, said in a press release. “We commend him for using his considerable fame to reach an extremely diverse audience with positive messages about the benefits of vehicle electrification.”
Harden, name-dropping song lyrics, writes: “In other words, Young is a transformer man who feels there comes a time to go out on the weekend with an electric-powered old man’s car that runs like a hurricane. My, my, hey, hey.”
Neil Young turns 68: His Best of the last 25 Years
Article by Chris Gerard of metroweekly; November 12, 2013 11:35 AM
“”Everybody knows Neil Young is one of the greatest artists in rock history. Most listeners and casual fans are mostly familiar with his earlier stuff, classic albums like “Harvest,” “After the Gold Rush,” “Zuma,” and “Rust Never Sleeps.” When you hear a Neil Young track on rock radio (probably classic rock radio, to be precise), it’s likely to be from one of those albums.
But his vast catalog has an incredible number of underrated gems and songs and albums appreciated mostly by his devoted fanbase. He’s never really gone away. He’s remained incredibly prolific over the last quarter century, and his late-era catalogue is definitely worth exploring even though the size of it can be daunting. While there are missteps, he’s mostly been on a long string of inspiration that seems a bit taken for granted. In celebration of his 68th birthday, here is a survey of his best cuts of the last 25 years:
read more (has comments on each song):
metroweekly.com/soundwaves/2013/11/neil-young-turns-68-his-best-of-the-last-25-years.html
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songs listed:
1. Hippie Dream (“Landing on Water”, 1986)
2. When Your Lonely Heart Breaks (“Life”, 1987)
3. Coupe de Ville (“This Note’s For You”, 1988)
4. Feel Your Love (“American Dream”, 1988)
5. Cocaine Eyes (“Eldorado” EP, 1989)
6. Crime in The City (Sixty To Zero Part I) (“Freedom”, 1989)
7. Mansion on the Hill (“Ragged Glory”, 1990)
8. Unknown Legend (“Harvest Moon”, 1992)
9. Philadelphia (“Philadelphia” soundtrack, 1993)
10. Transformer Man (“Unplugged”, 1993)
11. Trans Am (“Sleeps With Angels”, 1994)
12. I’m the Ocean (“Mirrorball”, 1995)
13. This Town (“Broken Arrow”, 1996)
14. Slowpoke (“Looking Forward”, 1999)
15. Silver & Gold (“Silver & Gold”, 2000)
16. You’re My Girl (“Are You Passionate?”, 2002)
17. Bandit (“Greendale”, 2003)
18. The Painter (“Prairie Wind”, 2005)>
19. Shock & Awe (“Living With War”, 2006)
20. Boxcar (“Chrome Dreams II”, 2007)
21. Light A Candle (“Fork in the Road”, 2009)
22. Love and War (“Le Noise”, 2010)
23. Jesus' Chariot (“Americana”, 2012)
24. Ramada Inn (“Psychedelic Pill”, 2012)
to this guys opinion… discuss it. Why taking up personal Neil-Young-lists to the public when every fans knows that this is always fickle like Neil Young nad his music.
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On Neil Young’s 68th Birthday American Songwriter looks back on a 2011 Cover Story “Neil Young & Daniel Lanois Love and War.”
It’s a well-written, thoughtful Q & A with the legendary songwriter, and a nice issue for collectors of Neil memorabilia.
Does he really look like Gregory Peck?
Meanwhile fans are looking forward to Young’s 4-day acoustic concert series at Carnegie Hall in New York come January, with hopes for a U.S. Tour.
The interview starts:
“Serious, intense, with hooded blue-gray eyes that always seem capable of pinning you to the wall, Neil Young looks like a man who has forged an uneasy peace with himself and the choices that he’s made.
“Gone is much of that early restlessness and ire; the kind of discontent that found him pitching televisions out of third story windows into southern California canyons, or scowling onstage amid a 15-minute version of “Down By The River,” without ever acknowledging his audience.
“Two months from his 65th birthday, there is an air of quiet acceptance about him as he sits with perfect posture in his smart white Panama hat, trimmed beard and green military jacket. His lived-in features – chiseled and defined – give him the air of an aging leading man, and as you take a step back and squint, he resembles no one so much as Gregory Peck, with the same mixture of obsession and righteousness.”
““Folks, whether you agree with Honour the Treaties or not, please try to back up what you say with facts as we have that will help your points. Diatribes against old rockers are water off a duck’s back for me and don’t help your cause or educate ours. If you are able to, try to add something meaningful when you contribute. everyone would benefit.” by -- ny #honourthetreaties
Neil Young on Tour
Sugar Mountain setlists
Tom Hambleton provides BNB with setlists, thankfully. His website is the most comprehensive searchable archives on the Internets about anything Neil Young related setlists. Goto Sugar Mountain.
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