The Fredstrom is a Citizen!

You may have been hearing all the buzz about Planet Orange. The Fredstrom just registered as a member of Planet Orange. It is basically a Phoenix Suns "Myspace" venue. Not sure how much I'll use it but you can click on the blog title to see the Fredstrom's page.

How is life on Planet Orange?

The Fredstrom was hoping to have a better feel for where the Suns are, but he's still up in the air. His biggest concern is the interior defense and rebounding. Kurt Thomas is looking pretty good right now. Amare hitting peoples' elbows with his face not looking good. Amare committing stupid fouls and sitting on the bench- again not good. Raja's jumper was really looking bad but has improved- could it have got any worse? Leandro dropping 39- looked very good, Fredstrom is excited to see how he continues to contribute. Grant Hill looks nice..and of course the Matrix is workin!

San Antonio looks good, Houston will be very interesting this year, Dallas... well not totally sure yet.. It's going to take another 30 games or so to really get a good beat on the West. What do you think?

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If you like Steve Nash then you will love this video...check it out and post your comments.

Go Green or Go Home Pt. 5

Check out these sad stats...
An acre and a half of rainforest are destroyed every second.

70% of rivers are polluted, polluted meaning are not safe for human contact.

The World Health Org. estimates that last year 4.6 million people died from air pollution-related diseases.

50,000 different species of plants, animals, insects go extinct every year.

Here are some more amazing statistics...

Each day America produces enough trash to fill 63,000 dump trucks, line them up and that would go half way to the moon that’s 125,000 miles.

During the Holiday season we produce an extra 5 million tons of trash, 4 million of that is just shopping bags and wrapping paper.

Last year we dumped 14 billion pounds of waste into the oceans.

Can you guess this product?
We use 570 of it a second..
49 million a day
18 billion a year…
to produce this product we 100,000 tons of plastic and 800,000 tons of tree pulp
$350 million just disposing of product and it doesn’t decompose

Diapers….

Let The Fredstrom know what you think...

This is a video of the tour that Rob Bell did last year. There are five previews available on iTunes podcast- Rob Bell. The Fredstrom ordered it and will watch it this week. He has a feeling it's going to be really good... The Fredstrom will let you know...

Things are Heating Up!

We are almost a week out from the start of the 2007-2008 NBA season. The Suns have started off the preseason 4-2, which doesn't mean much. However they have been playing really well together and have yet been aided by the services of Amare. Where will the Suns finish this year? I'm hoping that D'Antoni will use a deeper rotation giving the Suns fresher legs going into the postseason, even if that means not finishing first in the West. Dallas has a lot to prove, San Antonio is a year older, the East is least, no one really scares me. The Fredstrom really likes the Suns chances. What do you think?

Go Green or Go Home Pt. 4

TRANSPORTATION

If tires were properly inflated it would save America 4 million gallons of gas per day
Consolidate trips whenever possible.
Driving slower can save up to 5 miles/gallon.

FUELS OF THE FUTURE:
Research says that corn-based ethanol is not a good idea.
This would effect the globally poor because corn is one of the staple foods for them.
It raises the cost not only of corn but wheat and other grains.

Filling a 25 gallon SUV tank would require over 450 lbs of corn, which contains enough calories to feed one person for a year.
The amount of energy used for planting and harvesting corn is phenomenal. Row crops such as soy beans and corn produce major run-offs and require high amounts of fertilizer and pesticides.

They are the major contributors of nitrogen runoff which has caused the so called “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico an ocean area the size of New Jersey that has little or no oxygen to support life…this effects the fishing industry.

If we increase corn production this would contribute to habitat and ecosystem loss.
The amount of energy to turn corn into ethanol requires the burning of either coals or natural gas which counter-acts the reason for this energy saving idea.

What do you think?