Casey Serin, who bought eight house in eight months with no money down by, well, making shit up, has now lost most of his homes and will unquestionably lose all of them. So what’s he doing on his blog? Planning to expand the site so as to help others through foreclosure. Right…

Reminds me of a Wayne Kramer lyric, “there’s a self-improvement book called ‘Getting Used to Poverty’ “…

Casey, bless him, seems bound and determined to avoid doing any actual work that might avoid foreclosures. Rather, he blogs about it and dreams about the Big Score that’ll make everything right

Which reminds me of another lyic, this one by Springsteen, “The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.” But unlike Springsteen, most of them just end up as road kill, fattening the vultures.

And with the subprime market imploding, there will be lots of carrion for the financial elites to feast on.

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“Rivers regularly no longer reach the sea, like the Indus in Pakistan, the Nile in Africa and the Rio Grande … There are millions of people whose livelihoods are at risk,” said Jamie Pittock, director of WWF’s global freshwater programme.

How insane is that? Letting rivers become so depleted that they no longer flow into the ocean is a perfect, if tragic example of how short-sighted gain and greed are allowed to override long-term good.

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A goal for many companies and cities now is to eliminate garbage completely. Seriously.

The deeper purpose here is to change the way things are made. “From our perspective, waste doesn’t need to exist,” says San Francisco’s Blumenfeld. “It’s a design flaw.”

One thing that really needs to change is the plastic packaging and excess cardboard that too many products come wrapped in, packaging that just goes straight to a landfill somewhere most of the time.

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