Day March 28, 2007

S.F. to ban plastic grocery bags

Rule applies to shopping bags made from petroleum products Proponent says ban would save 450,000 gallons of oil a year Board of Supervisors votes yes, mayor likely to sign law This was spearheaded by Green Party activist Ross Mikarimi, who…

Tell Mama – Shawn Pander

Check this video of Tell Mama by country / folk singer Shawn Pander. It’s quite moving, from the point of view of a soldier in Iraq twelve days from shipping home. He’s seen too much blood, too much death, too…

Minutemen attack themselves

A California judge has ruled neither founder Jim Gilchrist nor three directors of the racist anti-immigrant Minutemen can have control of the group, citing “serious issues concerning the credibility of the claims of both Jim Gilchrist and the defendantsâ┚¬Â¦” Thus,…

Running out of coal?

We may be entering a period of peak coal, just like we are with peak oil. Which will be none to soon for this highly polluting and destructive abomination of an energy source, you ask me.