Food miles
Hmm, maybe flying strawberries from New Zealand to New England in January isn’t the best of all possible use of resources.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day March 23, 2008
Another antiwar protest flops
“River to River: Join Hands for Peace” in NYC organized by UFJP needed 2500 people to stretch hands fingertip to fingertip across the width of Manhattan to make some pointless symbolic Cumbaya gesture, but got nowhere close to that. Those…
Lhasa riot
The video shows mobs destroying small stores in Lhasa. I saw the same kind of mob violence watching the LA riots on TV as city blocks a few miles away burned and a store down the street got firebombed. Nor…
Wave power for Maui
Maui will soon have Hawaii’s first wave power project. May there be many more. Maui has also been developing sizable amounts of wind power. Makes sense for an island to produce their own clean power rather than ship in oil…
Ahead of the Curve: Business responds to climate change
This professional 12 minute video, Ahead of the Curve, shows how major US corporations like GE, DuPont, J&J, Wal-Mart, and Duke Energy are not only investing millions in lessening their own carbon footprints, they are saving money and spinning off…