Ethanol from poop and cattails used to treat sewage
Not only can clean-burning ethanol be made from sewage waste, cattail marshes are superb ways to filter sewage, and provide biomass for ethanol too.
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.
Month October 2009
Five arrested for torturing foreclosure consultants
Two men hired to save a home from foreclosure were tortured and robbed by five people who thought they were scamming them, say prosecutors.
Self-jiving nation and blood transfusions for vampires
Jim Kunstler The scene in the White House these days must be a sort of Opera Bouffe, in which an earnest and rather grave young man moves from one roomful of lesser officials to another in which all agree to…
IRS doled out $620 million to ineligible filers
Agency paid home-buyer tax credit to taxpayers as young as 4 How could this be, you ask? The IRS does not make people claiming the homebuyer tax credit prove they bought a house Are we just pretending to have a…
Detroit urban laboratory and the new American frontier
$100 homes. Retirees supplementing their income by selling raccoon to eat. Artists moving in and creating de facto new communities. People growing their own food. All of this is heppening in the ‘urban prarie’ that much of Detroit has become.…