Month June 2008

Community-based wind power

National Wind’s Community Wind Model: We form an actual legal business partnership with property owners. We create a joint ownership structure for each wind project with the landowners and community as a partner. Landowners have an opportunity to influence the…

Economic Hit Man John Perkins speaks

Heard John Perkins speak Tuesday night at The Commonwealth Club in SF. He’s the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and the recent The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and…

The Unintended Consequences of Lieberman-Warner

Does the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act contain a loophole that would allow financial speculators to manipulate the price of carbon allowances, escalate the cost of U.S. emissions reduction efforts, and hinder the development of clean energy? It’s a given that…

Attention cannibals: Do not eat Democrats

Alferd Packer was an American cannibal who was sentenced to prison in 1874. The judge was especially upset that he’d eaten Democrats. and, according to a local newspaper, said – “Stand up yah voracious man-eatin’ sonofabitch and receive yir sintince.…