Bob Morris

Bob Morris

Bob Morris, the webmaster, is interested in the political ramifications of cleantech, climate change, and the economic crisis as well as leftie, antiwar, and social issues. From 2004-2007 he was active in the antiwar movement in Los Angeles and helped organize demonstrations that drew hundreds of thousands of protesters. From 2001-2003, he was Co-Coordinator of the Green Party of Los Angeles County Council.

Jail Guitar Doors. Musical instruments to prisons

Jail Guitars Doors brings guitars, songwriting and music classes to prisons. It was co-founded by MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, who served time in federal prison for drugs. So, he’s been there. Kramer started it based on a similar foundation in…

Iowa and Texas are leaders in wind energy

Wind energy by state

Iowa now gets 57% of its electricity from in-state wind energy, and it does this consistently. Texas produces way more megawatts of wind energy than other states. No other state is even close. Yes, I know, this is completely the…

Twitter bans everything! Yeah, that’ll work…

Crazy Elon thinks banning links to other social media will somehow stop Twitter from self-destructing. It won’t. Instead,it will speed the process, as more advertisers and users leave. Mastodon in particular is thriving now. Lots of journalists there now. All…

Crunchy to far-right recruiting

If it’s anything like little Marxist parties in the US, crunchy to far-right recruiting is done through front groups and is quite deliberate and organized. Starts out doing your research on organic food, then proceeds through anti-vax to purity to…