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Be prepared

(First of a series of articles on preparedness) I teased Bob about his disaster preparedness plan when he posted about the Solar/Hand-Cranked Cell Charger, but I was only half joking.  The average disaster readiness score for Americans hit 4.1 out…

Climate Encounter: After Copenhagen

Copenhagen failed, but that doesn’t mean we’re powerless in the face of climate change. This video, the first of a series, briefly examines the Copenhagen debacle and what we can do about it.

An end to politics as usual

DJ comments on our post Firedoglake goes after Rahm, White House deals with Fannie, Freddie. Like him, I am beyond tired of one party blaming the other for their problems while using it as a ploy to increase their campaign…

The Gospel according to Goldman

As a graduate in theology, I was interested to read that Goldman Sachs believes the Gospels promote self interest. However, I have learned there is an apocryphal basis for that position.  It turns out that biblical archaeologists have unearthed a…

Expanding our business

My wife and I raise dairy goats.  Last April, after two years of making cheese in our kitchen, we decided to “go pro” and get our cheesemaking license.  This required a new building with specific characteristics like plastic walls, floor…

What we have now isn’t capitalism

(By DJ, promoted from the comments here to America’s love affair with capitalism a fatal attraction?) Before we talk about America’s self-destructive love affair with capitalism, we need to define it. So many still fail to make the distinction between…