The real problem at Rio 2012 is that most countries, including the United States, have abandoned genuine commitment to solving environmental problems. All that warm and fuzzy tree hugging is bad for business and that simply can’t be allowed. The…
My good friend Bonnie (who has since moved to France where she doesn’t have a lawn to kill) had this on her bumper for years. She transformed her front yard and as soon as you got out of your car,…
On May 4, 2001 Prince Charles gave a quite brilliant keynote speech at The Future of Food Conference at Georgetown. This 45 pg. book ($6.99) is the text of the speech, along with introduction and afterword. What you may not…
PBS reports on the continuing Texas drought and its impact on small towns. Some areas don’t have enough water to fight fires, and last year the fire season was the worst ever. The town of Robert Lee is building a…
The Agonist, from Don in West Texas, on the current devastating Texas drought, which may continue for another year and even intensify. We raise more cattle than anywhere in these United States. Or we once did, anyway… As I speak,…
It may be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent, one of the nation’s most senior weather experts warned yesterday. “There is absolutely no debate that Australia is warming,”…
Environmental Economics shows us how severe the drought is in Georgia.
In August 2007, a Russian adventurer descended 4,300 meters under the thinning ice of th North Pole to plant a titanium flag, claiming some 1.2 million square kilometers of the Arctic for mother Russia. Not to be outdone, the Prime…
The Rio Grande has no excess water left to give, so border cities are looking at desalination. “The Rio Grande is one of the most stressed river basins in the world and water use is already at its limit,” said…
Nearly one million people lack drinking water in a southern Chinese province that is suffering its worst water shortage in more than 50 years due to insufficient rain. The hidden cause of many water shortages, whether they be in China…