Compare the Candidates
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 Posted in Energy, Politics | 2 Comments »So Mike Huckabee thinks we should quarantine people with AIDS and allow our children to mutilate and murder household pets with no consequence. Sounds like a winner to me. Given people with AIDS are lesser than those without (please sense ...
Ethanol Wanks
Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted in Energy, Transportation | 2 Comments »I've said it a dozens times right here on this blog - the ethanol craze is mind-numbingly ill-founded and politically driven. Now there's science (ahhhhh!) to back it up. I don't read USA Today often, but I was traveling for work ...
Coal for President
Saturday, December 1st, 2007 Posted in Energy, Politics | No Comments »Josh Dorner has written a great piece on how infectious the coal industry is trying to become. I've already seen numerous extremely deceptive advertisements on television about "clean" coal, which to me is the equivalent of a "soothing" kick to ...
Recent Readings: Food Money School Oil Bear
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Posted in Agriculture, Capitalism, Education, Energy, Environment, Recent Readings | No Comments »This may be my only post this week. I'll be at an offsite for work for the next couple of days . . . eh, maybe I'll be able to get one in on Friday. You'll just have to wait ...
Recent Readings: Tomorrow Zealand Fat Mart Panels
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Posted in Energy, Environment, Health, Recent Readings, Sustainability, Technology | No Comments »Great stuff today. Mostly uplifting, always educational. Enjoy. Energy | A Nation Called Tomorrow | "Senator Hillary Clinton this morning staked her place out in the debate over a new energy policy and global warming, and did so definitively, referring to "the ...
Solar Fat Plastic Gas Bacteria
Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Energy, Health, Recent Readings, Technology, Vegetarianism, Water | No Comments »New format folks. The other one was a bit hard to read, with everything bunched together and my comments in italics. Who wants that? No one. But, if anyone wants to name their garage band Solar Fat Plastic Gas Bacteria, the name is ...
Friday Wrap-Up
Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Awards, Climate Change, Development, Energy, Recent Readings, Transportation | No Comments »Not really jonesin' to write about any one thing today so I thought I share what I've been reading. As long-time readers know, I used to intermittently post a Sustain-a-Links newsletter, which basically consisted of tidbits from interesting articles from ...
Financing Black Smoke
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Responsibility, green | missouri | 2 Comments »I was in a relatively good environmental mood today. The heat finally broke in St. Louis and most of what I'd read or heard today had been positive. But, reading this article, posted on AlterNet, was the equivalent of watching The ...
What’s the Point?
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in Energy, Environment, Responsibility, Society, Technology | 6 Comments »Thomas Friedman's, "Doha and Dalian," piece from last Wednesday's New York Times is depressing, for sure, but also capitulating. His message to Americans: there's no point of buying hybrids or using compact fluorescent light bulbs since energy-consuming development in Asia is ...
America’s Corn-Based Idiocy
Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Politics, Society, Technology | 1 Comment »Please remain calm and in a single-file line or we'll Taser you until you wet yourself. I'd like to share with you an editorial from the International Herald Tribune, a New York Times outfit but still a decent clear-headed international ...
