Recent Readings: Farm Whale Continent Waste Car
Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Agriculture, Animal Cruelty, Government, Recent Readings, Recycling, Transportation | No Comments »How goes your 2008 thus far? Hopefully it's shaping up as planned. I know it's only January 14 but I've worked out more in 2008 than I did in the last two months of 2007. Where are all the gift ...
International Embarassment in Bali
Friday, December 14th, 2007 Posted in Environment, Government | No Comments »More often than not, President Bush makes a mockery of himself and his office domestically. He usually gets on TV and says something so magnanimously stupid that only a childish smirk will abate the rage in viewers' hearts and minds. It's ...
With Love, From Bali
Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted in Environment, Government | No Comments »From the article, "Al Gore lays blame for Bali stalemate on U.S.": "I am going to speak an inconvenient truth," Gore told an audience of several hundred, playing on the name of his Oscar-winning documentary. And in low tones he added: "My ...
Recent Readings: Rainforest Capture Wind Datacenter Train
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Government, Recent Readings, Technology, Transportation | No Comments »'sup? [speaker makes obligatory head bob] Quite a variety of information today, and as always, really good stuff. Climate Change | The Playbook for Bali | "My guess is that we still don't emerge with a solid funding mechanism to deal ...
NOLA, Two Years Later
Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Development, Environment, Feature, Government, Housing, Sustainability | 5 Comments »As I mentioned in a previous post, my wife and I traveled to New Orleans, LA this past weekend for a wedding. We were fortunate enough to be able to stay an extra day and take a tour of the ...
For What It’s Worth
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Government, Politics | No Comments »So, Karl Rove is resigning. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing . . . honestly. While he was acting "the architect" in the White House he still had to deal with the bureaucracy of government, even ...
They’re Just Bad People
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Government, Politics, Responsibility, Society | 3 Comments »This is an aside to my normal posts regarding the greening of us all, but sustainability is an issue here too - the sustainability of the United States government. Unless you've been living in a hole you've heard that Lewis ...
Federalism At Work, And A Few Other Tidbits
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Energy, Government, Technology | No Comments »First, some miscellany: World Agricultural Congress here calls for world cooperation - I love it when a bunch of senior executives and world leaders get together to figure out how to stop themselves from contributing to world hunger. As we know, self-policing ...
Green Gavels
Monday, April 2nd, 2007 Posted in Climate Change, Government, Politics, Responsibility | No Comments »The Supreme Court ruled today that "the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from cars." The case was "filed by 12 states and 13 environmental groups ...
Does Capital Punishment Make For A Sustainable Society?
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 Posted in Capital Punishment, Government, Ideas, Society | 3 Comments »The Governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley, published a great piece in the Washington Post yesterday called, "Why I Oppose the Death Penalty" (free subscription needed to access). Contrary to most death penalty pieces, which argue for or against the moral basis ...
