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Prop C, Baby!

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Energy, Politics, Sustainability | No Comments »

Two days left, for a lot of things, but especially for Proposition C in Missouri. My last post was about the measure as is this one. I spent a few hours this morning canvassing with literature outside the Edward Jones ...

Pick Your Cancer

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Ideas, Politics, Sustainability, Technology | 1 Comment »

Ohhhh 'bama, what have you done? Offshore drilling? Really? Our cancer isn't the dependency on foreign oil, it's the dependency on oil period, and other fossil fuels, from wherever they hail. Oil taken from our backyards, or coal from our stripped lands, ...

John McWhatThe . . .

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Environment, Government, Politics, Sustainability | No Comments »

I feel like I've been apologizing quite a bit recently for posting sparsely. Well, apologies for all the apologies, and once again for the original apology's catalyst. The much more steady communicator, Sierra Club's Carl Pope, sent me (and thousands, if ...

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 ...

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 ...