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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: Into the Wind

Friday, October 19th, 2007 Posted in Activism, Design, Housing, Responsibility, Water | No Comments »

Holy Tornado Batman! It's been breezy as "all get out" in the Lou the last two days. I don't really know what that means but I think it makes me sound hip . . . I just blew it, didn't ...

A Few Fish May Inherit the Earth

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Housing, Water | 2 Comments »

Well maybe. Today's post strings together thoughts on three recent news items. First, in order of decreasing "drasticity", is news that two-thirds of the world's largest cities are vulnerable rising sea levels caused by global warming. "At risk" must be some sort ...

So Many Bad Things . . .

Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in Corporations, Environment, Sustainability, Water | No Comments »

Oh man, Mondays are hard enough to deal with. But throw in daylight savings time (so stupid), an incessantly meowing cat and stupid people at the helm of very powerful countries and companies and the shock to the system is ...

Fishy Practices

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Posted in Environment, Responsibility, Water | 1 Comment »

As we all know, fishermen are a little trigger happy with the ol' reel. Now, the companies who drive demand, and itchy trigger fingers, are doing something about it. This article by Marc Gunther discusses the problem of over fishing ...