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 ...
Building Offshore Platforms, But Not For Drilling
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Government, Responsibility | 1 Comment »I have a dream that one day a politician will get on TV and tell people gas prices are supposed to be high, and that there's a cost to living 50 miles from an urban center. She'll say that cost ...
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, ...
Living in the City is Greener
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Government, Ideas, Local, Society | No Comments »A new study has (re)confirmed what is obvious to most: city residents pollute less than their suburban counterparts. The study was completed by the Brookings Institute and released yesterday. The most basic conclusion from the report is that "each resident of ...
