February 12, 2014General North Carolina Fails Its Citizens…Again Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose, right? When a coal plant on North Carolina’s Dan River spilled a massive […]
February 12, 2014February 12, 2014General The Eternal Now It’s just a few minutes, geologically speaking. But it was forty centuries ago in our human past that people in some rocky […]
February 11, 2014General Block That Pipeline: Mobilizing and Commenting Against The Keystone XL! Members of the Lakota Nation, as well as other Native American tribes from throughout the American West, are organizing to block any […]
February 10, 2014February 10, 2014General Six Gallons Over The Line? Well, well. Another argument in favor of individual control over the means of production. In Northern California, where marijuana production is a […]
February 10, 2014February 10, 2014General How Do You Legislate Flexibility? How Do You Manufacture Uniqueness? The species which survives is that which is most adaptable to change. The most recent IPCC report underlines the fact that when […]
February 9, 2014February 9, 2014General There May Not Always Be An England Heat is energy. Put more energy into the system, and stuff starts happening everywhere. Take, for example, England, which has been on […]
February 9, 2014General Can’t Lose For Winnin’ Moral ambiguity is never fun. The fact is that there is no way to buy gasoline and feel good about it. Hugo […]
February 9, 2014General Twenty Million People Are Going To Be Thirsty If it doesn’t rain in Sao Paulo, Brazil in the next 45 days, the system that provides half the city’s drinking water […]
February 8, 2014February 8, 2014General Saturday’s Endangered Music: Patagonia Back when the hole in the ozone layer was our principal worry about human contributions to environmental degradation, this South American territory […]
February 6, 2014February 6, 2014General Let’s Take A Ride… This is good news. Early figures from a pilot program at Kennedy Space Center show that electric cars are reducing greenhouse gas […]