Archive for the 'Environment' Category
The Weirdest Story You Will Read Today
March 30th, 2007Travolta. Scientology. Global Warming. Other planets. Dome cities. Via: This Is London: His serious aviation habit means he is hardly the best person to lecture others on the environment. But John Travolta went ahead and did it anyway. The 53-year-old actor, a passionate pilot, encouraged his fans to “do their bit” to tackle global warming. […]
The Right to Raw Milk
March 27th, 2007Excellent raw milk article. Via: Acres USA: ACRES U.S.A. Fresh or raw milk producers are having problems just about everywhere, such as in Michigan, where they pulled over a guy and destroyed his product and raided his house and took the records — and similar things have happened in state after state. I’d like to […]
Trying to Take “No Impact Man” Seriously
March 27th, 2007I read, The Year Without Toilet Paper, a New York Times piece about the “No Impact Man” media circus, and I sunk down into my chair and held my head in my hands. Are people just cracking up? Is it an inability to look the situation we’re facing in the eyes? Is it an effort […]
Got Milk? You’re Under Arrest
March 18th, 2007Via: Information Liberation: In many states, you can possess it, but the law prohibits its sale. It is a violation of federal law to transport the substance across state lines with the intent to sell it. In many states, undercover investigators are at work trying to uncover the furtive networks that produce and distribute the […]
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
March 16th, 2007Via: Cornell University: The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have […]
Tears and Praise for Champion of the Green Movement: Walmart
March 13th, 2007I’ve written, repeatedly, that things were going to get weirder than any of us could imagine. Just how weird, exactly? In 2005, I wrote: Walmart built its empire by destroying the planet and turning human beings into nutrient agar… And now, Walmart as posterchild of the green revolution?… Watch the idiot Left slobber all over […]
Why the Free Market Fails Consumers in Sustainable Energy Innovation
March 13th, 2007There is no free market, of course, but this article is worth reading in conjunction with Energy Scarcity vs. Cost of the War in Iraq. Why the Soviet Style Command Economy in Drag Fails Consumers in Sustainable Energy Innovation would be a more accurate reflection of the situation on the ground, but let’s not get […]
UK Chancellor Gordon Brown Wants ‘New World Order’ to Fight Global Warming
March 13th, 2007A few of you just don’t want to accept that your most precious, deeply held religious beliefs were created by evil people to control you. If you want to spout off like a deranged, Pentecostal snake handler, that’s fine with me, but if you’re still capable of critical thinking, spend a few minutes with these […]
How to Save the World
March 12th, 2007Via: How to Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One Planet: Our existence on this planet is precarious. How to Save the World exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster. But across India marginal farmers are fighting back. By […]
Scientists Threatened for ‘Climate Denial’
March 12th, 2007A shapeless figure bent over him, he smelt the fresh leather of the revolver belt; but what insignia did the figure wear on the sleeves and shoulder straps of its uniform–and in whose name did it raise the dark pistol barrel? —Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon Meet the new fascist religion. Same as the old […]
