Greek Fires and the Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein has been in the news and on the road with her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise …
Monthly Archives: September 2007
The Great Lakes and Water: Bad
“[Canadian] Government forecasters are projecting that Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes, will fall to its lowest …
China and Water: Bad
The NY Times is doing a series of impressive reports on China and the environment. This one is on water. …
Ecological Design Institute
The Ecologlical Design Institute
California Turned Down on Pollution Suit
A federal judge in San Francisco has thrown out a lawsuit that the state attorney general filed against the six …
Green Construction
Although a lot of attention is paid to fossil fuel burning vehicles as culprits, a large percentage of CO2 release …
Electronic Recycling
Heard an ad on the radio this morning for ewastedropoff.com [e-waste drop-off] This is a service of A.S.L. a large …
Hurricane in 14 Hours
We’re somewhat used to watching hurricanes build in intensity from tropical depression to tropical storm to hurricane over a week …
Poor Paraguay
The heat and drought and dried trees that have ravaged Montana, Idaho, California and Greece have combined to consume huge …
Solar Cars
Caught a squib in the papers about the Wired (a magazine) NextFest in Los Angeles this weekend. It’s a geek …
Left Brain Right
“Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how …
Bees and Frogs
Colony Collapse Disorder, which led to the loss of some 40 – 90% of the commercial bee hives in the …