Climate Change: Prognosis Grim
George Monbiot, the long time investigator, reporter, activist, starts out with the bad, and gets worse. I’m going to start …
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Bali Conference Coming Up
The upcoming conference of nations in Bali will surely emit more CO2 than it saves. While U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon …
CA Oil Spill Update
“About 2,150 birds have been found dead or have died at the bird rescue center since Nov. 7, the day …
A Rite of Confession: A Poem
One of the great pleasures of reading, but even more, of listening to poetry, or music, especially opera, is the …
Plastic Gagging
Bag Monster in San Francisco I was recently in Richardson, Texas, along the stream of an urban mini-park. Mid-fall the …
States Right
“Frustrated with the slow progress of legislation in Washington on energy and global warming, the nation’s governors have created regional …
Drought? What Me Worry?
“A day after Gov. Sonny Perdue asked God to forgive Georgia for being wasteful with its water, county officials in …
Black Sea Disaster
While the Bay Area oil spill of about 65,000 gallons of bunker oil was contained late, it was contained; while …
Aviation Fuel and CO2
“The European Union voted Tuesday to impose quotas on the emission of carbon dioxide by airlines, setting up a fight …
Green Public Policy
Next-Ten is a new public policy group, founded by F.Noel Perry, a Menlo Park venture capitalist, which describes itself as …
Oily Mushroom Hair
Interesting small scale technology to help clean up the oil mess in San Francisco. Using mats made of hair, volunteers …
Greensumption
Jerry Mander teams up with Koohan Paik to make a scathing YouTube attack on saving the world through [green] consumption. …