Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

Dr. Murphy has a great post over at FireDogLake about the Politics of Water. What it says, in a nutshell, is that the US is exporting one third of our water footprint as farm subsidized crops, while people pay higher prices for bottled water than for gasoline. And Chicago is going to be one of […]

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There’s a disturbing article in the NYTimes this morning entitled Food is gold so billions invested in farming. The article talks about how the Wall Street Weenies are now investing in Farmland and the other infrastructure that farming depends on, such as grain elevators, equipment suppliers, and other essentials for the production of food. From […]

If you are fence sitting on doing your part to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, and, more importantly, fence sitting on pushing your congresscritters to pass MUCH MORE STRINGENT legislation to make sure Corporations and Government do their part, you need to read the blogpost over at TomGram, which also includes an article by Bill […]

The opening video on the website “The Story of Stuff” is amazing. It encapsulates exactly what I’ve been yelling about since my college days, that our current economy is based upon a pipe dream, and is so totally UNSUSTAINABLE that our children will be eating, drinking, and breathing nothing but waste, toxins and pollution, if […]

Night before last I was reading through the comments on Slashdot on the Report about the Bakken Formation, and how it’s now economically feasible to extract oil from it and opening up drilling there would increase the US oil reserve tenfold. One comment on that post has stuck in my mind, because it’s so true, […]

What’s wrong with this picture? A local farmer in Minnesota wrote a great opinion piece in the NYTimes about his issues renting acreage to expand his high-demand locally grown organic fruits and veggies business. Problem is that the acreage he wished to rent had been dedicated to “corn base”. When farm acreage has been dedicated […]

Geez, the Peak Oil groups have been pointing this out for a long time. It’s about time that the NYT got with the program, and reported this study about Biofuels being a Greenhouse Threat.
Too bad they didn’t catch this already reported story when it was originally reported, and in time to stop all the harebrained […]

Well, the word is finally being bandied about– Recession. And everybody is pointing fingers and coming up with supposed band aids that will stop it in its tracks. The problem is that in many ways the powers that be are looking in the wrong place for both the reasons and the solutions. I’m not debating […]

The Energy Legislation that has been finally hammered out and is due to be pushed through both the Senate and the House is both a success and a failure. It’s about time that Members of Congress realized that just because higher MPG standards for cars might hurt folks in certain voting districts, that overall, for […]