Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

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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 […]