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Earth Day

Earth Day

Are There Too Many of Us?

Freedom not harsh laws reduces family size.

Earth Hour Is Upon Us

Earth Hour is tonight, March 28. Turn your power off for one hour.

Planet Earth–Unplugged

March 28, 2009, 8:30 PM turn off all lights for one hour.

Time for a New Economy?

Communism collapsed in 1988-89 and capitalism collapsed about twenty years later, in 2008.  What both economic systems had in common is that they were big and impersonal.
Meanwhile a quiet alternative has been growing steadily–the local economy.  It means supporting business and buying products from people you actually know.  It means being able to look the [...]

Peddling Peace

About ten years ago I went on a backpacking adventure on the Apallachian Trail with my daughter, who had just graduated from high school.  Some day I’ll describe some of our adventures, but right now I’m thinking of some of the interesting characters we met on the trail.  Some of them included men who had [...]

Two New Voices

I’ve discovered two new writers today–new to me that is, but I may be reading what they have to say.
Stephen C. Rose wrote a book in the sixties called the Grass Roots Church, and more recently Abba’s Way.  He agrees with me–or maybe I agree with him; he’s been around longer–that we need to dethrone [...]

Who Needs Detroit?

I can have all my transportation needs met in Vicenza, Italy.  If congress would just forward me about 0.0001% of that bailout money, I could upgrade my bike with the new Campagnolo Super Record 11-speed system.  That’s 11 sprockets on the rear X 2 on the front, for a 22-speed setup.  Who needs internal combustion?  [...]

Save the Dinosaurs!

Is the saying still true, “What’s good for General Motors is good for America”?
Now that the car companies are asking for us to bail them out, like we did the Wall Street high rollers, it could be a good opportunity to retool our transportation system.
In the 1950s president Eisenhower made a momentous decision.  In the [...]

Yes We Can!

Here’s the link to Bob the Builder’s official website.  My grandson has been listening to his theme song for about a year now:

Can we fix it?
Yes we can!

Here’s a little tidbit my daughter passed on: President Obama website:
You can submit you ideas and be part of the “change we need.”
http://www.change.gov/
This is pretty neat, I hadn’t [...]

A Little Help from my Friends

Check out this clip on how we can stop Global Warming.  For more info, go to Green Peace.

Meanwhile, here are Garrison Keillor’s thoughts on the current election campaign.
I suspect the extra “Pages” on this site don’t get used often.  This is just a reminder that I have updated the “Friend’s Finds” [...]

Voodoo Economics 2

London has always been known for its fog, but by 1905 Londoners realized there was toxic smoke mixed with the fog–and the word smog was born (EPA).  Over the long weekend of Dec 5-9, 1952, the London smog killed more people than would later be killed by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Four [...]

The End of Voodoo Economics

Well, I hope we have been rescued from economic meltdown; I hope I won’t be out in the street selling pencils next month.
I remember the election campaign of 1980; The father of our current president was seeking the nomination of the Republican party.  He called Ronald Reagan’s economic plan “voodoo economics.”  Regan of course, prevailed, [...]

The Free Market Is Working

I admit, I’m reluctant to call it a free market when one of the parties is a Cartel. By definition a Cartel is a small organization of suppliers whose reason for existence is to manipulate prices by controlling the supply. I am also reluctant to call the market free when government policies subsidize oil [...]

What an Addict Needs

Two years ago our president admitted that we are addicted to oil. Now that gasoline is headed to $5.00 per gallon many of us are suffering from the symptoms of this addiction.
What is the solution?

There are many saying we need to open up a new vein.

Newt Gingrich, explaining why we need to drill in [...]

Did Environmentalists Cause the World Food Crisis?

A couple years ago, when you could buy a bushel of corn for about $2.00, I saw adds for corn-burning stoves. It didn’t seem right, burning food to keep warm.
Now we are burning corn in our automobiles, in the form of ethanol. The ditto heads are blaming it on the environmentalists. Those [...]

Winning the Cold War

Photo from Daily Mail.co.uk

Ronald Reagan won the cold war against the “evil empire” of the Soviet Union by forcing that empire into bankruptcy. There were other forces at work, not least the force of prayer, but I want to focus on the economic facts. First a little history:
In 1973 OPEC put an oil [...]

A Real Downer–Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?

Photo Provided by Farm Sanctuary (http://www.nodowners.org/gallery/downer6.htm)

It looks like our government will once again spare us from burdensome regulations. We won’t even be bothered by labels telling us whether that packet of ground beef we are eating comes from a downer cow. That would really ruin your appetite!
According to the Washington Post,

“Agriculture [...]

The Canary is a Frog

 
Photo from Northwest Frog Fest.
Last week several concerned scientist went to Washington to complain about political suppression of scientific reports. Non-scientists have been re-writing reports to give a politically correct version that favors industry and development. The scientist lament “the systematic dismantling of the Endangered Species Act through the manipulation and suppression of [...]