Food for Thought
“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'”
Rachel Carson
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Is purple the new green?
Ever since the 2000 election (at least) we’ve been hearing about red states and blue states, that unfortunate artifact of our antiquated winner-take-all electoral college system (why not “one person-one vote”, as in South Africa and Iraq and other bastions … Continue reading
Amber waves of . . . automotive fuel?
You can have your biodiversity and eat it—and burn it—too. That’s the message from a recent study of natural biofuel production by a team of ecologists and economists from the University of Minnesota (see summary from NPR). Wild living organisms … Continue reading
No child left indoors
So many problems in the world. What can we do about it? Well, to start with, one of the simplest, cheapest, and most wholesome things one can do is get the kids and yourself off your rear ends and take … Continue reading
The Nature of Patriotism
Ladies and gentlemen, we live in troubled times. Everyone seems to agree on that, even if opinions differ widely on the source of the troubles. Terrorism, extremist ideologies, a looming energy crisis, environmental degradation, the likes of Paris Hilton running … Continue reading
