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A teasing hint
Toward the end of an article on John Dingell’s ongoing CAFE obstructionism and the prospects of a cap-and-trade system getting through his committee, The Hill drops this tantalizing tidbit: It is a complex enough issue that Dingell has sought and received from Pelosi an extension on the July deadline to produce legislation, one lobbyist said. […]
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Not in hog heaven
This piece in the New York Times should be of particular interest to environmentalists, because the pig industry is one of the most environmentally destructive in the nation. In addition to the need for massive regulation of the seas of manure these factory hog farms generate -- which often end up in rivers and streams and foul the air for miles -- the animals are subjected to absolutely horrific conditions. We should demand environmental improvements and humane treatment in our nation's factory farms. I think the environmental community can reasonably get behind both of these measures.
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Nothing to Fear But Corps Itself
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decisions continue to befuddle Let it not be said that Hurricane Katrina’s lessons didn’t sink in. For example, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers learned that it’s good to look prepared, even if you aren’t — so it (apparently knowingly) installed 34 defective pumps in New Orleans before the 2006 […]
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Good point
Congrats to local writer (and editor of alt-weekly The Stranger) Dan Savage for getting this letter into the NYT: Here’s an idea for Google: locate your offices near where people live rather than transporting them all over the San Francisco Bay area. Most “Googlers” are young and live in San Francisco, where they can find […]
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They only look sweet and benevolent, ringing their little bells
Greenpeace and the Salvation Army are hashing out a dispute over tens of millions of dollars today at a mediating table in Seattle, in a story more peculiar than we could make up. Last July, H. Guy Di Stefano, 90, a resident of Issaquah, Wash., passed away, leaving about $264 million to be divided equally […]
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Who ya gonna call?
From South Africa: An international coalition has appealed to former US vice-president and environmental campaigner Al Gore to take up their concerns about the world’s rapidly developing biofuels industry. They have told him that large-scale biofuel production and new incentives to promote biofuels, based on “energy-crop monocultures”, are having a devastating impact on biodiversity and […]
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A new call to walk the talk
Do environmentalists unwittingly conspire against themselves? Curt White examines the effectiveness of environmental strategies in the new issue of Orion magazine, and wonders why, even when we are trying to aid the environment, we are not willing as individuals to leave the system that we know in our heart of hearts is the cause of our problems.
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An improvement on ‘Live green, go yellow’
Grist styles itself as communicating "gloom and doom with a sense of humor." In that spirit, I can't resist posting something that made me laugh this morning.
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Sustain-a-Bull?
How sustainable development affects today’s job market It was 20 years ago that the term “sustainable development” was popularized in a United Nations document known as the Brundtland report. Since then, jobs in fields ranging from mining to banking to manufacturing have begun to redefine it. But as we search for solutions that balance economic, […]
