new york state of mind
Shad Slocombe woke up two hours early to boil water for bathing and to get ready. The first floor of …
Tag Archives: environment
privatizing the profits, socializing the costs
I just ran across this editorial, claiming all is not lost at Rio, although it was written a few weeks …
monday links
The Climate Canary – Tuvalu, a low-lying Pacific atoll, has declared a state of emergency due to water shortage. Not …
Paradoxes of climate change discourse worth investigating, #1
Climate change is a problem caused by use of technology, and compounded by a high modernist sensibility which prioritizes capital …
thoughts on a train
I am sitting in the observation car of the Coast Starlight, watching southern Oregon pass by. The forests look ravaged. …
The foot, the skein (or, a climate change activist knitter’s manifesto)
Firstly, a foot update. In case you missed it, when I went into urgent care for a foot checkup a …
bad people and deserts
Italy’s such a nice country, why do they have a government full of assholes? First they re-elect Silvio Berlusconi, then …
I heart the California State Supreme Court
The fact that gay marriage is legal in California – FINALLY – doesn’t mean that conservatives will shut up about …
the need for environmental education in suburban Australia
This is by far the funniest thing I have seen in a long while, and it is too good not …
Science news roundup!
To begin at the very beginning: food. As recent criticisms of biofuels have shown, corn makes a better food than …
