Food Riots Continue
For at least the second day, citizens of Somalia in Mogadishu rioted over the price of food. Thousands of angry …
Category Archives: General
Jet Streams Creep Poleward
The little brightly colored Saturday Earthweek panel in the newspaper caught my eye today, as it often does: monkeys, or …
CO2 Mapping
The Vulcan Project, an US wide data mapping of CO2 emissions, appears at first to correlate emissions with population density. …
Antarctic Ice
Git’jir boots on… Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively …
The Plastic Purge
Jeez, if China can do this why can’t California? How about Chinatown, San Francisco? How about the home delivery newspapers? …
Climate Change: Prognosis Grim
George Monbiot, the long time investigator, reporter, activist, starts out with the bad, and gets worse. I’m going to start …
A Rite of Confession: A Poem
One of the great pleasures of reading, but even more, of listening to poetry, or music, especially opera, is the …
Green Public Policy
Next-Ten is a new public policy group, founded by F.Noel Perry, a Menlo Park venture capitalist, which describes itself as …
The Sutras of Abu Ghraib
Aidan Delgado is a brave man. A man you want on your team. Not because he faces danger without trembling, …
Back, but….
I am back from a two week road-trip in western Montana with my sweetie, crossing the Continental Divide 8 times …
Vacation: Canada Blogging
Well! Imagine my surprise, after four days of trying and failing I just got an internet connection from Southern Alberta, …
Vacation: 4th of July Rodeo in Jackson
The Fourth of July Rodeo in Jackson, Wyoming begins with John Wayne’s slow spoken rendition of “You Ask Me Why …