My friend Steve just posted this to Facebook, and I thought that I’d steal it. At the moment that I happened across it, I was debating between posting a photo of a headdress made of mice or a literal version of Billy Idol’s video for the song White Wedding. As cool as a cowl made […]
Cause to be encouraged, from this morning’s New York Times: Until recently, the idea that the world’s most powerful nations might come together to tackle global warming seemed an environmentalist’s pipe dream. The Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, was widely viewed as badly flawed. Many countries that signed the accord lagged far behind their targets […]
I’ve written quite a bit here over the past year or so about the Transition Town movement, so I won’t get into a lot of the background right now. [You can find details by doing a site search on “Transition.”] I did, however want to pass along this update as to what happened during last […]
The Washington Post has a really good, comprehensive piece today on the waning influence of Michigan and the automotive industry in Washington. It’s all stuff that we’ve discussed here before, but, when you read it all together in one place, the impression you’re left with is both clear and overwhelming… The Big 3 were never […]
Environmental activist Laurie David, in an article published today on the Arianna Huffington’s website, the Huffington Post, proposed that we not follow through on the proposed bailout for Detroit automakers until the Big 3 get serious about global warming, and drop the lawsuits they currently have against individual states that, tired of waiting for the […]
