Today, as progressive groups from around the nation were massing in Detroit in preparation for tomorrow’s much anticipated U.S. Social Forum, the folks from Code Pink, together with Tyree Guyton and volunteers from the Heidelberg Project, came together to bury a burned-out Hummer. Here, from a May post on the Code Pink website, written on […]
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I was going to write something tonight on my conflicted feelings on the bankruptcy of GM, but then, as I was thinking about what to write, I happened across this letter by director Michael Moore. And, as I agree with almost all of it, I thought that I’d reprint it here in its entirety, and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, energy, Environment, Global Warming, Ideas, Michigan, Other, Rail | Also tagged bankruptcy, Big 3, cars, Flint, fuel economy, GM, Michael Moore, planned obsolescence |
Today, Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-California) and Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) unveiled a draft of their their bill to address climate change. Called the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the legislation sets out primarily to do three things – develop sources of clean energy, boost energy efficiency, and both cap and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The following […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Politics | Also tagged American Clean Energy and Security Act, cap-and-trade, carbon capture and storage, carbon dioxide, Christian Science Monitor, Clean Air Act, coal, Congress, Edward Markey, Environmental Protection Agency, Henry Waxman, New York Times, Obama, smart grid |
Some folks out there say that, by the time something hits the New York Times, it’s culturally irrelevant. I don’t know that I believe it, but it sure seemed to be the case a few weeks ago, when the esteemed paper of record ran the feature on the “bacon explosion.” After it appeared, the once […]
Posted in Michigan | Also tagged Ancient Evenings, bacon explosion, Design 99, Detroit, Detroit Unreal Estate Agency, Financial Times, Gina Reichert, hipsters, Kwame Kilpatrick, Matthew Barney, Mitch Cope, New York Times, Steve Hughes, Stupor, Toby Barlow, Tyree Guyton, Van Abbemuseum |
By Mark | February 22, 2009
I’m not a huge fan of Thomas Friedman’s, but I think that his op-ed piece in today’s New York Times raises an interesting question… If our objective is to create new jobs, are our billions better invested with General Motors, a company that is already asking for more money after being bailed out last month, […]
