But We Need Clean Groundwater
Evidence that fracking does pollute ground water: A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least...
View ArticlePut Ideas to the Energy Test
This post was originally published on Reflections in the Screen and on my Facebook page. How to know if an idea is worth considering: The idea takes into account our use of energy, especially oil. See...
View ArticleMissed Opportunity
No irony. No big Questions. No tragedy. Why Terra Nova sucks: The set up to Terra Nova couldn’t be better because it speaks to exactly the problems we are about to face: What happens when the world...
View ArticlePoliticians and Interests v. Scientists
Denial of climate change? It’s an Anglo-Saxon thing: The weight of this study would suggest that, out of this wide range of factors, the presence of politicians espousing some variation of climate...
View ArticleYou Could Be Like Us
But that would be bad if China and India tried to be us: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Technorati Tags: climate, climate change,...
View ArticleWe Do Not Learn From Our Mistakes
Profit before planet; say goodbye to the lungs of the earth: Brazil did not ban slavery for moral or ethical reasons. It did so because the emergence of capitalist manufacturing made slavery more...
View ArticleIdeology 1, Science 0
Knowledge is what we want it to be for ideological reasons: The most sensational parts of the documents — and much of what has been confirmed independently — had to do with global warming and efforts...
View ArticleRhetorical Dichotomies and Urbanism
I’m finding the process of writing a script for a documentary film especially interesting in regard to the canon of invention. Much of the advice I’ve been reading — because I’m a total newb at this —...
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