Climate Change, Mountain Top Removal, and NYC
Posted on Jul 09 2008 at 12:02 pm by dooley
As we all know, the climate is changing with disastrous consequences. Last week's New Yorker has a harrowing account of the current predictions . . . and, sorry for the downer, but with massive population displacements, vast food and water shortages, environmental collapse, and raging regional and global...
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Posted on Jul 03 2008 at 07:39 am by dooley
So, last week I was watching The Daily Show and Jon Stewart starts tearing into Barack Obama over public financing. Now, I’ve certainly had my fair share of “I’m not voting for anyone, because it’s the whole system that’s messed up” feelings, but in the last few months I’ve started to come around on...
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Food crisis cartoon...what do we think?
Posted on Jun 27 2008 at 09:01 am by EWest
Does this go along with Goode B's blog "Why Are We Laughing?" Or is it insightful, important, necessary for us to acknowledge? (caption: "Staple prices triple as much of the world's food supply is diverted towards fuel consumption")
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On Food Stamps and Still Hungry
Posted on Jun 27 2008 at 08:38 am by Sha Boogie
With the price of food still rising (5% in the last 3 months) (CNN.com), and even upper middle class families feeling the pinch, I wondered how the poorest Americans (those receiving food stamps) are affected by this crisis. Here are a few facts on the America’s Food Stamp program: • There...
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Corn, Profit, and the Food Crisis
Posted on Jun 25 2008 at 10:50 am by dooley
In The Omnivore’s Dilemma -- one of the NY Times’ “10 Best Books of 2006” and the winner of the James Beard Award – author Michael Pollan talks a lot about corn. Corn, it turns out, is in just about everything we consume – it’s in our cars, it’s in our packaging, and it’s in nearly every part of...
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