Environment
It's all really quite straightforward. There is very little you need to know. The starting point in studying climate, obviously, is to study the actual record of temperatures. Duh. When we look at that record, from a variety of sources such as ice-cores, we see strikingly regular wave patterns. Little waves within big waves. Waves that interfere with other waves, and waves that appear and disappear at intervals. An El Nino event would show up as a brief and minor fluctuation. The biggest regular wave is the one that keeps us down in an ice age most of the time, and every 100,000 years or so raises us up for about 10,000...
I started hitchhiking in junior high, on those mornings when I missed the last city bus to school and my baritone horn made bicycling a difficult option. Since then, I've hitched short and long distances in the US and Europe, met all types, and arrived at all sorts of destinations.
I was glad to see Leath Tonino's description of a five-day hitchhiking trip around Vermont in Seven Days. I've never hitched without a destination in mind, as he did, but some of my most magical experiences have come from unexpected intermediate destinations...
Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!
Occupy the Courts will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.
Move to Amend volunteers across the USA will lead the charge on the judiciary which created and continues...
In 2006, in anticipation of my retirement from academia, we bought 160 acres of beautiful land in the central highlands of New Mexico. There we were going to live out our cowboy fantasy by raising horses and riding them on my rancher friend’s cattle roundups. The high desert land was covered with grass, juniper, and some Pinyon pine trees, and offered a spectacular view of the Manzano Mountains. The land sat atop the Chupadera Mesa about 13 miles outside of Mountainair and six miles off the main road. Santa Fe was only an hour and a half to the North.
One beautiful March day, my rancher friend, and real deal ex-bull...
Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is "community." What happened to community, and why don't we have it any more? There are many reasons – the layout of suburbia, the disappearance of public space, the automobile and the television, the high mobility of people and jobs – and, if you trace the "why's" a few levels down, they all implicate the money system.
More directly posed: community is nearly impossible in a highly monetized society like our own. That is because community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why...
Eight years ago I decided that I needed to change my life. The reason? The late summer heat wave which hit Western Europe in August, 2003, leading to 30,000 or more deaths.
I knew about the issue of global warming before 2003. Indeed, in 2002, during a Green Party of New Jersey campaign for the U.S. Senate, it was one of my major issues. Prominent in my basic brochure was this statement: “Move towards energy independence, reverse global warming and create jobs through a crash program to get energy from the sun, the wind and other renewable fuels.”
But it was that European heat wave that literally drove me to serious study about this issue, and by the end of the year I was convinced that the climate crisis was much more...
This is one of a series of short films about Permaculture designers in the Northeast By TerraVisus. In this film, Ben Falk explains how Whole Systems Design established their diversified Agroforestry systems which include storm-water detention basins, ponds, swales and rice paddies, silvopasture systems and intensive rotational grazing. These systems work together to restore the ecology and...yield a useful product."
(Hat Tip to http://vermont4evolution....
“But eventually, the greater danger to the movement is that it may dovetail into the presidential election campaign that's coming up. I've seen that happen before in the antiwar movement here, and I see it happening all the time in India. Eventually, all the energy goes into trying to campaign for the "better guy," in this case Barack Obama, who's actually expanding wars all over the world. Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.” -...
You may have heard that the US was seeking immunity from prosecution for its soldiers in Iraq in order to keep them there. The Iraqi government refused to give the US military "blanket immunity" from prosecution for crimes, and therefore the US is pulling out its troops. You can find it easily on the web, here is one link.
Likewise Wall street banks like City Group are seeking "blanket immunity" from prosecution by state attorneys general in their attempts to settle their fraud cases without admitting guilt. You can find this easily on the web too, such as...
My late grandfather, a man of sturdy Norwegian-American farm stock, who later became a newspaper editor and political activist during the First World War, used to say, "A man can get used to pretty much anything with time, except dying...and even that with some practice." Well, as fate has it, it seems we, the vast majority of the human race, are about to test that adage in regard to the availability of our daily bread itself.
Food is one of those funny things it’s hard to live without. We all tend to take it for granted that our local supermarket will continue to offer whatever we wish, in abundance, at affordable prices or...
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