The Best Environmental Thinking Out There...

Without doubt, the best compendium of thoughtful criticism and analysis on environmentalism, global warming, the death of environmentalism, etc. may be found at the Moving Ideas.org "The Environment: Death & Rebirth" site. Specifically, this site provides links to articles from the October issue of The American Prospect.

Prepared in collaboration with the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Wallace Global Fund, what is wonderful about this page is that not only are there links to American Prospect articles, but there are pointers to original source documentation and resource references that may be accessed online as well.

For anyone interested in filling their head with intelligent thought on the subject of whether there will be a happy world by the year 2100, this is the place to start. Highly, highly recommended!

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Bashing Recycling for Confusion and Profit

The following essay is a work in progress. I invite all readers to give me criticism and direction. --------------------------------------------------------------- Recently, the ABC show, Good Morning America , ran a segment interviewing columnist and author Stephen Dubner (co-author of the book Freakonomics ) on whether recycling works. You can watch it by clicking here . While Dubner's basic argument about recycling turns on the idea of market economics (which is sensible), he also says some really weird things that drew me back into the good old early 1990s when bashing recycling was the sport of kings. In particular, Dubner says that plastic water bottle recycling doesn't make sense because it costs more to recycle water bottles (they aren't as valuable as aluminum cans) than it does to make new ones. He also says that old newspapers have such a low value that cities often simply landfill them after they go to the recycling center. He doesn't really provide us with

Millie Floating

Check out my short story, "Millie Floating" at my other site, The Formality of Occurrence ." It was inspired by the weird things that happen in a marriage when one needs to put ones pets down.

Short-Sighted Buffoonery: Send me in coach!

I'm getting ready to re-enter the fray. I recently agreed to take on a job in the City of Philadelphia that I can't provide details on, but it's not soon enough apparently. Leaders in Washington and state governments all over the country are doing their best to turn solving the climate change problem into another example of oafish, mercenary, short-sighted, buffoonery. Check out the rather direct posting at the Center for American Progress today, "Facing Reality." I'm fighting mad. You should be too. Personally, I've been on the sidelines way too long and I'm itching to get back in the game. Yesterday, I listened to the news that President Obama is authorizing $54 billion in loan guarantees for the nuclear power

Blue Olives

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