Posted Jan. 25, 2012 from Seattle, WA How did it become firmly implanted in reporters’ heads that whenever the subject of biofuels comes up, they are to set aside their reportorial training and don pom-poms and cheerleader outfits? The long tiring list of biofuel cheer-packages was added to today by KUOW when Ashley … Continue reading
posted Jan. 10, 2012 photo by Nicholas Heyward Monica Newbold Shay Jan. 10, 1953 -July 3, 2011 No brother ever had a better sister. Monica, you were the greatest. You taught me so much and I was in awe of you always. I will love you and miss you until the day I die. Happy … Continue reading
Posted Dec. 2, 2011 from Seattle WA We live in the Age of Extinction. It’s nothing to get depressed about or you’d be depressed all the time. What’s exciting—the flip side of the coin–is that ordinary folks like you and me can actually make a huge difference in saving creatures and eco-systems that would otherwise … Continue reading
Posted November 14, 2011 from Seattle, WA. I’m running the tiny ad shown here opposing the Keystone Pipeline in the Seattle Times this Tuesday the 15th. It will be in the A-section. The ad is half the size of my normal ads as an experiment to see if less- is-more when it comes to … Continue reading
October 16, 2011 from Seattle, WA In an article that ran today on Morning Edition, NPR’s Margot Adler reported that a group of economists are blaming food speculators for the recent dramatic increases in food prices. The report goes on to debate the liklihood that this is so. Not surprisingly, given NPR’s record on … Continue reading
Posted Sept. 29, 2011 from Seattle, WA, Katherine Long of the Seattle Times deserves major kudos for breaking ranks from the herd of journalists who’s idea of a story on biofuel is a lively rewrite of a happy-face-industry press release. Long’s story is in today’s Seattle Times (“Environmentalists cast doubts on biofuel plans” Sept. 29). … Continue reading
Posted Sept. 26, 2011 from Seattle, WA. After 13 years of deployment, our 1998-issued 14 x 18 Shade Coffee poster is being retired and replaced by a brand new 12 x 16 Shade Coffee poster. The new poster features paintings from a poster commissioned by a printing company from Pennsylvania in the early oughts. All … Continue reading
Posted Sept. 4 from Seattle, WA. After a hatchet-job by Mara Liason on the same subject, Scott Simon interviewed Ron Paul about his courageous position that FEMA should be dismissed. The show is here: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=140163743&m=140163952 Paul eloquently defended his position and made the point that environmentalists have been making also: That FEMA encourages development ion … Continue reading
Posted September 2, 2011 from Seattle. Famed NOAA Climate scientist Jim Hanson says that if we approve the Keystone Pipeline—The Canadian pipeline that would bisect the country from North to South and deliver Canadian crude oil from Alberta’s tar-sands to Texas– it’s “game over” for the Earth’s climate.” Fine, no understatement there. But if you … Continue reading
Posted August 21, 2011 from Seattle. It’s almost a decade too late to influence the debate when it mattered and help forestall the tragedy of the ethanol mandate, but Scientific American has admirably come out with an article critical of biofuels in its August 2011 issue. The article by David Biello states that … Continue reading
