Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Now here is a truly innovative program that could become a model, if we had the social will to make it so. From this morning’s Washington Post:
Canada’s Ontario province has ordered local utility companies to pay homeowners or businesses for any electricity they generate from small solar, wind, water or [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is a blog about the challenge of our ecological crisis to US society, and later I will post about some more alarming news in that regard. But I am so shaken by the news this morning about the true extent of mortality in Iraq since the US invasion that [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
After yesterday’s post on Archer Daniels Midland and the corn-based ethanol scam, I thought I’d look around for more info on the government program to subsidize this very destructive biofuel.
Interestingly, this is an issue that joins together environmentalists, family farmers, and right-wing free enterprise groups that either loathe this form of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I believe this firmly — if it is left to the profit motives of huge corporations, the path the US trods towards new fuels for your gas tank is going to be very destructive.
So here is an instructive piece from the Sunday NY Times. It is about Archer Daniels Midland, [...]