American Farm Bureau votes on a resolution opposing cap-and-trade and any legislation that would empower EPA to regulate carbon emissions.
Farmers Dig-In Heels Against Cap-and-Trade
January 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
Biomass or Biomess?
January 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
One of the things we should have learned from the corn to bio-ethanol mess of the past five years is: haste makes waste. The subsidies that were supposed to help create a sustainable industry and help small farmers instead turned into a massive hand-out to big agriculture, and drove up prices on corn and other food [...]
Overfishing – How Not To Create a Sustainable Industry
January 9, 2010 By 1 Comment
We can fish smart, and feed our planet for a lifetime, or we can fish stupid, and feed ourselves for a day. Here’s one example of fishing stupid… The orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) is a slow-growing deep-water fish that congregate around seamounts in the open ocean; they were discovered in the latter half of the 20th [...]
Overfishing – We’re On the Brink
January 9, 2010 By 5 Comments
Once, we thought the oceans were an inexhaustible resource. It turns out we were wrong. But we should have seen the signs. Lots of good fish in the sea In early years, Europe’s coasts teamed with dolphins, orcas, blue whales and tuna, and its rivers ran with fish. By the 1500s, though, the continent was fished-out. [...]
Climate Change and Science – Cutting Through the Talking Points to the Truth
January 5, 2010 By 5 Comments
Global warming – it’s either the biggest threat to humanity since the end of the last ice age, or the biggest hoax ever perpetrated.
In part, it depends on who you are willing to believe: the international community of climate scientists who may all secretly be socialists out to destroy the capitalist system… or a bunch of totally objective oil company employees who would never put their profit ahead of the good of humanity.
Okay, that may not be the most dispassionate and objective way to lay out the facts. Let’s try doing this like scientists: put all the data on the table, and let you, the reader, decide.
