Mark Bittman Points Out A Inconvenient Truth

Reading Mark Bittman’s blog this morning I saw this lead-in to a link I had to follow: Here’s the thing. A lot of stuff isn’t directly about food, but TB

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This Is What’s Wrong In America

General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from

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Is This What Climate Change May Look Like?

December 8, 2010 – Drought’s grip on Texas tightens | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle. The great drought of 2011 may have started two months ago. Since

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Organic Food Still On The Shopping List

RALEIGH, N.C. – For the past three years, American consumers have been on a shopping diet. They cut nonessentials from their shopping lists. They’ve made do. They’ve thought twice before

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The Cable-ization of the Internet

Ladies and gentlemen, the days of unlimited broadband may be numbered in the United States, and we’re not talking wireless this time — AT&T says it will implement a 150GB

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Democracy Now?

And if you missed Annie Leonard in her Story of Stuff, it’s here: Any thoughts? Related articles Annie Leonard Derides Corporate Influences on American Democracy [Video] (fastcompany.com) The Story of

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Texas Independence Day 2011

One hundred and seventy five years ago today a group of men came together just a few miles to the northwest of where I sit this morning and proclaimed Texas

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