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Entries from January 2007

Cool Music: Sonic Youth

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Music to change the world to.
Sonic Youth: Teenage Riot

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WI Cropland Shrinking

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Wither WI’s fledgling bioofuels indistry?
Wisconsin lost almost 5 percent of its cropland from 2000 to 2005, according to a recent study by the nonprofit Corporation for Enterprise Development.
That’s equivalent to 30,000 acres of cropland a year, or nearly two townships….
The loss is being attributed to development–development that may limit Wisconsin’s ability to compete in the [...]

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Hip to be Cool

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Pop-sensibility meets enviro-activism meets scientific rigor–that’s the idea behind global-cool.com. From the site you can calculate your CO2 footprint and learn about the easy steps you can take to make a difference.
The site itself is just part a 10-year effort to use entertainment to engage individuals in the climate protection fight. And who [...]

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January 30th, 2007 · No Comments

My father-in-law is a wise man filled with wise thoughts. When I volunteered with The Climate Project he thought of something H.G Wells wrote almost a century ago in An Outline of History.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Education or catastrophe — Is that really what our collective existence [...]

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