green underbelly's blog

"I suggest that since recycling is less efficient and more pollutive than just trashing and getting new resources, we should stop recycling."  Read More »

I'm looking for some new ideas for Earth Day. My public high school puts together a Earth Week in April and we run a pretty swell ship, although I think it could be considerably improved. Usually we call out to the community for speeches in the auditorium and I've seen lectures ranging from the new bee crisis to the new wave of sustainable infrastructure around the world.  Read More »

I'm actually impressed to see that the House Democrats have some backbone. Yesterday was a good day. And although my letter to Montana Senator John Tester had no effect on the proceedings, I feel good having participated in the discussion. Perhaps when the vote comes to the floor in the Senate, the majority will pass it on to the President's desk and he'll veto it.  Read More »

The Take Back America Conference is in session. Progressives unite. Air America is reporting there is "no slime, no mud-slinging going on" between Obama and Clinton supporters. It's a gathering of the forces. I might point to the Los Angeles debate in January as evidence of what effect civility has on our democracy.  Read More »

Feminine scholars have laboured over this Egyptian writing for years. Finally they admit defeat.

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Am I expressing myself when I wear hippie clothes?

I don't know, I really don't, whether this question covers most of the things I'm thinking about right now. Perhaps I shouldn't even give this issue the light of day; there are bigger issues at hand and offshore and whatnot.  Read More »

Watch the national business organization's assertion video and tell me that it isn't biased. Tell me the University of California at Berkeley Meta-Study, 2004 incorrectly reported that the job-creating power of renewable energy is 3-5 times that of fossil fuels.  Read More »

What a turbulent scene! In February I was forced into signing into existence the Selective Service bit--evidently before a university grants admission, a person is required to take that action.  Read More »