Archive for September, 2007
From Sourcewatch, a very timely article on an astroturf organization. But that’s what Sourcewatch is for: keeping tabs on groups like this. And there are a lot of them…
Freedom Watch
Freedom’s Watch is a new White House front group[1] of prominent conservatives which supports the policies of the expansionist Israeli right wing.[2] masquerading as a [...]
The United States Green Building Council’s green building rating system (LEED-Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) has driven the development of many sustainable building products, increased awareness of what needs to be done to make buildings less damaging to the environment, and caused thousands of buildings to be built to better environmental standards than [...]
Many people have noticed that the web has not treated all old media equally. The recording music industry is having its business model stressed by both the long tail of available music, as well as large-scale copying. Newspapers have had their ad revenue streams decimated by on-line phenomena such as craigslist.
However, books have [...]
Instead of updating manually my reading list, I’ve started an account at Librarything:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ee_eff
An interesting paper, by Jonathan Remy Nash, which hypothesizes that the precautionary principle may have legal standing, based on current case law. Not at all an insignificant issue, considering the refusal of the present US administration to give adequate credence to environmental concerns, and that many environmental issues will therefore be tried in the [...]
Interesting little video showing Canadian (probable) undercover police agents trying to stir up violence at a protest. The undercover agents are the ones with the rocks in their hands, and the masks on their faces. This has happened before, certainly, but with video camaras being just about everywhere, and anyone being able to [...]
As a follow-up to my post about the delusion, seemingly common among many Americans, that America has the best health care in the world, it seems appropriate to link to an interesting article over at the Nieman Center, noting the lack of in-depth coverage of the Canadian health care system in US media. (It [...]
Once in a while, I come across a post that is so wrong at such a basic level, that I am just scratching my head, wondering why someone inflicted the damage to their reputation by writing it. Over at Fortune magazine’s blog there is one such post.
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