[From Think Progress ] Nine years after former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay donated $1.1 million of Enron stock to fund an economics professorship in his name, the University of Missouri (MU) has finally filled the chair. Though MU hoped to “use the chair to bring in world-renowned economists from other universities,” it eventually settled on giving [...]
Archive For April, 2008
Moving Boxes: Recycle This
[From The Budget Ecoist] Ahhhh…the joys of moving! All those boxes, the newspaper, the packaging peanuts! It’s enough to make an Eco Warrior go mad! We’ve previously posted tips on how to recycle and reuse packaging peanuts. But let’s face it, from an environmental perspective, packaging peanuts are, well, peanuts in terms of the bigger [...]
Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?
[How about just skipping meat for healthier and more environmentaly friendly proteins? -RS] [From New York Times Blog] By Andrew C. Revkin Muscle cells (in this case mouse) can be cultured in the lab. (Karim Sultan/Utrecht University) The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far [...]
Commentary: How would-be assassin’s bullets changed me
José Ramos-Horta, the president of East Timor, says he believes he has been given a second chance at life. (CNN) — On February 11, a group of renegade soldiers invaded my home. As I walked toward my house, I was not aware that they had disarmed my guards and broken into the house, knocking down [...]
New York State denies Broadwater
[From NorwalkPlus.com News] By Citizens Campaign for the Environment Long Island, NY- Governor David Paterson announced today at the Sunken Meadow State Park boardwalk to a crowd of Broadwater opponents that the State finds the Broadwater proposal violates the Coastal Zone Management Act and is therefore inconsistent with the values and uses of the Sound. [...]
FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects
[From The Iconoclast] Posted by Declan McCullagh Screen snapshot: This now-defunct site is reportedly where an FBI undercover agent posted hyperlinks purporting to be illegal videos. Clicking the links brought a raid from the Feds. The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having [...]
what’s wrong with filtering?
[From Spammers vs Free Speech] [If "spam filtering consumes more electricity than everything else in [a] data center,” then spam is a environemntal issue. -RS] Here’s the most common reaction I get from my friends to my concerns about the spam crisis. I don’t get much spam. Postini/Yahoo/Earthlink (etc) filters it into a spam box [...]
Breaking into a power station in three easy steps
[From Tech news blog - CNET News.com] Breaking into a power station in three easy steps Posted by Elinor Mills “I will tell (you) how to break into a nuclear reactor,” Ira Winkler, president of security firm ISAG said as he launched into his presentation on “How to Take Down the Power Grid” at RSA [...]
The truth about the 9/11 ‘truth movement’
[From rabble news] by David Rovics I found myself once again singing at an anti-war rally two weeks ago, and once again being confronted by a red-faced white man with an ominous hand-written sign reading, “9/11 was a lie.” Most of the crowd was filing off for the post-rally march, aside from a few of [...]
Old lady signing the petiton
Old lady signing the petiton Originally uploaded by Kacper (tow.zwierz)