Category: Environment
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Needling the Power: Rummel’s High Road Strategy
Arrogant power wielders and their apologists…..
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Water Waste in the Emerald City
The Madison Water Utility continues its boondogling ways–at ratepayers’ expense.
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Madison Water Utility’s Science Denial
Madison’s Water Utility Board is set to vote on an expansion of Well 7 (up on Sherman Ave, near Sherman Middle School/Shabazz). To approve it would be a major denial of science.
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Why Mark Pocan Fails…
None of the candidates in the Wisocnsin 2nd District Congressional race has any interest in taking on the interests which want to bake your world and grind you to dust.
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Now ask yourself why you keep flying, driving, voting for that paving politician….
In case you were wondering whether it might be worth it to take the train instead of flying, biking instead driving, investing in a home energy audit or voting out your paving politician (yup, the progressive ones like their paving as much as your standard issue Republican)……James Hansen has the answer. And Obama needs to get…
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Kipp Pollutes, DNR Stonewalls
Madison Kipp Corp. pollutes, Wisconsin DNR covers up.
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Never Leave Home Without Your Geographer: Krugman, Gruber
In my daily dose of Krugman I really enjoyed this: China also derives big advantages from the fact that so much of the supply chain is already there. A former Apple executive explained: “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away.”…
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Epic Fit to Print
Epic gets big NYT feature today. It’s just too bad Epic’s brilliant CEO couldn’t have found a way to integrate the company into the urban fabric. The paving of farmland and it’s car-necessary location negates all the groovy-green stuff going into that oh-so-pastoral office park. I know several long-time as well as newly-hired Epicureans, and…
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Nicole Foss: “The Great Recession, Energy Depletion, and Political Turmoil,” at Goodman TONIGHT
Nicole Foss will be speaking tonight at 7 at the Goodman Center (details below). She is quite a speaker. I went to see her when she was here back in 2010. Her thinking is amazing–bringing together economics, social relations, and the natural/physical world in one very all-encompassing view. She is very good at demonstrating–jargon-free–the physical/energy…
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And the Paving Goes On….
Just sent this to the Long Range Transportation Planning Committee: Dear Commissioners, I have reviewed in great detail Item 5. Informational Presentation on the Preliminary Design of the CTH M Roadway Corridor (Prairie Hill Road to Cross Country Road). How can any of these highway expansion options be acceptable in light of the budget squeeze caused by…