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Andrew Sullivan linked to an article by Bradford Plumer on The New Republic, “There’s More to Oil Use than Massive SUVs.” He, in turn, bases part of his essay on research published on Grist in “How we can end our addiction to oil,” by Craig Severance. Plumer seems to be saying, “sure, we need to [...]

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I’ve just seen the first image in the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” blog for today, of seabirds caught in the oil in the Gulf. May the people responsible for this rot in Hell. Failing that, BP’s executives should be held criminally liable. The assets of the corporation and all of their profits should be directed [...]

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The root cause of hunger and famine is rarely crop failure alone. It is about who controls and benefits from the land and its resources. About 1 billion people, or one in six of the global population, go hungry today, even though more food is being produced than ever. And yet, around the same number [...]

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This is the bitter reality of the American present, a period in which big business has cemented an unholy alliance with big government against the interests of ordinary Americans, who, of course, are the great majority of Americans. The great majority of Americans no longer matter. Bob Herbert – More Than Just an Oil Spill [...]

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The first photo in today’s Big Picture is absolutely, heart-breakingly horrible. I started to cry when I pointed it out to one of my coworkers. Oil reaches Louisiana shores – The Big Picture – Boston.com Posted using ShareThis

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A tip of the hat to Robert Paterson.

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Robert Paterson reflects on the John Boyd Conference 2008. It’s pretty grim reading about the state of the world, but he does have suggestions for what to do (on both macro and personal levels). The search for efficiency and the urge to consume has set us all up like a row of dominoes – there [...]

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There’s a little graphic and such, but here’s the central, weird finding of a Pew study reported in The Climate Change Attitude Mystery | Wired Science from Wired.com The confounding part: among college-educated poll respondents, 19 percent of Republicans believe that human activities are causing global warming, compared to 75 percent of Democrats. But take [...]

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A really cool project in the UK: The Woodland Trust | Ancient Tree Hunt Help us to find and map all the old, fat trees across the UK.

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A photographer tries to make unimaginable numbers visible: chris jordan photography.

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