May 11, 2008
Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die….
Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die…. By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's corner “What this means is that corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have… .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never...
Link to Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die…. | May 11, 2008 10:12 PM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Culture & Ideology
August 30, 2007
Greensumption
Greensumption The International Forum on Globalization has released a short video on the false solution of going "green" while maintaining or increasing consumption. It does an excellent job of addressing a number of myths. At YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ft5SSIfmeKU...
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August 15, 2007
Two Legs Good, Four Legs Equal
Two Legs Good, Four Legs Equal "The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and benificence of God manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a...
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June 28, 2007
Mcmansions, SUVs, Mega-Churches and the Baghdad Embassy: Life Among Dim and Brutal Giants
Mcmansions, SUVs, Mega-Churches and the Baghdad Embassy: Life Among Dim and Brutal Giants In microcosmic mimicry of the plight of the besieged middle and laboring classes, my parent's Atlanta neighborhood, as is the case with many others in the vicinity, is being destroyed, in reality -- disappeared -- by a blight of upper-class...
Link to Mcmansions, SUVs, Mega-Churches and the Baghdad Embassy: Life Among Dim and Brutal Giants | June 28, 2007 7:42 AM || TrackBack | Author: By: Phil | Category: Culture & Ideology
May 26, 2007
Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left
Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left By: Steven Best originally published at Cyrano's Journal "Animal liberation may sound more like a parody of other liberation movements than a serious objective." --Peter Singer "Animal liberation is the ultimate freedom movement, the `final frontier.'" --Robin Webb, British ALF...
Link to Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left | May 26, 2007 9:41 AM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Culture & Ideology
May 25, 2007
Toxic Love
Toxic Love Hexxus (Tim Curry) sings Toxic Love Or available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLQ1XfaTuU>/a> Thanks to Ed for sending this along....
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May 15, 2007
The Spoiled Brat Rebellion
The Spoiled Brat Rebellion I truly do fear for this country, and for the world. Since the turn of the century, two countries have been invaded and ravaged in dubious or wholly illegal wars. Several other countries have been made to bleed or allowed...
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May 13, 2007
The Consequences of a Globalized, Industrialized Food Supply
The Consequences of a Globalized, Industrialized Food Supply The United States has seen the chickens coming home to roost regarding the consequences of a globalized and industrialized food supply. The issue arose in relationship to animal feed. It started with a recall of dog and cat food because...
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January 16, 2007
Why we’re all mostly out of the loop
Why we’re all mostly out of the loop By: Phil Henshaw From early childhood we’ve all experienced consternation with being shut out of the conversation, say defining circles of friends, that would have been very important to us to feel part of. There are even exclusive story loops...
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January 14, 2007
What do you tell a tree?
What do you tell a tree? By: Phil Henshaw A great old oak that’s been the center of it’s neighborhood for decades, home to wild life and children’s play, a long labor for leaf raking and thing of beauty in every season, began it’s life with...
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November 8, 2006
A Necessary Shift Part 2: Global Mindshift
A Necessary Shift Part 2: Global Mindshift In an effort to expand the horizon of possibility during a time when it seems we are standing on the horizon, I started searching around for "something different." My new top site in the "new" category is Global Mindshift. The...
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November 7, 2006
Thinking About Systems Crash
Thinking About Systems Crash Peak oil, global warming, and now the report that sea life could collapse before 2050. All symptoms of system failure. That system is the earth ecosystem, and it is crashing because of the path that has become embedded under "modern"...
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November 5, 2006
Skidboot - A Heartwarming Tale
Skidboot - A Heartwarming Tale This is a story that made me smile and made me cry. Enjoy the story of Skidboot. Video runs about 9 minutes. A heart-warming segment from Texas Country Reporter, with Bob Phillips....
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September 14, 2006
Inconvenient Heroes - The Survivors of 9/11/01
Inconvenient Heroes - The Survivors of 9/11/01 Having just passed the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, and having watched at least four programs on the ongoing health issues of first responders, and those near the World Trade Center, I wonder about living versus dead heroes....
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September 6, 2006
The Meaning Of Things
The Meaning Of Things I recently re-read Sherri S. Tepper's book The Visitor (2002). While I recommend Tepper as an exceptional author, and think this is a great book, I am not writing a book review, but addressing an idea that comes up in...
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May 28, 2006
Record Shark Killed
Record Shark Killed The big news for "fishing" enthusiasts is that a 1280 pound hammerhead shark was caught. That "record" catch is credited to Capt. Bucky Dennis. He used a stingray as bait, and the shark dragged his boat about 12 miles out...
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May 22, 2006
Cracks in the Empire
Cracks in the Empire You can tell when an Empire is healthy and powerful from two fundamental signs: the control it exerts on its allies and the fear it creates in its enemies. From this point of view, the Golden Age for the Empire...
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April 20, 2006
Double Standards
Double Standards If there is one thing that our (more and less) recent history has shown to the whole world is that we are some truly skilled masters of the difficult art of "Double Standards": something is good as long as WE...
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April 5, 2006
Do you want to become McDonald's next CEO?
Do you want to become McDonald's next CEO? A funny, addictive - and educational game: http://www.mcvideogame.com/...
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February 23, 2006
How to Survive the Crash and Save the Earth
How to Survive the Crash and Save the Earth BY: Ran Prieur 1. Abandon the world. The world is the enemy of the Earth. The "world as we know it" is a deadly parasite on the biosphere. Both cannot survive, nor can the world survive without the Earth. Do...
Link to How to Survive the Crash and Save the Earth | February 23, 2006 10:13 PM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Culture & Ideology
February 13, 2006
State of the Earth
State of the Earth BY: Anwaar Hussain of Fountainhead In 1 AD, we humans were estimated to be around 300,000,000. In 1850, we first passed the 1 billion mark. We were 3.9 billion on January 1 of 1970 and today we number 6.9 billion....
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November 22, 2005
Green Radio and Podcasts Week Ending 11/20/05
Green Radio and Podcasts Week Ending 11/20/05I haven't gotten to listen to all of the best ones yet, but here's the roundup of Green podcasts and radio for this week.
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November 9, 2005
'I Don't Count: A Minority Report on the French Riots
'I Don't Count: A Minority Report on the French Riots By Mathew Maavak The following is a narrative of two minority reactions to alienation. If French Muslim youths can turn to rioting, how do minorities in Islamic nations react? I am sick of people who want the best of all...
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November 6, 2005
Random Thoughts On Reality
Random Thoughts On Reality I was reading the never ending list of bad news about resources, the environment, and global warming, and a thought struck me. "What would it be like to live in a nation that actually acknowledge these were problems? See, I...
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October 8, 2005
Dobson can mix Christianity with Belial
Dobson can mix Christianity with Belial President George W. Bush not long ago made a claim that God urged him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. I suppose God specifically also warned him to avoid capturing Osama bin Laden, coz it might make Santa Claus lose his...
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September 7, 2005
Assigning Blame Is Not A 'Game'
Assigning Blame Is Not A 'Game' The talking points on what to reinforce about the disaster known as disaster response is apparently "blame game" and "delay." It is critical that an immediate analysis of the governmental (local, state, and federal) government response start immediately. First, there...
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August 26, 2005
Jared Diamond's Easter Island Account Incorrect?
Jared Diamond's Easter Island Account Incorrect?I don't know. I'm not an expert on the subject, but the account Diamond gives in Collapse is the same as what I'd heard before, and it's the only one I've ever heard, until now. Benny Peiser takes issue with this account in a paper published in Energy & Environment.
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August 8, 2005
U.S. Bill To Re-Legalize Hemp Farming
U.S. Bill To Re-Legalize Hemp FarmingVia Sustainablog, this article at hemp.com gives us some possibly good news: For the first time since the federal government outlawed hemp farming in the United States, a federal bill has been introduced that would remove restrictions on the cultivation of non-psychoactive Industrial Hemp.
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August 6, 2005
Gas Plot Uncovered - You Don't Need Premium
Gas Plot Uncovered - You Don't Need Premium It is no surprise that gas companies and the auto industry are in cahoots to increase consumption and profits as much as possible. What is news is that it comes out in the mainstream press - however indirectly. Margaret Webb...
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August 3, 2005
Rumblings From Malaysia
Rumblings From Malaysia As many of you know, the meeting that led to the 9/11 and USS Cole episodes was conducted in a Kuala Lumpur condominium. All our Special Branch snoops - adept at unearthing dirt on political dissenters - could not tape...
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July 25, 2005
Environmental Taxes
Environmental TaxesSustainaBlog has a great post about Environmental Taxes. It's based on an op-ed from The Washington Examiner on the subject. SustainaBlog mentions Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, which is a book I mentioned in my Final Paper for my Simple Living course in Grad School.
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May 24, 2005
Humor: Douglas Adams, Super Genius
Humor: Douglas Adams, Super GeniusI suggest you read the short story Young Zaphod Plays It Safe by the late Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy fame. It will be funnier if you know the Hitchhiker's Guide story, but you don't really need to know it to get most of the jokes.
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May 20, 2005
MSNBC, Independent Misquote FBI On "Eco-Terrorists"
MSNBC, Independent Misquote FBI On "Eco-Terrorists"Well, now, let's be reasonable here. Depending on what publication you get this story from, the information is different.
The Independent says "The FBI has sounded a new and surprising alarm, suggesting environmental and animal-welfare militants are now the biggest terrorist threat in the US, increasingly using incendiary devices on targets ranging from housing developments and research laboratories to car dealerships."
MSNBC says "Environmental and animal rights extremists who have turned to arson and explosives are the nation’s top domestic terrorism threat, the FBI has told lawmakers."
However, CNN says "Violent animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists now pose one of the most serious terrorism threats to the nation, top federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday."
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May 19, 2005
Merging "Rights" In A Time of Fear
Merging "Rights" In A Time of Fear We live in frightening times. My guess is that most of the planet feels it on one level or another. It is a time of uncertainty - not security. It is a time of waiting for the sky to fall....
Link to Merging "Rights" In A Time of Fear | May 19, 2005 12:02 PM || TrackBack | Author: By: Rowan Wolf | Category: Culture & Ideology
May 16, 2005
Evolution vs. Creationism - Pseudoscience
Evolution vs. Creationism - PseudoscienceIn part II of my Evolution vs. Creationism battle, I wanted to center on the timely (though unfortunately timely) issues of creationism as science and the fight currently raging in the Kansas school board. This "discussion," if it can really be called that, involves changing the very definition of science according to the school board from "seeking natural explanations for what we observe around us," to "a continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena." The reason, of course, is to allow "intelligent design" to be taught in Kansas science classes and insert disclaimers into discussion on evolution that evolution is "still only a theory."
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April 21, 2005
Modern War and Civilization
Modern War and CivilizationThe last time I wrote something like this, we weren't at war. Our environment wasn't being overrun by a tyrannical administration headed by a puppet president whose only real job is to pretend that he thinks hes doing the right thing. I hadn't read all that I have now, and I hadn't sent a cousin off to Iraq to risk his life for something that doesn't actually affect anyone in this country. We weren't in dire need of a change.
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April 20, 2005
"Tuesday" from Thoreau
"Tuesday" from Thoreau Since it is currently Tuesday, and I'm coincidentally reading the segment "Tuesday" from Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, I thought I'd share an excerpt which has some surface environmental relevance, but more importantly (I...
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April 16, 2005
Ode To The Remaining Wilderness
Ode To The Remaining Wilderness By: Dale Pfeiffer and re-published here with his permission This was originally intended as a eulogy for the remaining wilderness of North America, especially for the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. However, the wilderness had not yet been entirely erased from...
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April 13, 2005
Biocommunication - Does All Life Speak?
Biocommunication - Does All Life Speak? Have you ever heard of Cleve Backster? I hadn’t until I was enjoying a segment from Autobiographix, a graphic collection which contains a wonderful segment by Jason Lutes called “Rules to Live By.” Lutes muses about experiments done on plants...
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In Search of Wild Carrots: Part 1
In Search of Wild Carrots: Part 1 In this portion, I am looking at the kinds of foods that were eaten by the Natives to the Northwest area. This includes the tribes living in the lower Puget Sound region. The land here was not considered owned by...
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April 8, 2005
Environmental Fear-Mongerering In The Media?
Environmental Fear-Mongerering In The Media?TreeHugger points out that though the situation does have dire possibilities for the future, the UN-sponsored Millennial Ecosystem Assessment does not simply paint a bleak picture.
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April 6, 2005
The Earth Shall Weep
The Earth Shall Weep In doing my research, I came upon this quote in a book by James Wilson called The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America. Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry...
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