I don't fault GM for biting the bullet and declaring bankruptcy, and dividing the company into the successful lines under the "new" GM and leaving the unsuccessful ones under Court Supervision in the "Motors Liquidation Co." But I have a definite problem with the "new" GM not taking responsibility for the mistakes and contracts of the old company. ( Read more... )

Sigh, yet another study is finding that climate change is well on its way already. CNN has this report www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/07/global.warming/index.html interviewing one of the researchers on this study by the USGS pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3046/  The study is a 50-year record of glacier change, looking at 3 different glaciers, in 3 ( Read more... )

So I came across an interesting older post by Mairi Beautyman on Huffington Post, "Could you live without a refrigerator?" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mairi-beautyman/could-you-live-without-a_b_166194.html   I was intrigued by it, ( Read more... )

This was an interesting article I found through a friend. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0803/opinions-energy-locavores-on-my-mind.html Its called the Locavore Myth, regarding whether the carbon footprint of long-distance ( Read more... )