So I've done a good bit of traveling this summer. I put 2000 miles on my car since about the end of April, I've had a few round trips by air, and I'm planning some more flying soon. This is awesome, but I know that it does involve burning fossil fuels. I'd like to try to reduce or counter the negative impact of that ( Read more... )

So it sounds like there's a compromise stimulus bill. And the Republicans, with the full cooperation of centrist Democrats and praise from Harry Reid, have stripped billions from it.

What have they cut, you ask? Perhaps some crazy pork-barrel bridge to nowhere? Or a lab studying the effect of constant exposure to Gilligan's Island on dolphins ( Read more... )

The voices of poor and homeless people are almost always missing from public debates on the policies that impact them. One may hear that those voices are hard to find, or that homeless people aren't speaking for themselves. Trouble is, that's not true, and it silences people ( Read more... )

Hey, everyone! It's mid-to-late December, and the semester is winding down. I'm just about done--would be finishing up right about now if I hadn't been hit by a stomach flu on Wednesday. I'd taken my last final, but had one more paper to do--and then I was miserably sick. Fortunately, the professor has been very flexible, and he seemed fine ( Read more... )

Random question ( Read more... )

Okay, I think I needed that ( Read more... )

I want to post some photos! I know that there are several sites on which one can do so, like Flickr, Photobucket, and Picasa (and probably many more). Which, if any, do you use? Which do you recommend? is there some other technology to show people photos that all the hip kids are now using? Do tell!

Well, doesn't this article just warm your heart? None other than Wal-Mart is donating $1.5 million to hunger relief programs. So nice that after pioneering a business model that breaks new ground in corporate greed, they're giving a little back. I wonder how many beneficiaries will be their employees and family members thereof? I wonder how ( Read more... )

Hey, all. I need to post several updates, not least about the fact that I'm currently in South Africa! Like one update I posted a few minutes ago, most will probably be friends-locked for a variety of reasons. I'm not moving to a friends-locked journal, but again, much that I post here in the next however-long will probably be locked. So if you ( Read more... )

This is particularly aimed at folks in MA and others who do community and economic development. The Boston Globe is reporting that Governor Patrick is proposing to put people to work with a large infrastructure project aimed at repairing old bridges across the state. It's an issue that's gotten more attention since the Minneapolis bridge disaster ( Read more... )