The Butter Bitch and I went with a group of friends to see An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s documentary on global warming and environmental disaster. Although the film has been dismissed as one of several docu-ganda pieces, Gore presents a number of scientific facts that cannot be dismissed.
The inconvenient truth is that I cannot […]
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The Inconvenient Truth
Tasty from a neighbor’s bakery
Saturday morning arrived with a nearly empty refrigerator. We were out of town last weekend and had eaten through our remaining groceries except for a couple of eggs from Skagit River Ranch and two pounds of coffee.
While I wrote a blog entry, the Butter Bitch walked uphill to our local coffee shop, which sells local […]
Alt-ag goes to college
Washington State University has announced a new Major in Organic Agriculture, the first of its kind in the United States. It is not clear how closely the program will follow sustainable practices such as the ones promoted by WSU’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources (CSANR), but it is clear that Wazzu’s decision was […]
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