archive for September 8th, 2006

Digest: Ballard’s green goal, save the milkweed, bovine accents

by @ Friday, September 8th, 2006.

Sustainable Ballard: Ballard, a protectorate of Seattle and home to two of the Ethicurean team, intends to become the first carbon-neutral community in the United States.
Boston Globe: Heartfelt editorial about the need to save the beautiful monarch butterfly and the milkweed — the only plant on which it lays eggs — from extinction. Both are […]

Shooting the messenger: The Center for Consumer Freedom

by @ Friday, September 8th, 2006.

I guess I’m naive, but the shameless audacity of the food industry still manages to take my breath away occasionally.
The morning news trawl turned up an item about a protest in a genetically modified cornfield in France last Saturday. But if the headline, “French Fried Reactionary Still Hurting Poor People,” didn’t give away the pro-industry […]

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