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More evidence of the eco-demographic: Frango goes Organic.

From Nature Reports:
Last month Jean Ziegler, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, called biofuels a “crime against humanity” and asked for a five-year moratorium on the practice of using food crops for fuel1.
It was only the latest voice in what seems to be turning into a backlash against biofuels. In September, the [...]

That’s it, I’m starting a new group, Citizens for the Prohibition of Wrapping Paper. I don’t want to see any of you so called “environmentalists” out there using ANY wrapping paper.

That’s it. I’m done. Please, turn out the lights when your done.

A court in England has decided that if Gore’s eco-opus, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is going to be shown to school kids it has to include a disclaimer warning kids not necessarily to take it too seriously.

Eric Zorn is poking fun at those of us making jokes about climate change in light of the nearly record-setting cold of February 2007. Writes Zorn:
Only a fool would see a snowstorm or suffer through a cold snap and think it had any long-term meaning.
Indeed. But Zorn misses the point. When we snicker something like [...]

Just in case you follow these sorts of things, February’s first 13 days are the 4th coldest on record in Chicago. Which makes this cartoon particularly timely:
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This from UK’s Independent:
Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.
Actually, we’d probably sooner give up our red meat than our cars. What do you think? Honda or Prime Rib?