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• Prius Flying High

  Published: July 5, 2007, 8:51 am

  Tags: News, Humor Satire, California, Environmentalism

  Hollywood elites and their Disneyland East politico compatriots rail and rant against us the proletariat when we drive SUVs or fly in commercial jets or illuminate our 900 square foot domiciles with incandescent lights, while at the same time pardoning themselves and family from their own high standards. However, that is NOT the case with the

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• A Cheat Sheet for Eating Locally

  Published: August 4, 2007, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Organic, Berkeley, East Bay, Oakland, Environmentalism, San Francisco, Green, Food

  When I moved to the Bay Area from LA 7 years ago, I had never knowingly eaten something organic. And the concept of food miles didn’t even exist. Things have changed a bit since then. Maybe it was watching An Inconvenient Truth, or maybe it’s all the food blogs I read, but lately, I can’t purchase food without thinking about

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• No! Bad media! [denialism blog]

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:55 pm

  Tags: Environmentalism

  Do I have to roll up a newspaper? Big Tom warned me in today's cranks post of the ABC news' headline Global Warming Tipping Point in '09?" in regards to this paper from the Hadley Centre on new more sophisticated modeling techniques. Could they be more boneheaded? Fortunately, nowhere in the article do they mention "tipping" points for '09,

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• Oakland’s a lot like Black Rock City

  Published: August 10, 2007, 8:08 pm

  Tags: Burning Man, Public Transit, Downtown Oakland, Temescal, Oakland, Green, Environmentalism, Art

  It’s that time of year when I just can’t get Burning Man off of my mind, but lately I’ve been realizing that Oakland’s a lot like Black Rock City. Sure, a good chunk of burners are from the Bay Area so it makes sense that the Bay would be similar to the third largest city in Nevada, but Oakland in particular brings me back

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• Geese Crossing

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:44 pm

  Tags: Oakland, Environmentalism

  I’m reading Blues City: A Walk in Oakland, by Ishmael Reed, and in it, he does an interview with Malcolm Margolin, author of The Ohlone Way. Here’s part of what Malcolm has to say about why birds keep coming back to Lake Merritt: Along the northern Pacific coast the watersheds that supported migrating geese have been taken over by city

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• Almost as Fun as Burning Man…

  Published: August 27, 2007, 11:11 pm

  Tags: East Bay, Public Transit, Oakland, Environmentalism, Community, Green, San Francisco

  I’m leaving tomorrow for Burning Man for a week so this will be my last post for a while, but if I wasn’t headed to Black Rock City, I know what I’d be doing this weekend - riding BART all night! Over the past couple years, the Bay Bridge has been shut down a few times for construction during weekend nights. With the bridge

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• It's Pretty Easy Being Green

  Published: August 31, 2007, 12:36 am

  Tags: Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Game Consoles, Carbon Footprint, Environmentalism, Green

  Well, I thought I’d found something new in this article on Wii, the “greenest game console,” but according to a comment, this is old bag, being announced at E3 the day the console was revealed. Reading further, other users complained that the whole article was bull, stating that the Wii uses loads of power even while off. This

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• Are Europeans Really 'Greener' Than Americans? Reuters Report Suggests No

  Published: September 4, 2007, 1:05 pm

  Tags: Environmentalism, Global Warming, Al Gore, John Edwards, Europe, Reuters

  quoted even wondered if environmentalism and luxury electronics could be reconciled: "I saw one big one showing images of the Arctic and the melting ice caps, and I thought: This is a bit ironic, because probably it is part of the problem," [Frank Schmitz] said. Ironic indeed. Here at home, we have presidential candidate John

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• Crude Awakening

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:31 pm

  Tags: Oakland, Burning Man, Environmentalism, Green, Community, Art

  Over the past couple weeks, several people have found my blog by searching for Crude Awakening or for its creator, Dan Das Mann, so I thought I’d finally give everyone what they’re looking for. And I promise, this will be my last Burning Man related post for a little while. You might ask, how does this massive Burning Man art piece

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• Will Global Warming Increase Heart Disease? [denialism blog]

  Published: September 6, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Environmentalism

  I was surprised to see this article in the International Herald Tribune suggest that global warming might cause increased incidence of cardiovascular death. In particular one statement struck me as being somewhat absurd. On the sidelines of the European Society of Cardiology's annual meeting in Vienna this week, some experts said that the

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• Pebble's in the River

  Published: September 6, 2007, 1:55 pm

  Tags: Friends Well Wishers, Alaska, Environmentalism, Fishing, Mining

  Official Friend of BA! Margot Roosevelt has a big piece in the LAT on the tough choices facing Alaska between mining and fishing. Check out the impressive slideshow of photos and multimedia here. I know I should have posted this sooner, but I blame the heat. I was just not in an Alaska frame of mind when it was 100 degrees outside.

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• Living in My Neighborhood

  Published: September 11, 2007, 12:58 am

  Tags: Oakland, Walking, Environmentalism, Green, Community, Art

  Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time in my neighborhood. Partly, I’m trying to drive less and walk more, but I also just like North Oakland and all that it offers. The streets are really beautiful and filled with trees, gardens, and whimsical public art created by Rockridge and Temescal residents… Every Sunday morning,

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• 500 scientists refute global warming dangers

  Published: September 12, 2007, 9:24 pm

  Tags: Politics, Environmentalism, Changing Climate, Global Temperature, Global Warming, Human Histories, Irradiance, Little Ice Age, Temperature Increases

  The global warming alarmists claim that no real scientists doubt global warming. They’re disingenuous when they say this, because what people do doubt is the idea that global warming is man-made and the idea that it is irrefutably a bad thing. In fact, more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting the current man-made global

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• Two Court Decisions for Science [denialism blog]

  Published: September 13, 2007, 4:59 pm

  Tags: Environmentalism

  There have been two interesting court decisions, I think both decided correctly for science this week. In the first, a federal court has decided states may regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. In particular, one statement from the judge seemed to come straight from the deck of cards. "There is no question that the GHG

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• NYT Mag: Global Warming Is All Jane Fonda's Fault

  Published: September 15, 2007, 7:51 pm

  Tags: Environment, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Weather, Jane Fonda, New York Times

  Here's something you don't see every day: a liberal publication blaming actress Jane Fonda for anything bad. Yet, although not written by New York Times writers, the idea that its Sunday magazine would even consider publishing an article blaming Fonda's 1979 movie "The China Syndrome" for global warming is quite shocking. Authored by

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