“Asia began to recover Thursday from a cyber-tsunami that for nearly two days disrupted international phone service, cut Internet access, slowed e-mail traffic to a crawl and gave office workers enough downtime to contemplate the dark side of living in a wired world. ‘We depend on the Internet’ and international phone service, says Edmund Wong, […]
“The food prohibitionists don’t understand that there are ways to influence people’s behavior without resorting to coercion — remember, coercion is the essence of government.” (12/24/06)
“Adobe Systems, the company made famous by its desktop publishing software, was awarded three platinum ones. The US Census Bureau received a silver one, and NRG Energy, Inc. received a gold. Are we talking credit cards, Olympic medals, or something else? If you guessed something else you would be correct. From China and Australia to […]
“The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauds the Food and Drug Administration for releasing its long-awaited Risk Assessment on animal cloning, which concludes that meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs, and goats are safe for consumers. The FDA is scheduled to release its assessment today. After reviewing hundreds of scientific and medical studies, experts at FDA […]
“A Maltese-registered, 23,000-ton cargo ship, the Tzini, is being detained in Taiwan after having spilt some 110 tonnes of fuel onto the Taiwanese coastline near Suao Harbour after its tanks were punctured – creating an environmental hazard and halting fishing activities in the area. The estimated cost to the local fishing industry stands at Lm1 […]
“A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another ‘Earth’ among the stars. The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after 2.20pm. Corot, short for convection rotation and planetary transits, is the first instrument capable of finding small rocky planets beyond […]
“The Bush administration, under legal pressure from three environmental groups, will propose listing polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, The Washington Post reported. Interior secretary Dirk Kempthorne scheduled a news conference Wednesday to discuss the status of the animals. The Post, quoting an Interior Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity […]
“Perhaps the environmental group most readily associated with a business approach is the Nature Conservancy (TNC). For decades it has been using land markets to save habitat crucial to biodiversity. But even TNC is searching for new business models. At the Lone Mountain Summit, a meeting of environmental leaders organized by PERC to find common […]
“The top 10 green stories of the year.” (12/22/06)
“Hunting supporters claimed to have organised a record-breaking day in their sport’s history, with more than 300,000 people reported at Boxing Day meets. A total of 314 registered packs of fox, hare and stag hounds met yesterday, more than in any year since records began. The pro-hunting Countryside Alliance said the turnout showed the sport […]
