“What brings together a Latin American beauty corporation, a boutique French advertising agency, a UK-based sustainability think-tank and a Brazilian online carbon trading venture? All of them have pledged to significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions en route to zero emissions by joining the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), a web-based forum to catalyze a […]
“Wild Asian vultures could become extinct in 10 years unless officials stop the use of a livestock drug that has caused the birds to decline faster than the dodo, British and Indian scientists said on Wednesday. A new study shows the population of oriental white-backed vultures has plunged 99.9 percent since 1992 while the numbers […]
“A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken agreed with conservation groups that the department missed a Jan. 9 deadline for a decision. She rejected a government request for a further […]
“Crops are fetching far higher prices in markets worldwide, but farmers in poor countries have not seen their incomes rise as a result, international officials said Tuesday. World Bank President Robert Zoellick said that increases in fertilizer and fuel costs had kept many poorer producers from meeting the huge demand for food staples that has […]
“The impoverished Central Asian nation of Tajikistan urged its people on Tuesday to give up their salaries to help build a new hydroelectric plant. … Makhmadsaid Ubaidulloyev, speaker of the upper house of parliament, said on Tuesday the government could raise about $10 million for its construction if all residents of the capital Dushanbe were […]
“Geolibertarianism thus solves the central conundrum of minarchism: how to finance the protection of life, liberty, and property without initiating force. Its solution even offers an unanticipated bonus: a non-force-initiating libertarian safety net for the poor. Geolibertarianism points out that in the state of nature there is always marginal but productive land available for use […]
“The crisis of global warming is deeply serious, yet many are finding that it is also powerfully energizing. Instead of trying to squeeze our existing way of life into a post-carbon life-jacket out of fear of a climate catastrophe, these people see the transformation as a great adventure. They are drawing on their imagination and […]
“K.K. Forss lived in constant fear of federal and state officials so he eventually stopped taking medical marijuana and switched to his more rigorous and expensive pill regimen. Presently, twelve states have passed legislation allowing marijuana, under certain conditions, to be prescribed legally by doctors for patients who could benefit from it. K.K. Forss lives […]
“John McCain will be spending the week promoting his health care scheme. The crux of the plan is to abolish employer-based health insurance and throw middle class working Americans to the wolves. It is market fundamentalism at its worst. But I’m not here to talk about the policy details. I want to discuss message framing. […]
“The ideal drug policy would apply to the currently illegal intoxicants the same distinctions we routinely apply to alcohol: between children and adults, between use and abuse, between abuse that harms only the user and abuse that harms others. Selling drugs to minors should remain illegal. But adults should be free to decide for themselves […]
