In the Doghouse

It is close to 3pm on the day before Thanksgiving…and I just had time to review some news sites.
A sweet lady in England is spending over $300k on a doghouse….

Thought you might like to look at it with your Internet bowser…oops, browser.
Have a ‘howl’ of a Thanksgiving!

REDD and Forest Protection

From an article in the Guardian:
International proposals to protect forests as a way of tackling climate change could displace millions of indigenous people and fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists warn.
In a report to be published on Thursday, Friends of the Earth International (FOE) will argue that current plans to slow the decline [...]

Obamanomics

Mr. Obama announced his economic team…and information has it that they are planning a stimulus package much larger than anyone would have envisioned….and it’s going to be ‘paid’ for by increasing the national debt.
This, in no uncertain terms, will cost our grandchildren greatly…UNLESS we use the money to completely reform our economy and our economic [...]

Hank Paulson’s Change of Direction

The market has reacted very negatively to Mr. Paulson’s change of direction with the TARP.
Here is a good explanation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fiderer/the-simple-arithmetic-of_b_145389.html

A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis

For those graphics freaks out there in informationland:
A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis

Local New England Government

I live in a small Massachusetts community with a Board of Selectmen and the usual small town governmental structure…planning, conservation, health and safety, etc. It has been a rural community with significant small farmland, but in the past 20 years has seen a lot of development. As with many small towns in New England, there [...]

Possible Cabinet Picks

Some possibilities for President-Elect Obama’s Cabinet.
http://www.eenews.net/special_reports/transition/candidates

Voluntary Carbon Standard

From the Report:
This document provides guidance and additional context for users of the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), the VCS Program Guidelines, and the VCS Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) project tools. At the beginning of each section, relevant content from the respective VCS document (VCS, the VCS Program Guidelines, and the VCS AFOLU [...]

Food Miles

In their recent policy primer for the Mercatus Center at George University economic geographer Pierre Desrochers and economic consultant Hiroko Shimizu challenge the notion that food miles are a good sustainability indicator.
The Food Miles Mistake

And you thought YOUR finances were leveraged

The Bush Administration has borrowed more money in the last eight years than all U.S. Presidents combined have borrowed in the previous 219 years. It also borrowed more money from foreigners that all previous Presidents combined.
The U.S.audit will be released on December 15th. It is the Financial Report of the U.S. Government, issued by the [...]