The Michalenka Plan

Our CPA, Henry Michalenka, has been helping households, individuals, and small businesses for thirty years. He’s honest, smart, and…from years of dealing with every financial entity on the planet…cynically funny.
Hank has an alternative plan to the Bush Administration bailout.
The Michalenka Plan will give the $700 B to American households (he figures it would be $10,000 [...]

Yum….the chocmobile

Petra Barran has been traveling around Britain in the Chocmobile selling her desserts and bartering desserts for dinner and a place to stay.

As she said “People were misty-eyed at the idea of me travelling around in a chocmobile and were welcoming…Perhaps I see the world through rose-tinted glasses, but I discovered a nation of smiling [...]

Iowa Farmland

As you might readily image, the life of an Iowa farmer has changed….expanded acreage, new high tech machines, the push to biofuel production, and the increasing cost of farmland.
The cost of farmland, and the competition for rental and purchase, is evidently changing the rural ethic…creating a new ‘pushiness’ in rural America.
The New York Times just [...]

Sir David King on Climate Change

The former UK chief scientist will use his presidential address at the BA Science Festival to call for a gear-change among innovative thinkers.
He believes we need to develop a new level of scientific activity to deal with climate change and will use his address to promote the vision.
For the BBC Article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7603257.stm

I’m disappointed…

I’ve watched two nights of the Republican National Convention. From my perspective, they’ve managed to be shrill and divisive. I was excited about this election because (I thought) I respected both candidates.
Either John McCain is not who I thought he was….or he has let the convention misrepresent his character. Either way, it is disappointing.
I’m also [...]

Bioplanning

Ms. Beresford-Kroeger, 63, is a native of Ireland who has bachelor’s degrees in medical biochemistry and botany, and has worked as a Ph.D.-level researcher at the University of Ottawa school of medicine, where she published several papers on the chemistry of artificial blood. She calls herself a renegade scientist, however, because she tries to bring [...]

BEE Japan

BEE Japan (Bicycle for Everyone’s Earth) is a bicycle group cycling for two months to raise awareness of ‘earth-friendly’ practices.
Here are the practices:
* Travelling the length of Japan exclusively by bicycle
* Eating low on the food chain (vegetarian)
* Choosing organic products whenever possible
* Choosing fair trade products whenever possible
* Supporting local economies by buying local [...]

Geothermal Energy

Google.org has recently announced they are investing $10 million in geothermal energy research.
http://www.google.org/egs/index.html

What is the Future of Suburbia?

A few weeks ago I posted the cost-of-services economic analysis done in Rhode Island. It related the nine-fold increase in the State’s budget since 1950 to the ‘cost of suburbanization’.
From an infrastructure perspective, the suburb and the suburban subdivision are socially expensive. They have also used environmental services randomly and, until recently, without much ‘ecosystem [...]

Creative Uses of Junk Mail

From the junk mail portrait to…..
http://proquo.com/resources/top_10_creative_responses_to_junk_mail/