Useful Links for June 25th through June 28th
These are some links for June 25th through June 28th. Enjoy!
- The Fraud of the Great Moderation - Like a lot of other activities in American life these days, agribusiness is unreformable along its current lines. It will take a convulsion to change it, and in that convulsion it will be dragged kicking-and-screaming into a new reality. As that occurs, the U.S. public will have to contend with more than just higher taco chip prices.
- US checks if tomatoes caused Salmonella outbreak - Yahoo! News - Those with gardens most likely have an abundance of fresh and safe tomatoes. How about you?
- Life on the fringes of U.S. suburbia becomes untenable with rising gas costs - International Herald Tribune -
- Edith Macefield, 1921-2008: Ballard woman held her ground as change closed in around her - “I don’t want to move. I don’t need the money. Money doesn’t mean anything,” she told the Seattle P-I in October.
I thought you might find this interesting as well. And something about it being delivered in a nice east Texas accent just makes it that much better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg
You are right Ryan, I do find that interesting, for oh so many reasons. It seems like the values of freedom are strong in southeast Texas, what with Mr. Poe and Dr. Ron Paul, both representing the area.
The video touches on an important issue that the book Cradle to Cradle addresses. Products and services are designed to maximize only one ‘variable in the equation’, typically the almighty dollar. The authors propose a new design methodology that can be summed up in the maxim ‘waste equals food’ because ultimately, what we waste, the visible and more dangerously, the invisible, makes it into our food. For example, the mercury in CFLs. The book was recommended to me by a friend who is an environmental engineering professor at A&M.
Edith Macefield is one of my heroes. Every day, I see more of old Austin being torn down (or “renovated” to the point of being unrecognizeable). Lots that have stood vacant for decades are being clear cut for “mixed use development,” and in the trendier older neighborhoods every fifth house is a tear-down-rebuild these days. It is so sad. So depressing. We need more Mrs. Macefields.