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The View from Kirby Mountain
http://kirbymtn.blogspot.com
Wind power, animal rights, vegetarianism, progressive politics
- Added on: Mar 8th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Politics Green Society
- Tags: environment wildlife wendy williams windenergy windpower prince edward island
Recent Posts
Are there no prisons?
Paul Krugman wants us to know ("Tidings of Comfort", New York Times, Dec. 24) that the health insurance bailout bill just passed by the Senate is a great progressive act. He notes that if Tiny Tim can keep from getting sick until 2014, some yet-to-be...
Moving steel production from U.K. to India saves the planet
Before Rajendra Pachauri became head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he was director and then director-general of the Tata Energy Research Institute, later called "The" Energy Research Institute, or TERI, which is essentially...
Destroying forests to save carbon emissions
"Clear-Cutting the Truth About Trees", Bernd Heinrich, New York Times op-ed, Dec. 20, 2009:Part of the problem is the public misunderstanding of how forests and carbon relate. Trees are often called a “carbon sink” — implying that they will sop...
Wind Turbine Sound and Health Effects
In contrast to the latest effort by the Canadian and American Wind Energy Associations to assert otherwise ("Wind Turbine Sound and Health Effects: An Expert Panel Review" (December 2009), read what a couple members of their expert panel said before ...
"This sentence is dangerous"
The Den Brook Judicial Review Group were recently successful in a Freedom of Information request to obtain drafts of a government-contracted report about noise levels from wind turbine facilities: "The measurement of low frequency noise at three UK w...
Recent must-reads re: Obama
"Obama's Big Sellout" by Matt Taibbi"The Devil and Mr. Obama" by Joe Bageant"Are We Not Romans?" by Michael Vlahos...
Insightful and stimulating. Mostly focused on industrial wind energy, opposing it for practical as well as progressive and environmental reasons.
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