Tonight is WWF’s Earth Hour, where we’re supposed to switch off the lights from 8:30p to 9:30p. What will that do for the 1.3 billion in energy poverty?
Author Archives: Norm Benson
Earth Hour 2017 – The Great Switch Off
It’s once again time to celebrate Earth Hour on March 25th by turning off your lights from 8:30pm to 9:30 pm and sitting in the dark; that sounds like a major hoot and a half, all right. As the WWF organizers tell us, we can invite friends to sit in the dark with us. If weContinue reading “Earth Hour 2017 – The Great Switch Off”
An Open Letter to California Representative Ted Lieu
Hey Homes, ‘sup? Did y’all know you was being played for a chump? Played by people with more agendas than congress. Which brings me to your statement on Monsanto’s herbicide, RoundUp, and more specifically, its active ingredient, glyphosate. You issued a press release on March 15, 2017. “New questions about the safety of Monsanto weedContinue reading “An Open Letter to California Representative Ted Lieu”
Congressman Ted Lieu Makes Statement on His Glyphosate Concerns: The Activist Hobbyhorse Rides Again
Congressman Ted Lieu who represents California’s 33rd district (which includes Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Palos Verdes Peninsula, and Santa Monica) issued a statement on his concerns about glyphosate. Below is his statement: REP. LIEU STATEMENT ON NEW GLYPHOSATE SAFETY CONCERNS March 15, 2017 Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington – Today, Congressman TedContinue reading “Congressman Ted Lieu Makes Statement on His Glyphosate Concerns: The Activist Hobbyhorse Rides Again”
Cataclysmic Climate Change
Damn, I am pissed. I was supposed to be dead by now. Hell, we all were. Baby-boomers weren’t supposed to live longer than their parents’ generation. Experts expected pesticides and other synthetic chemicals to kill us. We would be killed by the very technology meant to save us—hoisted with our own malathion petards. Rachel CarsonContinue reading “Cataclysmic Climate Change”
Cheering up Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Case of the Mondays
Cheer up Dr. Tyson. In these past forty-five to fifty years…we have landed unmanned probes, one on the planet Mars and one on a motherfucking comet!…raised literacy 50%, lowered infant mortality 60%, increased average world incomes 300%, and raised lifespans 30%.
Make America Plate Again. (Sunday Talk Show Edition)
[Voiceover] Welcome to FFN’s (Food Fetish Network) Sunday talk show, Plate the Nation; where we discuss current food issues on the nation’s plate with movers and salad shakers in the news. And here is the host of Plate the Nation, Bob Sheep-Sheerer. A Photo of Food By Unknown [Camera focuses on Sheep-Sheerer: a man inContinue reading “Make America Plate Again. (Sunday Talk Show Edition)”
EWG’s Golden Shower
Pop quiz: Which is least toxic, arsenic, cyanide or vitamin D? (answer at the end of this post) EWG’s Golden Shower Gambit Once again, the non-governmental organization, the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which has yet to find a chemical to not be concerned about to raise cash environmental awareness, wants to be showered inContinue reading “EWG’s Golden Shower”
Ramazzini Institute at center of EPA FOIA request
Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to force the Agency to begin turning over documents it promised to release under a May 2016 FOIA request. E&E Legal is a 501(c)(3) organization engaged in strategic litigationContinue reading “Ramazzini Institute at center of EPA FOIA request”
Barkbook & Twigger? German Forester Claims Trees Have Social Networks
The Wood Wide Web is in the news. A New York Times article tells of a German forester, Peter Wohlleben, who believes that trees communicate intimately. That they have social networks. What? Barkbook? Twigger? SapChat? Pineterest? Wohlleben wrote a best-selling book in Germany, “Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — DiscoveriesContinue reading “Barkbook & Twigger? German Forester Claims Trees Have Social Networks”