Articles by JMG
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.
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Polishing turds is expensive
Great piece on why LEED-certified houses typically come at a premium.
(h/t Sam Smith)
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Sleep tight everyone!
What a comforting thought: The safety of Russia’s nuclear industry is being undermined by the country’s economic crisis and the situation is expected to to worsen in 2009, according to a newly released annual report by the Russian nuclear regulatory body. Ongoing job cuts at nuclear facilities include the personnel directly responsible for safety control, […]
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For those resolving to eat better and more locally in 2009
Ten Thousand Villages, the wonderful chain of Mennonite-rooted fair trade stores, offers two cookbooks perfect for people wanting to eat better, healthier, more sustainable food — much lower on the food web, with little or no meat, in season — while saving money. The first is the More-with-Less Cookbook by Doris Janzen Longacre, a nice, […]
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Making Bulgaria look good
James Howard Kunstler, oft derided as seeking to return America to a pre-industrial state, actually wants to return the country to the glory years of the industrial era, when the major components of our industrial infrastructure were in place and flourishing while Progressive Era reforms were making cities more habitable and humane. This allowed us […]
