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Solar power initiatives

Google to Convert HQ to Solar Power (SMH, 17 Oct) Google Inc. is converting its renowned headquarters to run partly on solar power, hoping to set an example for corporate … Continue reading

25 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Living off the ecological credit card

Juxtaposed with the article above for a study in contrasts … Collapse of ecosystems likely if plunder continues John Vidal, environment editor | Wednesday October 25, 2006 The Guardian …(T)he … Continue reading

25 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

What has invasion unleashed in Iraqis?

By Adil E. Shamoo | Baltimore Sun | 22 October 2006 What has my new country, the United States, done to my old country, Iraq? The Baghdad I knew growing … Continue reading

24 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Time for the neocons to admit that the Iraq war was wrong from the start

by Matthew Parris | The Times | 21 October 2006 Excerpt: “The former hawks of press and politics now scramble for the status of visionaries let down by functionaries. This … Continue reading

23 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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